Ebook: The Blackfoot Physics

Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgment; Author to Reader: A Different Worldview; 1. Spirits of Renewal; 2. At the Sun Dance: When Paradigms Collide; 3. Coming-to-Knowing; 4. Stories of Origin; 5. The Coming of Diease; 6. The Medicine Ways; 7. Sacred Mathematics; 8. Time, Number, and the Mayans; 9. Language: The Sacred Vibrations; 10. Indigenous Science; 11. Realities; 12. Conclusions: Turning the Circle; Afterword: From the Blackfoot to Pari; Bibliography; Index.;""The modern version of The Tao of Physics. . . We gain tantalizing glimpses of an elusive alternative to the thing we know as science. ... Above all, Peat''s book is an eloquent plea for a fair go for the modes of enquiry of other cultures.""--New ScientistOne summer in the 1980s, theoretical physicist F. David Peat went to a Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony. Having spent all of his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science, he was entranced by the Native American worldview and, through dialogue circles between scientists and native elders, he began to explore it in greater dept.