The Cosmic Web

Hope for Our World through Spirituality and Science

Joy Andrews Hayter
Foreword by Cynthia Bourgeault

Paperback
978-1-960090-20-1
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October 2023

We exist in a highly interwoven quantum field: a cosmic web. To see this is to better understand how to live.

This enlightening book weaves together current physics, in easy-to-grasp descriptions, with the words of Wisdom teacher Jesus and the writings of many other mystics from the world's spiritual traditions. The author shows how, with an open contemplative heart, you might access cosmic assistance so needed in these chaotic times. With an engaged spirituality, in alignment with science, you will begin to see the oneness of all things, and how you might change the world.

Using personal experience and narrative, as well as research from top scientific journals, the author uses images and humor to encourage you to see how science and spirituality both provide lenses to help you participate in a dynamic, creative, and relational reality. You will be encouraged to open your mind and think about what all of this might mean. A deeply feminine, personal, and invitational book, The Cosmic Web is a roadmap to help recognize resources, anchor yourself in embodied wisdom, and encourage you to come together with others with synergetic wholeness.

Joy Andrews Hayter is a professor emerita, with a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. In collaboration with scientists across the globe she has 70+ academic publications, and has given numerous scientific talks on several continents. Her science training is balanced with liberal arts from her undergraduate degree at Barnard College. Joy is also a long-time spiritual practitioner, first in Taoism and Buddhism, as well as re-embracing the Christian tradition on a deeper contemplative level. She teaches contemplative practices, leads retreats, and offers spiritual direction, and lives in northern California.

“Joy helps us to see in The Cosmic Web in an ongoing integrative way, that the insights from both spirituality and science will help to bring us to an ever-deeper oneness and unity with all that is.” —Father Bill Sheehan, OMI

“The Cosmic Web is an invitation to dance. Joy Andrews Hayter invites us to enter the still point of contemplative practice which then is partnered with the insights of science. This dance unfolds in mystery; both the mysteries of quantum physics and the mysteries of the spiritual life. Her writing is clear and accessible, and deeply grounded in the depths of her own scientific training and spiritual practice.” —Mary Grace Orr, meditation teacher; founder, Insight Santa Cruz

“Joy weaves together the ineffable of the spiritual with the indeterminate of the quantum worlds with her characteristic tenderness and grace. Read and be enlivened!” —Will Watkins, PhD, vice president of medicinal chemistry, Gilead Sciences