Works by
Ervin László
(Writer)
[1932 - ]

The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads (2006)
Seven years to avoid global collapse and promote worldwide renewal.

Global Survival: The Challenge And Its Implications for Thinking And Acting (2005) by Ervin Laszlo and Peter Seidel, eds.
Global Survival: The Challenge and its Implications for Thinking and Acting is a book that is not necessarily ahead of its time. But, if we’re lucky, it has come just in time.

The threats we face as a species and a civilization are staggering, daunting, and all too real. The threat of war, or worse; environmental degradation; social, political, and economic woes; all of these are issues with worldwide implications both for us and future generations. Yet the solutions offered, when offered, are dangerously short-sighted and narrowly focused, often intensifying other equally serious problems -- or even creating new ones.

To address this condition, a group of distinguished thought leaders came together and, in a 2003 edition of the journal World Futures, demonstrated how a broad array of human thought and activities interact to create and intensify the problems we face. This approach, here called Survival Research, could be the methodology that enables us to overcome obstacles to meaningful progress.

Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything (2004)
Introduces the embracing world-concept long sought by scientists, mystics, and sages: an Integral Theory of Everything

• Explains how modern science has rediscovered the Akashic Field of perennial philosophy

• Reveals how the universe stores a record of all that is happening and has ever happened on Earth and throughout the cosmos

• Explores the origins, role, and future of life and consciousness in the universe

Mystics and sages have long maintained that there exists an interconnecting cosmic field at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the Akashic record. Recent discoveries in the new field of vacuum physics now show that this Akashic field is real and has its equivalent in the zero-point field that underlies space itself. This field consists of a subtle sea of fluctuating energies from which all things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings, and even consciousness. This zero-point Akashic-field--or “A-field”-- is not only the original source of all things that arise in time and space; it is also the constant and enduring memory of the universe. It holds the record of all that ever happened in life, on Earth, and in the cosmos and relates it to all that is yet to happen.

Scientist and philosopher Ervin Laszlo conveys the essential element of this vision of the “informed universe” in language that is accessible and clear. The informed universe lends credence to our deepest intuitions of the oneness of life and the whole of creation. We discover that, as philosopher William James stated, “we are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

The Connectivity Hypothesis: Foundations of an Integral Science of Quantum, Cosmos, Life, and Consciousness (2003)
Ervin Laszlo, widely regarded as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, introduces the foundations of a genuine unified theory of the world in this pioneering treatise on the new sciences. In contrast to other unified theories that center mainly on physics, Laszlo's embraces quantum, cosmos, life, as well as consciousness. He delineates the principles of a new physics of universal connectivity and puts forth the corresponding metaphysics, discussing the implications for such philosophical issues as the nature of matter and mind, freedom and morality, and design versus evolution. This landmark book lays the groundwork for the non-materialist and non-reductionist yet rigorous paradigm that is likely to signal the next revolution in science: the "paradigm of universal connectivity."

You Can Change the World:  The Global Citizen's Handbook for Living on Planet Earth: A Report of the Club of Budapest (2003)
You don't have to be a senator or a CEO to make a difference; the changes that can heal the planet begin with you. In this ground-breaking look at the state of the world, distinguished scientist and futurist Ervin Laszlo outlines concrete steps every individual can take right now to change things for the better. You will learn:

• The "Ten Commandments of Responsible Living."

• How to update your belief system to survive in the 21st century.

• How to pressure government, corporations and the media to live up to their responsibilities.

• The two scenarios: Breakdown or Breakthrough. • How to start your own revolution in consciousness.

With contributions from Mikhail Gorbachev, Paulo Coelho, and Masami Saionji, this is a practical handbook for the citizen who doesn't want to wait for government and big business to fix the problems of the world. Part political action handbook, part spiritual guide, this is a book for everyone who cares about the future of our planet.

3rd Millennium: The Challenge and the Vision: The Club of Budapest Report on Creative Paths of Human Evolution (1997)

Changing Visions: Human Cognitive Maps: Past, Present, and Future (1996) by Allan Combs, Ervin Laszlo, Robert Artigiani, and Vilmos Csanyi
We all carry a picture of the world in our mind, but is that "map" an assuredly true layout of the reality that surrounds us? If not, how can we use it to guide our steps toward the 21st century and beyond without creating shocks and surprises that impair our well-being and threaten our survival? We shall not survive, either as individuals or as a species, if our maps fail to reflect accurately the nature of the world that surrounds us. The authors attempt, through reviewing the origins, development, and current changes in individual and social cognitive maps, to prompt readers to become more conscious of their own map, and hence be better able to adapt it to the exigencies of our changing world. The book ends with a vision of the global bio- and socio-sphere: the unified cognitive map which is emerging in laboratories and workshops of the new physics, the new biology, the new ecology, and the avant-garde branches of the social and historical sciences. But Changing Visions recognizes that these sciences alone cannot promote the formation of faithful maps of lived reality, and that religion, common sense, and even art can fill in and sharpen one's world-picture.

Evolution : The General Theory (1996)

The Creative Cosmos: A Unified Science of Matter, Life and Mind (1996)

The Systems View of the World : A Holistic Vision for Our Time (1996)
There is more to science than observation, experiment and mathematical formulas: there is also an implicit and vitally important view of the world. this book is the fruit of over three decades of research by Laszlo, foremost systems scientist and integrative thinkers; it is a clear and comprehensive statement of what the new sciences tell us about living nature, the universe, and ourselves.

Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science (1996)

The Interconnected Universe: Conceptual Foundations of Transdisciplinary Unified Theory (1995)
This book offers an original hypothesis capable of unifying evolution in the physical universe with evolution in biology; here with it lays the conceptual foundations of "transdisciplinary unified theory". The rationale for the hypothesis is presented first; then the theoretical framework is outlined, and thereafter it is explored in regard to quantum physics, physical cosmology, micro- and macro-biology, and the cognitive sciences (neurophysiology, psychology, with attention to anomalous phenomena as well). The book closes with a variety of studies, both by the author and his collaborators, sketching out the implications of the hypothesis in regard to brain dynamics, cosmology, the concept of space, phenomena of creativity, and the prospects for the elaboration of a mature transdisciplinary unified theory. The Foreword is written by philosopher of science Arne Naess, and the Afterword is contributed by neuroscientist Karl Pribram.

The Choice: Evolution or Extinction? A Thinking Person's Guide to Global Issues (1994)

Evolution: The Grand Synthesis (1987) by Ervin László and Jonas Salk

African and Arab Co-operation for Development (1984)

Disarmament, the Human Factor: Proceedings of a Colloquium on the Societal Context for Disarmament, Sponsored by Unitar and Planetary Citizens (1981)

Eastern Europe and the New International Economic Order: Representative Samples of Socialist Perspectives
(1980), Ervin Laszlo and Joel Kurtzman, eds.

Goals in a Global Community: The Original Background Studies for the Goals for Mankind -- A Report to the Club of Rome (1980)

Goals for Mankind: A Report to the Club of Rome on the New Horizons of Global Community (1977)

The World System: Models, Norms, Applications (1973), Ervin László, ed.