Found this via Reddit - and am quite enjoying it. Nothing I didn't "Know" - or speculate, but I'm not even 100 pages in.

You can find it online here: https://archive.org/details/itzhak-bentov-stalking-the-wild-pendulum-on-the-mechanics-of-consciousness

The writing style reminds me of Guy Murchie's "The Seven Mysteries of Life", or "Godel, Escher & Bach", by Hofstadter, which were books that I also greatly enjoyed once upon a time. And any number of others which seek to reconcile science and spirituality. But I'll come back to this...

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Note, having finished it it was fine. Not Terrific, but I've long been informed of these various theories through various other channels. But he has a way of wrapping it all up. In the vein of "Dancing Wu-Li Masters" or various other books from the 70's that attempt to reconcile science and spirituality.

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