by Tim Cross ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 2016
An ambitious, often intriguing attempt to show how New-Age spirituality reflects the mysteries of physics by an author whose...
A Texas architect offers his second book, a blend of contemporary physics and New-Age beliefs that abridges his first work on the same topics.
This volume cites some of the amazing and mysterious findings of contemporary physics to facilitate an understanding of spiritual principles and ideas undergirding New-Age beliefs. While this may sound like an arduous undertaking, the Austin author’s engagement with his subject and his ability to write of these complex and demanding issues in clear and appealing prose make for a usually stimulating read. Cross (The Architecture of Freedom, 2014), whose background includes teaching high school physics and being an ecologist, goes beyond the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics to discuss the possibility that there may be many more than four dimensions. But because of limited perceptions, humans can see their experiences only through their own “viewports.” These cannot detect the magnificent scope of seemingly infinite possibilities for personal growth and understanding that align with the truths unveiled by science. Other worlds just like this one may exist: “In this universe, all worlds lie together within a unified, multidimensional soup, where everything is so deeply enfolded that all possible outcomes are instantly adjacent and available.” Cross writes with enthusiasm about the incredible and magical potential of the universe. The author attempts to convert the astounding and difficult-to-grasp insights of physics into New-Age beliefs that in many cases seem to pale in comparison to ideas that constantly challenge common perceptions and convictions about humans’ experiential reality. Cross lays out his argument with lucidity, especially when talking about physics, but he fails to make true rhetorical bridges from the scientific principles he examines to the various New-Age spiritual beliefs he explores. But because his subject matter is so varied, he perhaps prefers to let the reader make the conceptual connections from the evidence he cites. He discusses such topics as Taoism, Buddhism, gnostic Christianity, manifestation, channeling, out-of-body experience, and precognition—a great swath of subjects that he uses to support his thesis.
An ambitious, often intriguing attempt to show how New-Age spirituality reflects the mysteries of physics by an author whose understanding of science and religion underscores his argument.Pub Date: Nov. 1, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9888344-6-0
Page Count: 350
Publisher: One River Press
Review Posted Online: March 3, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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