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Spiritual Insights from the New Science is a guide to the deep
spiritual wisdom drawn from one of the newest areas of science -
the study of complex systems. The author, a former research
scientist with over three decades of experience in the field of
complexity science, tells her story of being attracted, as a young
student, to the study of self-organizing systems where she
encountered the strange and beautiful topics of chaos, fractals and
other concepts that comprise complexity science. Using the events
of her life, she describes lessons drawn from this science that
provide insights into not only her own life, but all our lives.
These insights show us how to weather the often disruptive events
we all experience when growing and changing.The book goes on to
explore, through the unfolding story of the author's life as a
practicing scientist, other key concepts from the science of
complex systems: cycles and rhythms, attractors and bifurcations,
chaos, fractals, self-organization, and emergence. Examples drawn
from religious rituals, dance, philosophical teachings, mysticism,
native American spirituality, and other sources are used to
illustrate how these scientific insights apply to all aspects of
life, especially the spiritual. Spiritual Insights from the New
Science shows the links between this new science and our human
spirituality and presents, in engaging, accessible language, the
argument that the study of nature can lead to a better
understanding of the deepest meaning of our lives.
Spiritual Insights from the New Science is a guide to the deep
spiritual wisdom drawn from one of the newest areas of science -
the study of complex systems. The author, a former research
scientist with over three decades of experience in the field of
complexity science, tells her story of being attracted, as a young
student, to the study of self-organizing systems where she
encountered the strange and beautiful topics of chaos, fractals and
other concepts that comprise complexity science. Using the events
of her life, she describes lessons drawn from this science that
provide insights into not only her own life, but all our lives.
These insights show us how to weather the often disruptive events
we all experience when growing and changing.The book goes on to
explore, through the unfolding story of the author's life as a
practicing scientist, other key concepts from the science of
complex systems: cycles and rhythms, attractors and bifurcations,
chaos, fractals, self-organization, and emergence. Examples drawn
from religious rituals, dance, philosophical teachings, mysticism,
native American spirituality, and other sources are used to
illustrate how these scientific insights apply to all aspects of
life, especially the spiritual. Spiritual Insights from the New
Science shows the links between this new science and our human
spirituality and presents, in engaging, accessible language, the
argument that the study of nature can lead to a better
understanding of the deepest meaning of our lives.
In this collection of short stories, different individuals from
different worlds discover that the reality they thought they lived
in is not reality at all. Anne discovers that she has a secret
power to conjure a previously unseen world. A soldier in the Civil
War encounters a mysterious hut where he can hide and heal from his
wounds. Elaine is disturbed by the deafening silence of the city
around her and discovers that conversation is going on--it's just
that she can't hear it. Myra Owen goes to Kinko's one day, unaware
she is about to come upon a divine and holy work. A young girl goes
fishing and her life is changed forever. In other award-winning
stories, a bird arrives, bearing an unexpected message and a train
appears in the middle of the night. This collection of seven short
stories includes two new previously-unpublished works, and also an
Author's Note, in which the origin of each tale and the process by
which it was written is discussed.
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