A preview of the post-mechanistic, holistic world in 2020 and 2030 as well as a map of the obstacles we must overcome to get there

• Reveals how the youngest generation is seeding the shift in consciousness

• Explains how society will be reorganized into grassroots networks like those revealed by quantum physics and experienced through social media

• With contributions from futurist John L. Petersen, ex-CEO of Sanyo Tomoya Nonaka, media activist Duane Elgin, and other visionaries

The world is changing. The transition from the mechanistic worldview to one that recognizes the interconnectedness of all life is upon us. It is the dawning of the Akashic Age. The Akashic field that connects the universe is now recognized by cutting-edge science. What we know about communication, energy, and consciousness is rapidly evolving in tandem with the new quantum worldview. Many adults are consciously evolving to meet the transitional challenges at hand, while today's youth have arrived already hard-wired with the new consciousness. Rising from the ashes of the old systems, this Phoenix generation of radical change agents is seeding our evolution and spiritual transformation, a process that will continue over the next few decades.

Authors Ervin Laszlo and Kingsley Dennis look at the chief engine of the coming changes--the growing global understanding of nonlocality--and the development of practical applications for it. They examine how the new values and new consciousness taking hold will reorganize society from top-down hierarchies into grassroots networks like those revealed through quantum physics' understanding of energy and information waves and experienced daily by millions through social media.

With contributions from visionary thinkers such as futurist John L. Petersen, ex-CEO of Sanyo Tomoya Nonaka, media activist Duane Elgin, systems scientist Alexander Laszlo, and spiritual economist Charles Eisenstein, this book explores the future of education, spirituality, the media, economics, food, and planetary citizenship as well as the expansion of consciousness necessary to reach that future.

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.

Introduction: Rising to a New Dawn

Part One
Our Path to the Akashic Age

1 How We Became Sapiens
2 What Next?
3 Dilemmas at the Turning Point

Part Two
At the Threshold of the Akashic Age

4 Shifting Our Values and Beliefs
5 The Rise of Quantum Resonance
6 A Closer Look at the Akashic Dawn
7 New Akashic Models

Part Three
The Conscious Advent of the Akashic Age

8 Building the World of 2030
9 The Pillars of a New Consciousness

Part Four
From Vision to Reality: Contributions from the World-Shifting Community

A New Human . . . and a New World
John L. Petersen

The Other Side of the Shift
Nicolya Christi

The Postgrowth Economy
Charles Eisenstein

A New Superpower: An Earth Voice Movement
Duane Elgin

Well-Being and Well-Having
Marco Roveda

Social Acupuncture: How Facilitating Integral Philanthropy Is the Future of Impactful Humanitarianism
Joshua Raymond Frenk and Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk

The Way to the Solar Age
Hazel Henderson

Thrivable Education
Alexander Laszlo and Jean Russell

From the Vantage Point
Scott Noppe-Brandon

The Evolution of Leadership Consciousness through 2020
Jefferson Cann

If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It: What We Can Achieve in 2020
Tomoyo Nonaka

Afterword
Thoughts on the Dawn of the Akashic Age

Notes

Bibliography

Recommended Reading

Index