This exciting volume brings together an international gathering of scientists and philosophers concerned with the fate of our planet. Based on a conference held in Perugia, Italy, this collection of papers and symposia confirms Heisenberg's saying that "real science" is made in the conversations of scientists. In it, we see what is perhaps the most important scientific idea of the twentieth century taking shape before our eyes.
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William Irwin Thompson became nationally known through his best-selling book on contemporary affairs, At the Edge of History, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1972. As a cultural historian and philosopher of culture, he is most widely known for "The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture," "Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science," and "Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness" In 1972 he founded the Lindisfarne Association, a fellowship of artists, scientists, and contemplatives, and was its director for twenty-five years. Thompson now serves as the curriculum designer and faculty consultant to the Ross School in East Hampton, New York, and divides his year between New York and Switzerland.
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This review is from: Gaia 2: Emergence : The New Science of Becoming (Paperback)
Thompson's ouvere is growing, and this book adds additional weight to an already impressive body of knoweldgge he's shepherding. The erudite and scientific core of what he offers balances well with the mytho-poetic, but in this book Thompson and thhe authors he gathers and edits do a good job of showing that the emerging science is something which can be discussed for lay-persons (like me and you) in ways that are graspable annd comprehensible.Thhis is best read in parallel with one or tow of his own personal literary masterpieces (such as "The Time Falling Bodies Took to Light").
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