New Science / New Paradigms: Reading List
The course will range over a wide variety of ideas and will touch on topics in science, psychology, linguistics, Native American world view, art and so on. Many of these ideas are discussed in David Peat's essays. Copies of these can be downloaded from Peat's website or purchased for a nominal cost during the conference.
While it is not strictly necessary to do any reading before the course it would help to familiarize yourself with some of the ideas. Therefore you may like to look over the following of David Peat's books:
The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind, Helix Books, Cambridge, Mass, 2000
Synchronicity: The Bridge between Matter and Mind, Bantam Books
Blackfoot Physics, Fourth Estate, London. (The US edition of this book, entitled Lighting the Seventh Fire is now out of print. A new, updated version will be published soon by Phanes Press.)
Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm, Addison Wesley
Co authored with John Briggs
Looking Glass Universe, Touchstone Books
Turbulent Mirror, Harper Collins
Co-authored with David Bohm
Science, Order and Creativity (second edition, 2000), Routledtge
David Bohm, Science and the Implicate Order, Routledge
A series of interviews with scientists can be found in
Glimpsing Reality: Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology Eds. Paul Buckley and F. David Peat, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
Regarding further background reading. You may wish to look over the ideas of Carl Jung - there are a number of introductory texts, also the ideas of Wittgenstein on language.