F. David Peat on Logic

…any approach that is based upon a set of fixed rules, strategies or fixed rational forms can never fully come to terms with nature’s unlimited richness.

—F. David Peat, New Science, New Vision

Any level of introspection indicates to us the degree to which our thoughts and responses are conditioned and how the self orders or in-forms our experience. …the order of the mind ranges from the mechanical and conditioned into infinite sensitivity and creativity.

—F. David Peat

Human minds…are able to escape from the constraints of logic and fixed rules… Or, to put it another way, the capacities of the human mind extend beyond the potential of any programmable, deductive, iterative or stepwise connected system.

—F. David Peat, New Science, New Vision

If our Western science is to move beyond that sterility that views the world as object then it…must be willing to enter into new logical forms and new orders…that will tolerate ambiguity, paradox and metaphor, orders which give each experience a living space…

—F. David Peat

…I would also suggest that the orders of matter have the same range. Inscape speaks of the inexhaustible nature of all experience in which matter can range from the mechanical and clinging into the infinitely subtle.

—F. David Peat, Unfolding the Subtle: Matter and Consciousness

The essence of reality is…its form. …the material world is an arising of form, a clinging to form and a dying away—in fact this clinging to form is nothing less than the expression of the laws of nature.

—F. David Peat, Unfolding the Subtle: Matter and Consciousness

…the laws of matter are really about particular levels of clinging within transformation, they point to those patterns of change within our experience that we tend to define as being material. But, of course, a similar clinging is also exhibited within the mind.

—F. David Peat

…the various…processes that take place within living organisms…suggest that systems evolve their own order of cohesion and that their authentic structures are not exclusively reducible to something supposedly logically more primitive.

—F. David Peat, Unfolding the Subtle: Matter and Consciousness

…to let go of the dominance that traditional logic has over our thinking does not mean that we have given way to meaningless disorder. Rather, we are challenged to find new and deeper…orders that are alive and ever changing.

—F. David Peat