The turning point fritjof capra pdf download

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We have reached a time of dramatic and potentially dangerous change, a turning point for the planet as a whole. We need a new vision of reality, one that allows the forces transforming our world to flow together as a positive movement for social change. Now distinguished scientist Fritjof Capra gives us that vision, a holistic paradigm of science and spirit. There are no reviews yet. Yin can be "The real revolution that came with Einstein's understood metaphorically by equating it to theory..

It the space-time coordinate system has objective corresponds to all that is contractive, re- significance as a separate physical entity. Instead sponsive, and conservative and is some- of this idea, relativity theory implies that the times related to the more feminine side of space and time coordinates are only the elements nature, meaning receptive, reflective, and of a language that is used by an observer to de- intuitive.

Yang, on the other hand, can be scribe his environment. It implies all that is expansive, ag- ified repeatedly Einstein's description of the gressive, and demanding, and serves as the effect of the observer and the interconnect- masculine counterpart of nature, meaning edness of variables such as space, time, assertive and controlling.

Waves dance to and momentum. Subatomic partides were become mass ,in ; then dance to become found by Heisenberg, Bohr, and others to energy yang. Electrons dance faster and have no meaning as isolated entities. To the faster in an atom the more they are con- extent that a partide could be studied in strained.

The contractual pull gets com- terms of its placement in the atom, the plemented by the momentum and expan- m o m e n t u m became a m b i g u o u s - - a n d sion pull. These "pulls" are not exterior vice-versa. In other words, partides became forces but arise out of the inherent nature of understood as waves dancing between matter.

Too much of either pole is destruc- states of mass and energy. In the words of five. While too much contraction results in Neil Bohr, "Isolated material partides are black holes, too much expansion results in abstractions, their properties being defina- burning suns. He cal perspective. In Capra's words: states: "Bootstrap philosophy constitutes the final rejec- "Many of today's physicists actively support a tion of the mechanistic world view in modem society which is still based on the mechanistic, physics In the new world view, the universe fragmented world-view, without seeing that sci- is seen as a dynamic web of interrelated events.

This technology is mental significance. They are creations of fragmented rather than holistic, bent on manipu- the h u m a n mind, properties of our concep- lation and control rather than cooperation, self- tual map of reality, rather than of reality assertive rather than integrative, and suitable for itself. Not only are they constructs of the centralized management rather than regional application by individuals and small groups.

As a observer, but studying them in isolation result, this technology has become profoundly causes all related variables to be misun- antiecological, antisocial, unhealthy, and inhu- derstood.

The whole is greater than the man. What we need is a redefinition of the nature parts, the parts are interconnected and of technology, a change of its direction, and a self-regulating in terms of the whole. Thus, reevaluation of its underlying value system.

If a reductionist model is fruitless. If mo- clear that we have concentrated too much on 'hard' highly complex, and resource-intensive tion and change are essential properties of technologies and must now shift our attention to things and the forces causing the motion are the 'soft' technologies of conflict resolution, so- not outside the objects but are an intrinsic cial agreements, cooperation, recycling and re- property of matter, then learning and be- distribution.

Capra writes that science must further explore the fields of organic systems theory in order to solve these problems. It is unusually detailed and thorough in its inclusion of the conventional and the alternative approaches to topics ranging from ecology through medicine and psychology to economics. They may lead us — to put it in extreme terms — to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

The problem is he gets his physics wrong and in a preachy way. It really complemented what I am learning at the moment: The authors argue that at the root of the multi-faceted global crisis we face today is a legal system based on an obsolete worldview; and they explain how, by incorporating concepts from modern science, the law can become an integral part of bringing about a better world, rather than facilitating its destruction.

If you are disheartened by the problems of overpopulation, energy crises, etc… the list can go on forever do yourself a favor and read the solutions Capra advocates in The Turning Point. Extends the framework of systems and complexity theory to the social domain and uses thus framework to discuss some of the critical issues of our time — the management of human organizations, the challenges and dangers of economic globalization, the scientific and ethical problems of biotechnology, and the design of ecologically sustainable communities and technologies.

Wonderful book — much food for thought. Steering Business Toward Sustainability A collection, co-edited with Gunter Pauli, of essays by business executives, economists, ecologists, and others who outline practical approaches to meeting the challenge of ecological sustainability.

For other uses, see Turning Point. If I had to pick only one book to recommend for all the world leaders to read cover-to-cover, it would be this book.

Capra gives a protein shake to the physiocrats in giving them credit for uninvisibleing it as productive force, as the Industrial Revolution made life into and became a mechanized life, built of the raw material as nature hath furnished into machines. The old is discarded and the new is introduced.

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