David Peat, scientist, writer, and cultural explorer, is more
interested in finding a good question than in discovering an
ultimate answer. Trained as a theoretical physicist, Peat's
intellectual independence and natural curiosity took the reigns
of his career, leading him far beyond the university classroom
and the research laboratory. He was a close associate, and the
official biographer, of the renowned physicist and visionary,
David Bohm, a follower of analytical psychologist Carl Jung, a
denizen of the London art scene, and an enthusiast of the wisdom
of Native American elders.
In this Voices from the Edge
presentation, recorded live at the Foxhollow Forum in western
Massachussetts, Peat discusses his long-standing fascination
with the phenomenon of synchronicity, those rare and fortuitous
occurrences that can suddenly imbue life with unexpected meaning
and harmony. As the title of Peat's book on the subject,
Synchronicity: The Bridge between Mind and Matter,
indicates, synchronous events reveal what many scientists intuit
but can't quite prove: that there is an underlying order in the
universe which the laws of causality can't fully account for.
Elucidating and punctuating his talk with personal recollections
and anecdotes about famous physicists, philosophers, poets, and
artists, Peat's remarkable life in many ways exemplifies his
belief in the undeniable interdependence between matter and spirit.
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Recorded on: 10/29/2005
Jungian Psychology
New Age Spirituality