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    What is Reality?: The New Map of Cosmos, Consciousness, and Existence

    By Ervin Laszlo, Deepak Chopra and Stanislav Grof

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSelectBooks
    Release dateOct 4, 2016
    ISBN9781590793992
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    What is Reality?: The New Map of Cosmos, Consciousness, and Existence
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    Ervin Laszlo

    Ervin Laszlo is a philosopher and systems scientist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has published more than 75 books and over 400 articles and research papers. The subject of the one-hour PBS special Life of a Modern-Day Genius, Laszlo is the founder and president of the international think tank the Club of Budapest and of the prestigious Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research. The winner of the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize, he lives in Tuscany. In 2019, Ervin Laszlo was cited as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World" according to Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.

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    • 4/5
      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?"