Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World Paperback – Illustrated, February 19, 2019

This easy read of a book describes well not only the unique nature flow states or 'peak experience' but how to propel yourself into such flow states at any time in daily life and what that means for crafting your own successful and desirable future. It also delves into how futures of different people may converge or collide depending on the nature of such flow states and how that might alter your perception of yourself and others in the grand scheme of culture and nature. Not to mention how it intrinsically involves chaos theory but demystifies it without even explicitly naming it! I devoured this book, and so will you.

Building Symbolic Momentum; "The beliefs we act upon influence the types of experiences that flow into our lives." There are people I REALLY want to share this book with. I've got people in my extended network that seem to prefer the "woo woo" interpretation of synchronicity. You know, the people who think the "law of attraction' merely means thinking about or meditating on a particular outcome and then the universe magically brings it to you. I'm glad the book has diagrams illustrating the parallel outcomes to any event. Most people can make similar associations with their actions, but I don't think many people think of them as paths of systemic choices. The greatest tragedy of a book like this is that it does straddle the line of "Self Help" while being a little inaccessible to certain audience groups. Most people who are looking for frameworks to help explain fairly subjective phenomena are reading books like "The Secret". He brings up a mix of cultural worldviews, including Buddist and Taoist traditions as well as Christian, and Muslim while still being a rational physicist with a deep appreciation of Richard Feynman. I like the author's personal accounts of the different variable phenomena. This novel feels just as intellectual as it does emotional which alone is a challenging feat considering his scientific approach. The fact he was able to tie all of this into a compelling emotional narrative with tidbits from his life helps make it a real gem.

Honestly, though this book is pretty well written and easy to follow, it's scientific rigor leaves a lot to be desired. That wouldn't normally bother me in a spiritual book, but the author specifically touts himself as a scientist and his work as scientifically based. It's not. Many of his premises are unfounded and his logic is often lacking.That being said, his lack of scientific rigor doesn't take away from the validity of his theories or the testability of his proposed experiments. Many of his assertions are falsifiable if you test them within the laboratory of your own mind.

Every once in a while a book comes along that is able to skillfully bridge two typically separate fields. I can’t think of a book that has bridged science and spirituality as beautifully as Living in Flow since Fritjof Capra’s Tao of Physics, which was publish in 1975. What sets this work apart is how carefully Nelson-Isaacs lays out his reasoning and explanations about idea that can so easily be exaggerate, on the one hand, or quickly dismissed, on the other. From the start, he is clear about what his theory of flow encompasses and what it doesn’t. And from there he begins to incorporate the often ignored aspect of subjective experience into his argument. This is necessary because the one of the differences between synchronicity and mere coincidence, as anyone who has experienced both knows, is that true synchronicities feel meaningful. Meaningfulness alone is not sufficient to consider an event a synchronicity, but it is a necessary component.After a thorough discussion of how the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics plays out in the realm of everyday experience, Nelson-Isaacs goes beyond the theoretical to talk about how we can put these insights into practice in our own lives. This is not just intellectual gymnastics. It is a carefully reasoned manifesto on living in alignment with the universe and why, when we act boldly in the direction of our dreams, events tend to conspire to help us in unexpected and wonderful ways.

The Law of Attraction says that our thoughts and consciousness create 100 percent of our reality. It is a belief system that began rooted in the mechanistic science of more than a century ago. Most writers updating the Law of Attraction using quantum physics cheery pick the science to prop up the same conclusions reached long ago. You think your way into illness and tragedy. Sky Nelson-Isaacs does something radically different with his new book Living in Flow. With an advanced degree in physics he starts with the science to see what it will support in terms of the role of human consciousness in the universe. His conclusions are fresh and inspiring. We don’t, he writes, create everything in our lives but our passionate belief and action can shift probabilities in our favor. It doesn’t work all the time, but it is remarkable that it can work. Sky is also humble enough to admit he doesn’t have all the answers, is open to changing his views and continuing to explore. That in itself is a treasure in this field all too often dominated by those who endlessly recycle old truisms. Allow your mind to be opened by this remarkable book, that teaches you how to align with synchronicities, or flow, as Sky calls it, to live a more harmonious and fulfilling life.

Não recomendaria o livro. Achei uma leitura muito complexa e houve a tentativa de dar uma explicação científica para a sincronicidade como calcular eventos. A sincronicidade é uma percepção de eventos significativos. Não recomendo o livro. No que tange a física quântica o livro abordou teorias que já foram demonstradas por muitos físicos para explicar o momentum

I am a fan of Sky and he has not let me down with this new book. He explains synchronicity well enough for anyone to understand and to continue reading.