Amelia Barili and Fritjof Capra "The Emerging Consciousness" Part 2

Fritjof Capra talks about The Tao of Physics and his development as a scientist and a writer since the 60's. He explains how after discovering the amazing parallels between the concepts of modern physics and those of eastern spirituality,
his interest shifted from physics to the life sciences because he, then, wanted to study the paradigm shift that was happening in health, in politics, in the economy, in the environment, in ecology, in education. And, as Fritjof says, "if you think of it, those are all fields having to do with life, individual organisms, human organisms, social life, ecosystems and so on."
In this seminar Capra presents the conceptual framework he has been developing during the last 20 years, a framework that integrates three dimensions of life: the biological, the cognitive and the social. This framework which allowed him to tackle the various issues in society from a holistic, integrative point-of-view is presented in his books, The Web of Life (1996), and The Hidden Connections (2002).
The title, The Hidden Connections, is taken from a speech by a Czech playwright and former president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, who said, "Education today is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena." Havel pointed out that it's not so much the facts that we need to remember because, today we can access the facts right away, but that it is the hidden connections between the facts what we need to discover. And that is what Fritjof Capra have been talking and writing about for years and years. It is called systems thinking. It means thinking in terms of relationships, in terms of patterns, in terms of context.
Continuing with his fascination with dramatic change of concepts and ideas, of paradigms in science and society, Capra's latest book is on Leonardo Da Vinci. The book is titled The Science of Leonardo and Capra points out that this Renaissance genius was not only an amazing artist, an engineer and an inventor, but that he was also a first-rate scientist 100 years before we think science in the west began. Leonardo developed a whole scientific method, which we now recognize as the scientific method, 100 years before Galileo, who is usually credited with being the father of modern science.

For more information about Amelia Barili and her workshops and teaching please visit
www.ameliabarili.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Fritjof Capra
• The Tao of Physics
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• science and society
• paradigm shift
• systems thinking
• complexity
• modern physics
• eastern spirituality
• ecosystems
• life
• education
• art
• global conservation
• creativity
• The Web of Life
• The Hidden Connections
• Vaclav Havel

[kennethloch456]

Fritjof,

I'm claiming to be the Renaissance Genius for the 21st Century. In my renaissance, you will become a spiritual being, relative to multiple spiritual practices. You hold da Vinci to be an amazing artist, but what does he teach you, relative to the spiritual and/or the philosophy of aesthetics? If and when you want to learn intelligent knowledge, relative to a true renaissance genius, you'll learn it, relative to who and what I am.