The Tao of Physics Paperback – January 1, 2007

Your mind has to be at ease to read and learn the information from this book. It's great input!

Capra's exploration of the parallels between modern physics and eastern mysticism is a book I should have read years ago. I am familiar with the religions he calls "Eastern mysticism" but modern physics not so much. I try to keep up with developments in science but found his presentation of modern physics tough going though I was familiar with its general outlines. Of course, there have been a lot of developments since this book was published in 1975. But Capra's statement “Modern physics has confirmed most dramatically one of the basic ideas of Eastern mysticism; that all the concepts we use to describe nature are limited, that they are not features of reality, as we tend to believe, but creations of the mind" will certainly stand the test of time. I highly recommend this book and plan to read some of his other books.

If you are painfully familiar with classic Western thought, with its fixed rules based upon "known" facts and repetitious cycle of discoveries that disprove those same facts, treat yourself to this non-jargon based exploration of Eastern thought. 2500 years ago Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu thinkers intuited a unitary concept of the universe that comports very well with today's scientific observations at the sub-atomic level. Through observation and meditation, they did what Einstein could not do, developed a theory of how the universe works for galactic and sub-atomic sized events and objects. In the process, they suggested that everyone and everything in the universe may simultaneously both contain and compose every other aspect of that universe.

All the parallels between modern physics and eastern mysticism Fritjof writes about are confirmed in Einstein and Aliens.

I am physics undergrad and had been intrigued and confused with the realities of quantum mechanics. Probabilities weren't enough for me, I thought there must be something else that determines observational outcomes. The thought had crossed my mind but reading this book confirmed it for me. The universe is conscious, human consciousness is a quantum phenomenon. As a race we have enormous power and responsibility over our world. Reading this book provided me with a new way of looking at physics and science in general, and an optimistic expectation for the future of our race that we can leave behind our outdated and unhealthy ideals.

An on-line friend, whose opinion I trust, suggested this book to me. I have thanked him more than once. This book is incredible. I learned so much reading it! I am suggesting it to all my friends, and some people I barely know.It's very well written and, I believe, understandable to people who are unfamiliar with physics. It's a book I will certainly be keeping -- and not loaning out!

Well written

This book is blowing my mind. The author weaves together Eastern philosophy and physics in a way that engages the reader...fascinating.