The Writings of Fritjof Capra
Seems like I've always been reading The Turning Point, by Fritjof Capra. At the moment it seems like the most important book I've ever read--and the most difficult. A page or two at a time is the most I can manage. Capra (who previously wrote The Tao of Physics) is telling me that the direction which Scientific investigation has taken since Descartes, the notion that to understand something you must first take it apart into its smallest components and then understand them, has had previously unimagined (at least by me) consequences for our self-images, our relationships with other humans and with all other living beings, and with Gaia and the Universe around us. He is going to tell me that a change is in the wind, and I am anxious to get to that part of the book. I'll let you know.