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The Physicist and the Mystic: Is Dialogue Between Them Possible?
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MODERN THOUGHT
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5 / 1986 |
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Renee Weber, Edited By Emily Sellon
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David Bohm is considered one of the world's foremost theoretical physicists and one of the most influential theorists of the emerging paradigm. His Causality and Chance in modern Physics (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957) has become a classic in the field of quantum mechanics, and is widely used at universities. His recent book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (Toutledge and Kegan Paul, 1980) deals with physics, the philosophy of physics, and with Bohm's revolutionary views of consciousness. In this explorations of the nature of consciousness, Bohm has held dialogues for many years with the noted Indian philosopher, Krishnamurti; and also more recently with such figures as Stanford neurologist Karl Pribram, physicist Frijof Capra, with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, and with many others who have become interested in his cosmology. He is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, has done research at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and has held positions at Princeton, the University of Sao Paulo, and at Haifa. He is currently at work on a new book.
Reene Weber is professor of philosophy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where she chairs the Council for Integrative and Crossdisciplinary Studies and is director of the Rutgers College Honors Program.
Her forthcoming book, Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London: July 1986; New York: September 1986) contains--besides five dialogues with David Bohm--dialogues with other scientists and with leading spiritual figures of our time. Dr. Weber specializes in philosophy of religion and comparative East-West cosmology.
Emily Sellon is an editor and was for many years editor of Main Currents in Modern Thought, the interdisciplinary, holistically oriented journal founded and pioneered by Fritz L. Kunz in 1943. Main Currents was the original role model after which ReVISION Journal patterned itself upon Main Currents' demise. Mrs. Sellon took over the complete editorship of Main Currents after F. L. Kunz's death, and with the cessation of the publication in 1975, issued a retrospective issue, composed of its best and most representative works.
David Bohm, Renee Weber, and the editors of ReVISION Journal would like to express their appreciation and thanks to Mrs. Sellon for her skillful editing of this interview, which involved a sensitive and time-consuming task of reducing a manuscript three times its current length to the present one,
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