Ralph Abraham

This isn't a conventionally written book. It consists of a three-way dialogue among Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham and Terrence McKenna. It's deliberately and honestly speculative in nature. It introduces a lot of ideas that are interesting to ponder, ideas having to do with the possible history and possible future of the cosmos, the earth and human beings. Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance comes into play, while Abraham brings chaos theory into the mix. McKenna brings imagination to show more it, imagination enriched from his lifelong psychedelic explorations. I found it worth reading, but I would warn other potential readers that everything in it is completely raw and freewheeling. Also, I think it would be hard to develop the ideas it contains very much, since they're so very vague and nebulous. A little more effort put into defining many of the terms would have helped. show less

“Ralph Abraham is the most readable and delightful of mathematical pioneers. He is in the great tradition of Poincare and Whitehead, a true mathematical humanist. Chaos, Gaia, Eros is destined to be a voice shaping the new millennium.”

No, I didn't like this book at all! Therefore I stopped reading it at about 50 pages. Thinking at the edge maybe .. but ... I don't need to read a discussion of some people about the dreams of Gaia and some mixed theories. Such things are ok and a lot of fun when doing them with friends. But it's sooo boring to read this!

For me, there is no life in this discussion, no inspiration at all! Probably it's typically end 80ths beginning 90ths, where psychedelic was so in. I remember a lot of pop show more literature and cyberpunk that talked about those amazing new point of views one gets through psychedelic meds.

For me, reading any more sentences would be more waste of time! I prefer talking about "the edges of our thinking" with my friends myself :)) show less