The Spirit of Science: From Experiment to Experience

by Lorimer, David

• ISBN13: 9780826411747
• ISBN10: 0826411746
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Author Biography

David Lorimer, is director of the Scientific and Medical Network, an international group of academics and professionals dedicated to an open-minded exploration of the boundaries in science.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(8)
Malcolm Lazarus
Introduction: From Experiment to Experience	17	(16)
David Lorimer
Cosmology and Physics	33	(84)
The New Physics and the Scientific Reality of our Time	33	(20)
Fritjof Capra
Cosmos, Matter, Life and Consciousness	53	(20)
David Bohm
The Cosmic Blueprint: Self-Organizing Principles of Matter and Energy	73	(25)
Paul Davies
The Experience of Unity	98	(19)
Kurt Dressler
Biology and Gaia	117	(120)
A Holistic Philosophy of Nature	117	(12)
Glen Schaefer
The Environment Now and the Gaian Perspective	129	(20)
James Lovelock
Complexity, Creativity and Society	149	(13)
Brian Goodwin
The Biology of Being: A Natural History of Consciousness	162	(30)
Lyall Watson
Evolutionary Habits of Mind, Behaviour and Form	192	(23)
Rupert Sheldrake
The Underlying Unity: Nature and the Imagination	215	(22)
Kathleen Raine
Consciousness and Psychology	237	(62)
Beyond Ego: Transpersonal Dimensions in Psychology	237	(21)
Charles Tart
The Mystery of the Human Psyche	258	(15)
Sir John Eccles
The Heart of Healing	273	(26)
Larry Dossey
Mysticism and Spirituality	299	(58)
Gateway to the Infinite	299	(9)
Sir George Trevelyan
The Vision of Non-Duality in World Religions	308	(16)
Dom Bede Griffiths
Extravagance from the Heart: Lessons from the Mystics	324	(18)
Matthew Fox
Healing the Heart: An Alchemy of Consciousness	342	(15)
Anne Baring
Editor's Note: The Mystics and Scientists Conferences	357	(4)
Index	361