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The Eternal Law

ACCLAIM

John Spencer's Eternal Law is the best exposition I have ever read of the genuine foundations of contemporary science in timeless philosophy. Should be read by every philosopher, and person interested in science and in philosophy, who questions the reality and the wholeness of the world investigated by contemporary science.

Dr. Ervin Laszlo
Founder and President of The Club of Budapest,
author of Science and the Akashic Field:
An Integral Theory of Everything

I found John Spencer's "The Eternal Law" to be enormously refreshing; for here we have someone willing to speak out forcefully in favour of Platonic ideals lying at the roots of modern science.

Professor Sir Roger Penrose (OM FRS)

Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics,

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford,

author of The Road to Reality

This book gives a spirited defence of the continuing importance of Platonic philosophy. The author shows how Pythagorean and Platonic ideas influenced the thinking of the creators of modern science, from Kepler in the seventeenth century to the founders of quantum mechanics in the twentieth.

Dr. Stephen M. Barr
Professor of Particle Physics, University of Delaware,
author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith

The new physics has revealed a congruence of the mental and the physical and of the spiritual and the rational, which is so difficult to accept that it amounts to a metamorphosis of our consciousness. In this process John Spencer's book is a much needed guide that explains challenging concepts of physics and philosophy in a competent, inspired and easily understandable way. The Eternal Law will be of immense value to teachers in both the sciences and the humanities, and to everybody who wants to live with an enlightened understanding of the world.

Dr. Lothar Schfer
Distinguished Professor of Physical Chemistry (emeritus), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, author of
Infinite Potential: What Quantum Physics

Reveals About How We Should Live

This is an exciting and thought-provoking book from a young scholar whose base is in the philosophical foundations of quantum physics, but who has gone on as well to master the whole philosophical tradition, particularly that of Platonism, to bring us a wide-ranging study of the parameters of reality. All of us can learn from it.

Dr. John Dillon
Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus), Trinity College Dublin, author of The Middle Platonists: 80 B.C. to A.D. 220

Spencer takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the terrain where quantum physics, mysticism and philosophy meet. Profound challenges are addressed in highly accessible ways, and Spencer guides the reader through the complexities of his topic with remarkable clarity. This is a work for the interested general reader who wants to understand how ancient philosophical ideas resonate with the latest discoveries in science. Spencers vision enlivens the human quest to find meaning and purpose in our world. A highly accessible, informative and profoundly stimulating book.

Dr. Brian Les Lancaster
Professor of Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University (retired), President of the International Transpersonal Association, author of Approaches to

Consciousness: the Marriage of Science and Mysticism

I can honestly say I love this book. It appealed to both the scientist and the philosopher in me, and should be compulsory reading for anyone who thinks they know anything.

Dr. Kathryn Hopkins
Ministry of Justice, UK

You need not agree with everything Spencer says in order to benefit from this readable, lively and thought-provoking book.

Dr. John C. Taylor
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University, author of Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws

John Spencer discusses complex problems with an engaging, easy-to-read clarity that has significantly improved the clarity of my own thinking, about philosophy generally and about philosophy of science in particular. Spencers incisive metaphysical reasoning has also illuminated for me why I always feel gaslighted in exactly the same way by the seemingly antithetical agendas of positivist materialism and postmodern relativism. Spencer shows how the expositors of these wildly incompatible ways of thinking have all drunk the same philosophical Kool-Aidcalled anti-realism. So it must be their anti-realism that makes me feel crazy because in reality as Spencer demonstratesanti-realism is logically incoherent in a way that does violence to the human spirit. Spencers prescription for this cultural illness? Unembarrassed rigorous metaphysical thinking. Sounds difficult, but the way Spencer does it, metaphysical thinking has the refreshing clarity of common sense (and elucidates the philosophical foundations and implications of quantum physics too!).

Dr. Elio Frattaroli
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, and
author of Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain:
Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World

The poison of anti-realism has been dripped into the ear of modern humanity for too long, bringing with it a curious fever of body and lethargy of mind: The Eternal Law is an antidote of the finest potency. The author exposes the fatal contradiction at the heart of anti-realism with such ruthless clarity that I strongly suspect anyone trying to defend it after this will only succeed in further demonstrating its absurdity.

Tim Addey
Chairman of the Prometheus Trust,
author of The Seven Myths of the Soul

Reading his work is, at first, like listening-in on conversations with the major thinkers of philosophy and Quantum physics discussing the significance of this new and dramatic turn in science and then coming to realize that you are being lead to the surprising realization that, indeed, every recourse to systems of philosophy rather than the Platonic system will lack the scope and precision necessary to understand the depth of this profound Quantum turn in science.

Dr. Pierre Grimes
Professor of Philosophy, Golden West College (retired), Korean Buddhist Dharma Successor, co-author of

Philosophical Midwifery

John Spencers THE ETERNAL LAW offers a spirited challenge to the claims and widespread influence of anti-realism, insisting on key connections between modern physics and ancient philosophy, particularly Platonism, while reminding us that the theoretical and metaphysical foundations of physics have always aimed at unity, simplicity and beauty. Accessible to non-specialists, this richly interdisciplinary book remains highly relevant to philosophers, classicists, physicists, and historians of science.

Dr. John E. MacKinnon
Department of Philosophy, Saint Marys University

An important contribution to the philosophical and scientific exploration of the concept of reality.

Dr. Mario Beauregard
Affiliated with the Department of Psychology at the

University of Arizona, author of Brain Wars

The Eternal Law is comprehensible to a general reader who is not well read in philosophy or in the subtle nuances of cutting edge theoretical physics. As an experimental scientist, I found it to be a real eye-opener regarding the misunderstandings and misinterpretations of modern physics that persist among various academic disciplines.

Dr. Nicholas P. Blanchard
Research Engineer, Institut Lumire Matire
(UCBL-CNRS), Universit de Lyon

This robust defence of ancient thought, objective truth and metaphysical realism also provides along the way a most valuable education in philosophy, philosophy of science and the history of science. Whether or not they agree with the author's conclusions, specialists and non-specialists alike will be rewarded by engaging with this important and wonderfully interdisciplinary book.

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