Bridging Science and Spirit: Common Elements in David Bohm's Physics, the Perennial Philosophy and Seth [Paperback]

Norman Friedman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1997

For centuries, humankind has tried to navigate between scientific and spiritual conceptions of reality often without much success. In the resultant confusion scientists philosophers and theologians have pondered and argued-yet the separation remains. Norman Friedman correlates the quantum physics of David Bohm with the Perennial Philosophy described by Aldous Huxley and the spiritual insights of the channelled entity known as Seth to show how a single reality emerges from seemingly contradictory perspectives-a brilliant synthesis.

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"This book will be a valuable research document for many years to come..." --Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., author of Mind into Matter and The Spiritual Universe



"A courageous and visionary work, consistent not only with good science but with humankind..." ---Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Prayer is Good Medicine

"...one of the most insightful, comprehensive, and brilliant expressions of knowledge. I shall certainly use it as a reference guide." ---Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and How to Know God

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Here is a remarkable book that explores the bridge between science and spirituality with skill and insight. Every important facet of the problem has been addressed with both intelligence and heart.

Product Details

• Paperback: 324 pages
• Publisher: Moment Point Press Inc (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889964077
• ISBN-13: 978-1889964072
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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85 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Opens the mind so wide it creates a permanent draft inside !, April 16, 1999

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This review is from: Bridging Science and Spirit: Common Elements in David Bohm's Physics, the Perennial (Audio Cassette)

Where to start ? To get 5 stars, a book must really satisfy many criterias, and this one certainly does.

Its author, Mr. Friedman, deserve among others to be recognized as a brillant pedagogue. The topic is complex but the text is clear and the simple words well chosen, like in his other excellent book: The Hidden Domain. As a reader you are able to think fully about the concepts expressed, without wasting any concentration on sentences analysis. Depending on your learning style, you may prefer like I did the tape version: it lets you think with your eyes closed.

You may have enjoyed David Bohm's unusual interpretations of our world through his master knowledge of quantum physics. You may have been puzzled by Jane Roberts connection with the strange entity Seth. In Bridging Science and Spirit, not only do you get a summary of the most important and philosophical aspects of the above, you are also launched into such powerful explanations of the physical roots of our world that some wild imagination may be needed to fully grasp them.

This book makes you think and almost not believing yourself the potentials of what your mind is trying to visualize: this is why I found the book outstanding.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars take your pick, May 30, 2007

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John D. Barcik "Jack Barcik, PhD" (Stuart, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bridging Science and Spirit: Common Elements in David Bohm's Physics, the Perennial Philosophy and Seth (Paperback)

A synopsis of the writings of one of the all-time great physicists, David Bohm, sets the tone for the synthesis of what seem to be radically different forms of knowledge. It takes concentration to stay with what Bohm has put forth, but if the effort is forthcoming, the results are more than worth it. Wholeness and the implicate order are the bottom line.

Wholeness and the implicate order are repeated in physics, philosophy, and the psychic. All three say essentially the same thing. We are used to structuring our reality based on agreement. When several people agree that something happened, there is consensual validity. Consensual validity means that we believe what happened actually happened, it's real. This belief is our reality. We can end up at the end of this book with a consensual world view which is quite different from what we held before reading this book.

Many of us take physics pretty seriously and use physics to help us structure our reality. In other words, we give credibility to what physics has to say. However, psychic phenomena are often not given the same credibility. Weird psychic phenomena such as "channeling" are more often than not dismissed out of hand. So we make judgements about what we accept as credible and what we do not as we construct our reality.

This book presents us with the task of re-evaluating our judgements regarding what we accept and what we reject in the construction of our reality. The question is: What do we do when both physics and the psychic say the SAME THING?? Do we continue with our acceptance of physics and rejection of the psychic even though they both say the same thing? Do we bag physics and go for the psychic? Do we say that this is too confusing to make any sense out of? Or. Do we opt for consensual validity and accept that both physics and the psychic are real?

It is fascinating that we can go both ways. We can use physics to understand the psychic. Or. We can use the psychic to understand physics. Either way. Take your pick. We end up at the same place! For those who prefer mathematics, go for David Bohm. For those who prefer the psychic, go for "Seth". For those who prefer eastern philosophy, go for Ken Wilber. Everybody ends up at the same place. And WHAT a place it is! It's whole, not segmented. It's unified, not divided! It's infinite, not limited! It continually changes, it's not fixed! We're all together, not separated!

So here we have a book, written by an engineer, which is spiritually up-lifting in a way which is difficult to match.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a book that found me, April 23, 2006

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Mitch Y. Artman (new york, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bridging Science and Spirit: Common Elements in David Bohm's Physics, the Perennial Philosophy and Seth (Paperback)

i bought this book from a street vendor in new york where ordinarily there are never books and ordinarily i never walk. i had a feeling the book was finding me as much as i was finding it. i point this out because this does not occur with books which cannot impact you.

i won't ignore the gaps or issues others have raised regarding the text. what matters is that, a year later, i remember the unmistakeable sense of there being a higher unity of things than we typically experience or conceive. friedman interrelates david bohm's quantum mechanics (implicate and explicate order), jane roberts' seth seances and the perennial philosophy.

i do not believe seth is a spirit but roberts' muse. i am not hanging on every word like a fish on a hook. but we see emerging the idea that our science, our philosophy and our faith ultimately point to a singular reality we develop towards without knowing it.

friedman was a millionaire in industry before he wrote either of his books (the hidden domain). this is a man who wanted more than what the daily world offered. and this is what he found.