Exploring  Science and Mysticism together

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Editor: I must not omit reference to
F. David Peat’s Synchronicity, the bridge
 between matter and mind, 1987. 
I consider it one of the best of the books on this subject, but as much of the ground it
 covers is treated in the other works I cite, I shall content myself with just a few quotations.
On page 174, he reinforces a concept which is much to the fore in Stephen’s teaching:
    
": . . individual minds could be said to arise out of the one ground. They represent
 relatively stable forms, identities, as it were, within the underlying background.
In this way, it appears that individual minds have a common or collective origin
that has something in common with that of matter. In a sense, therefore mind is able
 to act upon mind, and mind and matter exert an influence one on the other. But this
 should not be thought of as some form of causal interaction since individual minds,
and mind and matter, are not fundamentally separate but are simply the explicate
forms that emerge out of a common generative order."

I now quote the second to last paragraph of the book, pages 240-1:

"What is being advocated here is not a return to the approach of, for example,
the ancient Greeks, but a movement forward toward a greater sensitivity and
awareness of the limitless possibilities and potentialities of the whole universe.
 This book began with a discussion of synchronicities, of meaningful
coincidences that appeared to defy the normal laws of causality that operate
 within our universe. At first, the particular incidents of synchronicity may have
appeared to be rather superficial and not particularly moving. However, they
were intended simply as clues, as tiny cracks in the surface of our rationality
that hint at a much deeper world that may lie beyond. Now we have seen that
world, or at least taken a first glimpse it suggests that we have built our lives
and our civilisations on an illusion. An illusion of the supreme reality of the self,
of becoming over being, of temporal progress over infinitely more subtle time
orders that merge into eternity of the surface reality of
 things over their deeper, hidden orders. Synchronicities have opened a window
onto a creative source of infinite potential, the wellspring of the universe itself.
 They have shown how mind and matter are not distinct, separate aspects of
 nature, but arise in a deeper order of reality. Synchronicities suggest that we
can renew our contact with that creative and unconditioned source which is the
origin not only of ourselves but also of all reality. By dying to the self and its
mechanical reactive responses to nature, it becomes possible to engage in an
active transformation and gain access to unlimited ranges of energy. In this way,
 body and consciousness, individual and society, mind and matter may come to
 achieve their unlimited potential. (Editor's emphasis.)
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