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Bezig met laden... What is Reality?: The New Map of Cosmos, Consciousness, and Existence (A New Paradigm Book) (2016)door Ervin Laszlo
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Whew. Mind sufficiently blown. The essence of this book is that our conscious/consciousness survives beyond our physical state. That our conscious/consciousness doesn't end when our brains cease to function. (death) Our brains house our thoughts, awareness, our presence in the here and now. (i.e. local) Using a few examples of near death experiences, (NDEs) and other intriguing/mystifying matters, many contributors take these examples of people whose conscious/consciousness "survived" after they were clinically dead, and came back to share what they experienced. These incidents are scrubbed up against scientific studies to explore the phenomena and what it means. The essence is our mind, (conscious/consciousness) survives beyond our "local" state (human body/brain) to a "non-local" existence. Through various input from other scientists, theorists, and philosophers, this is a scientific rationale that in many ways replicates what all religions teach, that we will all become one with a supreme being (God, Allah, The One, i.e., whichever way your beliefs direct you) and explains the age old question of "why are we here?" geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Ervin Laszlo's tour de force, What is Reality?, is the product of a half-century of deep contemplation and cutting-edge scholarship. Addressing many of the paradoxes that have confounded modern science over the years, it offers nothing less than a new paradigm of reality, one in which the cosmos is a seamless whole, informed by a single, coherent consciousness manifest in us all. Bringing together science, philosophy, and metaphysics, Laszlo takes aim at accepted wisdom, such as the dichotomies of mind and body, spirit and matter, being and nonbeing, to show how we are all part of an infinite cycle of existence unfolding in spacetime and beyond. Augmented by insightful commentary from a dozen scholars and thinkers, along with a foreword by Deepak Chopra and an introduction by Stanislav Grof, What is Reality? offers a fresh and liberating understanding of the meaning and purpose of existence. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The chapters, written by Ervin Laszlo himself, initially appealed to me, at least in part. His "vibration theory" contains elements that elucidate a number of problems that still puzzle classical science (such as: what came before the Big Bang? , or the contradictory phenomena in quantum physics). And his view on consciousness allows for a more holistic approach, in line with systems thinking, chaos theory and the thinking of Gregory Bateson. All very abstract, I agree, but certainly intriguing and stimulating further reflection. But the moment Laszlo started writing about the deep dimension of reality, about cosmic consciousness, and linked all this to phenomena such as “near death experiences, out-of-body experiences, instrumental transcommunication”, etc., I had to swallow. That's where my sceptical self immediately surfaced.
This book also contains about 15 contributions from others, all "experts" I had never heard of, who praise the views of Laszlo extensively, adding their own thoughts in line with his theory. What they have in common is that they almost all advocate a paradigm shift (away from classical science, of course), in the line of Laszlo. A large part of these contributions are interesting additions and deepenings. But it strikes me that the majority of these experts very firmly put forward their own theories, whereas Laszlo himself is much more careful and prudent. And with a number of contributions that go on the esoteric tour, I dropped out completely, especially with those that advocate the intake of psychedelics in order to gain a more correct access to reality. And frankly, I also find the recurring claim that numerous borderland experiences (such as near death and others) have now been scientifically verified, not very convincing.
I don't know, maybe I'm too skeptical. Still, I don't want to just sweep everything off the table as nonsense. I am all too aware of the limits and one-sidedness of classical science, but it seems to me that there is still a very long way to go to that new paradigm that Laszlo and others are now so self-evidently proposing. ( )