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A handbook for conscious change that could transform the current world crisis into planetary renewal
• 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.
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“This book will help us to evaluate the current situation of our planet and to find the path we must take.”
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“Something is going to happen in 2012, but what that will be is up to us. That is why WorldShift 2012 is so significant as a handbook for this great change--it is the kind of positive cocreative script the world needs in order to conclude and regenerate the cycle on a successful evolutionary note.”
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“WorldShift is about an outer world built on inner realization. The higher consciousness that has been evolving through human beings for centuries is seeding a garden of hope and promise. Ervin Laszlo maps this new world and its promise--no one I know is more acutely attuned to it.”
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"Think-tank founder and prolific author, Laszlo simply uses the notion of the 2012 breakdown/breakthrough as a vehicle for the tranformation of the world. . . . will appeal . . . to earth-conscious readers . . ."
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"[Laszlo] gives us a practical and achievable way to make our world greener and our planet safer by shifting our consciousness towards this view."
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". . . a challenge for readers to update their ethics and evolve their consciousness in order to achieve 'syntony'--being tuned in to the surrounding world."
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"Forewords by Deepak Chopra and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as quotes from other visionaires such as Ekhart Tolle, Paul Hawken, and Albert Einstein, augment WorldShift 2012's message that we can no longer continue with 'business as usual.'"
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“This book will help us to evaluate the current situation of our planet and to find the path we must take.” < b=""> Mikhail Gorbachev <> , from the foreword
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“Something is going to happen in 2012, but what that will be is up to us. That is why WorldShift 2012 is so significant as a handbook for this great change--it is the kind of positive cocreative script the world needs in order to conclude and regenerate the cycle on a successful evolutionary note.” < b=""> Jos & eacute; Arg & uuml;elles <> , author of < i=""> The Mayan Factor <>
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“WorldShift is about an outer world built on inner realization. The higher consciousness that has been evolving through human beings for centuries is seeding a garden of hope and promise. Ervin Laszlo maps this new world and its promise--no one I know is more acutely attuned to it.” < b=""> Deepak Chopra, <> from the foreword
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"Think-tank founder and prolific author, Laszlo simply uses the notion of the 2012 breakdown/breakthrough as a vehicle for the tranformation of the world. . . . will appeal . . . to earth-conscious readers . . ." < i=""> Library Journal <> , Oct 2009
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"[Laszlo] gives us a practical and achievable way to make our world greener and our planet safer by shifting our consciousness towards this view." < i=""> Evolve!: Evolutionary Products, People, and Ideas <> , Vol. 8, No. 4, Nov 2009
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". . . a challenge for readers to update their ethics and evolve their consciousness in order to achieve 'syntony'--being tuned in to the surrounding world." < b=""> Susan LosCalzo < i=""> , <> <> < i=""> New Age Retailer <> , Dec 2009
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"Forewords by Deepak Chopra and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as quotes from other visionaires such as Ekhart Tolle, Paul Hawken, and Albert Einstein, augment WorldShift 2012's message that we can no longer continue with 'business as usual.'" < b=""> Susan LosCalzo <> , < i=""> New Age Retailer <> , Feb 2010
Synopsis
Laszlo brings together insights for creating sustainable positive change from spiritual leaders, scientists, and visionary businesspeople in order to show how to replace the limited consciousness of a failing society with the holistic consciousness that is reflected in the unified field of quantum physics.
About the Author
Deepak Chopra has gained worldwide acclaim as a teacher and writer in fields as diverse as mind-body medicine, Ayurveda, the nature of God, and the path to success. Time magazine called him one of the 100 icons of the twentieth century, “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine.” The author of more than sixty-four books translated into over eighty-five languages, including nineteen New York Times bestsellers, Dr. Chopra has sold more than twenty million copies of his books worldwide. He is the founder of the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Deepak Chopra
Foreword by Mikhail Gorbachev
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