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Reconnecting to The Source: The New Science of Spiritual Experience, How It Can Change You, and How It Can Transform the World
Renowned authority on science and philosophy Dr. Ervin Laszlo explores the implications of the new quantum sciences to move beyond the of limits of reality as we know it--and find our way again in our "in-formed," purposively evolving universe.
Reconnecting to the Source is a powerful new book on the science of spiritual experience by Dr. Ervin Laszlo. A well-known figure in the fields of new science, consciousness, and spirituality, Dr. Laszlo has inspired some of today's most important figures in science and philosophy. In Reconnecting to the Source he unpacks the science behind spiritual experience, investigating the ways in which we can access realms of experience beyond the everyday. It is in these moments, when our conscious minds are in contact or perhaps even overridden by our unconscious selves, that we can explore the depths of spiritual meaning.
In addition to a foreword by Deepak Chopra, the book includes new, never before published contributions from a long list of well-known writers and public figures--including Jane Goodall, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Zhi-Gang Sha, Gregg Braden, and many more. Each contributor has written about a unique spiritual experience of their own, sharing moments in their lives that are outside of the boundaries of the usual and reflecting on the importance of these moments.
This revolutionary and powerful book will challenge you to reconsider the boundaries of our own experience and change how we look at the world around us. It is a unique, never before available resource for people who want to know how they can consciously align with the forces and "attractors" that governs the universe, and brought us, living, conscious people on the scene in the great processes of evolution that unfold here on Earth.
Reconnecting to the Source is a powerful new book on the science of spiritual experience by Dr. Ervin Laszlo. A well-known figure in the fields of new science, consciousness, and spirituality, Dr. Laszlo has inspired some of today's most important figures in science and philosophy. In Reconnecting to the Source he unpacks the science behind spiritual experience, investigating the ways in which we can access realms of experience beyond the everyday. It is in these moments, when our conscious minds are in contact or perhaps even overridden by our unconscious selves, that we can explore the depths of spiritual meaning.
In addition to a foreword by Deepak Chopra, the book includes new, never before published contributions from a long list of well-known writers and public figures--including Jane Goodall, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Zhi-Gang Sha, Gregg Braden, and many more. Each contributor has written about a unique spiritual experience of their own, sharing moments in their lives that are outside of the boundaries of the usual and reflecting on the importance of these moments.
This revolutionary and powerful book will challenge you to reconsider the boundaries of our own experience and change how we look at the world around us. It is a unique, never before available resource for people who want to know how they can consciously align with the forces and "attractors" that governs the universe, and brought us, living, conscious people on the scene in the great processes of evolution that unfold here on Earth.
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Ervin Laszlo
232 books220 followersErvin Laszlo is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.
Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is also 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. Additional 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 also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, he worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, 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.
Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is also 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. Additional 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 also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, he worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, 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.
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Review by Philip Comella, Author, The Collapse of Materialism: Visions of Science, Dreams of God
Reconnecting to the Source:
The New Science of Spiritual Experience, How it Can Change You, and How it Can Transform the World
by
Erwin Laszlo
As the world goes by, we continually scan the images it presents. But unlike a normal scanner – or video camera – the scanner itself evolves. The world goes by, like a deep, sprawling novel, that we constantly read while pondering its meaning. The years go by. The more we observe, the deeper our understanding of the purpose behind the story.
The world goes by, awareness increases. But awareness itself is a two-ended flashlight: it lights the way outward in observing the world and then lights the way inward as we rise to a better understanding of our self, the observer.
Along the way, the inner-directed light searches deeper, reaching for a fuller understanding of the self. We perceive a world in motion while our minds are making a different movement. One movement is physical, the other spiritual, as this inner movement shines the light brighter upon the physical world and makes its meaning clearer.
As observers of the external world, we are always interpreting events through a lens that is constantly being buffed cleaner: but this task, as might be evident, is only carried out by those ready to be open-minded about what they perceive. Here, a suitable image is of a mountain climb, with the peak signifying True Knowledge: as we go up the mountain, we learn as we climb, giving an account of our progress upward; but this account says something both about the climb and climber..
Modern, materialistic science is like a scanner going up the mountain but locked into a distorted lens that assumes the moving picture across the screen is nothing more than pixels, particles in motion. The materialistic mind separates the perception from consciousness, describes the laws by which the movements occur, but then remains silent on the forces organizing the perception.
Against materialistic science, this worldview where only things are real, is the age-old (or perennial) wisdom holding that somehow, somewhere, there is a unified ground of being, a Source from which all things derive.
Through the ages, people give this Source different names, God, Brahman, Cosmic Mind, Akashic Field, the Morphic Field, but the entity is the same: it is a force unifying and organizing what we perceive as the physical world. Seeking to give this field more of a scientific bent, some observers call it the Quantum Field, the Zero-Point Energy Field, or any other of many names.
We rely chiefly on scientists, religious leaders, and philosophers to narrate the story of life. They tell us what is really going on when we perceive movements in the physical world, whether these movements are a march on Washington, D.C., a solar eclipse, the shape of a spiral galaxy, a school shooting, or a political election.
But they narrate while taking part in the story, and do not know the author’s true plot. They tell the story from their perspectives as they move gradually up the mountain of understanding.
From the broadest perspective, materialistic scientists take the lead in presenting the world’s storyline. They tell stories of where the world came from (Big Bang); how life arose (an old swamp); how matter got mass (Higgs field); why the universe hangs in gravitational balance (dark matter); and the purpose to life (there is none in the eyes of materialists).
Along the way we come across a narrator with an open-minded quest to understand and to buff the lens of perception. And perhaps no one has provided a broader and richer perspective on the world over the last half-century than Ervin Laszlo. Twice nominated for the Nobel peace prize and author of 90 books and 400 papers, Laszlo tells a story reaching beyond the confining theories of scientific materialism. This view of the world, it may be noted, seeks to explain the universe as the outcome of the random interaction of impersonal particles and forces. But anyone looking critically at these theories, which somehow continue to dominate the universities and our modern culture, will soon discover that materialism has no explanation for the unquestionable order and fine-tuning of the universe, it guesses wildly at the origin of life, assumes the creation of matter in the Big Bang and simply ignores the entire fields of spirituality and parapsychology. Materialists cannot account for countless reported experiences, from near-death experiences to spontaneous healing and religious awakenings, and therefore write them all of as impossible, not because they did not occur but under their current theories, cannot occur.
So the challenge for the thinker of the “new age” is to account for the observations of science while incorporating the fields of spiritual and parapsychology, and then, when that is done, finally face the Big Question: what is the source of coherence in the physical world?
Laszlo’s newest book, Reconnecting to the Source: The New Science of Spiritual Experience, How it Can Change You, and How it Can Transform the World, contains a spiritual “bouquet” of first-hand revelatory experiences from a “who’s who” list of leading thinkers, including Lynne McTaggert, Barbara Max Hubbard, Dean Radin, Jean Houston, and Kinsley Dennis, bookended by an accessible account of Laszlo’s core thesis. This thesis is that the world is an “’in-formed’ quantum system consisting of clusters of in-formed energy.” In other words, an intelligence permeates the physical world, joining it into a coherent system and driving it toward higher levels of complexity and self-awareness. At the vortex of the physical world is something Laszlo calls the holotropic attractor, the name he uses for the organizing force to the cosmos. (As he explains, “holos” is Greek for whole, and “tropic” means “tendency or orientation toward” a particular state or condition. ). “The holotropic attractor,” he writes, “is a subtle but fundamental disposition or drive affecting systems in space and time.” Further, “it is logical to assume that there is an order creating factor in the process of evolution, and that this factor is not extraneous to the natural world. The driver of evolution is plausibly its ‘in-formation.’”
As Laszlo notes, this attractor is in the tradition of similar ethereal forces such as Henri Bergson’s elan vital, the Eastern “prana”, or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s syntony. But names may not be important here. Laszlo’s holotropic attractor is offered as the missing hypothesis to materialism’s theories, which suffer from the fatal flaw of lacking an organizing force. In place of this force, we get only hand-waving and intellectual intimidation from the scientific establishment, as if a gaping hole in a scientific theory can long be hidden by dodges and feints.
However one may criticize the name or the actual mechanism through which the holotropic attractor works, one cannot argue that modern scientific theory needs an organizing force, and Laszlo here shows he is not afraid to venture where others may fear to tread, toward filling the holes in modern scientific theory
Meanwhile, the contributors add remarkable real-life spiritual experiences and synchronicities of the sort that should make the reader stand back and confront the recurring thought that “something is going on here.” One such story is given by Dean Radin, who writes how in 2000 he was searching for office space in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot com era and, considering the sky-high office prices, was left with only one choice, in Los Altos. As he was moving into the office, he found there was another business in the office suites call PsiQuest, Inc. At first thinking the business meant “personnel service investigations” he then learned that indeed, this business conducted parapsychology research. One day he walked in to say hello, and the person behind the desk recognized him, and sat dumbfounded; Radin learned the person at PsiQuest was at that very moment engaged in the Tibetan dream practice for the purpose of manifesting a leader in the field to appear – Dean Radin.
If a Source exists, then we must necessarily be connected to it. This connection can be made spiritually through meditation and other spiritual practices; intellectually through reasoning; or by profound life-altering experience as recounted in the spiritual “bouquet.” As this inner movement spreads, a critical mass will reconnect in force, gain power, and change the physical world. This is Laszlo’s vision, as a modern-day messenger of the perennial wisdom. If you want to hear a different story than the one given my materialism, Reconnecting to the Source is a good place to start. Opening the mind to other, more fulfilling stories of our existence on this planet may prove to be the wisest decision any of us makes.
Reconnecting to the Source:
The New Science of Spiritual Experience, How it Can Change You, and How it Can Transform the World
by
Erwin Laszlo
As the world goes by, we continually scan the images it presents. But unlike a normal scanner – or video camera – the scanner itself evolves. The world goes by, like a deep, sprawling novel, that we constantly read while pondering its meaning. The years go by. The more we observe, the deeper our understanding of the purpose behind the story.
The world goes by, awareness increases. But awareness itself is a two-ended flashlight: it lights the way outward in observing the world and then lights the way inward as we rise to a better understanding of our self, the observer.
Along the way, the inner-directed light searches deeper, reaching for a fuller understanding of the self. We perceive a world in motion while our minds are making a different movement. One movement is physical, the other spiritual, as this inner movement shines the light brighter upon the physical world and makes its meaning clearer.
As observers of the external world, we are always interpreting events through a lens that is constantly being buffed cleaner: but this task, as might be evident, is only carried out by those ready to be open-minded about what they perceive. Here, a suitable image is of a mountain climb, with the peak signifying True Knowledge: as we go up the mountain, we learn as we climb, giving an account of our progress upward; but this account says something both about the climb and climber..
Modern, materialistic science is like a scanner going up the mountain but locked into a distorted lens that assumes the moving picture across the screen is nothing more than pixels, particles in motion. The materialistic mind separates the perception from consciousness, describes the laws by which the movements occur, but then remains silent on the forces organizing the perception.
Against materialistic science, this worldview where only things are real, is the age-old (or perennial) wisdom holding that somehow, somewhere, there is a unified ground of being, a Source from which all things derive.
Through the ages, people give this Source different names, God, Brahman, Cosmic Mind, Akashic Field, the Morphic Field, but the entity is the same: it is a force unifying and organizing what we perceive as the physical world. Seeking to give this field more of a scientific bent, some observers call it the Quantum Field, the Zero-Point Energy Field, or any other of many names.
We rely chiefly on scientists, religious leaders, and philosophers to narrate the story of life. They tell us what is really going on when we perceive movements in the physical world, whether these movements are a march on Washington, D.C., a solar eclipse, the shape of a spiral galaxy, a school shooting, or a political election.
But they narrate while taking part in the story, and do not know the author’s true plot. They tell the story from their perspectives as they move gradually up the mountain of understanding.
From the broadest perspective, materialistic scientists take the lead in presenting the world’s storyline. They tell stories of where the world came from (Big Bang); how life arose (an old swamp); how matter got mass (Higgs field); why the universe hangs in gravitational balance (dark matter); and the purpose to life (there is none in the eyes of materialists).
Along the way we come across a narrator with an open-minded quest to understand and to buff the lens of perception. And perhaps no one has provided a broader and richer perspective on the world over the last half-century than Ervin Laszlo. Twice nominated for the Nobel peace prize and author of 90 books and 400 papers, Laszlo tells a story reaching beyond the confining theories of scientific materialism. This view of the world, it may be noted, seeks to explain the universe as the outcome of the random interaction of impersonal particles and forces. But anyone looking critically at these theories, which somehow continue to dominate the universities and our modern culture, will soon discover that materialism has no explanation for the unquestionable order and fine-tuning of the universe, it guesses wildly at the origin of life, assumes the creation of matter in the Big Bang and simply ignores the entire fields of spirituality and parapsychology. Materialists cannot account for countless reported experiences, from near-death experiences to spontaneous healing and religious awakenings, and therefore write them all of as impossible, not because they did not occur but under their current theories, cannot occur.
So the challenge for the thinker of the “new age” is to account for the observations of science while incorporating the fields of spiritual and parapsychology, and then, when that is done, finally face the Big Question: what is the source of coherence in the physical world?
Laszlo’s newest book, Reconnecting to the Source: The New Science of Spiritual Experience, How it Can Change You, and How it Can Transform the World, contains a spiritual “bouquet” of first-hand revelatory experiences from a “who’s who” list of leading thinkers, including Lynne McTaggert, Barbara Max Hubbard, Dean Radin, Jean Houston, and Kinsley Dennis, bookended by an accessible account of Laszlo’s core thesis. This thesis is that the world is an “’in-formed’ quantum system consisting of clusters of in-formed energy.” In other words, an intelligence permeates the physical world, joining it into a coherent system and driving it toward higher levels of complexity and self-awareness. At the vortex of the physical world is something Laszlo calls the holotropic attractor, the name he uses for the organizing force to the cosmos. (As he explains, “holos” is Greek for whole, and “tropic” means “tendency or orientation toward” a particular state or condition. ). “The holotropic attractor,” he writes, “is a subtle but fundamental disposition or drive affecting systems in space and time.” Further, “it is logical to assume that there is an order creating factor in the process of evolution, and that this factor is not extraneous to the natural world. The driver of evolution is plausibly its ‘in-formation.’”
As Laszlo notes, this attractor is in the tradition of similar ethereal forces such as Henri Bergson’s elan vital, the Eastern “prana”, or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s syntony. But names may not be important here. Laszlo’s holotropic attractor is offered as the missing hypothesis to materialism’s theories, which suffer from the fatal flaw of lacking an organizing force. In place of this force, we get only hand-waving and intellectual intimidation from the scientific establishment, as if a gaping hole in a scientific theory can long be hidden by dodges and feints.
However one may criticize the name or the actual mechanism through which the holotropic attractor works, one cannot argue that modern scientific theory needs an organizing force, and Laszlo here shows he is not afraid to venture where others may fear to tread, toward filling the holes in modern scientific theory
Meanwhile, the contributors add remarkable real-life spiritual experiences and synchronicities of the sort that should make the reader stand back and confront the recurring thought that “something is going on here.” One such story is given by Dean Radin, who writes how in 2000 he was searching for office space in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot com era and, considering the sky-high office prices, was left with only one choice, in Los Altos. As he was moving into the office, he found there was another business in the office suites call PsiQuest, Inc. At first thinking the business meant “personnel service investigations” he then learned that indeed, this business conducted parapsychology research. One day he walked in to say hello, and the person behind the desk recognized him, and sat dumbfounded; Radin learned the person at PsiQuest was at that very moment engaged in the Tibetan dream practice for the purpose of manifesting a leader in the field to appear – Dean Radin.
If a Source exists, then we must necessarily be connected to it. This connection can be made spiritually through meditation and other spiritual practices; intellectually through reasoning; or by profound life-altering experience as recounted in the spiritual “bouquet.” As this inner movement spreads, a critical mass will reconnect in force, gain power, and change the physical world. This is Laszlo’s vision, as a modern-day messenger of the perennial wisdom. If you want to hear a different story than the one given my materialism, Reconnecting to the Source is a good place to start. Opening the mind to other, more fulfilling stories of our existence on this planet may prove to be the wisest decision any of us makes.
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January 6, 2020Very good! If you have an open mind (or maybe you will after reading this), it focuses mostly on various unusual experiences by well respected individuals that show how we are connected to "source" and/or demonstrate some fascinating phenomena. Personally, I believe all of it. The first section gives kind of overview from the author, and the last section provides some Eastern views. It's a rather unusual book with some heavy weight contributors. Recommended.
I really appreciate the ARC for review!!
I really appreciate the ARC for review!!
August 8, 2025
Beautiful connection between quantum science and spirituality. I did my best to be open-minded while reading this and was incredibly pleasantly surprised. I loved how the first section focuses on the holotropic quantum universe and makes that shift to our own human nature and need to connect with the source. It was really beautiful to have so many chapters inducing self reflection, questioning my beliefs and readinf about other experiences. Loved it!!!
January 27, 2020
I received an Advance Reader Copy of this book, which is due to be released in March 2020.
The book left me with much to think about in terms of spirituality and a collective human consciousness, but is by no means a quick read. The book is, in part, an attempt to link science and religion. It took me a while to get into, and it wasn't until I reached the section containing essays from an array of scientists, parapsychologists, educators, activists, healers and business people that I began to put together the pieces. I appreciated that this book doesn't promote or discount a particular religion, but rather shows that spirituality and spiritual experiences can take a variety of forms. I especially enjoyed the essays by Jane Goodall and Frederique Pichard (about their experiences connecting with the consciousnesses of animals), Lynne Mactaggart (about the power of group intention), and by Japanese activist and spiritual leader Masami Saionji.
The book left me with much to think about in terms of spirituality and a collective human consciousness, but is by no means a quick read. The book is, in part, an attempt to link science and religion. It took me a while to get into, and it wasn't until I reached the section containing essays from an array of scientists, parapsychologists, educators, activists, healers and business people that I began to put together the pieces. I appreciated that this book doesn't promote or discount a particular religion, but rather shows that spirituality and spiritual experiences can take a variety of forms. I especially enjoyed the essays by Jane Goodall and Frederique Pichard (about their experiences connecting with the consciousnesses of animals), Lynne Mactaggart (about the power of group intention), and by Japanese activist and spiritual leader Masami Saionji.
April 1, 2020
Connect to Source!
Amazing book. Unity, love and peace. May The Source be with you! Crucial read for what’s currently going on globally. Nothing is by accident!
Amazing book. Unity, love and peace. May The Source be with you! Crucial read for what’s currently going on globally. Nothing is by accident!
November 22, 2019
I was grateful to win a Goodreads Giveaway for an advance copy of this book, on sale in March 2020 (it still needs quite a bit of proofing, btw.).
I initially had trouble with the choppy structure of the book, but eventually I realized this is an attempt to make the ideas more digestible: short bites. The early chapter on scientific theory, while dense, is short. Mainly it supplies the support to the theory of a holotropic universe: everything trends toward wholeness.
Positives: overview of current theory connecting spiritual experience and quantum physics; great stories from famous people about their spiritual experiences; excellent guidance on practices; beautiful explanations of how Buddhist and Taoist wisdom reflects quantum thought.
This would be good for those just beginning to explore these ideas; those who have limited experience in the creative arts; and those who have or want no overtly religious framework to their exploration of the intersection between physical and spiritual realities. It's also inspirational for those of us who may have read and practiced more widely in this area; I’ve read Dean Radin’s story before, for example, but I was pleasurably surprised by quite a few of the others.
There's no input from indigenous or Jewish or Christian mysticism except as implied in the personal essays however, so it’s not comprehensive in that sense. Nor is it heavy on the science outside that early chapter, though there are good references scattered throughout the text. (For those who are interested in the science of how quantum physics and neuroscience intersect, I recommend How Emotions Are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett.)
All in all, one to recommend to the curious, and a worthy addition to any spiritual library.
I initially had trouble with the choppy structure of the book, but eventually I realized this is an attempt to make the ideas more digestible: short bites. The early chapter on scientific theory, while dense, is short. Mainly it supplies the support to the theory of a holotropic universe: everything trends toward wholeness.
Positives: overview of current theory connecting spiritual experience and quantum physics; great stories from famous people about their spiritual experiences; excellent guidance on practices; beautiful explanations of how Buddhist and Taoist wisdom reflects quantum thought.
This would be good for those just beginning to explore these ideas; those who have limited experience in the creative arts; and those who have or want no overtly religious framework to their exploration of the intersection between physical and spiritual realities. It's also inspirational for those of us who may have read and practiced more widely in this area; I’ve read Dean Radin’s story before, for example, but I was pleasurably surprised by quite a few of the others.
There's no input from indigenous or Jewish or Christian mysticism except as implied in the personal essays however, so it’s not comprehensive in that sense. Nor is it heavy on the science outside that early chapter, though there are good references scattered throughout the text. (For those who are interested in the science of how quantum physics and neuroscience intersect, I recommend How Emotions Are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett.)
All in all, one to recommend to the curious, and a worthy addition to any spiritual library.
January 21, 2020
This book was mind blowing. If you are a person of deep spirituality or faith, this book connects spirituality with science. The author's writing style is fresh and highly readable. Better yet, this book includes essays by a number of well known authors and scientists who tell of how they personally connect spirituality and science.
Highly recommended for anyone who has ever wondered how spirituality "works." I especially liked that the author opens the discussion to a number of voices who have different perspectives on this topic. I read some authors I had never encountered before, and I will definitely follow up by reading their works as well.
Highly recommended for anyone who has ever wondered how spirituality "works." I especially liked that the author opens the discussion to a number of voices who have different perspectives on this topic. I read some authors I had never encountered before, and I will definitely follow up by reading their works as well.
February 27, 2021
I was excited to read this book and tried very hard to stick it out. It’s definitely it a “how to” book with actionable suggestions. It’s more of an argument to believe in a “god” - not necessarily the Christian type god who is a person with plans but that the universe is a god and you can connect into its vibrations. It’s a little hard to explain or summarize. I would possibly suggest this book to the super science focused who need help grasping a higher power and want a higher power. I unfortunately found it too dry and boring and not what I wanted. DNF
December 10, 2019
Based on the title, I was looking forward to a discussion of a higher being. I was disappointed that the vast majority of the book was testimonials about consciousness, out of body experiences, etc. Apparently, The Source is some ambiguous unconnected concept that is different for everyone. I enjoyed one testimonial (Lynne McTaggart) and one Annex as these 20 pages were the only attempts to run a thread throughout the concepts seemingly thrown haphazardly on the table throughout the book.
October 15, 2019
Excellent book!!!
March 25, 2020
Unifying wisdom, quantum science and spirituality
Italian scientist, philosopher and futurist Ervin Laszlo holds honorary PhDs from Hungary, Finland, Canada and the United States and is lauded around the globe for his books and articles, having received many Peace prizes including two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is President of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science and of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research.
Reading this book, written by an important scientist and thinker, involves consideration of spiritual
connectivity, an awakening to the need to explore the core meaning of spirituality that can usher in a new realm of understanding and appreciating the universe and our position in it.
As Dr. Laszlo states in his opening words, ‘There is a new concept of the world emerging in the contemporary sciences, above all in the quantum disciplines. This concept is more aligned with classical wisdom teachings than with the currently dominant mechanistic-materialistic view, and it is not alien to experiences of spontaneous connection with the world. This is important: it could change our thinking about who we are and what the world is. We need to give due consideration to the idea that we are deeply and spontaneously connected to each other and to the world. We should have a good look at what the quantum sciences are telling us about the world, and our connection to the world…According to the quantum view, the world is not an arena for the motion of solid, indivisible particles in passive space and indifferently flowing time…’
In this sophisticated yet accessible manner of writing, Dr. Laszlo shares his concept of living spirituality, that the “spiritual experience” is real and conveys to the deepest dimensions of our consciousness. His message is offered not only in his own experiences, but also the spiritual experiences by such great minds as Lawrence Bloom, James O’Dea, Jane Goodall, Zhi-Gang Sha in addition to the contributions to this book by Deepak Chopra.
In closing Laszlo message is clear: ‘We need to change. We can change, and we can change in the right way because the change we need is to change into what we deep down already are. The way forward is open. The task is clear. Wake up and become the change into what you are, and what we need. The future of a remarkable species on a precious planet is on your hands.’ Read and absorb the wisdom of this fine book. Ervin Laszlo is a guiding light. Very highly recommended for all of us.
Italian scientist, philosopher and futurist Ervin Laszlo holds honorary PhDs from Hungary, Finland, Canada and the United States and is lauded around the globe for his books and articles, having received many Peace prizes including two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is President of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science and of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research.
Reading this book, written by an important scientist and thinker, involves consideration of spiritual
connectivity, an awakening to the need to explore the core meaning of spirituality that can usher in a new realm of understanding and appreciating the universe and our position in it.
As Dr. Laszlo states in his opening words, ‘There is a new concept of the world emerging in the contemporary sciences, above all in the quantum disciplines. This concept is more aligned with classical wisdom teachings than with the currently dominant mechanistic-materialistic view, and it is not alien to experiences of spontaneous connection with the world. This is important: it could change our thinking about who we are and what the world is. We need to give due consideration to the idea that we are deeply and spontaneously connected to each other and to the world. We should have a good look at what the quantum sciences are telling us about the world, and our connection to the world…According to the quantum view, the world is not an arena for the motion of solid, indivisible particles in passive space and indifferently flowing time…’
In this sophisticated yet accessible manner of writing, Dr. Laszlo shares his concept of living spirituality, that the “spiritual experience” is real and conveys to the deepest dimensions of our consciousness. His message is offered not only in his own experiences, but also the spiritual experiences by such great minds as Lawrence Bloom, James O’Dea, Jane Goodall, Zhi-Gang Sha in addition to the contributions to this book by Deepak Chopra.
In closing Laszlo message is clear: ‘We need to change. We can change, and we can change in the right way because the change we need is to change into what we deep down already are. The way forward is open. The task is clear. Wake up and become the change into what you are, and what we need. The future of a remarkable species on a precious planet is on your hands.’ Read and absorb the wisdom of this fine book. Ervin Laszlo is a guiding light. Very highly recommended for all of us.
January 26, 2025
I won the book on Goodreads. If the rest of the book was as challenging to get through as the first chapter, I may not have been able to read it. The bulk of the book are testimonials from people all over the world and how they defined various experiences and how they feel they have reconnected with the source. The topic is a tough one for me and I am not sure how much I believe of it all. The end of the book was a bit challenging as well and I had to put it down from time to time just not to be just a bit overwhelmed.
August 5, 2022
DNF 1%.
Way too much science stuff/technical reading for me. After a few pages, I'm not interested in continuing on.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway in exchange for my honest review.
Way too much science stuff/technical reading for me. After a few pages, I'm not interested in continuing on.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway in exchange for my honest review.
April 8, 2020
We recieved this book from a Goodreads giveaway, and it was a great read. Well recommended for people of all ages. Reconnect to the Power!
December 6, 2020
3.5 ☆ Some really great insights, some of the narrative distracted from the concept for me, but I believe.
March 13, 2021
Great topic, but quite short and with no new information on the how. I had high hopes but was disappointed.
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June 26, 2021
Hmmmmm read it for our book club but hmmmm it was mostly a science class that I didn't want to be in. Some of the stories were interesting though.
August 18, 2022
This book bears re-reading! I will come back to it.
February 28, 2023
If you can get past the first 50 pages (which are REALLY confusing), the book shifts to personal stories from a number of contributors. I found those much more engaging and informative.
May 18, 2024
Be good, do good, love and have fun that way your life will really matter.
January 22, 2022
Stories that show how interconnected we are. Events perceived as miracles are basic reality. Inspiring and heartwarming.
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