The Dancing Wu Li Masters

The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav is a popular new age book from 1979 about mysticist interpretations of quantum physics.

The phrase Wu Li in the title refers to one possible Chinese translation of the word "physics", as translated by the Tai Chi teacher Al Huang, emphasizing alleged philosophical commonality between western science and eastern mysticism. The chapters of the book are each titled with other alternative translations of Wu Li, such as "Nonsense" and "I Clutch My Principles".

The author participated in a physics conference of eastern and western scientists at Esalen Institute, California, in 1976 and used the occasion as material for his book. The physicist Jack Sarfatti contributed greatly to the content of the book, as well as the Tai Chi teacher and author Al Huang.

Editions

• The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (1979). New York: William Morrow and Company, hardcover: ISBN 0-688-03402-0, paperback: ISBN 0-688-08402-8, 352 p.
  • (1984) Bantam mass market paperback: ISBN 0-553-26382-X, 337 p.
  • (1990) Audio Renaissance audiocassette: ISBN 1-55927-058-6 (abridged)
  • (2001) Harper Perennial paperback: ISBN 0-06-095968-1, 416 p.
  • (2001) Audio Renaissance CD: ISBN 1-55927-643-6 (abridged)

References

• The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (1975), Fritjof Capra 1999 4th edition: ISBN 1-57062-519-0
• Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable (1975), by Bob Toben, Jack Sarfatti, and Fred Alan Wolf, 1982 edition: ISBN 0-525-47710-1. An accessible presentation of the Quantum paradoxes done in comic book form.
  • Space-Time and Beyond II: Dark Energy (2002), Jack Sarfatti, ISBN 1-4033-9022-3. His autobiography Destiny Matrix has supplementary material, including Sarfatti's theory that derived Einstein's gravity along with the repulsive "dark energy" from a modification on chaotic inflationary cosmology.
• Taking the Quantum Leap (1981) Fred Alan Wolf, 1989 2nd edition: ISBN 0-06-096310-7
• Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics (1985), Nick Herbert, ISBN 0-385-23569-0
• Science Synchronicity and Soul-Making (1995), Victor Mansfield, ISBN 0-8126-9304-3. A more up-to-date discussion on the philosophical implications of quantum physics.
• The Fabric of Reality (1997), David Deutsch ISBN 0-14-027541-X
• The Elegant Universe (1999), Brian Greene, ISBN 0-375-70811-1. A more up-to-date discussion of physics and cosmology.
• The Universe in a Nutshell (2001), Stephen Hawking, ISBN 0-553-80202-X
• The Road to Reality (2005), Roger Penrose, ISBN 0-09-944068-7

See also

• Quantum mysticism

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