The Cosmic Dance

by del Re, Giuseppe

• ISBN13: 9781890151256
• ISBN10: 1890151254
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Templeton Foundation Pr
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Summary

This book focuses on a new worldview, emerging from the science of the last decades of the second millennium. Its metaphor is the cosmic dance, or the harmony existing between systems that are so strongly interdependent that they behave as a single entity. This dance image hints at a general, evolving pattern in which all objects in the universe participate-like the ordered chaos of an African open-air market. Some of the chapters discuss the nature of processes in the universe, including chaos and chance in the game of life. The reconciliation of variety and unity are addressed in reference to the space-time continuum and the unified field of relativity theory. Del Re continues the investigation into an exploration of the origins of freedom and ethics, suggesting that science indicates that the human species may have a specific task in the universe: building a bridge between matter and spirit. Del Re ponders alchemy, the significance of symbols, and the meaning of the soul. Woven throughout a variety of esoteric and scientific inquiries is the underlying sense of the unifying principles of science and a spiritual outlook. The questions raised are issues that will be discussed by an emerging network of scientists and spiritual seekers, and this book will add a valued and informed perspective to these conversations. Features Explains a new worldview connecting science and spirituality Presents a cosmological metaphor for the new science

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Thomas F. Torrance
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
The Great Dance Image	3	(26)
Information, Order, and Life	29	(26)
The Structure of Sensible Reality	55	(30)
Time and Becoming	85	(28)
An Interlude on Chaos, the Game of Life, and Chance	113	(20)
Birth of a Voice	133	(26)
Regularity, Variety, and the Unity of the World	159	(26)
The Place of Man	185	(30)
Mechanism, Magic, and How Nature Is One	215	(32)
Alchemy and Technology: From Wisdom to Know-How	247	(28)
Universal Communication, Meaning, and Symbols	275	(34)
Mind, Soul, Psyche	309	(36)
About a Scientific World-View	345	(34)
Envoy	379	(14)
Bibliography	393	(8)
Index of Names	401	(4)
Index of Subjects	405