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Book Description
Pathways of Chance is the delightful and often humorous telling of the life, experiences and ideas of the physicist and writer F. David Peat (author of twenty books including Synchronicity: The Bridge between Matter and Mind, Blackfoot Physics, Superstrings, The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind and From Certainty to Uncertainty). Beginning with his boyhood in an eccentric family in wartime Liverpool it takes us through the swinging sixties of the Beatles, theoretical research in Canada, and finally his settling in the tiny medieval village of Pari in Italy. It explores his meetings with such people as David Bohm, Roger Penrose, Bertrand Russell and Sir Michael Tippett. It engages us with accounts of a talking circle in a tepee with Native American Elders to dialogues with leading artists. Yet each step of this life story is also an exciting encounter with ideas including the elusive nature of quantum reality, the Blackfoot world of flux and transformation, the limits to what can be said, Jung and Synchronicity, creativity within the human body, David Bohm's implicate order, art and film and, finally, the need for new forms of ethical action in the world. Larry Dossey has described the book as "a moveable feast", while Fred Alan Wolf writes that it is "an honest from-the-heart answer" to the question as to what makes physicists tick. Peat has a Renaissance mind and we learn of his excursions into film, radio and theatre. He has a gift for bridging disciplines and bringing complex ideas to life in an exciting and engaging way. His lucid writing illuminates everything from the meaning of quantum reality, the way language influences the way we see the world, the Blackfoot world view and much, much more.
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.
Pathways of Chance
Pathways of Chance,F. D. Peat,Pari Publishing,8890196009,Biography / Autobiography,General,Biography: general,Science: General Issues
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