Spiritual Insights from the New Science is a guide to the deep spiritual wisdom drawn from one of the newest areas of science — the study of complex systems. The author, a former research scientist with over three decades of experience in the field of complexity science, tells her story of being attracted, as a young student, to the study of self-organizing systems where she encountered the strange and beautiful topics of chaos, fractals and other concepts that comprise complexity science. Using the events of her life, she describes lessons drawn from this science that provide insights into not only her own life, but all our lives. These insights show us how to weather the often disruptive events we all experience when growing and changing. The book goes on to explore, through the unfolding story of the author's life as a practicing scientist, other key concepts from the science of complex systems: cycles and rhythms, attractors and bifurcations, chaos, fractals, self-organization, and emergence. Examples drawn from religious rituals, dance, philosophical teachings, mysticism, native American spirituality, and other sources are used to illustrate how these scientific insights apply to all aspects of life, especially the spiritual. Spiritual Insights from the New Science shows the links between this new science and our human spirituality and presents, in engaging, accessible language, the argument that the study of nature can lead to a better understanding of the deepest meaning of our lives.
"This book is a guide to the deep spiritual wisdom drawn from one of the newest areas of science - the study of complex systems. It illustrates how concepts from the science of complex systems (cycles and rhythms, attractors and bifurcations, chaos, fractals, self-organization, and emergence) apply to all aspects of life, especially the spiritual"--
Larter had worked as a research scientist and professor investigating complex systems for several years before she realized the insight from such work could be applied to spiritual life as well as the physical world. Her seven insights are the attractor, bifurcation, self-organization, cycles and rhythms, chaos, fractals, and emergence. Among specific topics are the universality of complex phenomena, the wisdom of the mystics, degrees of integration, predator-prey dynamics, order on chaos: the strange attractors, the great fractal attractor, and dynamical diseases and the brain. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
