courses and conferences and possibilities for scholars and researchers to spend extended periods as residents in Pari. Peat wrote on the subjects of science, art, and spirituality and proposed the notions of creative suspension and gentle action. He authored or co-authored many books including Synchronicity: The Bridge between Matter and Mind, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos, Turbulent Mirror, Gentle Action, and Pathways of Chance. His most recent book was A Flickering Reality: Cinema and the Nature of Reality. Gentle Action A focus of Peat's recent work was the concept of gentle action. This approach, as envisaged by Peat, emphasizes a certain manner of action that is aimed at creating change in an effective manner. The approach calls for tolerating uncertainty yet suspending action at its onset in order to allow an overall view to emerge. It emphasizes the value of small-scale, iterative actions compared to large, single-step interventions. In his book of the same name, published 2008, Peat points out connections of his approach to earlier concepts, emphasizing the importance of active listening and a similarity to the concept of Wu wei. Peat's gentle action has been cited together with Otto Scharmer's Theory U and Arnold Mindell's worldwork as approaches by which individuals, groups, organisations and communities can deal with complex issues. Learning modules based on Peat's gentle action approach have been put in place, among others, at the University of Minnesota and at Siena Heights University. Books Synchronicity: The marriage of matter and psyche, 2015, Pari Publishing A Flickering Reality: Cinema and the Nature of Reality, 2011, Pari Publishing Synchronicity: Multiple perspectives on meaningful Coincidence (with Lance Storm et al.) 2008, Pari Publishing Gentle Action: Bringing creative change to a turbulent world, 2008, Pari Publishing Pathways of Chance, 2005, Pari Publishing, I sentieri del caso, 2004, Di Renzo Editore, From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century, 2002, Joseph Henry Press, The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind, 2001, Basic Books, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change, 1999, with John Briggs, HarperCollins, 2000 Harper Perennial paperback: In Search of Nikola Tesla, 1997, Ashgrove Publishing, 2002 edition: Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm, 1997, Perseus Books, Glimpsing Reality: Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology, 1996, with Paul Buckley, University of Toronto Press, Blackfoot Physics: A Journey into the Native American Worldview,1995/2002, Phanes