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

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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.

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.

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

Our world is in Macroshift and modern reality is challenging us to adjust to new, rapid changes. QUANTUM SHIFT IN THE GLOBAL BRAIN discusses these changes, presenting a different kind of guidance to the changes science and discovery are introducing to individuals and society alike. Science shifts are here related to worldview and values shifts, with chapters discussing the maximum code, manifest reality and more. Any college-level collection strong in either science or sociology will find this intriguing.

Quantum Shift in the Global Brain is another effort from the author of Science and the Akashic Field, one of many ideas about what David Bohm referred to as the implicate order of the universe. Ervin Laszlo's version of what some call The Matrix or the Zero Point Field is the Akashic Field. In Quantum Shift in the Global Brain Laszlo brings together multiple ideas from globalization to climate change and sets them in the context of his version of entanglement. (page 85) "Scientists now know ... that particles are entangled - nonlocally connected - with each other throughout space: they have a prior unity that is active and manifest. Living things of all kinds are nonlocally connected throughout the biosphere; theirs is a subtle connection that is likewise active and real, although we have only recently discovered it."

More accessible than Science and the Akashic Field, this book is highly thought-provoking; it brings together scientific and religious knowledge towards an idea that Laszlo dubbs (page 125) "a Holos-civilization" - "a civilization based on empathy, trust and solidarity".

At a time when atheists and theists seem increasingly to be talking past one another, Laszlo sets out some very constructive ideas for integration around the vested interest that we all have in preserving and better understanding the holistic environment that we inhabit. It is encouraging that intellectuals such as Laszlo are continuing the Bohm tradition of looking for harmony where others see conflict. A very good read.

The author stands to be criticized in the traditional way that religionists hold disrespect for "humanists" for their inability to utter the G word in any thought or word they write.
The book represents the author as a philosopher, someone who we should respect for his knowledge and careful research, but unfortunately the author has either not done adequate research or does not care to share the results of it with us in his book.

The closest he comes to even touching the subject he has decided to write about, the quantum shift and the global brain, was passing mention of the name Aurobindo, an avatar from India who wrote "The life divine" which the author does not tell us. Aurobindo was the earliest scholar/mystic short of Revelations to give serious attention to the idea that we would have a New Earth, a new human species and a new global consciousness for all of mankind that would bring DRAMATIC changes for the human race. From that point on he does not mention a single meaningful person whose writing is key to the history of the quantum shift of consciousness and he also does not ever attempt to really describe what that shift will entail. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a champion of similar early ideas to Aurobindo, he was totally ignored in the book. The energies that will bring about the changes came in waves every ten years starting in the late sixties. The Gildas communications were the first to give a detailed description in 1968 and was not mentioned. James Hurtak and Ken Carey were the next to come forward in the late seventies and neither of them were mentioned and a whole bevy of writers in the late eighties and early nineties were also totally ignored as were any other significant authors after that. In short the author appears to be totally unaware of the history of the subject he has chosen or even what the tenets are. Those people he chooses to mention are very poor examples.

The meandering tidbits that we are offered might be intellectually interesting to some but totally miss the point of the subject at hand as described by the title of the book. When making passing reference to the quantum shift he only mentions Margaret Mead--very much off the mark. Bible thumpers would probably be tempted to characterize this disinformation with a remark like "satanic sludge." It certainly doesn't appear to serve any useful purpose other than cashing in on the 2012 marketing frenzy that many publishers are currently engaged in. There are dozens of similar books flooding the market to which these remarks would equally apply.

This treatment does not honor the sacred nature of the event and honor All That Is as the source of the initiative which is more than a little disrespectful to say the least. It is also not the least bit useful in giving the population a basic information that will help them prepare for the changes physically, emotionally and spiritually.

So if you think of yourself as humanist and don't want to be offended by a religious sounding thought give this book a try, I am sure you will not be disappointed and that you will be able to fill your mind with the idle speculations of a gentleman who does not yet understand the inner workings of the dramatic changes that are upon us. Perhaps he could start with an honest title for his book and a search for the deeper meaning of humility, an understanding of the magnitude of scholarship needed and the will to do something constructive about it before he does any more damage.

But if you think of yourself as an undiminished being ready to absorb and bathe yourself in the undiluted inner teachings of a master prophet, I suggest you reread the core works of Ken Carey like Starseed Transmissions, Vision, and Third Millennium and feel your heart chakra open to the wisdom that surrounds you.

I normally wouldn't review a book that I didn't finish. But there were so few negative reviews for this I felt I had to balance it out. If you like reading pseudo-science written by someone who has a very shallow understanding of concepts from theoretical physics and then makes all kinds of ungrounded speculations about them this is the book for you. Otherwise don't waste your money.