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Aug 01, 2001 accessible, edifying, and endlessly entertaining, the dancing wu li masters. Apr, 2017 inspired in part by wigner, fritjof capra, a member of the fundamental fysiks group, wrote the tao of physics. And this is often the sequence that many people encounter as they move into an expanded awareness of who they are and why they are here. The dancing wu li masters is a 1979 book by gary zukav, a popular science work exploring modern physics, and quantum phenomena in particular. New age interpretations of quantum physics, such as fritjof capras the tao of physics or gary zukovs the dancing wu li masters, have sought to integrate western science with eastern mysticism.
From the forward during the years that i was writing the dancing wu li masters and after, i was drawn again and again to the writings of william james, carl jung, benjamin lee whorf, niels bohr and albert einstein. Inspired in part by wigner, fritjof capra, a member of the fundamental fysiks group, wrote the tao of physics. Sep 17, 2014 in 1979, he authored a bestseller titled the dancing wu li masters, which followed up on capra in describing the imagined connection between modern physics and eastern mysticism, emphasizing the holistic interpretation of quantum mechanics developed by the brilliant physicist david bohmwho later became a mystic. I was in college at the time, and i borrowed a copy of zukavs book to see if hofstadters criticisms seemed accurate.
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