From: Here@my.place   
      
   On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:40:10 GMT, "Mike"    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   There is now a great deal of material related to Nonduality and   
   mysticism.   
      
   Here are a more books along the same lines:   
      
   Modern Physics   
      
   Quantum Reality - Nick Herbert   
   Quantum Questions - Ken Wilber   
   Physics of the Soul - Amit Goswami   
   A brief History of Everything - Ken Wilber   
   The Eye of the I - David R. Hawkins   
   Science Sence and Soul - Casey Blood   
   The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot   
   The Field - Lynne McTaggart   
   the true path - Roy Mathew   
   The Dancing Wu Li Masters - Gary Zukav   
   The Conscious Universe - Dean Radin   
   The Physics of the Soul - Frank Tipler   
   The Living Energy Universe - Gary Schwartz   
      
      
   Eastern Texts   
      
   The Diamond Sutra   
   The Surangama Sutra   
   Tao Te Ching   
   Chuang Tsu   
   The Bhagavad-Gita   
   The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali   
   The Upanishads   
      
      
   Mysticism   
      
   Kabbalah   
   Zen Buddhism   
   Sufism   
   Gnostic Christianity   
   Christian Mysticism   
      
   Magazines   
      
   Scientific American   
   What is Enlightenment   
      
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