About the Book
We live at a historic turning point. The global crisis from which we are emerging is an unique opportunity: it holds vital lessons for our lives and for our future. It makes clear that we are all in the same boat--we are one people with one destiny. But it also makes clear that our boat is unstable and in urgent need of repair, indeed, of redesign.
The political and the business communities are now waking up to the need for serious change, but creating a fundamentally new world doesn't depend on political and business people, but on the will and the vision of the bulk of the human population--on people like you and me. Do we understand what is at stake, and what it is that we can do about it? Given that the aftermath of a crisis offers the opportunity to create a new world, understanding the nature of the world we could create is crucial. Whether or not we seize the opportunity to create it decides whether we shift up to a sustainable and life-friendly sphere of life, or drift down to growing and ultimately terminal conflict and chaos. In the last count, it decides the destiny of the human species on earth.
Creating a world in which we live in harmony with each other and with life on the planet is feasible. But to create it we must know how to live more wisely in our own life, right here and now. This is the task and the opportunity we discuss in this book. Waking up and acting on it is in our own vital and immediate interest.
The Upshift is to help you meet the challenge of our epoch. It is a handbook for urgent action--for wiser living by you and by me, and by all conscious and ethical people in the womb of a delicately balanced web of life on our precious home planet.
About the Author :
Ervin Laszlo was awarded the state doctorate (the highest PhD) from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris in 1970, and received honorary PhD's from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary. He was the recipient of the Peace Prize of Japan, the Goi Award, in 2001, of the International Mandir of Peace Prize of Assisi in 2005, and of the Luxembourg World Peace Prize in
2017. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005.
Laszlo is Founder and President of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, President of the think-tank the Club of Budapest, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international peer-reviewed periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. He is the author of sixty-six books translated into twenty-six languages, and the editor of another thirty-four volumes including a four-volume encyclopedia. A native of Budapest and a US citizen, he lives with Carita his Finnish-born wife in Tuscany.
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices in 2012.
New York Times best-selling author and 2015 Templeton Award nominee Gregg Braden is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and indigenous knowledge to create real-world solutions for today. Following successful careers in the energy and defense industries, he became the first technical operations manager for Cisco Systems in 1991. For three decades, Gregg has explored high mountain villages, remote monasteries, and forgotten texts to merge their wisdom with the best science of our time. Based in New Mexico, Gregg has shared his discoveries with the United Nations, Fortune 500 companies, mainstream universities, and audiences throughout the world. Website: www.greggbraden.com Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her "velvet touch" as an actor's director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.
Review :
The Upshift is a perfect blend of rock-solid science, spiritual philosophy and common sense woven into a practical guide to life in the post-pandemic world!
-- "Gregg Braden, author of The Wisdom Codes "
Ervin Laszlo offers a road map for liberation from suffering that satisfies our deepest yearnings. It's scientific and spiritual at the same time.
-- "Deepak Chopra, MD"
Ervin Laszlo, our generation's greatest planetary philosopher, author of so many books that helped shape my awareness, has written a simple, clear set of steps we can all follow to create the thriving human society in harmony with our planet that, in our hearts, we know is possible.
-- "Hazel Henderson, author of Creating Alternative Futures"
If you are looking for hope, for a 'way out' of our present situation, for real solutions, and for crystal clarity in how to apply them right now, read The Upshift by Ervin Laszlo immediately. Your search will end--and your yearned-for future can begin--on its pages. Thank you, Ervin, for capturing all we need to know, and sharing all we need to do, for us to produce all we need to experience in order to meet the promise of our highest and most loving-for-all tomorrow.
-- "Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God"
Road map for liberation.
-- "Deepak Chopra, MD"
Your book, right now here today, is the most important book out there. It's a blueprint. It's not necessarily easy being the change you want to see in the world--it takes some very conscious decisions. But your book is so important for people today that I cannot thank you enough.
-- "Michael Sandler, host of The Inspire Nation Show"
