The Philosopher's Stone: Chaos, Synchronicity and the Hidden Order of the World

by F. David Peat

Looks at similarities between Eastern philosophy and Western physics, the connection between cell communicatioin and the immune system, and linguistic properties of the genetic code

Genres: Philosophy, Science

244 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

He has worked actively as a theoretical physicist in England and Canada.

But Peat's interests expanded to include psychology, particularly that of Carl Jung, art and general aspects of culture, including that of Native America. Peat is the author of many books including a biography of David Bohm, with whom Peat collaborated, books on quantum theory and chaos theory, as well as a study of Synchronicity. Since moving to the village of Pari in Italy, Peat has created the Pari Center for New Learning.

Reviews

[Alexa Cascade · Rating 5 out of 5]

A continuation of Peat's book Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Mind and Matter . Delving deeper into synchroncity and reality. If you read the first, you have to read this one. It will blow your mind!

[Gina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very interesting book that has peaked my interest in nonlinear equations, Newton's work in alchemy, Carl Jung and Marie Louise von Franz' works, and Moshe Feldenkrais. Also, trying to visualize 5 and 6 dimensions makes my head hurt.

[Bridgett · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book, though it was very similar to "Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind." It discusses quantum physics and the underlying unity and symmetry of the world.

[Liedzeit Liedzeit · Rating 2 out of 5]

Einige Dinge sind ganz gut dargestellt. Die Insektenpopulation und Chaos verstehe ich nun schon etwas besser.