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F. David Peat (born April 18, 1938) was born in Waterloo, England and is a holistic physicist and author who has carried out research in solid state physics and the foundation of quantum theory.
He is director of the Pari Center for New Learning, which is located in the village of Pari near Siena in Tuscany, Italy. He is adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and a Distinguished Fellow at the University of South Africa.
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Education and career
In 1964, Peat received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Liverpool. In 1965, he became assistant professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Subsequently, fom 1967 to 1975, he worked as research scientist for the National Research Council of Canada. During this time, from 1971 to 1972, he performed a sabbatical study with David Bohm and Roger Penrose at Birkbeck College in London.[1]
For many years he was associated with physicist and philosopher David Bohm; the two wrote the book Science, Order, and Creativity together, and Peat later wrote Bohm's biography, Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm. In the context of this biography, Peat emphasized how Bohm had worked intensely on finding a mathematical expression for his vision of an interconnected, enfolded implicate order, from which an explicate order, the world of classical physics unfolds. Bohm also aimed at re-introducing time as a dynamic entity. According to Peat, the use of the term Bohmian mechanics for his theory “would have shocked Dave [Bohm] somewhat”: what was happening with the ideas of Bohm's and Hiley's theory, similarly as what had occurred with those of Grassman, Hamilton and Clifford before, was that physicists left the fundamental ideas aside and merely made use of them as an easy manner of performing calculations.[2]
While living in Canada, Peat organized discussion circles between Western scientists and Native American elders, together with Leroy Little Bear[3] who later obtained the 2003 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Education. While living in London, Peat organized a conference between artists and scientists. In 1996 he moved from Canada to Pari, Italy.[4]
In 2000, he founded the Pari Center for New Learning, a center dedicated to education, learning and research, together with writer and researcher Maureen Doolan.[5] The activities of the Pari Center comprise residential courses and conferences and possibilities for scholars and researchers to spend extended periods as residents in Pari.[6]
Peat has written on the subjects of science, art, and spirituality. He has authored or co-authored many books including Synchronicity: The Bridge between Matter and Mind, Seven Life lessons of Chaos, Turbulent Mirror and Gentle Action. His most recent book is A Flickering Reality: Cinema and the Nature of Reality.
Books
- Looking Glass Universe: The Emerging Science of Wholeness, 1986, with John Briggs, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-671-63215-9
- Science, Order and Creativity, 1987 with David Bohm, Routledge, 2nd ed. 2000: ISBN 0-415-17182-2
- Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind, 1987, Bantam, ISBN 0-553-34676-8
- Quantum Implications: Essays in Honour of David Bohm, by F. David Peat (Editor) and Basil Hiley (Editor), Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, London & New York, 1987
- Cold Fusion: The Making of a Scientific Controversy, 1989, Contemporary Books, ISBN 0-8092-4243-5
- Superstrings and the Search for the Theory of Everything, 1989, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-8092-4257-5
- Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness, 1989, with John Briggs, Harper & Row, 1990 Harper Perennial paperback ISBN 0-06-091696-6
- Einstein's Moon: Bell's Theorem and the Curious Quest for Quantum Reality, 1990, Contemporary Books, ISBN 0-8092-4512-4
- The Philosopher's Stone: Chaos, Synchronicity, and the Hidden Order of the World, 1991, ISBN 0-553-35329-2
- Lighting the Seventh Fire: The Spiritual Ways, Healing, and Science of the Native American, 1994, Carol Publishing, ISBN 1-55972-249-5
- Glimpsing Reality: Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology, 1996, with Paul Buckley, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-6994-0
- Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm, 1996, Perseus Books, ISBN 0-201-40635-7
- In Search of Nikola Tesla, 1997, Ashgrove Publishing, 2002 edition: ISBN 1-85398-117-6
- Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change, 1999, with John Briggs, HarperCollins, 2000 Harper Perennial paperback: ISBN 0-06-093073-X
- The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind, 2001, Basic Books, ISBN 0-7382-0491-9
- From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century, 2002, Joseph Henry Press, ISBN 0-309-07641-2
- Blackfoot Physics: A Journey into the Native American Worldview, 2002, Phanes Press, ISBN 1-890482-83-8
- Pathways of Chance, 2005, Pari Publishing, ISBN 0-9768264-0-2
- I sentieri del caso, 2004, Di Renzo Editore, ISBN 88-8323-079-5
- Gentle Action: Bringing creative change to a turbulent world 2008 Pari Publishing ISBN 978-88-95604-03-9
- A Flickering Reality: Cinema and the Nature of Reality 2011 Pari Publishing ISBN 978-88-95604-09-1
See also
External links
- Personal homepage
- Pari Center of New Learning
- Look for Truth - No Matter Where It Takes You, Interview of F. David Peat by Simeon Alev. Originally published in: What is Enlightenment? Spring/Summer 1997, Volume 6, Number 1
- [1] David Peat expresses some personal ideas and philosophy in the smart movie Cognition Factor(2009).
References
- ^ David F. Peat, currivulum vitae, Homepage of F. D. Peat
- ^ Simeon Alev: F. David Peat on David Bohm, Krishnamurti and himself: Look for Truth No Matter Where It Takes You page 2 (retrieved 3 June 2011)
- ^ Pari Center for New Learning: Faculty
- ^ Fetzer Institute: David Peat
- ^ Maureen Doolan, biography, Pari Center
- ^ The Center, website of the Pari Center
Categories:- 1938 births
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- British physicists
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