What is Reality? The New Map of Cosmos, Consciousness, and Existence
Ervin Laszlo’s tour de force explores the paradoxes confounding modern science to offer nothing less than a new paradigm of reality—one in which the cosmos is a seamless whole, informed by a single, coherent consciousness manifest in us all.
by Ervin Laszlo (Author), Deepak Chopra (Foreword), Stanislav Grof (Introduction)
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From the Inside Flap
Ervin Laszlo’s tour de force explores the paradoxes confounding modern science to offer nothing less than a new paradigm of reality—one in which the cosmos is a seamless whole, informed by a single, coherent consciousness manifest in us all. Bringing together science, philosophy, and metaphysics, Laszlo takes aim at conventional thinking about the dichotomies of mind and body, spirit and matter, and being and nonbeing to reveal how we are all part of an infinite cycle of existence unfolding in spacetime and beyond.
About the Author
Dr. Ervin Laszlo is well recognized as the founder of systems philosophy. While at the United Nations, he headed various research programs related to sustainability. His written work has included an extensive amount of promotion and practice of sustainable efforts. He serves as President and Founder of the Club of Budapest, an organization devoted to promoting a new way of thinking for global solidarity. He also serves as the Chairman of the Ervin Laszlo Center for Advanced Study, Chancellor of the Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University, and Editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. Laszlo is a 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 Liszt Ferenc 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. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, and member of the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy. He was awarded the Goi Peace Prize in 2001 and was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2004 and 2005). Laszlo has authored more than seventy books, which have been translated into twenty languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings
From the Back Cover
Ervin Laszlo’s tour de force, What Is Reality? The New Map of Cosmos and Consciousness, is the product of a half century of deep contemplation and cutting-edge scholarship. Laszlo, a renowned systems scientist and integral theorist, presents his concept of the “deep dimension” of reality—one where everything is connected in a seamless, irreducible whole.
By dissolving the boundaries between the study of natural science, the mind, and spirituality, Laszlo makes the case for a realm beyond spacetime, a place he calls the Akashic Holofield. This primordial ground of the cosmos holds all memory and thought in the universe, creating an interconnected and harmonious complex of systems that facilitates unlimited communication and evolution of consciousness among all beings.
What Is Reality? is enriched by insightful commentary from seventeen illustrious thinkers, scientists, and spiritual leaders. With a foreword from best-selling author Deepak Chopra and an introduction from Stanislav Grof, a leading psychiatrist and innovator in the field of transpersonal psychology, What Is Reality? is a groundbreaking look into the paradoxes that have confound modern scientists.