from the back of book

"This is the first book in which contemporary scientists and mystics share with us-in their own words- their views on space, time, matter, energy, life, consciousness, creation, and on our place in the scheme of things. Through the immediacy of verbatim dialogue with philosopher Renee Weber, we follow their step-by-step exploration of life's enduring questions and their proposals for the new models of man and nature. These dialogues suggest that the search of the great scientist for the source of matter parallels the mystics' quest for the source of our own being. In her accompanying essays, Renee Weber provides us with glimpses into the personalities of these rare people.

The book is also the story of and American philosopher who-with these dialogues-ventures into ground-breaking territory, and of her search in America,Europe,India and Nepal for people whose work is at the center of our understanding of reality. Renee Weber's odyssey takes her from quantum physicist David Bohm to Tibetan monk Lama Govinda, from Nobel prize-winning physical chemist Ilya Prigogine to Christian mystic Father Bede Griffinths in India; from controversial biologist Rupert Sheldrake to His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet; from world-famous Cambridge astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who rejects mysticism, to Indian sage Krishnamurti, who rejects science. This unique book shows us scientists who endorse mysticism and those who oppose it, mystics who dismiss science and those who embrace it."