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

Ervin Laszlo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 9, 2008

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“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 )

"Ervin Laszlo has provided thought provoking information to guide us through this period of transition."
(Kathryn Price, book editor, WomensRadio )

"Our world is undergoing a radical 'macroshift' at the same time as our scientific understanding of reality is revving up for a major paradigm shift. . . . This is truly inspiring stuff!"
(Nexus New Times Magazine )

"This is a book I recommend for those who are interested quantum physics and the meditative state as it is written in a style I was able to understand, considering my strengths are not in science and mathematics."
(Barbara Martin, reviewer, Jan 2009 )

"It is an exciting time to be alive now, during the evolution of the next step of human consciousness, and reading this book created a safe perspective for me 'to be' in the scheme of things."
(Rahasya Poe, Lotus Guide magazine, Issue No. 25, May/June 08 )

"From a scientifcally idealistic point of view, there is something that seems right about this book's advice. . . . From the shifting of political, corporate, and military resources to the planetary ethic, to the latest scientific knowledge, this is a book you wish everyone read."
(Cheznoiu and Kovacs, United Association for Body Psychotherapy, Sep 2008 )

"Whenever I read a book written by a Nobel prize nominee, (peace, in this case, twice) I expect an interesting read. Quantum Shift in the Global Brain did not disappoint, but for rather a surprising reason: the book is a strange juxtaposition of societal and global trends, quantum and chaos physics, and pseudoscience, with wide breadth and bold claims. So, it kept me on my toes."
(Donald N. Petcher, Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, Vol. 61, No. 1, March 2009 )

"Any college-level collection strong in either science or sociology will find this intriguing."
(The Midwest Book Review, June 2008 )

"Laszlo makes a compelling case; his analysis of human populations and resource use provides a good historical basis to his theory that an industrialized way of life is unsustainable. Not merely content to describe the impending apocalypse, he lays out strategies and solutions to help support our survival."
(Witches & Pagans, Feb 2010 )

"The overall message of the book, however unlikely this seems at present, is that humanity is a system capable of rapid transformation. We will soon enough discover whether this is true."
(David Lorimer, The Scientific and Medical Network, March 2010 )

". . . explores how intuition and speculation are now being given scientific rigor and urgency as a multidimensional worldview emerges."
(The Compendium Newsletter, Vol. 38, No. 2, Mar/Apr 2010 )

From the Back Cover

SCIENCE / NEW THOUGHT

“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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Inner Traditions (March 9, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594772339
• ISBN-13: 978-1594772337
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Absolutely Necessary Read, April 9, 2008

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Peter Nixon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Paperback)

As a university student studying topics of sustainability, development, and economics with interests in science and spirituality, this book completely surpassed my expectations. Laszlo--a renowned systems theorist-- synthesizes current research and ideas from all these arenas with his own theories to produce a masterpiece of a work. The book addresses the past, present and future of humanity in a comprehensive and creative way. Laszlo's ideas seem to grow more and more relevant each day as we search for solutions to our growing list of global problems. I recommend this not only to those looking for the newest ideas on world development and what the new scientific paradigm has to offer, but anyone participating in the modern world.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brain waves take on new meaning, September 1, 2008

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Jane Fried "LearningStudent" (Connecticut) - See all my reviews

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Lazlo's writing always leaves me asking for more. He is clear but not simple. He shows connections in places where few others see them. He makes quantum science moderately comprehensible to the lay reader without simplifying things to the point that they become ideology.Lazlo describes a view of reality that makes sense to the modern person with a scientific world view and also restores an idea about the mystery and awe of the universe by moving beyond the conflict between the two. He's also written Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos. If you think the planet is going to Hell in a handbasket- here's another handbasket.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lotus Guide Magazine Review, June 28, 2008

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Rahasya Poe (Chico, CA) - See all my reviews

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Quantum Shift in the Global Brain:

How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World

By Ervin Laszlo

ISBN 1-59477-233-9 (Inner Traditions, 2008)

Within the symbiotic relationship of being a systems theorist, interdisciplinary scientist, and a philosopher, Ervin Laszlo brings into focus the underlying pattern within the chaos that we seemingly find ourselves in during this transformational period. It is an exciting time to be alive now, during the evolution of the next step of human consciousness, and reading this book created a safe perspective for me "to be" in the scheme of things.

Rahasya Poe, Lotus Guide magazine