Lecture on 'The Divine Proportion' at CF

Jan. 17, 2012

The College of Central Florida Humanities and Social Sciences Department will sponsor a free lecture on “The Divine Proportion: a New Renaissance in Science, Art and Spirituality,” in partnership with The Interfaith Alliance of Marion County.

The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 7, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Charles R. Dassance Fine Arts Center at the Ocala Campus, 3001 S.W. College Road.

“A new unified yet very ancient way of looking at nature and reality may help heal the schism between the domains of science and religion,” said Dr. Scott Olsen, CF professor of Philosophy and Religion, who will present the lecture as part of the Sarala Ramkrishna Karve Endowed Chair from the CF Foundation. “Insights into the harmonic numerical patterns behind all phenomena may show the way for solving the most difficult problems in not only physics, biology and aesthetics, but also in the foundations of transformative spiritual experiences.”

Olsen is writing his new book, “Divine Proportion: the Mathematical Perfection of the Universe.” His first book, “The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret,” in which he explored mysteries known to DaVinci, Kepler, Plato and other ancients, was awarded first place for design by the Bookbinder’s Guild of New York in 2007. It is now in eight foreign languages — Greek, Russian, Slovenian, Czech, Norwegian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean — and has resulted in invitations to lecture throughout the world. This visually illustrated talk will serve as both a status report on research findings for his new book as well as the annual meeting lecture of The Interfaith Alliance of Marion County.

For information about the event, email olsens@cf.edu or call 352-854-2322, ext. 1236 or 1295. For more information about TIA, visit www.interfaithalliance.org or email TIAofMarionCountyFL@gmail.com.