Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Ervin Laszlo
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April 24 - May 1, 2019
Consciousness is a real element in the real world. The brain and body do not produce it; they display it. And it does not cease when life in the body does. Consciousness is a reflection, a projection, a manifestation of the intelligence that “in-forms” the world.
We are clusters of vibration in-formed by the intelligence of the cosmos. We are harmonies created by the plucking of a cosmic harp, ascending toward more and more encompassing melodies. The harmony of our body is transient, but that of our consciousness may be infinite. We are an infinite consciousness associated with a finite body.
The proximal purposes of our existence encompass the evolution of our consciousness. This is an evolution that enables us to feel empathy, oneness, and unconditional love for people and for the world. It provides us with the orientation we need to progress toward supercoherence in brain and body.
To integrate, harmonize, and unify all things, and at the same time embrace all things in oneness and love, is the Telos of all existence. It is the ultimate Telos of human existence. When all is said and done, it is why we are here.
The receptive mode emphasizes the C values of Connection ~ Communication ~ Consciousness ~ Compassion.
Contrary to this, the object mode emphasizes the alternative C values of Competition ~ Conflict ~ Control ~ Censorship.
a Revolution in Human Being—or rather as a Revolution in Human Becoming.
connection, communication, consciousness, and compassion.
It is imperative that those of us working toward betterment and change maintain a focus on the great opportunities emerging now and not become disheartened by disruptive forces.
To participate effectively—to transmit higher consciousness into the universe—we require the qualities of empathy, understanding, compassion, unconditional love, and above all, service.
The reason for our existence is to evolve through a series of incarnations and improve the vibrational level of the cosmic ground, the Akashic field.
Planetary consciousness is the knowing as well as the feeling of the vital interdependence and essential oneness of humankind, and the conscious adoption of the ethics and the ethos that this entails. (Italics added.)
A small and dedicated group of people, acting at the right time with the right idea, can change the world (Margaret Mead).
If it is to effectively change the world, the small group must act with a more evolved consciousness, because the problems of the world cannot be solved at the level of consciousness at which they were born (Albert Einstein).
A more evolved consciousness is not just to be advocated by the world-changing group; it must be practiced and lived. The group must become the consciousness it ...
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A small and initially seemingly insignificant change in the consciousness of a small group can grow and spread rapidly in the world. Because consciousness is not confined to individual ...
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Spreading and winning the adherence of people, the evolution of consciousness is an idea that is more powerful than any economic, military, or technological measure. There is nothing as powerful in t...
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“the determining factor of how we see the world, of who we are, what the world is, and what we can do in the world. It is the mindset—the totality of preassumptions, assumptions, intuitions, and information about the world, each other, the possibilities, dangers, and opportunities.”*22
Understanding how complex adaptive systems work.
Engaging the power of the human spirit.
Growing self-realization, organizational company-wide consciousness.
The point for business is that meaning supersedes metrics. Rather than capital assets, high-quality, trustworthy relationships between every point on the constellation, from employee to customer to society, create value. Quantity is replaced by the quality of the relationship and the capacity to work with diversity in a fluid, natural way. Restoring coherence to the role of business in society requires that business accept responsibility for the impact of its decisions on the natural world, on society, and on the well-being of employees and customers. Companies operating with this worldview
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The real secret behind Mockus and Peñalosa’s success is that they are two people characterized by extreme honesty and integrity in everything they do. They are two leaders who have the necessary courage to stay true to their visions, even when the opinion polls go against them. Unlike other politicians who are controlled by strategies and tactics,
they have not been driven by a lust for power, only by their ideas and philosophies. And if there is a lesson to be learned by their story, it must be that the change they have managed to bring about could never have come from the traditional political system. It could only have come from the outside.
Socrates said that the secret of change is to focus all our energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
This quote was not actually from Socrates!
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/05/28/socrates-energy/
You may ask: “Why me? Why should I accept responsibility for activating
the deeper purpose of business?” Consider that a beam of sunlight splits into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. If each person represented one of those colors, all the colors could form light. Each person would bring a unique spark to the conversation, to the ultimate goal of bringing humanity into alignment with the intelligence of the cosmos. You are a unique human being, with all its innate potentials. Why not you?
We divinize the world by being “good.” But what does this mean exactly? Laszlo would define goodness as that which promotes complexity, coherence, and compassion.
We are good when we orient our lives to, and harmonize our world with, the oneness of reality—simply put, when we act selflessly.
Latin meaning of virtue as “power”—for the man without virtue is never free.
Once we have mastered ethics (the Ten Commandments of Judaism, the Eightfold Path of Buddhism, the Five Pillars of Islam, and so on), we have mastered ourselves. We now treat others and ourselves justly, and we are ready to move to a higher (or perhaps deeper) level of our spiritual journey: love.
Our present-day worldview—consumptive, short term, numbers worshipping—has infected, even hijacked, most vocations today and brought that which is most sacred under the market fold, creating a world in which right livelihood (as Buddha put it) or good work (as Jesus might say) is difficult to find. Such a worldview undermines purity of intention, and hence is incompatible with a life of spiritual abundance. Ironically, it is also incompatible with material abundance, as creativity flows from pure intentions.
“Materialist Personality.” Atheists, nihilists, existentialists, and many conventional, traditional, and mainstream scientists belong to this category,
“Nonchalant Personality,” which is the “Avoider” personality, one that makes little or no effort to tackle life’s big questions.
“Abdicator Personality.”
“Experiential Personality.”
“Empiricist Personality.”
