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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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