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When He Speaks About God, Don’t Mistake Hawking for a Scientist

by Ervin Laszlo September 19, 2010

In his latest book, The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking claims that the concept of God is not needed to explain the existence of the universe. The answer, according to him, is spontaneous creation: the universe created itself, by itself, spontaneously. Spontaneous auto-creation doesn’t call for a creator. In saying this Hawking doesn’t speak like a [...]

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The G-20 Vision is Obsolete

by Ervin Laszlo July 8, 2010

Where there is no vision, the people perish Proverbs 29:18 One can’t solve a problem with the same level of consciousness at which the problem arose Albert Einstein The final statements of the June 2010 Canada meetings of the G-8 and the G-20 make for impressive reading (G-8 Muskoka Declaration – Recovery and New Beginnings, [...]

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The Dis-ease of the Western Mind

by Ervin Laszlo May 3, 2010

When someone asked Gandhi what he thought of Western civilization, he replied he thought it was a good idea. It is indeed a good idea because it’s not entirely a reality. Western civilization—more exactly, the Western mind that creates the civilization—has a serious disease. It’s a “dis-ease” that affects all of us of in the [...]

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Design? Yes. Evolution? Yes. Contradiction? No. Then Why the Controversy?

by Ervin Laszlo April 14, 2010

The debate among conservative Christians, Muslims, and Jews (the “creationists”) and natural scientists and the science-minded public (the “evolutionists”) centers on biological evolution. But on a deeper look, it concerns the universe in which life has evolved—or in which it was created. And, as I will argue, on this level there is no contradiction between [...]

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Quantum Consciousness — our evolution, our salvation

by Ervin Laszlo April 3, 2010

In the first post of this series I promised to explore the wider implications of our having a quantum computer in our head. What does this revolutionary understanding of the capacities of the human brain mean for our life and our future? Here I call “quantum consciousness” the consciousness we access when we use the [...]

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Global Emergency — why we don’t face it

by Ervin Laszlo February 25, 2010

The unsustainable condition of the human and the humanly impaired natural world constitutes a global emergency, and it calls for global-level cooperation to avert a global-level breakdown. Global-level cooperation is a new requirement in the history of humanity, and it’s not surprising that we are not prepared for it. Our institutions and organizations were designed [...]

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Global Emergency — ecological unsustainability

by Ervin Laszlo February 23, 2010

Emergency is an unstable and ultimately unsustainable condition in a system that calls for effective action to avert breakdown. A global emergency means that the human and natural systems of the planet have become unstable and unsustainable, and that globally coordinate action is required if the global system is not to crash. Global emergency involves both [...]

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