David Peat writes in “Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind,” “At its height, toward the end of the nineteenth century, Newtonian mechanics had become the model for all other sciences. …The universe had been transformed from a living organism into something that was much closer to a machine, a machine albeit of immense ingenuity in its construction and operation, but nonetheless mechanical… Within such a machine, however, there is little room for values and meaning or for the inner facts of experience and revelation. And even human nature could be apparently reduced to the functioning of the instincts and repressions, which, in turn, had their origins as flows of energy arising in electrochemical reactions of the nervous system. “Quantum theory and relativity had […] Read More
