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By
Ervine Laszlo
Reviewed by Henry Reed
Ervine Laszlo, philosopher and scientist, begins this book with his "Credo." The very first of his "Eight Cardinal Propositions" is that "The cosmos is an infinite and eternal intelligence." It gets even better from there. But take the very first one. It is almost word for word how the Spiritualist church defines or describes "God." I think here we are getting an example of the collapse of the deity-theological and materialistic-causal metaphysical cosmologies. Previously antagonistic, they find themselves revisioned, yet integrated into a cosmology based upon consciousness.
Into this dance, humans have a role to play. He proposes that the purpose of humans is to become aware of, understand, and support the intelligence of the cosmos in its pursuit of evolving and spreading this information through the Cosmos.
He admits that his radical world view, which sees everything as vibration, is not new, but ancient. Edgar Cayce described a similar cosmos, although in more theistic terms. The human role is the same, yet there's an allegiance, a motivation to serve, the "I am," in Cayce's presentation of these concepts. Laszlo's Golden Rule covers a lot of that terryitory. His emphasis is upon the processes of evolution, how coherence and complexity interact to bring about change and creative evolution.
The book is not all by Laszlo. He has invited several experts to weigh in on the subject of the new emerging world view and the implications for our role in this new vision of reality. Each has his or her own speciality, and each draws different inferences, going down different paths of dominoes falling as we see how a change in perception brings about an endless chain of changes in how we relate to "reality."
If you've been noticing the shifts in viewpoints, the dissolution of matter and the elevation of thought and intention, then you will find this book to be taking all that in, and taking it to the next step: What does it mean for us and how we live? A good read and a good one to pass along to folks who need to catch up with what's happening.
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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE
PART ONE
Perennial Questions and the New Answers
1 Who
Are We?
A NEW CONCEPT OF THE WORLD
A NEW CONCEPT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
AN IN-FORMED WORLD
2 Why
Are We Here?
INDICATIONS OF PURPOSE IN THE DIRECTION OF EVOLUTION
3 New
Answers
WHO WE ARE
WHY WE ARE HERE
PART TWO
The Meaning of the New Answers for Our Life and Times
4 The
New Answers Re-Enchant Our Worldview
Kingsley L. Dennis
5 The
New Answers and the Power of Purpose
Emanuel Kuntzelman
6 The
New Answers and the Goals of Contemporary Social Change Maria Sagi
7 The
New Answers and the Purpose of Business
Dawna Jones
8 The
New Answers and the Wisdom Traditions
Shamik Desai
9 The
New Answers--A Meaning for This Life and the Next
John R. Audette
10 The
New Answers and the Challenge: Reconciling Science and Spirituality with Life
Garry Jacobs
Afterword by James O’Dea
Biographical Notes on the Author and Contributors
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