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

By Ervin Laszlo, Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Stanislav Grof

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: SelectBooks
• Release date: Oct 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781590793992

Ervin Laszlo

ERVIN LASZLO, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Laureate of the Luxembourg Peace Prize, the Assisi Mandir of Peace Prize, as well as of the Japan Peace Prize, the Goi Award, has been identified by an international jury convened by OOOM Magazine as the 28th among the world’s one hundred most inspiring people. He is the editor of the prestigious periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, founder-president of the international think tank The Club of Budapest, founder-president of The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, and chairperson of The Wisdom Council of the new internet platform People Together. He is the author of over one hundred books translated into 24 languages, including The Wisdom Principles, along with nearly four hundred studies and articles. He lives in the Tuscan hills of the Mediterranean coast of Italy.

Reviews for What is Reality?

[donnaeverhart · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

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?"