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that of social imitation. Specifically, both books suggest that mod-
ern physicists are coming to the same conclusion about physical
reality that Eastern mystics have espoused for thousands of years.
That is, that the ultimate reality of the physical world is not sepa-
rate “balls” of matter colliding with one another, but rather an
interconnected, unseparated wholeness or “oneness.” To revisit a
passage cited earlier, “material objects are not distinct entities, but
are inseparably linked to their environment;... their properties
can only be understood in terms of their interaction with the rest
of the world.” Most significantly, “[a]ccording to Mach’s principle,
this interaction reaches out to the universe at large, to the distant
stars and galaxies” (Capra, The Tao of Physics, Bantam 1975).
Gary Zukav, in The Dancing Wu Li Masters (Bantam 1979), brings
this point closer to home by saying that this interconnectedness
extends even to the realm of the psyche, suggesting that telepathy
is not only possible but also perfectly consistent with modern
physics:Psychic phenomena have been held in disdain by physicists since
the days of Newton. In fact, most physicists do not even believe
that they exist. In this sense, J. S. Bell’s theorem [1964] could be
the Trojan horse in the physicist’s camp; first, because it proves
that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble
telepathic communication, and second, because it provides the
mathematical framework through which serious physicists [all
physicists are serious] could find themselves discussing types of
phenomena which, ironically, they do not believe exist.The fact that scientists were now arguing that intuition might
have a scientific basis didn’t completely shock me. My psychic had
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