Pathways of Chance

Pathways of Chance is the story of the life of physicist and writer F. David Peat - growing up in war-time Liverpool, the birth of the Beatles, research in Canada, meeting exceptional people including David Bohm, Bertrand Russell and Michael Tippett, sitting in a Tepi with Blackfoot elders, talking to artists and settling in a medieval Italian village. Each chapter of this story is interspersed with Peat's reflections on science, philosophy and society including how language shapes the ways we see the world; the elusive nature of quantum reality; Jung and synchronicity; film and art; ethics and gentle action.