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|    Alan B. Mac Farlane to azmodiuss@nospam.yahoo.com    |
|    Re: The Tau of Physics    |
|    15 Oct 03 21:36:19    |
      From: sumbuddie@sumbuddie.net              The Tao of Pooh is much much better ... it has a honey pot in the Tao of       Pooh. How simply appropriate me thinks ...                     in article KH0jb.768632$YN5.748243@sccrnsc01, Mike at       azmodiuss@nospam.yahoo.com wrote on 10/14/03 5:40 PM:              > If you haven't read this book then you need to.       > The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra is in it's 4th printing, first published       > in 1975 by Shambhala Publications.       > It describes for the layman how "what science is discovering about the atom"       > is directly related to "what eastern mystics have always known". I am no       > scientist but easily understood its clear style.       > It can be quite a shock to realize that the I-Ching is a system of       > probability almost exactly like the system of probability used in subatomic       > physics to "guess" where a "hadron particle" will appear in the cloud       > chamber at the end of a high energy physics experiment.       >       > It seems to me that both scientists and mystics will enjoy this book.       >       > Rene Descartes was the first to separate MIND and MATTER and since his time       > in the 17th century the church has supported one view while science has       > supported the other. This book shows that both views will eventually have to       > wrap around and embrace the other or be lost. The Cartesian Split as it has       > become known, is rapidly closing and those who cling to one side without       > acknowledging the other are in for a rude awakening.       >       > Having read this book I now have a far better understanding of myself and       > the universe. We are the same stuff... all matter is intelligent energy.       >       >       >              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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