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Francis David Peat

was a holistic physicist and author who has carried out research in solid state physics and the foundation of quantum theory.

He was director of the Pari Center for New Learning, which is located in the village of Pari near Grosseto in Tuscany, Italy. He was adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Schumacher College, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and a Distinguished Fellow at the University of South Africa. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. April 1938 – 6. June 2017  •  Other names F・D・ピート
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Famous F. David Peat Quotes

“The mescal bead… is no mere symbol. For those who wear it, it really does enfold the universe and bring them into contact with all of creation.”

F. David Peat

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

“Science proceeds by abstracting what is essential from the accidental details of matter and process.”

F. David Peat

From Certainty to Uncertainty (2002)

“In the act of simply being with another culture there comes the realization of a need for balance, the understanding that there are times when it is better to listen than to ask, better the feel than to think, more appropriate to stay with a silence than to seek answers in speech.”

F. David Peat

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

“Within the indigenous world the act of coming to know something involves a personal transformation. The knower and the known are indissolubly linked and changed in a fundamental way. …it is a dynamic and living process, an aspect of the ever-changing, ever-renewing process of nature.”

F. David Peat

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

“The danger arises when a culture takes its own story as the absolute truth, and seeks to impose this truth on others as the yardstick of all knowledge and belief.”

F. David Peat

From Certainty to Uncertainty (2002)

“We must ask if.. structures and organizations continue to serve the purposes for which they were first created. Are they true to the spirit that once inspired them?”

F. David Peat

From Certainty to Uncertainty (2002)

F. David Peat Quotes about the world

“When the Iroqouis needed to make a decision they thought of the implications of the seventh generation to come after them. Today we must think… of peoples all over the world, rich or poor, industrialized or indigenous.”

F. David Peat

From Certainty to Uncertainty (2002)

“Art and music make manifest, by bringing into conscious awareness, that which has previously been felt only tentatively and internally. Art, in its widest sense, is a form of play that lies at the origin of all making, of language, and of the mind's awareness of its place within the world. Art, in all its forms, makes manifest the spiritual dimension of the cosmos, and expresses our relationship to the natural world. This may have been the cause of that natural light which first illuminated the preconscious minds of early hominids.”

F. David Peat

Pathways of Chance (2007).

“Each one of our thoughts changes the world in a tiny but subtle way. Multiply this by… the billions in the world, and human thought has an enormous impact.”

F. David Peat

From Certainty to Uncertainty (2002)

F. David Peat Quotes

“The persona can eventually become ourselves, or an aspect of ourselves, to the point where we don't know which is the mask and which is the I.”

F. David Peat

From Certainty to Uncertainty (2002)

“Is there an objective aspect that remains constant through time? Or are we more like open systems or processes within the constant flow of life?”

F. David Peat

From Certainty to Uncertainty (2002)

“Quantum theory stresses the irreducible link between observer and observed and the basic holism of all phenomena. Indigenous science also holds that there is no separation between the individual and society, between matter and spirit, between each one of us and the whole of nature.”

F. David Peat

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

“Several leading-edge thinkers in physics suggest that nature is… a flux of processes. The whole notion of flux and process is fundamental to the Indigenous sciences of… Algonkian-speaking peoples… all share a strongly verb-based family of languages that reflects this direct experience.”

F. David Peat

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

“In modern physics the essential stuff of the universe… exists as relationships and fluctuations… Indigenous science teaches that all that exists is an expression of relationships, alliances, and balances between what… we call energies, powers, or spirits.”

F. David Peat

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

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