Author of Fisherman's Guide: A System's Approach to Creativity and Organization (Shambhala, Boston, 1985)
The guiding insights: The original Fisherman's Guide introduced how the cosmic order works as explicitly revealed in an awesome series of cosmic insights described in the book. A way of delineating the cosmic order was visually and experientially demonstrated through the medium of the void, embracing the whole of creation. These revelatory experiences focused on the structural dynamics of how the cosmic order works and thus how it relates to the sciences.
Practical reconciliation: As a skeptic by nature, and a chemical engineer by profession, this demanded reconciliation with our normally accepted social and scientific frameworks of understanding. The spiritual insights were not the result of religious or spiritual training, nor did they focus on religion. Yet they embraced both the central essence of all the world's spiritual traditions and also the foundations of our physical and biological sciences. The writing that has ensued has required a lifetime of scientific study and intimate familiarity with diverse cultures and religions of the world.
A new paradigm: In short, a new universal paradigm of understanding, bridging both science and religion, is offered in a way that is not dependent on language. This provides a far more fundamental context that can broaden our horizons and enrich our experience, regardless of our diverse cultural traditions or training. It can resolve conflict in constructive ways by rendering the creative dynamics of all experience transparent. In the process a fascinating new approach to the sciences is offered in a practical way never before imagined possible.
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Degrees of difficulty: (1) For the general reader. (2) For the general reader with an interest in science or the cosmic order. (3) For serious students of the System as it relates to the sciences. (4) Requires sharp concentration on the System as it relates to biological structures.