The Physics of Angels, Rupert Sheldrake
The Physics of Angels, Rupert Sheldrake
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The Physics of Angels
Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

Author: Rupert Sheldrake

Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr.

Unabridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Wetware Media

Published: 12/22/2015


Synopsis

What are angels? Many people believe in angels, but few can define these enigmatic spirits. Now visionary theologian Matthew Fox and acclaimed biologist Rupert Sheldrake - pioneers in modern religious thinking and scientific theory - launch a groundbreaking exploration into the ancient concept of the angel and restore dignity, meaning, and joy to the time-honored belief in these heavenly beings. Angels constitute one of the most fundamental themes in human spiritual and religious experience. All cultures acknowledge the existence of spirits at levels beyond the human. In the West we call them angels, but they go under different names in other traditions. (Native Americans, for example, call them "spirits.") We are entering a new phase of both science and theology. Fox and Sheldrake explore many significant questions raised by both traditions about the existence and role of consciousness beyond the human level. This dialog between Fox and Sheldrake concentrates on three giants of the Western tradition whose treatment of angels is particularly broad, deep, and influential. They are Dionysius the Areopagite, a Syrian monk whose classic work The Celestial Hierarchies was written in the sixth century; Hildegard of Bingen, a German abbess of the twelfth century; and St. Thomas Aquinas, a philosopher-theologian of the thirteenth century. Fox and Sheldrake have selected their most important and relevant passages about angels, and each is followed by a discussion exploring their meaning from both a theological and a scientific perspective. Also explored are the fascinating parallels between Thomas Aquinas speaking of angels in the Middle Ages and Albert Einstein speaking of photons in this century. Hence the title of this book, The Physics of Angels. The exploration of angels in a living cosmos enlivens and enriches both religion and science and contributes to the deepening exploration of consciousness - on this planet and beyond.

About Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of more than eighty-five scientific papers and twelve books. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005 to 2010, he was the director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin on October 29, 2018

I delved into this book as research and found it quite fascinating. Fox, a mystical theologian, and Sheldrake, founder of the theory of morphogenetic resonance, have a discussion about 'angelology' throughout the ages, starting with Dionysus and ending with Hildegard Von Bingen. The tone is informal......more

Goodreads review by Taylor on February 21, 2018

This is a fascinating book which explores the mythos of Angels and relates the description of Angels to contemporary Physics. I enjoyed learning more about the mythology of Angels, though I did find the physics metaphor to be a bit of a stretch. Thankfully they focused mostly on them mythology of th......more

Goodreads review by Farhan on January 29, 2022

Spoiler free review: Angels are divine beings who can't commit evil. Outside theological explanation, angels can be used to study the secret nature of the universe; that goes into cosmology and physics.......more

Goodreads review by Maria on January 21, 2023

This is by far one of the best books I have come across. I am sure that I will be reading this again and again.......more

Goodreads review by Kara on April 22, 2024

A fascinating overview of the cosmology angels featuring writings from three main sources of angel lore: Dionysius, Hildegard of Bingen, and Thomas Aquinas. The authors describe the nature of angels, drawing parallels along the way with modern scientific understandings of the Universe, especially re......more