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    Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change

    By John Briggs and F David Peat

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    If you have ever felt your life was out of control and headed toward chaos,science has an important message: Life is chaos, and that's a very exciting thing!

    In this eye-opening book, John Briggs and F. David Peat reveal sevenenlightening lessons for embracing the chaos of daily life.

    Be Creative:
    engage with chaos to find imaginative new solutions and live more dynamically

    Use Butterfly Power:
    let chaos grow local efforts into global results

    Go With the Flow:
    use chaos to work collectively with others

    Explore What's Between:
    discover life's rich subtleties and avoid the traps of stereotypes

    See the Art of the World:
    appreciate the beauty of life's chaos

    Live Within Time:
    utilize time's hidden depths

    Rejoin the Whole:
    realize our fractal connectedness to each other and the world

    Life is impossible to control--instead of fighting this truth, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos shows you how to accept, celebrate, and use it to live life to its fullest.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 26, 2009
    ISBN9780061930737
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    Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change
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    John Briggs

    John Briggs, Ph.D., is a professor of English and the journalism coordinator at Western Connecticut State University. He lives in Danbury, Connecticut. F. David Peat holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Liverpool and has written dozens of books on art, science, and spirituality. He lives in London and can be reached at www.fdavidpeat.com. They are the authors of Turbulent Mirror.

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      The development of chaos theory has provided new insights for science. It has enabled scientific thinking to move away from a picture of the universe based on idealised and inevitably simplified models, towards a more truthful representation of the world we actually experience.This well written and fascinating book addresses the challenge of adapting our new scientific understanding and applying it to our daily lives. The book takes seven key features of our understanding of chaos and in turn explores how they may prompt us to think and act in new ways that better align with the true nature of the world.Be Creative: engage with chaos to find imaginative new solutions and live more dynamicallyUse Butterfly Power: Let chaos grow local efforts into global resultsGo with the Flow: Use chaos to work collectively with othersExplore What’s Between: Discover life’s rich subtleties and avoid the traps of stereotypes.See The Art of the World: Appreciate the beauty of life’s chaos.Live Within Time: Utilise time’s hidden depths.Rejoin the whole: Realise our fractal connectedness to each other and the world.In many ways the book covers much of the ground that I have been exploring and am attempting to write about. So in one sense it is a very welcome addition to my knowledge, disappointingly however, for a book written in 1999 its impact seems to have been minimal. The final chapter of the book describes why this would be so. We live in a world that yearns for answers, even when they can’t exist. Chaos theory is about the inability to predict and control, the inability to know and the reality of the unknowable. This is a book that accepts that reality with the following statements. 1. Every statement in this book is limited. 2. 1. is a statement in this book.If you want an alternative to the endless stream of ‘Look here I’ve discovered the winning formula’ books, then this would make a fabulous start point.