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Ervin László (born 1932 in Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
, Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
) is a Hungarian philosopher of science
Philosophy of science

The philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science. The field is defined by an interest in one of a set of "traditional" problems or an interest in central or foundational concerns in science....
, systems theorist
Systems theory

Systems theory is an interdisciplinary field of science and the study of the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science. More specifically, it is a framework by which one can analyze and/or describe any group of objects that work in concert to produce some result....
, integral theorist, and classical pianist
Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
. He has published about 75 books and over 400 papers, and is editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.. Moreover, he has recorded several piano concertos. László was married to Carita Jägerhorn af Spurila
Jägerhorn af Spurila

J?gerhorn af Spurila is a noble family, registered with number 114 in the Swedish House of Nobility and number 5 in the Finnish House of Nobility....
 16 November 1956.






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Ervin László (born 1932 in Budapest
Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
, Hungary
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
) is a Hungarian philosopher of science
Philosophy of science

The philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science. The field is defined by an interest in one of a set of "traditional" problems or an interest in central or foundational concerns in science....
, systems theorist
Systems theory

Systems theory is an interdisciplinary field of science and the study of the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science. More specifically, it is a framework by which one can analyze and/or describe any group of objects that work in concert to produce some result....
, integral theorist, and classical pianist
Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
. He has published about 75 books and over 400 papers, and is editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.. Moreover, he has recorded several piano concertos. László was married to Carita Jägerhorn af Spurila
Jägerhorn af Spurila

J?gerhorn af Spurila is a noble family, registered with number 114 in the Swedish House of Nobility and number 5 in the Finnish House of Nobility....
 16 November 1956. They have two sons.

Work

In 1984, he was co-founder with Béla H. Bánáthy
Béla H. Bánáthy

B?la Heinrich B?n?thy , was a linguist, systems scientist and a professor at San Jos? State University and University of California, Berkeley. B?n?thy was the founder of the White Stag Leadership Development Program whose leadership model was adopted across the United States; founder of the International Systems Institute; and its innovative...
, Riane Eisler
Riane Eisler

Riane Tennenhaus Eisler is an Austrian born American scholar, writer, and social activist. Born in Vienna, her familyfled from the Nazis to Cuba when she was a child; she later emigrated to the United States....
, John Corliss
Jack Corliss

John B. Corliss is a scientist who has worked in the fields of geology, oceanography, and the origins of life.Corliss is a ucsd alumni, receiving his PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the 1960s....
, Francisco Varela
Francisco Varela

Francisco Javier Varela Garc?a , was a Chilean biology, philosophy and neuroscience who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology....
, Vilmos Csanyi, Gyorgy Kampis, David Loye, Jonathan Schull, and Eric Chaisson
Eric Chaisson

Eric J. Chaisson is an American astrophysicist and science education best known for his research, teaching and writing on the interdisciplinary science of cosmic evolution....
 of the initially secret . Meeting behind the Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain was the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991....
, the group of scientists and thinkers from a variety of disciplines met in secret. Given the mounting threat to the human species caused by rapid proliferation of nuclear weapons and potential overkill, their goal was to explore whether it might be possible to use the chaos theory
Chaos theory

In mathematics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain dynamical system s ? that is, systems whose states evolve with time ? that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions ....
 to identify a new general theory of evolution
Evolution

In biology, evolution is change in the heritability trait of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. These changes are caused by a combination of three main processes: variation, reproduction, and selection....
 that might serve as a path to a better world.

In 1993, in response to his experience with the Club of Rome
Club of Rome

The Club of Rome is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political issues. It was founded in April 1968 and raised considerable public attention in 1972 with its report Limits to Growth....
, he founded the Club of Budapest
Club of Budapest

The Club of Budapest is an international organization founded in 1993 by Ervin Laszlo to expand beyond the exclusively scientific purpose of The General Evolution Research Group to try to mobilize the full cultural resources of humanity to meet the challenges we face....
 to, in his words, "center attention on the evolution of human values and consciousness as the crucial factors in changing course — from a race toward degradation, polarization, and disaster to a rethinking of values and priorities so as to navigate today's transformation in the direction of humanism, ethics, and global sustainability".

Akashic Field Theory

His 2004 book, Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything posits a field of information as the substance of the cosmos
Cosmos

In its most general sense, a cosmos is an orderly or harmonious system. It originates from a Greek language term ??s??? meaning "order, orderly arrangement, ornaments," and is the antithetical concept of chaos....
. Using the Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
 and Vedic term for "space
Space

Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which Physical body and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physics usually consider it, with time, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime....
", Akasha
Akasha

Akasha is the Sanskrit word meaning "Aether " in both its aether and aether senses....
, he calls this information field the "Akashic field" or "A-field". He posits that the "quantum vacuum" (see Vacuum state
Vacuum state

In quantum field theory, the vacuum state is the quantum state with the lowest possible energy. Generally, it contains no physical particles. The term "zero-point field" is sometimes used as a synonym for the vacuum state of an individual quantized field....
) is the fundamental energy and information-carrying field that informs not just the current universe, but all universes past and present (collectively, the "Metaverse
Metaverse

The Metaverse is a virtual world, described in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as Avatar s, interact with each other and software agents, in a 3D computer graphics space that uses the metaphor of the real world....
").

László describes how such an informational field can explain why our universe is so improbably fine-tuned as to form galaxies and conscious lifeforms; and why evolution
Evolution

In biology, evolution is change in the heritability trait of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. These changes are caused by a combination of three main processes: variation, reproduction, and selection....
 is an informed, not random, process. He believes that the hypothesis
Hypothesis

A hypothesis consists either of a suggested explanation for an observable phenomenon or of a reasoned proposal predicting a possible causal correlation among multiple phenomena....
 solves several problems that emerge from quantum physics
Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a set of principles underlying the most fundamental known description of all physical systems at the microscopic scale . Notable amongst these principles are both a dual wave-like and particle-like behavior of matter and radiation, and prediction of probabilities in situations where classical physics predicts certaintie...
, especially nonlocality
Nonlocality

In physics, nonlocality is a direct influence of one object on another, distant object, in violation of the principle of locality.In classical physics, nonlocality in the form of action at a distance appeared in corpuscular theory and later disappeared in Field theory ....
 and quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement

Quantum entanglement is a possible property of a quantum state of a system of two or more Physical bodys in which the quantum states of the constituting objects are linked together so that one object can no longer be adequately described without full mention of its counterpart ? even though the individual objects may be nonlocality....
.

Macroshift Theory

Lazslo stated in his book ‘You can change the world’ that there is global choice for coming world crisis
Energy crisis

An energy crisis is any great Bottleneck in the supply of energy resources to an Economics. It usually refers to the shortage of Petroleum and additionally to electricity or other natural resources....
. One that can come in the form of a global breakdown centered on increasing fragmentation of economic inequality
Economic inequality

Economic inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income. The term typically refers to inequality among individuals and groups within a society, but can also refer to international inequality....
 and a new arms race
Arms race

The term arms race, in its original usage, describes a competition between two or more parties for real or apparent military supremacy. Each party competes to produce larger numbers of weapons, greater armies, or superior military technology in a technological escalation....
 from rising powers. The other choice would be a global breakthrough led by international organizations. This would be by the linking of non-government organizations promoting sustainable development
Sustainable development

Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future....
 link using the internet.

A Macroshift is defined as a popular movement to turn the tide from a global breakdown to a global breakthrough. László sees the 2012-2020 Critical period to change the course as the coming crisis is taking shape in geopolitical current.

Global shift University

His latest project involves creating a university based on integral teaching over the internet offering a Graduate Program. Its goal is creating change accelerators which he defines as coalescing agents for social action and cultural awareness.

Honors

Ervin László participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions
Stock Exchange of Visions

The Stock Exchange of Visions is a project initiated in 2006 by Fabrica, Benetton Group's research center. It gathers visionaries from diverse nationalities and cultures, who hail from a wide range of specialties, to provide insight into their vision for the future....
 project in 2006.

In Hungary, the minister of environment appointed Laszlo as one of the leaders of the ministry's campaign concerning global warming
Global warming

Global warming is the increase in the Instrumental temperature record of the Earth's near-surface air and the oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation....
.

Publications

Recent works, a selection
  • Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and our World [Rochester VT: Inner Traditions, 2008]
  • The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads (Hampton Roads
    Hampton Roads

    Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water and the region of land areas which surround it in southeastern Virginia in the United States. Hampton Roads is notable for its year-round ice-free harbor, for United States Navy, U.S....
    , 2006)
  • Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos : The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality (Inner Traditions, 2006)
  • Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything (Inner Traditions International, 2004)
  • You Can Change the World: The Global Citizen's Handbook for Living on Planet Earth: A Report of the Club of Budapest (Select Books, 2003)
  • The Connectivity Hypothesis: Foundations of an Integral Science of Quantum, Cosmos, Life, and Consciousness (State University of New York Press
    State University of New York Press

    The State University of New York Press , is a university press and a Center for Scholarly Communication. The Press is part of the State University of New York system and is located in Albany, New York....
    , 2003)
  • Evolution: The General Theory (Hampton Press, 1996)
  • The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science (Element Books, Ltd., 1996)
  • The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Hampton Press, 1996)


External links

  • - Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything from The Great Rethinking: Oxford, sponsored by The Prophets Conference
  • founded by Ervin László