Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1599

Carbon of a letter to Edmund W. Sinnott, 459 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut

October 17, 1956

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Sinnott:

 

     Your letter of a month or more ago was very kind.

     I am sure that increasing numbers in physical and biological science will follow your magnificent lead. A case in point is Dr. John J. Grebe, Director of Physical Research, Dow Chemical Corporation, whom you have (as I presume you know) so greatly inspired.

     His visual diagram is a marvelous synthesis of the entire cosmic field accessible to the mind of man — throughout the whole range of his possible objective experience of it and of his subjective consciousness and understanding of it, as he is now constituted. And what is philosophy, ultimately, but the rational syn­thesizing of all the sciences that are now – and are to be?

     I intended mentioning to you, but think I did not, that there is coming soon off the press a serious attempt by me to synthesize in a similar manner under one basic conception the natural sciences of environment and the sciences of man, including religion (as inspiration) and the inspirational arts. Dr. Grebe employs the term “cycle” as the common character of all phenomena. In a similar way, I have used “event.”

     I am sending you preliminary unrevised proofs (sixteen galleys) from the Yale Printing Office, in the hope that you may find them interesting — and pos­sibly make some comment and suggestion of great value to me. I hope in a few months to present to you the complete volume in much more perfect and presentable form.

     I hope you are enjoying your retirement and wish you many long years of creative thought and happy adven­ture in it.

Sincerely,

SH/m