Demystifying the Akasha:
Consciousness and the Quantum Vacuum
Duality, including the spiritual/material and mind/body dichotomies,
has been the basis of the Western paradigm for four hundred years, and
has been blamed for major world problems.
Meanwhile, in the East, nonduality has prevailed. While science is
generally seen in opposition to nonduality, this book sets out to prove
the compatibility of the scientifi c outlook and the spiritual
nonduality of India by constructing a mathematical model of cosmic
consciousness. The ideas and their history are presented non
technically in Part One, while the full mathematical details are
presented in Part Two.
Ralph Abraham is Professor of Mathematics at the University of
California at Santa Cruz, one of the pioneers of chaos theory. He is
the author or coauthor of several math texts, including Foundations of Mechanics,
Dynamics the Geometry of Behavior, and Chaos in Discrete Dynamical
Systems. He has also written books on the history of math,
philosophy, and the arts, such as Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic
Consciousness and The Evolutionary Mind.
Sisir Roy is Professor of Theoretical Physics, Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata. His field of interest covers foundations of quantum
mechanics, cosmology, functional geometry and brain function. He has
published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed international journals
and nine research and edited monographs by Kluwer Academic,World
Scientific etc. publishers.
Praise
for Demystifying the Akasha: Consciousness and the Quantum Vacuum
"A key contribution to bringing the concept of the Akasha into the
ambit of contemporary science, and relating it to our understanding of
consciousness. A book for all serious students of cosmos and
consciousness."
-Dr. Ervin Laszlo,
Author of Science and
the Akashic Field
Author of Science and
the Akashic Field
