New Age Retailer, November 2004
Review by Thomas Peter von Bahr of Pacific NorthWest Group
New Science
Matters of Consequence:
Creating a Meaningful Life
and a World that Works
Copthorne Macdonald
$24.95 QP, 0-9689618-7-8, Big Ideas Press
800/937-8000 (Ingram Book Group),
www.bigideaspress.com
In order to find solutions to the problems and questions that face humanity today, we need to move beyond traditional academic compartmentalization and look across a wide spectrum of social and scientific realities. Matters of Consequence presents a compilation of what makes up the components of "reality" from scientific and philosophical perspectives. Copthorne Macdonald, a communication-systems engineer, an inventor, and the author of seven books, guides readers through an exploration of how humanity fits into the cosmos.
Macdonald focuses on the nature of human consciousness, and he examines the social institutions that human beings have created. Readers learn how we human beings may align our objectives with some of the deeper forces, theorems, and laws of the universe we inhabit — and that runs through us. Macdonald is a thinker in the same league as Ken Wilber and Thomas Kuhn. He offers a dazzling vision of a potential future.
This far-reaching exploration of science, global themes, economics and spirituality has an extensive resource section for further research. I will place this wide-ranging personal-perspective masterpiece in my store's philosophy, civilization, and ecology sections.Thomas Peter von Bahr
Pacific Northwest Group
Lopez Island, Wash.
