Head and Heart: A Personal Exploration of Science and the SacredQuest Books, 2002 M07 1 - 295 páginas This unusual book tells the story of an astrophysicist's search for meaning from psychological, philosophical, and spiritual points of view. Mansfield weaves personal memoir with clear scientific discussion and quotes such famous thinkers and writers as Steven Weinberg, Jane Goodall, Joseph Campbell, C. G. Jung, Nelson Mandela, Robert Frost, and the Sufi poet Rumi. In plain language, Mansfield explores radio astronomy, the nature of time, relativity, cosmological expansion, and quantum mechanics with personal examples of meditation, dreams and synchronicity to show that spiritual experience offers a fundamentally different window into reality than that given by science. And he tackles these questions: What is invisible matter? Am I merely a complex tangle of atoms and molecules controlled by the laws of physics? What is the nature of soul? How is modern science a form of religion? You will be charmed by Mansfield's anecdotes to dramatize his own struggles with such questions. In a culture where the relationship between science and spirituality continues to be strained, he offers hope for a higher synthesis that embraces dissenting worldviews and encourages compassionate action in the world. |
Contenido
DIFFERENTIATING SCIENCE AND THE SACRED | 11 |
LESSONS FROM RADIO ASTRONOMY ABOUT OBJECTIVITY | 27 |
A SPECIAL KIND OF KNOWLEDGE | 41 |
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE | 75 |
THE DARK SIDE OF MONOTHEISM | 99 |
INDIVIDUATION AND SYNCHRONICITY | 115 |
TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF ASTROLOGY | 137 |
CAN SYNCHRONICITY BE SCIENTIFICALLY TESTED? | 161 |
A THREEFOLD VIEW OF THE ABSOLUTE | 183 |
SCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS | 201 |
HARMONIZING THE OPPOSITES | 223 |
PILGRIM AND PRODIGAL | 237 |
NOTES | 263 |
279 | |
Términos y frases comunes
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Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience Roderick Main Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung's Critique of Modern Western Culture Roderick Main Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |