Essay on the Sixties in Patterns of Connection

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i loved your essay on the sixties in patterns of connection. Ah, you know, that was a unique decade, i think. But maybe somebody like a genzi or a millennial would go, No, no, no, not the sixties. It was the eighties. That was the great decade, or something like that. You know, were all products of that kind of special, almost imprinting time when the music and thend of the shows, the films, the novels influenced us. So there was a huge questioning of authority. And this questioning of authority was not only expressed in grass roots movements, but also in the arts. We had we had rock music, we

Michael Shermer speaks with scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, Fritjof Capra, about the evolution of his thinking over five decades. In this conversation, based on Capra’s book, Patterns of Connection, Shermer and Capra discuss: what it means to be spiritual in an age of science, nuclear energy and why Capra thinks we don’t need it and Shermer thinks we do, 50 years of progress or regress, limitations of models and theories of reality, limitations of analogies between western physics and eastern mysticism, mind and consciousness, and why Capra is hopeful for the future of humanity.