HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE
My passion is physics,
, the study of Nature. My earliest memories as a small
child were being read to from the Bible and from an anthology of the traditional
Persian, Greek, Indian, Arabic and Chinese literature. As my studies in
physics developed, certain parallels in the wisdom canon and in mathematics
and physics began to emerge. My graduate research in topology and quantum
stability were much colored by my growing grasp of the Taoist and Vedic sutras. For
instance, certain ancient Buddhist texts correlate directly with the principle
of least action (Hamilton-Jacobi) and Newton’s laws.
Later on, as my world view
developed, I was profoundly influenced by the thinking of Wittgenstein, Schroedinger,
and, above all, C.S. Peirce. My professional life in science and business
carried me first hand to many parts of the world and to many cultures.
It gradually became clear to
me that the fundamental structures of the world of matter, the world of the
mind, and the world of the abstract were identical and interwoven. There
are indeed patterns in the universe, patterns that are truly invariant. And
they are surprisingly beautiful and simple!
In the 1990’s, I began teaching
a one-year course in consciousness and cosmology at the Philosophical Research
Society in Los Angeles, and then later for the Holmes Institute. These courses
are still continuing. This book, Cosmic Law, was extracted
from the course material.
It was written for you, my
friends and students. Let it help you uncover the underlying and often hidden
axioms of your life. Let it help you see the invariants of reality and find
your home, right here, where are just now, situated precisely at the Center
of the Universe.
Dean Brown
Alamo, California
January 2002