Worldshift 2012: Making Green Business, New Politics, and Higher Consciousness Work Together

• Outlines the problems that make today’s world prone to breakdown and suggests actions we must adopt in politics, business, and everyday life

• Replaces the limited consciousness of our failing society with the holistic consciousness that is rooted in the Akashic field

The deepening economic crisis and the threat posed by climate change and other social and ecological trends has caused many to despair. But with great danger comes great opportunity--the opportunity for fundamental change that will transform our societies from top to bottom. In WorldShift 2012, Ervin Laszlo brings together insights for creating sustainable positive change from spiritual leaders, scientists, and visionary businesspeople--people such as Albert Einstein, Mohammad Yunus, Václav Havel, Eckhart Tolle, Ken Wilber, David Korten, Paul Hawken, and Tomoyo Nonaka, former CEO of Sanyo Electronics. He shows how we can replace the limited consciousness of our failing society with the holistic consciousness that is reflected in the unified field of quantum physics: the Akashic field.

We have an opportunity to move from the current political and business model of grow or die to a sustainable world respectful of human beings, nature, and the planet. Change on this level calls for a profound shift in consciousness and a clear understanding that--as cutting-edge physics shows--we are truly connected with each other and with the cosmos. This book presents clear evidence of this connectedness and describes the tools we need to make our world greener and our planet safer as we strive to realize the holistic consciousness of connection through the Akashic field.

Preface

Part One

The Destiny Choice

1.    What Would Happen If . . .

The Path to Breakdown

The Path toward Breakthrough

2.    Why We Need Timely Change: The Unsustainability of Today’s World

Unsustainability in the Ecology

Unsustainability in the Economy

Unsustainability in Society

3.    The 2012 Horizon: The Time in “Timely Change”

Unexpected Acceleration

Cross-Impacts among the Trends

The 2012 Prophecies

Part Two

Waking Up--In Time

4.    The Timely Change Objectives

The Objectives of a New Politics

Grassroots Support for the Objectives

The Social Objective in Business

The Objectives of Personal Responsibility

5.    Action! Creating Conscious Change

Civic Activism

Business Activism

Media Activism

Personal Activism

Part Three

Breakthrough 2032: A Thought Experiment

6.    Reports from a Peaceful and Sustainable World

The Way We Think

The Way We Act

The Way We Grow

Insights for Today

7.    Coming Home: A Credo

Afterword by José Argüelles

Worldshift 2012--A New Beginning

Appendix 1

WorldShift Recommended Reading

Appendix 2

The Club of Budapest Mission: The Manifesto on Planetary Consciousness

Appendix 3

State of Global Emergency: The WorldShift 2012 Declaration

Appendix 4

The Club of Budapest Initiatives

Appendix 5

The Mission of the Alliance for a New Humanity

About the Author

Index