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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

By Robert Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017) was an American author and professor. Pirsig was best known for his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a contemporary philosophical meditation on how to live.

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Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

An inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit that shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world. science. nature. spirit. they do not, need not, and should not overlap completely.

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Lyanda Lynn Haupt
2025
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Tibetan Buddhism & Modern Physics: A Quantum Mechanical Challenge Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge

Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge addresses the complex issues of dialogue and collaboration between Buddhism and science, revealing connections and differences between the two.

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Vic Mansfield, The Dalai Lama (foreword)
2011
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence;...

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Suzanne Simard
2025
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Beyond Religion - the Rise of a New Spirituality, 2011

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David Cooper
2011
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The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World

Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence, declares University of Oregon physicist Goswami, echoing the mystic sages of his native India. He holds that the universe is self-aware, and that consciousness creates the physical world.

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Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed (contributor), Maggie Goswami (contributor)
1995
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer
2015
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Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems

This book brings important new dimensions to the interface between contemporary Western science and ancient Eastern wisdom. Here for the first time the concepts and insights of general systems theory are presented in tandem with those of the Buddha.

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Joanna Macy
1991
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