He underlines that the new holistic world view is responsible for the rising eminence of ecological awareness, environmental issues and Green politics. The observations and findings of Quantum physics supported this view, overturning the certainties of the Newtonian mechanistic world model of a solid, predictable, unchanging and deterministic universe.Ĭapra speaks then of a basic change in world view and relates our present day problems to a ‘crises of perception’. The growing scientific certainty of an integrated and interdependent cosmos whose only reality was the reality of a dynamic whole rather than the parts was the very premise on which eastern mysticism was founded. Zukav in his book ‘ Dancing Wu Li Masters‘ again employs a Chinese term which means patterns of energy or physics while Masters can be interpreted as teachers of Wu Li namely scientists.Ĭapra in his book traces the philosophy of eastern mysticism in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Zen and then proceeds to show that there are amazing parallels in their basic ideas with the concepts of modern physics. Capra’s ‘ Tao of Physics‘ employed the Chinese word Tao which signifies cosmic purpose, unity and interdependence of all phenomena. The titles were also chosen to underline the close affinity between mysticism and science. Their books became bestsellers with several reprints. These two pioneers in this genre presented to the public their perceptions of the striking parallels between the new and evolving paradigms in physics and ancient wisdom contained particularly in eastern mysticism. New Age consciousness manifested itself in the 20th century in the books of a special breed of writers like Fritjof Capra, a scientist and Gary Zukav a Harvard intellectual.
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