{"product_id":"the-secret-history-of-the-universe-how-ancient-wisdom-made-the-modern-world","title":"The Secret History of the Universe: How Ancient Wisdom Made the Modern World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Black \u003c\/strong\u003e(author)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of the global bestseller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Secret History of the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e comes an epic new history of the relationship between spiritual belief and cutting-edge science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJonathan Black shows that from Marie Curie to today’s architects of AI, many of our greatest scientists have been guided by secret, mystical and ‘higher’ teachings towards an understanding of the universe familiar to the builders of the pyramids of Giza or the Temple at Jerusalem. He explores how these discoveries, foreshadowed and paralleled by geniuses including Carl Gustav Jung and Hilma af Klint, raise deep and urgent questions about our understanding of the universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIs the material universe we perceive with our senses an illusion?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIs a higher intelligence directing it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAre events in the future already fixed?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow does modern physics show we are all connected in ways old science said were impossible?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAre different kinds of intelligence - divine and less benevolent - emerging around us?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis is the science hardline atheists don’t want you to know about.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58485586428288,"sku":"9781918107012","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3281\/8754\/files\/SecretHistoryoftheUniverse.jpg?v=1784388297","url":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-secret-history-of-the-universe-how-ancient-wisdom-made-the-modern-world","provider":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}