Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World

by Ervin Laszlo

"Ervin Laszlo provides the most brilliant, comprehensive, and intellectually satisfying integral theory of everything that I have ever read. . . . His work transcends the vision of Darwin, Newton, Einstein, the quantum pioneers, and many other scientific giants of history." --Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success "Arguably the world's greatest system theorist and interdisciplinary scientist and philosopher, Ervin Laszlo is a multifaceted individual with a range of interests and talents reminiscent of the great figures of the Renaissance. In an intellectual tour de force and a series of books, Laszlo offers a solution to the current paradoxes in Western science that transcends the boundaries of individual disciplines." --Stanislav Grof, author of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science and When the Impossible Happens 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. ERVIN LASZLO, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, is editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution and Chancellor-Designate of the newly formed GlobalShift University. He is the founder and president of the international think tanks the Club of Budapest and the General Evolution Research Group and the author of 83 books translated into 21 languages. He lives in Italy.

Genres: Science, Psychology, Philosophy

192 pages, ebook

First published February 1, 2008

About the author

Ervin 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.

Reviews

[Michael Weaver · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Lindsey Peng · Rating 2 out of 5]

.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.

[Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

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!

[Jennifer Nidalmia · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Karin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lazlo explains in simple language the concepts of interconnectivity, how society can face these challenges with a positive outcome. This is an enjoyable read.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Constructive suggestions towards encouraging a global paradigm shift. Loosely based around systems philosophy, but not really about systems philosophy. A good introductory book.

[Jaimie van den Dungen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read

[Dan Zarfati · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting book but there were a lot of wishful thinking on some parts. A lot of new age thinking.

[Raúl · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.