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For someone such as myself whose driving interest is to attempt a better understanding of the mind’s operations
I have read a number of papers by Shelli Joye, since I have a strong interest in the workings of mind and memory, and the central theme of my understanding of the latter is very much in line with her work, although her book has added some supporting detail of which I was unaware. In the first 30 pages the author goes into some autobiographical description of what happened early on in her life and to later develop into her current interests. She describes how her training as an electrical engineer was changed in the late 1960s by an experience with LSD which caused her to start to explore consciousness and encouraged her to start to read more widely about mystics and in particular the histories of early Indian philosophy and beliefs. But not only are eastern sages such as Sri Aurobindo and Krishnamurti covered, but also the Jesuit priest and anthropologist Teilhard de Chardin. His fascinating life is examined to demonstrate how his conclusions fit in with the gist of the vedantic view of existence. Then finally it is shown how all these can be rationalised with the implicate order of the eminent quantum physicist David Bohm.For someone such as myself whose driving interest is to attempt a better understanding of the mind’s operations, I have often found the best way to do this is to know as much as possible about the way in which any scientific advance and religious insights are made. In short, to ascertain what thought processes were going through the mind of the author, and the prior circumstances which led to how and why the subject was found to be of great interest the first place. Sometimes I find such narrative accounts far more stimulating than the actual theories that result from such mental processes, to the extent that such accounts are usually the best way for me to understand the theory put forward, especially if there is mathematically complex which I would find hard to grasp in the first place. I cannot imagine a better way to research the operation of thought and consciousness. All this is bound up in a manner to show how a Trinitarian structure consisting in Bohm’s terms of Newtonian mechanics operating at human dimensions, quantum mechanics operating at dimensions of nuclear particles and Bohm’s hidden variables at the boundaries of space-time or at singular minimum Planck dimensions. For me the major insight of the book was how Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768 – 1830) demonstrated mathematically how there is a precise link between the physics of space time and the spectra of the frequency domain now exemplified by holograms. This is known as the Fourier Transform and for me opens up an explanation of how thought an consciousness might be more clearly envisaged. This an excellent book which deserves attention.Nick Greaves
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