Pathways of Chance - Softcover

Peat, F David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8890196017 ISBN 13: 9788890196010

Publisher: Pari Publishing (USA), 2007

Synopsis

F. David Peat is one of the most interesting and innovative thinkers around today. His latest book, Pathways of Chance, is a rich, inquiring, and highly readable journey from the creative buzz of his native Liverpool in the sixties to a Native American talking circle. He meets some of the most fascinating minds of twentieth-century science and culture: David Bohm, Roger Penrose, Bertrand Russell, Sir Michael Tippett, Antony Gormley, and Anish Kapoor. He reflects on the elusive nature of quantum reality, the way language shapes our lives, the world of the Blackfoot, and his life in a medieval Italian village. Ultimately, Pathways of Chance is a meditation upon the power of those twin forces, purpose and accident, within all our lives.

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From the Publisher

We are happy to be launching this new venture, Pari Publishing, with F. David Peat's Pathways of Chance. Peat is a fine author with over twenty books to his credit, someone who has explored ideas in an engaging and accessible way over a wide range of fields. We also feel that Pathways of Chance is an innovative approach for it sets a range of fascinating ideas and theories within the context of the author's life. It also acts to set the tone for our future publications which will include a series of literary essays by George Stade, novelist, literary critic and consulting editorial director of Barnes and Nobel Classics; a series of essays on the debate between Science and Religion; a book on Art, Science and the Sacred; and The Way We Die, an examination of the medical and ethical issues surrounding death and dying. In addition to our books for the US market we shall also be producing, in Italian, a series of key books that have not yet been made available in Italy.

From the Author

Pathways of Chance was a joy to write. It was an opportunity to look back on my life, recall the people I had met and explore the ideas that had intrigued me. The book begins in wartime England, continues with my life as a student in Liverpool at the time of the Beatles, it then moves to Canada, to a meeting with the physicist and philosopher, David Bohm, an encounter with the Blackfoot and other Native Americans, to my ongoing interactions with artists and finally a move to a medieval hilltop village in Italy and the creation of the Pari Center for New Learning.

The book is not only about my personal encounters, it is also an investigation and explanation of the ideas I have spent my life exploring: - the mysteries of quantum reality, the paradox of Schrödinger's Cat, David Bohm's proposal that an activity of information pervades the universe and that mind was present from the beginning. The book discusses how the languages we speak affect what we see and do. It touches on synchronicities (meaningful coincidences) and the ideas of Carl Jung, it looks at the way our understanding of the cosmos may be encoded within our bodies, the relationship between art and science, the possibility of new forms of ethical action and my hopes for the future.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pari Publishing (USA)
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 8890196017
• ISBN 13: 9788890196010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 169