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The dancing wooly masters6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() one sees that we are in fact only dancing with our own consciousness. The Dancing Wu Li Masters remains an engaging, accessible way to meet the most profound and mind-altering insights of 20th-century science. known being The Dancing Wu Li Masters written by a non-physicist, Gary Zukav. Even as these theories age they haven't percolated all that far into the collective consciousness they're too far removed from mundane human experience not to need introduction. The "new physics" of Zukav's 1979 book comprises quantum theory, particle physics, and relativity. Some physicists even believe that, but the Wu Li Masters know that they are only dancing with it. One day a woman asked one of my coworkers for 'The Dancing Woolly Masters' instead of the Dancing Wu Li Masters. Fans would come in looking for his first book, an analysis of the New Physics and much different than his Oprah bestsellers. Most people believe that physicists are explaining the world. Gary Zukav was the darling of the Oprah set with his Soul Stories book. This book deals not with knowledge, which is always past tense anyway, but with imagination, which is physics come alive, which is Wu Li. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. ![]() The Wu Li Master dances with his student. ![]() At an Esalen Institute meeting in 1976, tai chi master Al Huang said that the Chinese word for physics is Wu Li, "patterns of organic energy." Journalist Gary Zukav and the others present developed the idea of physics as the dance of the Wu Li Masters-the teachers of physical essence. ![]()
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