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Back to: The Hermetic Laws & Quantum Physics
Module 1 – Sources and References
Every factual claim in this module is grounded in primary sources, peer-reviewed scholarship, or established reference works. The list is organized by topic for your convenience. Where I have drawn on encyclopedic sources, I have done so only to corroborate material also available in scholarly form; for serious study, the primary sources are what matters.
Primary Sources: The Physicists’ Own Writings
Bohm, D. (1980). Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Reprinted 2002, Routledge Classics.)
Bohm, D., & Krishnamurti, J. (1985). The Ending of Time: Thirteen Dialogues Between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm. Harper & Row.
Eddington, A. S. (1928). The Nature of the Physical World. Cambridge University Press. (Based on the Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh, 1927.)
Heisenberg, W. (1958). Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science. Harper & Brothers.
Heisenberg, W. (1971). Der Teil und das Ganze: Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik. Piper. (English translation: Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations, Harper & Row, 1972.)
Pauli, W., & Jung, C. G. (1952). Naturerklärung und Psyche. Rascher Verlag. (English: The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, Pantheon, 1955.)
Schrödinger, E. (1944). What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge University Press.
Schrödinger, E. (1964). My View of the World (trans. Cecily Hastings). Cambridge University Press. (Mein Weltansicht, drafted 1925, completed 1960.)
Wheeler, J. A. (1990). Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links. In Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information (W. H. Zurek, ed.), pp. 3-28. Addison-Wesley.
Wheeler, J. A. (1998). Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics. W. W. Norton.
Wilber, K. (Ed.). (2001). Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists (Revised Edition). Shambhala. (Primary-source anthology of writings by Eddington, Heisenberg, Jeans, Pauli, Planck, Schrödinger, and others.)
Scholarly Biographies and Studies of the Founders
Atmanspacher, H. (2012). Dual-Aspect Monism à la Pauli and Jung. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 19(9-10), 96-120.
Capra, F. (1975). The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. Shambhala. (50th Anniversary Edition, 2025.)
Capra, F. (1988). Uncommon Wisdom: Conversations with Remarkable People. Simon & Schuster.
Capra, F. (n.d.). Heisenberg and Tagore. fritjofcapra.net. (Primary-source essay with direct quotations from Capra’s 1972 conversation with Heisenberg and Heisenberg’s 1971 letter.)
Dutta, K., & Robinson, A. (1995). Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. St. Martin’s Press.
Faye, J. (1991). Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy. Kluwer.
Kumar, M. (2009). Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality. W. W. Norton.
Miller, A. I. (2009). 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession. W. W. Norton.
Moore, W. J. (1989). Schrödinger: Life and Thought. Cambridge University Press.
Peat, F. D. (1987). Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind. Bantam Books.
Peat, F. D. (1997). Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm. Addison-Wesley.
Rechenberg, H. (2010). Werner Heisenberg — Die Sprache der Atome: Leben und Wirken — Eine wissenschaftliche Biographie. Springer.
The Hermetic Underground in the History of Science
Dobbs, B. J. T. (1975). The Foundations of Newton’s Alchemy, or “The Hunting of the Greene Lyon.” Cambridge University Press.
Dobbs, B. J. T. (1991). The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought. Cambridge University Press.
Hanegraaff, W. J. (2012). Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge University Press.
Holmyard, E. J. (1957). Alchemy. Penguin Books. (Republished 1990, Dover.)
Keynes, J. M. (1947). Newton, the Man. In Essays in Biography (pp. 310-323). Horizon Press.
Linden, S. J. (Ed.). (2003). The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. Cambridge University Press.
Newton, I. The Commentary on the Emerald Tablet (Keynes Manuscript 28). King’s College Library, Cambridge.
Principe, L. M. (2013). The Secrets of Alchemy. University of Chicago Press.
Ross, G. M. (1974). Leibniz and the Nuremberg Alchemical Society. Studia Leibnitiana, 6, 222-248.
Yates, F. A. (1964). Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. University of Chicago Press.
Yates, F. A. (1972). The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Perennial Philosophy and Its Critics
Ferrer, J. N. (2002). Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality. State University of New York Press.
Huxley, A. (1945). The Perennial Philosophy. Harper & Brothers.
Katz, S. T. (Ed.). (1978). Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis. Oxford University Press.
Schuon, F. (1984). The Transcendent Unity of Religions (Revised Edition). Theosophical Publishing House.
Smith, H. (1976). Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World’s Religions. Harper & Row.
Steuco, A. (1540). De Perenni Philosophia. Lyon.
Physics and Consciousness: Contemporary Voices
Atmanspacher, H., & Primas, H. (Eds.). (2009). Recasting Reality: Wolfgang Pauli’s Philosophical Ideas and Contemporary Science. Springer.
d’Espagnat, B. (2006). On Physics and Philosophy. Princeton University Press.
Kastrup, B. (2019). The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality. iff Books.
Penrose, R. (1994). Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. Oxford University Press.
Stapp, H. P. (2011). Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer (2nd ed.). Springer.
Stenger, V. J. (2009). Quantum Gods: Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness. Prometheus Books. (A representative skeptical voice.)
Primary Hermetic Texts
Copenhaver, B. P. (Trans.). (1992). Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation. Cambridge University Press.
Mead, G. R. S. (Trans.). (1906). Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis (3 vols.). Theosophical Publishing Society. (Public domain.)
Salaman, C., van Oyen, D., Wharton, W. D., & Mahé, J.-P. (Trans.). (2000). The Way of Hermes: New Translations of The Corpus Hermeticum. Inner Traditions.
Three Initiates [Atkinson, W. W.]. (1908). The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. Yogi Publication Society.
Encyclopedic and Reference Entries Consulted
Encyclopædia Britannica. (2026). Niels Bohr; Werner Heisenberg; Erwin Schrödinger; Wolfgang Pauli; David Bohm; John Archibald Wheeler; Arthur Stanley Eddington; The Emerald Tablet; Hermetic Writings.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (E. N. Zalta, Ed.). Entries on Niels Bohr, The Copenhagen Interpretation, The Role of Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics, and The Mind-Body Problem.
Wikipedia contributors. (2026). Entries used for corroboration of dates and biographical details: Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, David Bohm, John Archibald Wheeler, Arthur Eddington, The Tao of Physics, Perennial Philosophy, Unus Mundus, Emerald Tablet, Rosicrucianism, Hermeticism.
Recommended Video Resources
Al-Khalili, J. (2014). The Secrets of Quantum Physics (BBC Horizon two-part documentary).
Esoterica (YouTube channel by Dr. Justin Sledge, University of Memphis). Episodes on the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet, Newton’s alchemy.
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. (1980). The Ending of Time: Dialogues Between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm. Filmed at Brockwood Park.
Kuhn, R. L. (ongoing). Closer to Truth (PBS). Interview archive: closertotruth.com.
PBS Space Time (Matt O’Dowd). Quantum mechanics episodes, including treatments of the delayed-choice experiment.