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Title: The Turning Point : Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
by Fritjof Capra
ISBN: 0-553-34572-9
Publisher: Bantam
Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $18.95
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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: Important messages
Comment: I think Fritjof Capra is making some very important observations in this book. Through his observations, the author states that Western Civilization is gradually approaching the climax of a major turning point in its evolution. He suggests that the cause of this is in our consciousness, a certain way we are seeing and understanding our experiences. This is leading to many of our present day environmental, social, political, and financial crises. We are all sitting on a treebranch that is gradually getting too heavy. Many modern theorists try to explain this phenomena but Capra articulates this in a way that many people can understand. This book as well as "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato do a very fine job in trying to open the public eye to these issues. Both of these books are highly recommended for people who want to understand things from a wider, larger, and deeper perspective.

Rating: 5
Summary: a much-needed mind walk
Comment: This landmark, timeless work and the movie based on it (Mindwalk) are great accomplishments that have much relevance to today's events and where the world is headed.

Read before it is too late!

Rating: 1
Summary: Half-Baked Qusai-Philosophy
Comment: Chapter two is worth reading, and so is chapter three. The rest of the book is unintelligble. Capra's cultural and historical analysis and argument are logically inconsistent with "the new physics." Furthermore, Capra offers no treatment of Chinese civilization and culture aside from exploiting pop Chinese mystical terms. Most of the book is a grand exercise in equivocation. I'm sorry to run contrary to so many other readers, but my opinion is that this book will not be remembered well--if at all.

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