A book to share an inspired vision by restoring 'beautiful,
aesthetic poetry into the history of science'. This unorthodox work
has been called ' - an heroic intellectual tour de force -
reflecting the act of genius' but hyperbole probably does duty for
description which the work defies. It breaks all the rules and is
unlike any other. It is so comprehensive in its sweep, original in
its writing, ground-breaking in its synthesis, that to isolate any
aspect is to misrepresent its nature. That science has reached the
end of its habitual road, and must apply itself to the 'hard
problem' of consciousness, and a synthesis with spirituality has
now become commonplace and the subject of innumerable hand-wringing
books. This book differs from these others by retracing the
scientific journey to reveal how and why science has reached the
current impasse. Instead of lamenting the consequences of the road
less travelled by science, the road of inner, spiritual
understanding, it reveals the presence of quiet inspiration all
along. The torch bearers that lit the scientific journey: the
Keplers and Faradays that apprehended new relationships were the
scientific mystics, the counterparts of spiritually revealed truth.
This work exposes the similarity between religious and scientific
genius, by taking the journey afresh. In the good-natured and
sometimes teasing company of Reason and Soul the reader is invited
on a journey through the landscape of Western thought. From the
emergence of early man on the Serengeti plains, through
Mesopotamia, the pre-Socratic Aegean, the Dark and Middle ages to
the Renaissance and Enlightenment what the epic journey reveals is
the process of Involution, the recovery of evolutionary memory. The
inspirations of genius are the knots in the scientific rosary, and
other languages - painting and music - keep pace, all equally
reflective of that recovery towards all embracing holism. Science,
it is proposed, is the incremental transfer of the memory of
evolution encoded in DNA to the collective intellect which has
built the scientific paradigm, a model of memory. The entire
chronology of scientific recovery is needed to reveal the mirror
that involution provides of evolution; from the 'at-one-ment' of
primitive man for whom the gods lay in the manifested natural
world, through the increasing separation of intellect that came to
perceive the natural world as separate, 'outside' the mind of man.
The incremental penetration of collective memory to the dawn of
creation has recovered everything in intellectual theory, but at
the price of a false separation between mind and matter, Man and
God. If this sounds formidable as a proposition, it is because it
is. By increments, it returns oblivious science to the perennial
philosophy, familiar to the ancients. The book traverses the human
adventure with swift ease, delivering the history of Western
thought with light-hearted poetic economy. Comprehensive footnotes
demonstrating 'a rare depth of perceptive scholarship' (Lorimer)
are there for those who like their facts; (they take no scientific
knowledge for granted) but it is the high poetic vision of the wood
and not the trees that is central. Poetry has always been the
language of mysticism and this is mystical science, amused,
self-mocking and a lot of fun In the words of Philip Franses
(Editor, The Holistic Science Journal) -- The genius of involution
is not just a mechanism of science relating to the whole but a
completely different realisation of the beautiful within living
process -- ' Thus the reader is invited to share an experience -
and not just another theory. 'A poetic narrative of extraordinary
subtlety' touches more deeply than that.
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