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The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads Paperback – May 3, 2006

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Breakdown or Breakthrough?

We are at a critical juncture in history, a "decision-window" where we face the danger of global collapse--or the opportunity for global renewal. Written by Ervin Laszlo, the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, The Chaos Point provides a concise overview of the present world situation, showing where we are and how we got here.

According to Laszlo, for the next six to seven years--roughly until the end of 2012--we have the opportunity to head off trends that would lead to a critical tipping point. Beyond this "chaos point," we either evolve to a safer, more sustainable world, or the social, economic, and ecological systems that frame our life become overstressed and break down.

The 2012 chaos point need not be the end of the world, but it will certainly be the end of the kind of world we have created. In todays decision-window, we have a unique chance to break through to a new world. This pioneering book tells us what this new world can look like and how each of us can help to achieve it.

The Chaos Point is a healing book. It not only identifies the nature of the malady every person and every society now suffers from, but offers a cure.

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Hampton Roads Publishing
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May 3, 2006
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6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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1571744851
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hampton Roads Publishing (May 3, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1571744851
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1571744852
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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Elliott C. Maynard

Chaos Point: Unique New Pathways for Transformative Thinking

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2006

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Ervin Laszlo is one of the most brilliant individuals of our times. In "The Chaos Point" he creates a tapestry based on his wealth of experiences in International Leadership and Transformative Thinking...the culmination of his co-evolutionary activities with The Club of Rome, and as Founder of the Club of Budapest. Within this book are contained the essences of Critical Strategies for Transformation within the context of Systems Science, and Chaos Theory. From this Chaos Theory Perspective, Laszlo highlights "Chaos Windows" as transition periods, and "Chaos Points" as Tipping Points - both critical opportunities during which decisive actions by Global Leaders can be disproportionally magnified to effect positive global transformation, which will result in co-evolutionary leaps in the Global Social Consciousness, and shift the balance of powers toward Global Peace and Biospsherical Sustainability. This is a brilliantly crafted book, and represents the cultimation of Laszlo's Life Works and the synthesis of over 20 books, and a wealth of experience in the field of Global Leadership and Social Transformation. Elliott Maynard, Ph.D., President, Arcos Cielos Research Center, Sedona, Arizona, USA, [...]

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Brilliant and Surprisingly Insightful

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2010

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Laszlo is a brilliant physicist, who applies wave theory to better understand major shifts happening in the world. For those of us swamped with "daily news minutia," Dr. Laszlo expands the breadth of our perspective without getting lost in technical jargon.

What I found surprising, but amazingly insightful, was his gradual evolution into "expanded consciousness." We normally think of a physicist as dealing with physical aspects of existence, and not what feels like the "spiritual" domain. Yet, he links them in a way that's clear and supportable. And he illustrates how the changes that are now happening in the world follow the trends he sees.

The new book, "Sustainability: A Personal Journey to a Built Sustainable Community ... and An Amazing Picture of What Life Will Soon Be Like," fits with everything Laszlo explains and foresees ... then adds it's own aspects for translating trends cited by Laszlo and others into what each of us can do - food, clothing, shelter basics - to sustain ... to make it through what will be a difficult transition and enjoy an entirely new style of living ... "sustainable living" ... that will actually be better than anything we've experienced before.

Dr. Laszlo's book is a primer - a "must read" foundation for understanding the changes that are upon us.

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T. Nichols

Had already read book. Bought it for myself.

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2010

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This is a must read for every citizen of the world. The point of change is here and Dr. Laszlo is an inspiration to us all.

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John Jay Harper

***** Chaos in Climate, Culture, Civilization, and Consciousness in 2012 *****

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2006

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Originally "the butterfly effect" was a term ascribed to meteorologist Edward N. Lorenz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He created a fractal theory of chaos to identify self-repeating patterns in weather. What he discovered was that each iteration of the data (wind velocity, temperature, etc.) became more than the linear sum of its parts. They exhibited a creative "non-linear" spontaneous growth aspect that is in fact learning. What this ultimately meant was that we live within an "open biological, thinking system," a cosmos of infinite possibilities, where crises eventually leads to more order--not less--at least some where and some when. In a paper given to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1963, Lorenz said: "One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever." More so, our human mind-body-spirit is a fractal of life force energy that flows through nature via the lens of our DNA.

Ironically, yet in keeping with his basic premise that initial conditions can never determine a final fractal result, by the time he spoke to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1973, the seagull had evolved into a butterfly. Not to ignore that the title of Lorenz's speech itself had transformed into "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?" In brief, the implication of the butterfly effect is that with complex systems such as consciousness within human beings today, with so many unknown variables like our use of weapons of mass manufacturing and destruction, our future world condition is impossible to predict. We can see trends now that are ominous but not the outcomes in advance. And indeed if anything gives me hope today, it is the fact that no fixed futures exist for anything. Read this book --and others like it -- to understand why Terence McKenna projected 2012--December 21, to be exact -- is beyond a doubt the transformation, or "chaos point," in human history, as I do and systems theorist Dr. Laszlo.

In a nutshell, is this why Mayan shamans defined 2012 as the bifurcation of human beings into "galactic human butterflies," the reborn children of the cosmos? Could this idea have something in common with the End-Time "rapture" scenario of the fundamentalists in religions so diverse as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam? You bet it does and I have written and spoken about those similarities extensively for many, many years and am so pleased to see folks like you come to this truth too!!!

Dr. John Jay Harper is author of Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century and the DVD Science of Soul: The End-Time Solar Cycle of Chaos in 2012 A.D.

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We keep on making the same mistakes, never listening, and the 'chaos point' is bound to be reached.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2015

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I bought this book in 2009 and only now am I getting around to review it, I am late with most of my reviews. Had I reviewed it then I would have said many things, but many reviews have been written and I don't desire to duplicate what has been said so many times. It is almost 10 years since this book was written and still the main themes ring true. It is valid now. That we haven't heeded the warnings in books like this demonstrates that we don't listen, we keep on making the same mistakes and the 'chaos point' is bound to be reached.

Y. Yordanov

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Pete B.

How thoughts shape our world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2011

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Marvellous book about how our thoughts shape our world - not sure I buy all the quantum stuff but the psychological points are really well made.

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el_duderino

Essential Read

Reviewed in Germany on June 1, 2018

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Oh my god, read this book and then give it to your friends, children, family. I wish somebody would have given this book to when I was 15.

Laszlo explaines problems and possible scenarios. But not only that, he shows you how we collectively must work together and change our thinking.

Read, read, read :)

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