"Everything seems to interact with everything else at many subtle levels of the universe beyond the purely physical level, and the deeper we penetrate into these levels, the more do we realize that we are One." - William Tiller, from the Preface to Stalking the Wild Pendulum by Itzhak Bentov.

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Product Description

In his exciting and original view of the universe, Itzhak Bentov has provided a new perspective on human consciousness and its limitless possibilities. Widely known and loved for his delightful humor and imagination, Bentov explains the familiar world of phenomena with perceptions that are as lucid as they are thrilling. He gives us a provocative picture of ourselves in an expanded, conscious, holistic universe.
 

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #180055 in Books
• Published on: 1988-02-01
• Released on: 1988-02-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Jean Houston, Author of The Possible Human
Dazzles the imagination and causes you to rethink everything you ever thought you knew about reality.

Dr. Stanislav Grof, Author of Beyond the Brain
A ground-breaking work. Clear, imaginative, and inspiring, it offers a revolutionary image of the human mind and the universe.

Dr. Montague Ullman, Director, Maimonides Medical Center
A brilliantly executed theoretical romp through the universe...to do all this with humor and suspense is indeed a major accomplishment.

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Customer Reviews

Stalking the Wild Pendulum
This is the best book I have read in a long time. I could not put it down and kept walking into people. It is filled with ah ha moments and a sense of humor. It raised my awareness and understanding of the universe and I have to read it at least 3 or 4 more times to make sure I did not miss anything. I recommend it as must reading.

Ride the Wave...
The pendulate wave, that is.

Mind you, I am so analytically inept - not even funny. There were sections of Bentov's book that cramped my grey matter, big-time.

However, on the whole, I found Bentov's book extremely enlightening. It provided some intellectual "umph" to some very slippery concepts...lending some brick & mortor to a realm that can get "woo woo" in a hurry.

If you've got a grasp of consciousness from a soul perspective, I highly recommend adding Bentov's book to your knowledge base as it will provide a technical/intellectual aspect to your foundation. Bentov's points offer a nice backup of principles to use as a testing ground for your esoteric practices.

Neat little analogies, diagrams and insights - this book is a true gold nugget among pyrite ("wanna be") books.

fact or fiction?
There are a number of interesting ideas in this book. Unfortunately though there is far more misunderstood science and wishful thinking. Early on, a profound misunderstanding about quantum effects is very badly mis-applied to macro-objects. Specifically the Heisenberg uncertainty principal, an explanation of which I have borrowed from wikipedia.

"In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is the statement that locating a particle in a small region of space makes the momentum of the particle uncertain; and conversely, that measuring the momentum of a particle precisely makes the position uncertain. In quantum mechanics, the position and momentum of particles do not have precise values, but have a probability distribution."

Itzhak Bentov attempts to apply this quantum interpretation to a clock pendulum claiming that at the precise instant that it is changing direction in it's swing, since it's velocity is zero (for an instant) that it's location becomes unknowable. He then hypothesizes that it's location spreads out at the speed of light for this instant before returning to itself when it starts moving. Later he begins to apply this misunderstanding to all objects in the universe, including human bodies, because they are after all made from quantum objects. He attempts to use this basis to show that human consciousness spreads out like this for these brief instances many times per second.

As I said, interesting ideas, but all based on badly misunderstood science.
This "foundation" is further built on with more misguided interpretations of existing science until you arrive at a model of the universe that is nearly a complete fabrication of fantasy.