Fritjof Capra - The Dance of Śiva

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Fritjof Capra is an Austrian physicist and writer. A physicist and systems theorist, he is an internationally renowned author. He became famous with The Tao of Physics (1975), translated into Italian in 1982 (Adelphi), and his fame grew with the 1989 reprint. He has also worked on sustainable development, ecology and complexity theory. This is how he described his intuition of spiritual reality:

"Five years ago I had a wonderful experience that set me on the road that would lead me to write this book. One late-summer afternoon, sitting by the ocean, I was watching the waves roll in and feeling the rhythm of my breathing, when I suddenly became aware that everything around me was taking part in a gigantic cosmic dance. […] As I sat on that beach, my earlier experiences came to life; I 'saw' cascades of energy coming down from outer space, in which particles were created and destroyed in rhythmic pulses; I 'saw' the atoms of the elements and those of my body taking part in this cosmic dance of energy; I felt its rhythm and 'heard' its sound: and at that moment I knew that this was the dance of Śiva, the Lord of Dancers worshipped by the Hindus." PhotoView on the original blog↗