This book focuses on a new worldview emerging from the science of the last decades of the second millennium. Its metaphor is the cosmic dance, or the harmony between systems so strongly interdependent that they behave as a single entity. This dance image hints at a general, evolving pattern in which all objects in the universe participate—like the ordered chaos of an African open-air market.

Some chapters discuss the nature of processes in the universe, including chaos and chance in the game of life. The reconciliation of variety and unity is addressed about the space-time continuum and the unified field of relativity theory. Del Re continues investigating the origins of freedom and ethics, suggesting that science indicates that the human species may have a specific task in the universe: building a bridge between matter and spirit.

Del Re ponders alchemy, the significance of symbols, and the meaning of the soul. Woven throughout various esoteric and scientific inquiries is the underlying sense of the unifying principles of science and a spiritual outlook. The questions raised are issues that will be discussed by an emerging network of scientists and spiritual seekers, and this book will add a valued and informed perspective to these conversations.