Akasha Think

Posted: 07/10/2012 8:21 am Huffington Post.

 

Ervin Laszlo

Systems philosopher, integral theorist, concert pianist

"You can't solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that gave rise to the problem" -- Albert Einstein



There is something new on the horizon -- a new kind of thinking. One that could solve the problem -- the entire complex conglomeration of challenges that makes our world unsustainable, intolerant, and prone to violence. This is not thinking out of the blue: It is thinking that has been around for thousands of years. What is new is that it's rediscovered -- of all things, at the cutting edge of the sciences. It is "Akasha think."
In this column with my Akashic "A-team" I will review for you the principal dimensions of Akasha think -- the rediscovered revolutionary concept of life and universe, and freedom, wholeness, and wellbeing. New answers to questions we have all been asking since the beginnings of time.
Adam and Eve, Socrates and Plato, Constantine and the Crusaders, Henry VIII and Pope Clement VII, Hitler and Churchill, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King and Gandhi, yes even now Obama and Romney are giving us answers. Every answer has been given thinking that it is right. Yet with each delivery, the great divides are inexorably forged -- in color, creed, genders and territories. How many answers were really right? Right now, as our precious world cries out because of the collateral damage of all our answers, how many of our answers, your answers, about the economy, education, energy, your health and life, can you be sure are right?
Try Akasha think. Here you get different answers. Find out what they can do for you -- and through you, for the world.
Are you ready? Here is a question that can get you started:
What Is Akasha Consciousness -- For You?
What is Akasha consciousness for you, a dream -- or a nightmare? Or could it be your own deep consciousness -- "re-cognized" for what it really is? Your answer could make a difference -- a difference to you and to the world. See how you resonate with the 16 ideas that hallmark this consciousness.

1. I am part of the world. The world is not outside of me, and I am not outside of the world. The world is in me, and I am in the world.
2. I am part of nature, and nature is part of me. I am what I am in my communication and communion with all living things. I am an irreducible and coherent whole with the web of life on the planet.
3. I am part of society, and society is part of me. I am what I am in my communication and communion with my fellow humans. I am an irreducible and coherent whole with the community of humans on the planet.
4. I am more than a skin-and-bone material organism: my body, and its cells and organs are manifestations of what is truly me: a self-sustaining, self-evolving dynamic system arising, persisting and evolving in interaction with everything around me.
5. I am one of the highest, most evolved manifestations of the drive toward coherence and wholeness in the universe. All systems drive toward coherence and wholeness in interaction with all other systems, and my essence is this cosmic drive. It is the same essence, the same spirit that is inherent in all the things that arise and evolve in nature, whether on this planet or elsewhere in the infinite reaches of space and time.
6. There are no absolute boundaries and divisions in this world, only transition points where one set of relations yields prevalence to another. In me, in this self-maintaining and self-evolving coherence- and wholeness-oriented system, the relations that integrate the cells and organs of my body are prevalent. Beyond my body other relations gain prevalence: those that drive toward coherence and wholeness in society and in nature.
7. The separate identity I attach to other humans and other things is but a convenient convention that facilitates my interaction with them. My family and my community are just as much "me" as the organs of my body. My body and mind, my family and my community, are interacting and interpenetrating, variously prevalent elements in the network of relations that encompasses all things in nature and the human world.
8. The whole gamut of concepts and ideas that separates my identity, or the identity of any person or community, from the identity of other persons and communities are manifestations of this convenient but arbitrary convention. There are only gradients distinguishing individuals from each other and from their environment and no real divisions and boundaries. There are no "others" in the world: We are all living systems and we are all part of each other.
9. Attempting to maintain the system I know as "me" through ruthless competition with the system I know as "you" is a grave mistake: It could damage the integrity of the embracing whole that frames both your life and mine. I cannot preserve my own life and wholeness by damaging that whole, even if damaging a part of it seems to bring me short-term advantage. When I harm you, or anyone else around me, I harm myself.
10. Collaboration, not competition, is the royal road to the wholeness that hallmarks healthy systems in the world. Collaboration calls for empathy and solidarity, and ultimately for love. I do not and cannot love myself if I do not love you and others around me: We are part of the same whole and so are part of each other.
11. The idea of "self-defense," even of "national defense," needs to be rethought. Patriotism if it aims to eliminate adversaries by force, and heroism even in the well-meaning execution of that aim, are mistaken aspirations. A patriot and a hero who brandishes a sword or a gun is an enemy also to himself. Every weapon intended to hurt or kill is a danger to all. Comprehension, conciliation and forgiveness are not signs of weakness; they are signs of courage.
12. "The good" for me and for every person in the world is not the possession and accumulation of personal wealth. Wealth, in money or in any material resource, is but a means for maintaining myself in my environment. As exclusively mine, it commandeers part of the resources that all things need to share if they are to live and to thrive. Exclusive wealth is a threat to all people in the human community. And because I am a part of this community, in the final count it is a threat also to me, and to all who hold it.
13. Beyond the sacred whole we recognize as the world in its totality, only life and its development have what philosophers call intrinsic value; all other things have merely instrumental value: value insofar as they add to or enhance intrinsic value. Material things in the world, and the energies and substances they harbor or generate, have value only if and insofar they contribute to life and wellbeing in the web of life on this Earth.
14. The true measure of my accomplishment and excellence is my readiness to give. Not the amount of what I give is the measure of my accomplishment and excellence, but the relation between what I give, and what my family and I need to live and to thrive.
15. Every healthy person has pleasure in giving: It is a higher pleasure than having. I am healthy and whole when I value giving over having. A community that values giving over having is a community of healthy people, oriented toward thriving through empathy, solidarity, and love among its members. Sharing enhances the community of life, while possessing and accumulating creates demarcation, invites competition, and fuels envy. The share-society is the norm for all the communities of life on the planet; the have-society is typical only of modern-day humanity, and it is an aberration.
16. I recognize the aberration of modern-day humanity from the universal norm of coherence in the world, acknowledge my role in having perpetrated it, and pledge my commitment to restoring wholeness and coherence by becoming whole myself: whole in my thinking and acting -- in my consciousness.

If you had an "aha experience" while reading even just one of these ideas, you have the foundations of Akashic consciousness. And if you had this experience all the way through, you already possess this crucial consciousness.
How did you resonate with what you have read? Tell us -- and we shall do our best to respond.
Your A-team:
Charlie Stuart Gay, Györgyi Szabo, Kingsley Dennis, Alexander Laszlo, and Ibolya Kapta
Ervin Laszlo is the author of 89 books published in 24 languages, including his bestselling Science and the Akashic Field. His latest book is The Akasha Paradigm, just released on the Internet: http://www.akashaparadigm.com/
      
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Filling this need and responding to this demand calls for expert, informed, down-to-earth and at the same time visionary education. It calls for a curriculum that embraces all the facts and events, whether they belong classically to the physical, the biological, or to the human and social sciences. We live on a shared planet: on Spaceship Earth, and everything that happens here affects every one of us. And every one of us is an architect of the future of humankind, for what each of us does affects, and so concerns, everyone else.
The recognition of our interdependent present and shared future calls for an evolved sense of responsibility, for a better, more life- and evolution- adapted consciousness. It is the purpose of the Giordano Bruno University to make this kind of education available to young people wherever they live on the five continents.

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About Dr. Ervin Laszlo

Ervin Laszlo is the author or editor of sixty-nine books translated into as many as nineteen languages, and has over four hundred articles and research papers and six volumes of piano recordings to his credit. He serves as editor of the monthly World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution and of its associated General Evolution Studies book series.

Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, serving as founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is the 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 Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. His numerous 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. His career has also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, Laszlo worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics. Laszlo serves as president of the Club of Budapest and head of the General Evolution Research Group, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of both the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy. He is the former president of the International Society for Systems Sciences. http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/bios/ervin-laszlo.asp

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The native form of this personal name is László Ervin. This article uses the Western name order.

Ervin László (born 12 May 1932 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist. He has published about 75 books and over 400 papers, and is editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution. He underscores the importance of developing a holistic perspective on the world and man, an outlook he refers to as "quantum consciousness".^[1] In addition to his many writings, Laszlo has also recorded several piano concertos.

Contents  [hide]  1 Life 2 Work 2.1 Akashic Field Theory 2.2 Macroshift Theory 2.3 Global shift University 2.4 Autobiography 3 Honors 4 Publications 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Life

László, son of a shoe manufacturer and a mother who played the piano, started playing the piano when he was five years old, and gave his first piano concert with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine. At the end of the war he came to the United States.^[2]
László married Carita Jägerhorn af Spurila 16 November 1956. One of their two sons is Alexander Laszlo.

[edit] Work

In 1984, he was co-founder with Béla H. Bánáthy, Riane Eisler, John Corliss, Francisco Varela, Vilmos Csanyi, Gyorgy Kampis, David Loye, Jonathan Schull and Eric Chaisson of the initially secret General Evolutionary Research Group.^[3][4] Meeting behind the Iron Curtain, the group of scientists and thinkers from a variety of disciplines met in secret. Given the mounting threat to the human species caused by rapid proliferation of nuclear weapons and potential overkill, their goal was to explore whether it might be possible to use the chaos theory to identify a new general theory of evolution that might serve as a path to a better world.
In 1993, in response to his experience with the Club of Rome, he founded the Club of Budapest to, in his words, "centre attention on the evolution of human values and consciousness as the crucial factors in changing course — from a race towards degradation, polarization and disaster to a rethinking of values and priorities so as to navigate today's transformation in the direction of humanism, ethics and global sustainability".^[5]
In an essay, Stan Grof compared László's work to that of Ken Wilber, saying "Where Wilber outlined what an integral theory of everything should look like, Laszlo actually created one."^[6] Jennifer Gidley, President of the World Futures Studies Federation, is a researcher in the areas of futures studies, integral theory and spiritual evolution, which she refers to as evolution of consciousness. In an in-depth study of integral theorists she made the following claim:

A major distinction appears to be that László (2007)^[7] builds his general evolution theory in a more formal, systematic manner. He claims that he built significantly on the theoretical traditions of Whitehead’s process theory, Bertalanffy’s general system theory and Prigogine’s non-linearly bifurcating dissipative structures (p. 164). Wilber’s process appears to have been much broader and more diverse—but perhaps less systematic—gathering together as many theorists in as many fields of knowledge as he could imagine, then arranging them according to the system that he developed—which he calls an integral operating system (Wilber, 2004).^[8] Another difference is that although they both appear to use imagination and intuition in the construction of their theoretical approaches, Wilber does not make this explicit whereas László (2007, p. 162) does.^[9]

Ervin László is a Visiting Faculty member at The Graduate Institute Bethany.

[edit] Akashic Field Theory

László's 2004 book, Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything posits a field of information as the substance of the cosmos. Using the Sanskrit and Vedic term for "space", Akasha, he calls this information field the "Akashic field" or "A-field". He posits that the "quantum vacuum" (see Vacuum state) is the fundamental energy and information-carrying field that informs not just the current universe, but all universes past and present (collectively, the "Metaverse").
László describes how such an informational field can explain why our universe appears to be fine-tuned as to form galaxies and conscious lifeforms; and why evolution is an informed, not random, process. He believes that the hypothesis solves several problems that emerge from quantum physics, especially nonlocality and quantum entanglement.
Gidley's research also discusses László's Akashic Field theory, including a three page hermeneutic analysis of his theory compared to the similar theories a century ago of Rudolf Steiner.

Some of the terms Steiner used to characterize his spiritual-scientific methodology, such as cosmic memory and Akashic record, are currently being reintroduced into the scientific discourse by László...^[10]

[edit] Macroshift Theory

László stated in his book You Can Change the World that there is global choice for the coming world crisis, which could come in the form of a global breakdown centred on increasing fragmentation of economic inequality and a new arms race between rising powers. The other choice would be a global breakthrough led by international organizations. This would be by the linking of non-government organizations promoting sustainable development, using the Internet.^[11]
A Macroshift is defined as a popular movement to turn the tide from a global breakdown to a global breakthrough. László sees the years 2012-2020 as a critical period to change course as the coming crisis is taking shape in geopolitical current.

[edit] Global shift University

His latest project created a university based on integral teaching. Among the schools Laszlo established at Giordano Bruno University are

• Philosophy and Religion (BA in Psychology, with an MA in Religious Studies)
• Government and Communication (BA in International Relations, with an MS in Human Rights)
• Economics, Administration, and Sustainability (BS in Business Administration, with an MS in International Business)
• Arts and Culture (BA/MS in Art History, BA in Education)

The university also offers high-school certification and continuing education. Its goal is to creating change accelerators, which he defines as coalescing agents for social action and cultural awareness.

[edit] Autobiography

László has written an autobiography entitled Simply Genius! And Other Tales from my Life, published by Hay House Publishers in June 2011.^[12]

[edit] Honors

In 2002, László received honorary doctorate^[13] from the University of Pécs. Ervin László participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2006. In 2010, Laszlo was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In Hungary, the minister of environment appointed Laszlo as one of the leaders of the ministry's campaign concerning global warming.^[14]

[edit] Publications

Recent works, a selection

• The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Hampton Press, 1996)
• The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science (Element Books, Ltd., 1996)
• Evolution: The General Theory (Hampton Press, 1996)
• The Connectivity Hypothesis: Foundations of an Integral Science of Quantum, Cosmos, Life, and Consciousness (State University of New York Press, 2003)
• You Can Change the World: The Global Citizen's Handbook for Living on Planet Earth: A Report of the Club of Budapest (Select Books, 2003)
• Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything (Inner Traditions International, 2004)
• Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos : The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality (Inner Traditions, 2006)
• The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads (Hampton Roads, 2006)
• Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and our World [Rochester VT: Inner Traditions, 2008]
• WorldShift 2012: Making Green Business New Politics & Higher Consciousness Work Together (McArthur & Company, 2009)

[edit] References

1. ^ Cosmic Symphony: A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness
2. ^ Article "Hungarian prodigy" in: LIFE 24 mei 1948. p.132-134.
3. ^ Bela H. Bánáthy (2002-06). "Autoiography: Béla H. Bánáthy". http://www.whitestag.org/history/founders/bio_bela.html. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
4. ^ "The General Evolution Research Group". http://www.thedarwinproject.com/gerg/gerg.html. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
5. ^ László, Ervin (2004). Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions. p. 176.
6. ^ Grof, "A Brief History of Transpersonal Psychology", 14
7. ^ László, E. (2007). Science and the Akashic Field: An integral theory of everything. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions.
8. ^ Wilber, K. (2004). Introduction to integral theory and practice: IOS basic and the AQAL map. Retrieved January 5, 2005, from http://www.integralnaked.org
9. ^ Gidley, J. The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative: An Integration of Integral Views, Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research and Praxis, 2007, Issue 5, p. 18.]
10. ^ Gidley, J. The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative: An Integration of Integral Views, Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research and Praxis, 2007, Issue 5, pp. 29-31.]
11. ^ "You Can Change the World" By Ervin Laszlo, Contributor Mikhail Gorbachev, SelectBooks, Inc., 2004, ISBN 1-59079-057-X, pg. 14-16
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14. ^ Minister Imre Szabó asks Ervin László to participate in the campaign against climate change, July 25, 2008

[edit] External links

• ervinlaszlo.com - The personal site of Ervin Laszlo
• Club of Budapest
• Next Ervin Laszlo Convention - from 13 to 20 April 2008 -
• Stock Exchange Of Visions: Visions of Ervin László (Video Interviews)
• Ervin Laszlo MP3 audio - Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything from The Great Rethinking: Oxford, sponsored by The Prophets Conference
• www.giordanobrunouniversity.com founded by Ervin László
• World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution (info)
• WorldShift 2012
• http://www.glntv.tv/dgnetworks/archive/TyVCRSVFNiVCMw==/Ervin-Laszlo---Birth-of-the-Akasha-Paradigm The Life and Career of Dr. Ervin Laszlo interviewed by David William Gibbons December 2011 (http://www.davidgibbons.org/id247.html)

[show] v t e International Society for the Systems Sciences Presidents Russell Ackoff (1987-88) Ilya Prigogine (1988) Charles West Churchman (1989) Len Troncale (1990) Howard Odum (1991) Ian Mitroff (1992) Harold Linstone (1993) J. Donald R. de Raadt (1994) Ervin László (1995) Yong Pil Rhee (1996) G. A. Swanson (1997) Béla A. Bánáthy (1998) Peter A. Corning (1999) Harold G. Nelson (2000) Michael C. Jackson (2001) Alexander Christakis (2002) Kenneth D. Bailey (2003) Enrique Herrscher (2004-2005) Debora Hammond (2005-2006) Kyoichi Kijima (2006-2007) Gary Metcalf (2007-2008) Timothy Allen (2008-2009) Allenna Leonard (2009-2010) Jennifer Wilby (2010-2011) David Ing (2011-2012) Society for General Systems Research Presidents

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