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Hi, my name is Ken Randall and I am
an Assistant Dean in the College of Allied Health.
I am also an Associate Professor of Physical Therapy
in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences.
The book that really inspired me is called
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
Bohm was a protege of Albert Einstein.
He was a theoretical physicist and the book
certainly has a physics basis to it.
The reason that it has inspired me is that
it really gives a new perspective on this whole idea of the
interconnectedness of everything. We're not just talking living things,
we're talking all matter whether it's at the quantum level
or at the universal level.
I found it really fascinating
to think about something from a standpoint of physics that also was
equally as poetic as it was mathematical
and then also
very philosophical.
I would say that anybody
who enjoys philosophy,
particularly somebody who has a bit of a slant for theoretical physics.
But you certainly don't have to be an expert
to appreciate this book.
If you liked Brian Greene's Elegant Universe or Stephen Hawking's
A Brief History of Time
or Talbot's The Holographic Universe, this book would go right along with with
those ideas and those philosophies.
The most basic message from this book is that if you think of
any portion of life or any part of the universe as
having divisions or separations or boundaries
it is a very dangerous path
to walk down because as you start looking at things like that
you start thinking in boundaries
and in separation and this book certainly
emphasizes the point that if you do so, it's a risky business because everything
is interconnected and one thing influences the other.
So I hope that you will
spend some time maybe thinking about this book
I found this by grazing my bookstore. I didn't go out looking for it.
I just had a cup of coffee as I was walking through the bookstore looking at
different sections I usually don't look at and this jumped out at me.
That's a great way to stumble on to some real gems,
and this one certainly
influenced my way of thinking a great deal.