The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality Audiobook (Free)

Gallileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the globe and in their wake have left an uneasy co-existence: science vs. religion, trust vs. empirical enquiry. Which may be the keeper of truth? Which is the true way to understanding reality?

After forty many years of study with a number of the greatest scientific minds and a duration of meditative, spiritual and philosophical study, the Dalai Lama presents an excellent about The World within a Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality analysis of why both disciplines should be pursued in order to arrive at an entire picture of the reality. Science shows us ways of interpreting the physical world, while spirituality assists us cope with reality. However the severe of either can be impoverishing. The belief that all can be reducible to matter and energy leaves out a huge range of individual experience: emotions, yearnings, compassion, tradition. At exactly the same time, holding unexamined religious beliefs-beliefs that are contradicted by evidence, reasoning, and experience-can lock us into fundamentalist cages.

Through an study of Darwinism and karma, quantum mechanics and philosophical insight into the nature of reality, neurobiology and the analysis of consciousness, the Dalai Lama draws significant parallels between contemplative and technological study of reality. “I really believe that spirituality and research are complementary but different investigative approaches with the same objective of seeking the reality,” His Holiness writes. “In this, there is much each may learn from the various other, and together they could contribute to expanding the horizon of individual knowledge and wisdom.”

This breathtakingly personal examination is a tribute to the Dalai Lama’s teachers-both of science and spirituality. The legacy of the book is certainly a vision from the world in which our different approaches to understanding ourselves, our universe and each other can be brought jointly in the program of humanity.