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

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. Cover Image......Page 1 Title Page......Page 3 Dedication......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 7 Introduction: The Reality Revolution......Page 11 Part One: Macroshift in Society......Page 17 1. Evolution or Extinction: That is the Question......Page 18 TWO SCENARIOS......Page 19 IS IT TOO LATE?......Page 24 THE POSITIVE OUTLOOK......Page 25 2. Macroshift: The Dynamics......Page 27 EVOLUTION THROUGH BIFURCATION......Page 29 SOCIAL EVOLUTION THROUGH MACROSHIFTS......Page 33 THE PHASES OF A MACROSHIFT......Page 36 NAVIGATING THE GLOBAL MACROSHIFT......Page 41 A NOTE ON THE GLOBAL CORPORATION......Page 44 IN CONCLUSION......Page 47 CIVIL SOCIETY......Page 49 THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM......Page 51 THE ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM......Page 52 THE CURRENT MODALITY: EXTENSIVE GROWTH......Page 57 A BETTER MODALITY: INTENSIVE GROWTH......Page 58 5. A New Vision......Page 61 SIX PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS MYTHS......Page 66 SHEDDING OUTDATED MYTHS AND BELIEFS......Page 69 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF A TIMELY VISION......Page 71 6. A Planetary Ethic......Page 73 ECOLOGICAL ETHICS: THE FIRST STEP TOWARD A PLANETARY ETHIC......Page 75 REVERENCE FOR NATURAL SYSTEMS......Page 77 THE DERIVATION OF PRACTICAL BEHAVIORAL CODES......Page 80 IN SUMMARY......Page 84 7. The Culture of Holos......Page 86 THE RISE OF A NEW CULTURE......Page 87 8. Evolution, Not Extinction!: A Call from Fiji......Page 92 Part Two: Paradigm in Science......Page 97 9. The Cosmic Plenum: The New Fundamental Concept of Reality......Page 98 10. Nonlocal Coherence: The New Concept of Manifest Reality......Page 106 COHERENCE IN THE DOMAIN OF THE QUANTUM......Page 107 COHERENCE IN THE COSMOS......Page 110 COHERENCE IN THE BIOSPHERE......Page 111 COHERENCE IN THE DOMAIN OF BRAIN AND MIND......Page 114 FIELDS......Page 118 THE AKASHIC FIELD......Page 120 THE NEW METAPHYSICS......Page 122 THE NEW THEOLOGY......Page 126 THE NEW MORALITY......Page 128 13. The Next Evolution of Human Consciousness......Page 132 PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE QUANTUM SHIFT TO TRANSPERSONAL CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 134 Part Three: Global Shift in Action: The Club of Budapest and Its Initiatives......Page 137 14. A Brief History of the Club of Budapest......Page 138 THE CLUB OF BUDAPEST......Page 141 THE NEW REQUIREMENTS OF THOUGHT AND ACTION......Page 143 A CALL FOR CREATIVITY AND DIVERSITY......Page 145 A CALL FOR RESPONSIBILITY......Page 147 A CALL FOR PLANETARY CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 148 16. Principal Activities of the Club of Budapest......Page 150 17. Objectives of the Global Shift University......Page 152 INSTITUTIONAL MISSION AND GOALS......Page 153 18. Objectives of the World Wisdom Council......Page 156 TASK AND MISSION......Page 157 19. Objectives of the International Survey of Emergent Cultures......Page 158 20. Objectives of the Global Peace Meditation/Prayer Days......Page 160 Annex: Communication Beyond the Grave: Exploring an Explanation......Page 162 THE EXPERIENCE......Page 163 THE QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY......Page 166 RELATED EXPERIMENTS......Page 168 WHAT PREVENTS ITC’S RECOGNITION?......Page 171 EXPLORING AN EXPLANATION......Page 174 Bibliography......Page 183 Index......Page 188 Copyright & Permissions......Page 4 Back Cover......Page 196