Better than most, 08 May 2008
It is a pity this book has not been written with a consistent level of care and attention to detail (as regards exposition, language); otherwise it would have been splendid. The overall plan and the emphasis on physics is excellent. There is a lot in this book which you would not easily find in other sources. In particular the exercises are very well done as miniprojects containing substantial further topics. There is an element of trendiness in the title: look up "Entropy" or "Order parameter" in the index and you'll find lots of page references, as behooves key terms appearing in the book's title; but look up "complexity" and you are referred to a series of exercises; one feels "complexity" was added to the title for want of a sexy buzzword that would distinguish this from any number of other stat mechs books.

Better than most, 08 May 2008
It is a pity this book has not been written with a consistent level of care and attention to detail (as regards exposition, language); otherwise it would have been splendid. The overall plan and the emphasis on physics is excellent. There is a lot in this book which you would not easily find in other sources. In particular the exercises are very well done as miniprojects containing substantial further topics. There is an element of trendiness in the title: look up "Entropy" or "Order parameter" in the index and you'll find lots of page references, as behooves key terms appearing in the book's title; but look up "complexity" and you are referred to a series of exercises; one feels "complexity" was added to the title for want of a sexy buzzword that would distinguish this from any number of other stat mechs books.

For sceptics and believers alike!, 26 Nov 2008
It surprises many and perplexes some that someone could go from studying mathematics at university to graduating from law school and then on to a successful business career and yet end up as a full-time psychic. But that is my story. Most of the time these seemingly incongruous points of my past give me no trouble. Secretly, of course, I'd have to admit that I would love for science to produce irrefutable evidence for what I do now as a psychic.

But the world of the scientist and the world of the psychic remain as irreconcilable as always. Right? Well, maybe not. I recently came across a very interesting book whose author may be able to offer an olive branch to the ever-warring camps of the believer and the sceptic.

Ervin Laszlo is a distinguished scientist and philosopher, who believes that science has produced a very impersonal and cold view of the world. But because it is a view that is incomplete and, in many ways, inaccurate, he feels that it is one that should be challenged.

In his book Science and the Akashic Field, Laszlo argues that what science needs is a single theory to explain everything. Now I'll grant you that sounds like a tall order. But when you find out that this is exactly what many top scientists are trying to do, it somehow seems less like a Holy Grail.

It turns out that scientists are today searching for what is called an integral theory of everything (ITOE) because research in the areas of cosmology, physics, biology and consciousness are producing head-scratching puzzles and anomalies that break our so-called "laws" of science.

It would seem that things in the universe don't work as we once thought they did. So, a new view of science is emerging. And it's a view that supports, if not demands, the single paradigm of an ITOE. Laszlo explains that these riddles are solved and models start to hang together again when we take into account a field that connects everything and everyone, supports an exchange of information and is capable of instant communication.

This might sound like some New Age folly, but such a field has been known to mystics and spiritual traditions for thousands of years and it already has a name - the akashic field. While it might have been considered a myth of cultural history, Western science seems to be on the verge of accepting it - as having very nearly proved its existence in the laboratory.

The scientist in Laszlo strives to make the very technical information accessible to and digestible for the layman reader. Be prepared, as you will find yourself reading and re-reading passages to understand areas such as string theory, non-locality and quantum mechanics. But as in many things, persistence pays off.

For me, however, the really exciting bit is when the philosopher in Laszlo comes forth. What information does the akashic field hold? How do we access it? Why would we want to? What are the implications to human evolution? I won't give it away but suffice it to say that the answers are very interesting indeed.

Be you a sceptic or a believer, Science and the Akashic Field will get you thinking and keep you thinking long after you've finished it. To me, that's the hallmark of a good book!

Great book!, 08 Jun 2008
Even if I am not completely convinced that this Akashic field really exists like he describes it, I love the book!

I could almost feel that he is a pianist when reading the book, because it felt almost like music to read it.

My Review, 18 May 2008
All depends on what you're looking for, Metaphysics is a complex subject in its self and takes time to read and re read, to grasp new concepts.

This books description looks good. I can only speak from my own personal view. I found it far too intellectual. Cold and clinical. So much technical and science fact or speculation, as you read each chapter you seem to be reading the same over and over, it's a bit like a book with no start or end. I don't like spending all my time looking up in a dictionary what every second word means why not say the word "joined" rather than some English graduate concept. Any book should have a clear understanding, for me sadly I got very bored and have not finished reading this book. It's one I shall forget about or sell, it's not for me. I have Studied hard for 20 years, this book dose give some insights but you have to have one hell of an Intellect to process what it is and I would even go so far as to say, what is it really talking about, there seems to be a total lack of joining anything, It's like opening a book at a random page and feel you are missing something!

From my own studies, basics in Metaphysics are posed as questions, in fact is already spiritual science and for the moment accepted as how things are, so this book misses many things.
I personally can not recommend it, It may be good for some, limited people. with high IQ or lived in Higher education all there life.
Not for the man in the street or even a student of the Spiritual Sciences
AG