Cherryl, Harvey et al,
I don't think anyone should be afraid of appearing naive or showy in
their opinions and questions - just look at me :-) As Harvey says "We
are (all) much more interesting and complicated than that."
Cherryl - There are no doubt a lot of parallel themes addressed in
Wilbur's work, even if some of us would find his slant a bit too
"new-agey" to swallow (IMHO). I'd be interested to hear other opinions
here.
Also, Capra's (US) "Tao of Physics" may be legendary, but if I could
just plug Michael Talbot's (UK) "Mysticism and the New Physics" which
covers the same ground, written about one year earlier, and even
better I'd say. As Harvey says, Aristotelian-based dualism has been
well and truly shown not to be the final word. (Of the more recent
popular physics writers, David Deutsch is the one that seems closest
to getting it in "The Fabric of Reality".)
The thing I'm finding fascinating here is the much maligned
"convergence" of thinking across so many domains. We need to be
cautious of the seductive pull of misguided "grand unifying theories",
but the direction seems inevitable.
Ian
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