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Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World by Laszlo, Ervin (2008) Paperback
The shift from scientific materialism to a multidimensional worldview in harmony with the world’s great spiritual traditions
• Articulates humanity’s critical choice--to be the last decade of an outgoing, obsolete world, or the first of a new and viable one
• Presents a new “reality map” to guide us through the environmental, scientific, and geopolitical upheavals we are experiencing
Our world is in a Macroshift. The reality we are experiencing today is a substantially new reality--climate change, global corporations, industrialized agriculture--challenging us to change with our rapidly changing world, lest we perish.
In this book, Ervin Laszlo presents a new “reality map” to guide us through the world shifts we are experiencing--the problems, opportunities, and challenges we face individually as well as collectively--in order to help us understand what we must do during this time of great transition. Science’s cutting edge now views reality as broader, as multiple universes arising in a possibly infinite meta-universe, as well as deeper, extending into dimensions at the subatomic level. Laszlo shows that aspects of human experience that had previously been consigned to the domain of intuition and speculation are now being explored with scientific rigor and urgency. There has been a shift in the materialistic scientific view of reality toward the multidimensional worldview of multiple interconnected realities long known by the world’s great spiritual traditions. By understanding the interconnectedness of our changing world as well as our changing “map” of the world, we can navigate with insight, wisdom, and confidence.
• Articulates humanity’s critical choice--to be the last decade of an outgoing, obsolete world, or the first of a new and viable one
• Presents a new “reality map” to guide us through the environmental, scientific, and geopolitical upheavals we are experiencing
Our world is in a Macroshift. The reality we are experiencing today is a substantially new reality--climate change, global corporations, industrialized agriculture--challenging us to change with our rapidly changing world, lest we perish.
In this book, Ervin Laszlo presents a new “reality map” to guide us through the world shifts we are experiencing--the problems, opportunities, and challenges we face individually as well as collectively--in order to help us understand what we must do during this time of great transition. Science’s cutting edge now views reality as broader, as multiple universes arising in a possibly infinite meta-universe, as well as deeper, extending into dimensions at the subatomic level. Laszlo shows that aspects of human experience that had previously been consigned to the domain of intuition and speculation are now being explored with scientific rigor and urgency. There has been a shift in the materialistic scientific view of reality toward the multidimensional worldview of multiple interconnected realities long known by the world’s great spiritual traditions. By understanding the interconnectedness of our changing world as well as our changing “map” of the world, we can navigate with insight, wisdom, and confidence.
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Ervin Laszlo
229 books224 followersErvin Laszlo is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.
Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is also the recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates.
His appointments have included research grants at Yale and Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems sciences, and future sciences at the Universities of Houston, Portland State, and Indiana, as well as Northwestern University and the State University of New York. His career also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, he worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of both the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy.
Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is also the recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates.
His appointments have included research grants at Yale and Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems sciences, and future sciences at the Universities of Houston, Portland State, and Indiana, as well as Northwestern University and the State University of New York. His career also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, he worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of both the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy.
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July 28, 2011
Lazlo does a great job addressing the macroshifts in sustainability, development, and economics through theoretically outlining those changes, by presenting a different way of introducing that change to society and offering innovative guidance to R&D and science during that process. He scales the macroshifts to a micro level so that they are applicable to the reader.
August 25, 2017
.its kinda disappointing...i was hoping it talking more on the biological evolution trends to social evolutionary trends because I have heard a much better developed theory on it before and wanted to follow up on that
i am not a physic students by all means but I can't help to feel alarmed and feel like he used logic fallacies in his use of numbers and physics to prove his point of unity.. I am extremely alarmed when I see the support of spirituality using a field of science that has not been confirmed and uniformlly agreed...
for example, he jumped from an scientific observed entanglement in quantum particles directly into connectedness of rocks, minds and universe without explanation how the physical laws are transferrable across the different sizes
He's also one of the philosophers examining the self sampling assumption, biasing that our existence is fined tuned and highly improbable and it cannot be come from luck. However, our presence in the sample completely vitiates the computation of the odds. This idea that we are here, that this is the best of all possible worlds,and that evolution did a great job seems rather bogus in the light of the
silent-evidence effect.
The constant appearing of suggestions and conclusions without elaborations worries me ,Despite I intrinsically agree with many of his suggestions, I am alarmed and skeptical. , . .
Also the format of the writting is quite interesting--alot of bulleting paragraphs. . . Not the best fun to read book out there either.You can also tell the author is alittle arrogant through his writting .. i believe alot of writters are since they are wise enough to suggest such creative ideas but showing it through your writting really dosn't help adding patience to read something that's not formatted so well in the first place.
i am not a physic students by all means but I can't help to feel alarmed and feel like he used logic fallacies in his use of numbers and physics to prove his point of unity.. I am extremely alarmed when I see the support of spirituality using a field of science that has not been confirmed and uniformlly agreed...
for example, he jumped from an scientific observed entanglement in quantum particles directly into connectedness of rocks, minds and universe without explanation how the physical laws are transferrable across the different sizes
He's also one of the philosophers examining the self sampling assumption, biasing that our existence is fined tuned and highly improbable and it cannot be come from luck. However, our presence in the sample completely vitiates the computation of the odds. This idea that we are here, that this is the best of all possible worlds,and that evolution did a great job seems rather bogus in the light of the
silent-evidence effect.
The constant appearing of suggestions and conclusions without elaborations worries me ,Despite I intrinsically agree with many of his suggestions, I am alarmed and skeptical. , . .
Also the format of the writting is quite interesting--alot of bulleting paragraphs. . . Not the best fun to read book out there either.You can also tell the author is alittle arrogant through his writting .. i believe alot of writters are since they are wise enough to suggest such creative ideas but showing it through your writting really dosn't help adding patience to read something that's not formatted so well in the first place.
November 17, 2010
I enjoyed this book more than Science and the Akashic Field -- I guess because it spoke to my particular mindset perfectly. We need to change and Dr. Laszlo is herald and World Shift!
September 5, 2024
This book set a solid foundation back when it was published in 2008 and yet much of it is already out of date. It’s good to see where we have come from and what has informed our current theory. I especially appreciated the chapters on coherence and non-local phenomena.
August 9, 2019
Lazlo explains in simple language the concepts of interconnectivity, how society can face these challenges with a positive outcome. This is an enjoyable read.
March 11, 2020
Constructive suggestions towards encouraging a global paradigm shift. Loosely based around systems philosophy, but not really about systems philosophy. A good introductory book.
June 6, 2023
Good read
April 3, 2024
An interesting book but there were a lot of wishful thinking on some parts. A lot of new age thinking.
September 13, 2015
buen ensayo. Pero si habéis leído antes a Capra, Rifkin, Tart o Ken Wilber no os aportará nada nuevo . pocas páginas . Puede estar bien para quién quiera iniciarse en la teoría de sistemas y cuestiones semejantes.
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