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26 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
know what you read!, 4 Dec 2002
The meditation procedure described in this book is in itself fine. The problem is the theory that is described by the earlier reviewer. The book goes on about 100 pages on relations between taoism and modern physics in a pseudoscientific way. There are wrong conclusions being drawn... For instance, he states that Albert Einstein proved the theory of relativity, he didn't, he invented it. You can't prove a theory, you can only disprove it, and Einstein's theory is still disputed for several reasons. Later on, he claims that Einstein was a poor maths student but caught on later. This is also wrong, Einstein did poorly in his academic studies, true, but this was because he was only interested in learning maths and physics. In addition he tries to state that the principle of yin/yang applies to all things natural and cultural, a statement I find a bit strange, he also comes up with examples in nature to support his claim. I know of other examples that doesn't fit at all, for instance CP-violation. If there was no CP-violation in the universe, matter and antimatter would be in perfect balance (and we wouldn't exist), but due to CP-violation there is a little more (one part in a millionth!) matter than antimatter, which is what we are made of, the rest disappeared just after the big bang (if you believe in the big bang) :-) As a physicist, I found it really distressing that the author tries to define taoism as a scientific "belief" rather than a religious (he obviously believes in what he writes) one. We are all free to pursue whatever religion we choose, but when people try to connect science to any religion they try to gain credibility to themselves above others. All in all, the meditation practice is well enough, but in itself would make this book into a pamphlet of 30 pages. As an attempt to make the book longer, the author has produced a rather poor pseudoscientific work with no basis in facts and tries to hide religion as science. This is sad...
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