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BORDERS OF PERCEPTION.
Published in 2007.
We are from generations that have closed borders around existence, leaving us to find what contentment we can in our material, physical experience whilst trying to deny even the possibility of venturing to other lands. Robin Bradbury has listened to explorers who tell of those borders being crossed and finds extraordinary sympathies between their respective stories. In Borders of Perception he recounts some of what he learns from thinkers who continue to challenge the presumption that human experience extends no further than any exclusively physical environment. The book begins with news from Leonardo da Vinci, it is news that encourages us to visit first Plato and then Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From there we call in on the worlds of General Relativity, of Quantum Mechanics, of String Theory, of Consciousness before visiting a first century Christian writer. As ideas and insights unfold we are increasingly struck by the close affinity between apparently diverse disciplines.
In these days of increasing specialization it is rare to be in the company of a thinker turning his attention to such an overview of human experience in the world of ideas. Borders of Perception takes us into such company, and here we find the border between the physical and the metaphysical to be as open and as inviting as it has ever been.
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