Science and the Sacred: Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World

Einstein said the best scientists have always approached science as a sacred activity that could yield "the secrets of the Old One," Ravi Ravindra points out. This eloquent book at once affirms scientific exploration and addresses the failure of science to deal with the inner life. We all want to know why things happen and how we can control certain outcomes; but we also rightly wonder about meaning and purpose: Does the earth need people? What about me personally? What is my place? Why am I here? Coming from the East, this Western physicist offers a rare hybrid view on such topics as: Perception in yoga and physics The moral responsibility of scientific power Science as a spiritual path Healing the soul: truth, love, and God "Each of us is an artist of our own life," Ravindra says. "Starting from the raw material of our self, we sculpt something which corresponds to our aspirations, our understanding, our skill and sensitivity...This work of transformation is an imperative of our human existence." This is the original unabridged version, published in India. It is an Adyar book, imported from India.

375 pages

About the author: Ravi Ravindra was born in India and received his B.S. and a Master of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He then obtained a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Toronto and a Master of Arts in philosophy from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton in 1977 and a fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla in 1978 and 1998. He was the founding director of the Threshold Award for Integrative Knowledge and chairman of its international and interdisciplinary selection committees in 1979 and 1980. He has lived in Canada since 1966. He is currently professor and chairman of comparative religion, professor of international development studies, and adjunct professor of physics at Dalhousie University,