Capra says, “and mystics do not need physics, but humanity needs both.” It is a message of timeless importance. It includes a fresh cover design and a new preface by the author reflecting on further discoveries and developments in the years since the book’s original publication. This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of this early Shambhala best seller that has gone on to become a true classic. Its publication in more than twenty-three languages stands as testimony to its universal applicability and its enduring significance. What is harder to understand is that the book has now gone through several. Many books have been written in the ensuing years about the connections between quantum theory and the ideas of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, but Fritjof Capra’s text serves as the foundation on which the others have been built-and its wisdom has stood the test of time. The Tao of Physics was completed in December 1974, and the implications of the November Revolution one month earlier that led to the dramatic confirmations of the standard-model quantum field theory clearly had not sunk in for Capra (like many others at that time). The Tao of Physics brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time. A special edition of the “brilliant” best-selling classic on the paradoxes of modern physics and their relationship to concepts of Eastern mysticism ( New York Magazine)
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