Book Description
An invigorating tour of topics that brings together dozens of essays that offer a sweeping account of the author's explorations about science, philosophy, and religion. 34 line illustrations.
Author : John D. Barrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN :
An invigorating tour of topics that brings together dozens of essays that offer a sweeping account of the author's explorations about science, philosophy, and religion. 34 line illustrations.
Author : Edward Kolb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 1986-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226450322
Inner Space/Outer Space brings together much of the exciting work contributing to a new synthesis of modern physics. Particle physicists, concerned with the "inner space" of the atom, are making discoveries that their colleagues in astrophysics, studying outer space, can use to develop and test hypotheses about the events that occurred in the microseconds after the Big Bang and that shaped the universe as we know it today. The papers collected here, from scores of scientists, constitute the proceedings of the first major international conference on research at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics, held in May 1984. The editors have written introductions to each major section that draw out the central themes and elaborate on the primary implications of the papers that follow.
Author : John D. Barrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192880413
Barrow is emerging as the Stephen Jay Gould of the mathematical sciences. These fluent and erudite essays should further enhance his reputation. Professor Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
Author : Shing-Tung Yau
Publisher : Il Saggiatore
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0465020232
The leading mind behind the mathematics of string theory discusses how geometry explains the universe we see. Illustrations.
Author : Rick Strassman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1594779996
An investigation into experiences of other realms of existence and contact with otherworldly beings • Examines how contact with alien life-forms can be obtained through the “inner space” dimensions of our minds • Presents evidence that other worlds experienced through consciousness-altering technologies are often as real as those perceived with our five senses • Correlates science fiction’s imaginal realms with psychedelic research For thousands of years, voyagers of inner space--spiritual seekers, shamans, and psychoactive drug users--have returned from their inner imaginal travels reporting encounters with alien intelligences. Inner Paths to Outer Space presents an innovative examination of how we can reach these other dimensions of existence and contact otherworldly beings. Based on their more than 60 combined years of research into the function of the brain, the authors reveal how psychoactive substances such as DMT allow the brain to bypass our five basic senses to unlock a multidimensional realm of existence where otherworldly communication occurs. They contend that our centuries-old search for alien life-forms has been misdirected and that the alien worlds reflected in visionary science fiction actually mirror the inner space world of our minds. The authors show that these “alien” worlds encountered through altered states of human awareness, either through the use of psychedelics or other methods, possess a sense of reality as great as, or greater than, those of the ordinary awareness perceived by our five senses.
Author : Marie Laurberg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788793659087
The moon has long furnished humankind with an artistic icon, an image of longing and object of scientific inquiry. Encompassing art, film, literature, architecture, design, natural history and historical objects, and published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing (July 20, 1969), "The Moon" surveys the iconography of the moon, from Romantic landscape paintings to space-age art. It takes the 1969 landing as a thematic fulcrum and a culmination of the deep-rooted cultural conceptions invested in the space race in the 1960s, from David Bowie to Disney. The book also accounts for the science of the moon throughout the ages, from Galileo to NASA, addressing the many lunar myths that have existed throughout time. Also explored here is moonlight, an important theme in the Romantic nocturnal landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, J.C. Dahl and Carl Julius von Leypold. "The Moon" looks at all these lunar themes and myths, in a thrilling and inspirational gathering for anyone who has felt the moon's pull on their imagination.
Author : John C. Baird
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Author : Aryeh Kaplan
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Based on a series of lectures that Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan gave to a small group of students in Brooklyn in 1981, this contains transcripts of the series on the Kabbalistic system, and testifies to his wonderful ability to transmit profound ideas in a readily-graspable way. Although this is an introductory text, it contains many perspectives that are expressed in a unique way, so it would be quite valuable even for the more advanced student of Jewish mysticism.
Author : John D. Barrow
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Cosmology
ISBN :
Author : Hildon, Karl J. H
Publisher : Milton, Ont. : Transactor Pub.
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Commodore computers
ISBN : 9780969208600