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.

Ervin Laszlo, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, is editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution and Chancellor-Designate of the newly formed GlobalShift University. He is the founder and president of the international think tanks the Club of Budapest and the General Evolution Research Group and the author of 83 books translated into 21 languages. He lives in Italy.

Introduction: The Reality Revolution


PART ONE
MACROSHIFT IN SOCIETY

1 Evolution or Extinction: That Is the Question

2 Macroshift: The Dynamics

3 The Roots of Unsustainability

4 A Better Way to Grow

5 A New Vision

6 A Planetary Ethic

7 The Culture of Holos

8 Evolution, Not Extinction! A Call from Fiji

PART TWO
PARADIGM SHIFT IN SCIENCE

9 The Cosmic Plenum: The New Fundamental Concept of Reality

10 Nonlocal Coherence: The New Concept of Manifest Reality

11 The Akashic Field: The Newly Rediscovered Concept of Reality

12 Metaphysical, Theological, and Ethical Implications

13 The Next Evolution of Human Consciousness

PART THREE
GLOBALSHIFT IN ACTION: THE CLUB OF BUDAPEST AND ITS INITIATIVES

14 A Brief History of the Club of Budapest
Contributed by Iván Vitányi and Mária Sági

15 Manifesto on Planetary Consciousness

16 Principal Activities of the Club of Budapest

17 Objectives of the GlobalShift University

18 Objectives of the World Wisdom Council

19 Objectives of the International Survey of Emergent Cultures

20 Objectives of the Global Peace Meditation/Prayer Days

Annex: Communication Beyond the Grave--Exploring an Explanation

Bibliography

Index