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The Intelligence of the Cosmos: Why Are We Here?

Nov 16, 2017 | Published Books & Articles

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.

Explains how we can evolve consciously, become connected with each other, and flourish on this planet.

For the outdated mainstream paradigm the world is a giant mechanism functioning in accordance with known and knowable laws and regularities. The new paradigm emerging in science offers a different concept: The world is an interconnected, coherent whole, and it is informed by a cosmic intelligence. We are conscious beings who emerge and co-evolve as complex, cosmic-intelligence in-formed vibrations in the Akashic Field of the universe.

 

 

“From the time when the conscious universe was a preposterous notion to today, when it’s a cutting-edge idea full of promise for your future, Ervin Laszlo has been its staunch champion.”

— Deepak Chopra, author of You Are the Universe

Ervin Laszlo and his collaborators from the forefront of science, cosmology, and spirituality show how the re-discovery of who we are and why we are here integrates seamlessly with the new emerging worldview in the sciences, revealing a way forward for humanity on this planet. Offering a guidepost to orient this evolution, Laszlo examines the nature of consciousness in the universe, showing how our bodies and minds act as transmitters of consciousness from the intelligence of the cosmos and how understanding science’s new concept of the world enables us to re-discover our identity and our purpose in our world.

With bold vision and forward thinking, Laszlo and his contributors Maria Sági, Kingsley L. Dennis, Emanuel Kuntzelman, Dawna Jones, Shamik Desai, Garry Jacobs, and John R. Audette outline the new idea of the world and of ourselves in the world. They help us discover how we can overcome these divisive times and blossom into a new era of peace, coherence, connection, and global wellbeing.

 

Table of Contents 

TITLE PAGE
EPIGRAPH
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD BY JANE GOODALL, Ph. D., DBE

EXCERPT

Who are we? And why are we here? are questions that have preoccupied  humans for thousands of years. Is our universe, including our own little planet, the result of mindless chance? Are we humans simply one more entity that has gradually emerged throughout the long course of evolution on planet Earth? Just one more creature of flesh and blood, albeit one with an unusually  highly developed brain? Or is there more to us than that – a spiritual dimension, a consciousness, that exists independently of our physical body, independently of our brain, though all is intricately connected? Are we the only creature on Earth to question who we are and why we are here, what is the purpose of our lives?

PART ONE: PERENNIAL QUESTIONS AND THE NEW ANSWERS
PART TWO: THE MEANING OF THE NEW ANSWERS FOR OUR LIFE AND TIMES
e. Chapter 8: The New Answers and the Wisdom Traditions
f. Chapter 9: The New Answers — A Meaning for this Life and the Next
i.    Five Personality Types in Humanity’s Search for Meaning
g. Chapter 10: The New Answers and the Challenge
i.     The New Answers and the New Paradigm
ii.    Evidence for the New Answers to the Nature of Consciousness
iii.   The Evolution of Consciousness
iV.   Individuality
AFTERWORD BY JAMES O'DEA

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS

 

BOOKS BY ERVIN LASZLO

 

ABOUT INNER TRADITIONS - BEAR & COMPANY

 

 

BOOKS OF RELATED INTEREST

 

 

COPYRIGHT & PERMISSIONS

 

 

INDEX

 

 

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.

Jane Goodall, famous for her studies of chimpanzees, has established the Gombe Stream Research Centre in Tanzania; founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation; and created the Roots & Shoots program to inspire young people to implement local projects that promote care for animals, the environment, and the human community.

 

 

Reviews

“From the time when the conscious universe was a preposterous notion to today, when it’s a cutting-edge idea full of promise for your future, Ervin Laszlo has been its staunch champion. Now he and his colleagues press the argument with even more urgency and depth. I concur that consciousness must be regarded as the ground state of existence. Only when we begin to see ourselves embedded in a reality where mind, body, ecology, planet Earth, and the cosmos are all expressions of the same consciousness will we truly know who we are.”
― Deepak Chopra, coauthor of You Are the Universe

“Ervin Laszlo is without any doubt one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of our time. His seminal concepts of the Akashic holofield and the connectivity hypothesis represent an extraordinary intellectual achievement that will be seen in the future as a critical landmark in the history of science. Laszlo succeeded in something previously deemed impossible–creating a ‘map of everything’ that dissolves the boundaries between natural sciences, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality. In his latest book, The Intelligence of the Cosmos, Laszlo summarizes in a clear and captivating style his profound understanding of the nature of reality and human nature that has emerged from six decades of his unrelenting search for truth. His work might become the cornerstone of the new comprehensive scientific worldview of the twenty-first century.”

― Stanislav Grof, M.D., author of Beyond the Brain and Psychology of the Future

“Professor Ervin Laszlo, author of the 1987 world-changing classic Evolution: The Grand Synthesis, again gives us a great work for the future, The Intelligence of the Cosmos: Why Are We Here? New Answers from the Frontiers of Science. For the entire past century science has inched steadily toward a synthesis of physics, cosmology, and biology. Increasingly cosmology looks more and more like evolutionary biology, and intelligence is discovered in the tiniest nooks and crannies of the universe. Now comes the bold step in which Laszlo points out the obvious, showing us that the universe is a living intelligent being. This book is science at its most engaging and absolute best!”
― Allan Combs, Ph.D., professor at the California Institute for Integral Studies and author
“In 1897 the French painter Paul Gauguin titled one of his masterpieces Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? The painting ended up in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. But those questions, and many others brilliantly embraced in this remarkable work, The Intelligence of the Cosmos, continue to haunt every aspect of our lives. Ervin Laszlo and colleagues have gently and demonstrably entered a domain of that luminous haunting, that “supercoherence” which they reveal to be rooted to the quintessential mysteries of all life forms: life’s origins, destiny, and seemingly incomprehensible, flickering instant of Being. It is a book like no other and offers a remarkable and hopeful context for better navigating these colossally challenging times—for biodiversity, for humanity, and for something indescribable shaping our entire universe and ourselves. Indeed, this may be the most important book ever written on the subject of consciousness, against the backdrop of a starry night and the alluring earth beneath our feet.”
― Michael Charles Tobias, Ph.D., president of Dancing Star Foundation
“I highly recommend this timely cutting-edge material from Ervin Laszlo, as it brings together science-based evidence in a way to understand the transformational revolution and new insights into consciousness and the evolution of humankind taking place now!”
― Kevin Moore, host of The Moo

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