Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity

Science and mysticism - once separated by the scientific pursuit of mechanistic models-are drawing closer together in a new and necessary dialogue.

Renée Weber argues that the same principle drives both science and mysticism: 'the assumption that unity lies at the heart of our world'. In a series of thought-provoking interviews with figures ranging from Stephen Hawking to His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, from the controversial biologist Rupert Sheldrake to Father Bede Griffiths, a scholar in comparative religion, and from Krishnamurti to Ilya Prigogine, the Nobel laureate and originator of chaos theory, Weber explores theories of space, time, energy, consciousness, compassion, the development of form in living things and the relationship between finitude and the infinite.