Mysticism and the New Physics: Revised and Updated Edition

by Michael Talbot

Book Overview

An account of how quantum physics is putting forward ideas that confirm the perceived beliefs of mystics who think the world is an illusion

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140193286
• ISBN13: 9780140193282
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Every page is mind expanding

I love this book, and am very surprised its not a lot more popular. Talbot doesn't dance around the subject like more other authors and books do! He gets straight to the point with very informed and powerful concepts. I often find it burdensome to have to deal with an authors "filler" material, and if I can speak for myself, I want to get to the point, and then relate that point to different perspectives. Excellent book and probably one of the top 5 books I've read out of about 30 or so. If your at all interested in the topic, pick it up!

Another great book by Michael Talbot!

First read the Holographic Universe and was entralled because I see or have worked with wierd things before and after Reiki. His examples made sense, all getting back to quantum physics. Now comes a book to refine the info in the Holographic Universe as related to the unexplained in mysticism. Well done, both are must reads for some leads to explanations of how it all works, which is not at all like we were told! Peggy Griffin

Mind Expanding

This book will really give you a new perspective on the world in which you live. It is a great introduction to quantum physics that is written, to the extent possible, in unpretentious, layman's terms. One caveat: If you read this book, you may start to believe that anything is possible.

a classic

very challenging, stimulating and ultimately satisfying dialogue that nicely coalesces with the seminal works of such great writers as Alan Watts, Fritjof Capra and Robert Anton Wilson.The science versus spirituality "conflict" dissipates into thin air with each elegantly written page of this wonderful book.

A journey

Talbot opens the book with an introduction that gives the reader some idea of where he's going. The first several chapters lay down a quick ground work, introducing the reader to the old physics' universal precepts. He then goes into what new areas of quantum research are uncovering and postulating, and ties it in with mostly eastern mystical thought: Tantra, Buddhism, and the in-betweens. He makes references to specific cases, specific theories, and specific thinkers, past and present. The work is overall well written and well cited, very coherent and unesoteric. I recommend the book to anyone looking for an explaination for what they can't explain and who is not satisfied with occidental mythoi.