Author: Ravi Ravindra
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing
Year: 2000/2007
Language: English
Pages: 359
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170593816
Description
The present global situation permits neither an isolation of the eastern and western values, nor the continuing military or economic domination of the West over the East. This situation has been brought about primarily by developments in science and technology, which are inevitably leading to the emergence of a planetary culture.
If the intellectuals, both of the East and of the West, do not endeavour to forge a right synthesis of science and spirituality, of the Occident and the Orient, of modernity and tradition, this worldwide culture will be based on a very low common denominator, amounting essentially to a lack of ethical standards and of spiritual values. We can hardly overestimate the difficulty of communication across cultures and disciplines, and also the urgent necessity for some understanding across these boundaries to be reached.
We hope that this book can be of some help in the development of such an understanding.
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Contents
Editor’s Note
SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE MODERN WORLD:
Introduction
Ancient wisdom in a changing world
Science and mystical consciousness
Transcending opposites:
The creative power of paradox
SCIENCE AND SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS:
Yoga and knowledge
Perception in yoga and physics
Western science and technology and the
Indian intellectual tradition
Modern science and spiritual traditions
Science and the sacred
SCIENCE AND REASON ARE QUITE TWO TINGS:
Experience and experiment: A critique of
Modern scientific knowing
Blake’s response to Newton
In the beginning is the dance of love
To the dancer belongs the universe:
Freedom and bondage of natural law
SCIENCE AS A SPIRITUAL PATH:
Where are religion and science
Complementary?
Science as a spiritual path
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
INNER TRANSFORMATION AND SCIENCE:
A science of inner transformation
Ahimsa, transformation and ecology
Science and the mystery of silence
Healing the soul: Truth, love and god
Acknowledgements
Index