Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind by David Peat (PDF)

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With fascinating historical anecdotes and incisive scientific analysis, this important work combines ancient thought with modern theory to reveal a new way of viewing our universe that can expand our awareness, our lives, and may well point the way to a new science for the twenty-first century.

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⭐Received on time, as described.

⭐I bought this book many years ago and it opened up my inner vision.Many years later, and several moves and major changes later, I found myself wondering about personal introductions and synchronicity.This book bridged the gap, and simplified the riddles.The subject of Synchronicity was presented to me through the early years.Pondering’s of personal Psychic senses gave way to a different level of speculation on the natural world around, then this book entered into my path.Synchronicity- The Bridge Between Matter and Mind for me is a re-purchase.Experience a reunion.~V.

⭐As a person trying to come to terms with the continued occurrence of synchronicity in his life… I thought this book would present an accessible treatise on the subject.. unfortunately, i found this to beone of those books that reads like a calculus textbook… bone dry and nothing to grab onto. The exposition becomes circular after awhile, lost in its own psychobabble… it really doesntsit you down and tell you anything to draw your own conclusions.. it just goes out of its way to be “scientific”.

⭐I have a bad habit of reading a book half way through and then getting bored. Only my favorite books get read from cover to cover. I guess this one was not one of my favorites. It is sitting in the half-read book pile.

⭐A very concise book about how it all comes together

⭐Clear and easy to understand, especially significant with such a complex subject..all of his work is well done, and certainly his biography of David Bohm is worth reading. His work focusing on the important theories of Bohm and Jung, and their relationship is outstanding and should be required reading for anyone interested in thinking about the subtle realities that govern our lives.

⭐Or, better yet, why was it ever written? Was there a point to be made? Was there an opinion or conclusion belonging to F. David Peat? If the answer is yes I couldn’t find it. What I found was a treatise on Carl Jung interspersed with totally unreleated quotes from Sheldrake, Pauli etc. on QM. Peat’s examples of synchronicity offer no commonality with the word at all: a candle burning out at a dinner party at the time someone’s father died, or a picture falling from the wall on the day of someone’s funeral don’t relate to synchronicity. That’s the way of the entire book. It gave me a feeling of, “Huh? What was that again? I must have missed something.” But there was nothing to miss!

⭐Well researched and documented book with lots of good insights into the theory of synchronicity. Beats the heck out of Jung’s paper on the subject by it’s clarity and careful construction. Here and there are references which require some outside help in clarifying if one is not familiar with other works on the subject. All in all a good solid book.

⭐Synchronicity: The bridge between matter and mind, by F. David Peat, Bantam, 1987, 256 ff.A scientific approach to Jung’s conceptBy Howard A. JonesF. David Peat is a physicist who, earlier in his career, worked with another holistic visionary, David Bohm. This book is an exploration of the significance of synchronicity in contributing to the order of the universe.Chapter 1 provides examples of synchronicity in physics (as in the quantum interaction of subatomic particles) and personal psychology (some of the seemingly inexplicable but significant coincidences we find in our everyday lives). Chapter 2 outlines the Newtonian mechanical world-view and shows that, even here, there are many instances where the itemized, reductionist approach is not sufficient to describe the behaviour of all systems. This is where things could get scary, but Peat glides smoothly over the surface of the variational principle and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation by saying merely that these are theoretical techniques for studying the optimization of whole systems. In Chapter 3 he moves on to the living universe where coordination or synchronicity between different components of a system is an essential element of their function. Synchronistic thinking amongst the individuals in a population gets governments elected – or revolutions started! Synchronicity is also to be found in the behaviour of flocks of birds, schools of fishes or social insects. Physical phenomena like turbulence and superconductivity and the dissipative structures suggested by Ilya Prigogine are also described here because they involve the same kind of coordinated behaviour of constituent particles.Chapter 4 on Patterns of Mind and Matter alludes to a creative consciousness that participates in the symmetry of geometrical and natural structures, in that such symmetry is both constitutive of the object and descriptive as part of human perception of the object. Structures of atoms and their constituents are also described here, after Heisenberg, as material realizations of such underlying symmetries. Our human propensity to seek out symmetries and patterns in the world are seen as archetypes within Jung’s collective unconscious. Chapter 5 expands on the reductionist scientific world-view by considering how synchronicity emerges in the way that the ancient Shang people of China and the contemporary Naskapi Indians of Canada view their world. Chapter 6 explores resonances between these world-views and the morphic field of Rupert Sheldrake and the implicate order of David Bohm, both of whose theories are expanded on in a little detail. Peat has the advantage of having worked with Bohm and, as a physicist himself, is in a position to explain Bohm’s quantum theories simply. Karl Pribram’s theory of brain function, referred to here, was also heavily influenced by Bohm.The remaining two chapters deal with The Creative Source and synchronicity in relation to cosmology, philosophy and religion. There are reference notes at the end of each chapter and a good index at the end of the book. This book is an excellent read on various aspects of synchronicity in the world.Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, UK.

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⭐The author is a respected scientist who has created a highly readable account of the limitations of explanations in science based purely on cause and affect. He takes seriously the idea that another connection between events may exist defined by their meaning to the observer. Synchronicity is the term created by the psychologist CG Jung for such connections. Now that a relationship between physical phenomena and the fact of them being observed has been discovered in quantum physics it seems likely that phenomena hitherto regarded as ‘mystical’ or ‘occult’ may come under the umbrella of acceptable science. This book is for those who would find that interesting.

⭐This is an erudite work but seems to me to be a little contradictory. Partly arguing for the new/higher physics (ie .all observers affect what they observe, ie there is no possibility of absolute objectivity) he seems to time and time again fall back into the traditional (Newtonian) attitude which embraces the ‘all scientific knowledge is totally without objectivity and so is undeniable’.I found it confusing.

⭐Clearer understanding of a topic that has resonated with me.Also contains snippets of brilliance regarding scientific approaches.

⭐good

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