Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. From Shattered Culture toward Transculture 3
6. Contemporary Physics and the Western Tradition 19
7. The Grandeur and Decadence of Scientism 37
8. The Valley of Astonishment 45
9. The Endless Route of the Unification of the World 59
10. The Strange Fourth Dimension 75
11. The Bootstrap Principle and the Uniqueness of our World 87
12. Complexity and Reality 99
13. The Human Being 113
14. Beyond Dualism 121
15. The Psychophysical Problem 137
16. From the Quantum World to Ionesco’s Antitheater and Quantum Aesthetics 147
17. The Theater of Peter Brook As a Field of Study of Energy, Movement and Interrelations 155
18. From Contemporary Science to the World of Art 167
19. Vision of Reality and Reality of Vision 177
20. Can Science Be a Religion? 189
21. The Hidden Third and the Multiple Splendor of Being 203
22. Notes 217
23. Bibliography 239
24. Name Index 253
25. Subject Index 259