The WorldShift Ahead

Ten Questions to Test Your Consciousness

by Ervin Laszlo June 13, 2010

Einstein said that we can’t solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that gave rise to the problem. His insight applies also to the domain of consciousness: we can’t solve the problems of our time with the same kind of consciousness that created them. We live in global times, yet most of us [...]

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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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Abrupt change 2012: problems with the Sun

by Ervin Laszlo February 16, 2010

Physical changes in the intensity of solar radiation conspire with human impacts to stress the world system. Astronomers have noted that since the 1940s, and particularly since 2003, the Sun has become remarkably turbulent, with the exception of the last year or so. Solar activity is predicted to peak around 2012, creating storms of intensity [...]

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Abrupt change 2012: population growth and resource squeezes

by Ervin Laszlo February 5, 2010

Tremendous global stress is created by the growth of the world’s population. At the end of the 20th century population was expanding by about 900 million per decade, equivalent to a new London every month. It passed 6 billion before the turn of the century, and demographic calculations indicate that it would reach 9.1 billion [...]

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Abrupt change 2012: the climate evidence

by Ervin Laszlo February 4, 2010

What independent evidence do we have that the 2012 prophecies are true? Are there scientifically established grounds to believe not only that an interesting conjunction will occur in the position of our planet at the end of 2012, but that this conjunction will signify an abrupt tipping point for humanity? There is independent evidence of [...]

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Abrupt change 2012: the prophecies

by Ervin Laszlo February 3, 2010

Will the coming of a tipping point in human societies coincide with the famous 2012 prophecies? Let’s first look at these prophecies, and then look at the evidence that does—or does not—support them. The most famous of the prophecies that speak of the end of 2012 as a critical point in human life and civilization [...]

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The change, when it comes, will be “abrupt”

by Ervin Laszlo February 2, 2010

When you exclaim, “that’s the last straw!” you express a fundamental principle we all know but mostly ignore.  In science it’s called “nonlinearity.”  If you load the back of a camel, you can add load after load and the camel will adjust and cope—until the load reaches the limit of the camel’s carrying capacity.  Then, [...]

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Your thinking: the key to changing the world

by Ervin Laszlo January 31, 2010

Gandhi said, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.’  In today’s world this means, ‘Change your consciousness so others might change theirs.’  How can you do that?  First of all, get rid of the old consciousness, and the values and beliefs that support it. Ask yourself: do you believe that — Everyone [...]

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What is the question?

by Ervin Laszlo January 29, 2010

Had he lived today, Hamlet wouldn’t hesitate to tell us: to be or not to be, that is the question. But it’s not the skull of an individual that Hamlet would ponder, but the living Earth. Can we continue to “be” on this planet, or will we become extinct like the dinosaurs? We are approaching [...]

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