| Fritjof Capra talks about The Tao of Physics and his development as a scientist and a writer since the 60's. He explains how after discovering the amazing parallels between the concepts of modern physics and those of eastern spirituality, his interest shifted from physics to the life sciences because he, then, wanted to study the paradigm shift that was happening in health, in politics, in the economy, in the environment, in ecology, in education. And, as Fritjof says, "if you think of it, those are all fields having to do with life, individual organisms, human organisms, social life, ecosystems and so on." In this seminar Capra presents the conceptual framework he has been developing during the last 20 years, a framework that integrates three dimensions of life: the biological, the cognitive and the social. This framework which allowed him to tackle the various issues in society from a holistic, integrative point-of-view is presented in his books, The Web of Life (1996), and The Hidden Connections (2002). The title, The Hidden Connections, is taken from a speech by a Czech playwright and former president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, who said, "Education today is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena." Havel pointed out that it's not so much the facts that we need to remember because, today we can access the facts right away, but that it is the hidden connections between the facts what we need to discover. And that is what Fritjof Capra ... |
