The Immortal Mind
by Ervin Laszlo (Author)
Evidence now points to consciousness existing beyond the brain, such as when the brain is temporarily incapacitated, as well as to the survival of consciousness after death. Conventional science prefers to dismiss these findings because they cannot be accommodated by a materialist view of reality.
Spirituality and religion embrace the continuity of consciousness and ascribe it to a nonmaterial spirit or soul that is immortal. As such, spirituality/religion and science continually find conflict in their views.
But what if there truly is no conflict? Based on a new scientific paradigm in sync with experience-based spirituality, Ervin Laszlo and Anthony Peake explore how consciousness is continually present in the cosmos and can exist without connection to a living organism.
They examine the rapidly growing body of scientific evidence supporting the continuity of consciousness, including near-death experiences, after-death communication, reincarnation, and neurosensory information received in altered states.
They explain how the persistence of consciousness beyond the demise of the body means that, in essence, we are not mortal—we continue to exist even when our physical existence has come to an end. This correlates precisely with cutting-edge physics, which posits that things in our plane of time and space are not intrinsically real but are manifestations of a hidden dimension where they exist in the form of superstrings, information fields, and energy matrices.
With proof that consciousness is basic to the cosmos and immortal in its deeper, nonmanifest realm, Laszlo and Peake reveal the purpose of consciousness is to manifest in living beings in order to continuously evolve.
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About the Author
Ervin Laszlo is a philosopher and systems scientist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has published more than 75 books and over 400 articles and research papers. The subject of the one-hour PBS special Life of a Modern-Day Genius, Laszlo is the founder and president of the international think tank the Club of Budapest and of the prestigious Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research. The winner of the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize, he lives in Tuscany. In 2019, Ervin Laszlo was cited as one of the “100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World” according to Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.
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Latest Publications
RECONNECTING TO THE SOURCE
Reconnecting to the Source: The New Science of Spiritual Experience, How It Can Change You, and How It Can Transform the World, Audiobook, Audio CD, Kindle & Paperback – March 24, 2020
by Ervin Laszlo (Author), Deepak Chopra (Foreword, Introduction) on St. Martin’s Essentials
RECONNECTING TO THE SOURCE: The New Science of Spiritual Experience, How It Can Change You, and How It Can Transform the World (St. Martin’s Essentials; March 24, 2020) is a powerful new book by ERVIN LASZLO on the science of spiritual experience as a way to our collective salvation. An internationally celebrated figure in the fields of new science, consciousness, and spirituality, Dr. Laszlo presents with this book a groundbreaking message of both theoretical and practical importance.
The Handbook of New Paradigm Research
An institute dedicated to research on what it calls “the new paradigm” should make clear what it means by this term, and how it can be researched. The Handbook of New Paradigm Research will tell you all about it!
The Tuscany Dialogues: The Earth, Our Future, and the Scope of Human Consciousness
(A New Paradigm Book of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research), Kindle & Paperback – June 11, 2019
by Ervin Laszlo (Author), Michael Charles Tobias, Ph.D. (Author)
Two earnest scholars who study human consciousness spend six days in a conversation spanning their areas of knowledge in science, philosophy, and metaphysics to question whether our profound ecological crisis, unique in the life of our planet in its potential for loss of biodiversity and the possibility of actual extinction of our species, can be rectified.
Information Medicine
A look at the future of medicine based on cutting-edge stem cell research.
In this book, Pier Mario Biava, M.D., and Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D., show how this “information” worldview can be applied to healing and medicine and, specifically, how it underlies a revolutionary new approach to cancer and disease treatment, one that works directly with the epigenetic code–the information that programs the function and growth of every living cell.
The Intelligence of the Cosmos: Why Are We Here?
New Answers from the Frontiers of Science, Audiobook, Kindle & Paperback – November 16, 2017
by Ervin Laszlo (Author), Jane Goodall (Foreword), James O’Dea (Afterword)
From the cutting edge of science and living spirituality: a guide to understanding our identity and purpose in the world.
THE LASZLO CHRONICLE
The Laszlo Chronicle: A Global Thinker’s Journey from Systems to Consciousness and the Akashic Field (New Paradigm Book of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research) Hardcover – January 17, 2017
by Györgyi Szabo (Author), Ervin Laszlo (Foreword)
Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Signing of the Manifesto on the Spirit of Planetary Consciousness
Twenty years ago, at the ceremonial Hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a historic event took place with the participation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama: World renowned thought leaders from many parts of the world came together to sign The Manifesto on the Spirit of Planetary Consciousness.
WHAT IS REALITY?
Ervin Laszlo’s tour de force, What is Reality?, is the product of a half-century of deep contemplation and cutting-edge scholarship. Addressing many of the paradoxes that have confounded modern science over the years, it offers 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.
The World According to Laszlo
Gyorgyi’s book provides us, the reader, with a unique inside-look at the life, thinking, and personality of whom many consider the greatest living philosopher of our time.
What Is Consciousness?
What is consciousness? Conventional thinking tells us it is the images, sensations, thoughts, and feelings produced by the brain. When the neurons in the brain stop firing, consciousness ceases to be. But does it?