Ervin Laszlo

EPISODE N. 6 | ROGER NELSON – Today we are honored to welcome the American scientist and researcher, and retired Princeton scholar, Roger Nelson for an in depth discussion on randomness, technology, and consciousness; including his research on Random Number Generators and its relevance to human connection.

Roger also shares some of his thoughts about Artificial Intelligence and his favorite quote from the Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

EPISODE N. 5 | HOWARD MARTIN (HEARTMATH) – Today’s episode with Howard Martin was recorded in two parts, the first with Howard and Alison, and the second part also includes Ervin Laszlo. Howard Martin is an author, business executive, and Executive Vice President, HeartMath LLC.

The HeartMath Institute is a non-profit organization committed to helping awaken the heart of humanity. HMI believes that when we align and connect our hearts and minds and connect with others, we awaken the higher mental, emotional and spiritual capacities that frequently lie dormant.

Our conversation today covered a range of fascinating subjects including HeartMath’s Heart Sensor App technology (i.e. The Inner Balance Trainer, available for Apple and Android devices), Heart Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence, and the path to a more compassionate world.

May the force be with you!

    (Star Wars greeting) 

Dawn of An Era of Well-Being is the podcast that brings together some of the world’s most innovative thinkers to weigh in on matters concerning the future of ourselves and our planet—and to discuss that future not as something to be predicted, but to be created.

In each episode, your hosts Ervin Laszlo and Frederick Tsao, and moderator Alison Goldwyn will converse with guests from numerous disciplines to help us navigate a new worldview which derives its wisdom from a synthesis of ancient and modern, East and West, and science and spirituality. From these seemingly divergent perspectives, we will demonstrate how to we can create a new narrative and usher in the dawn of a better era.

Humankind today is facing monumental challenges. We know now, more than ever before, that we must change or perish. Worldviews are the foundation of culture, and the challenges we face have presented us with an opportunity to move to a new worldview linking ancient and modern, East and West, science and spirituality.

In his new book, Dawn of an Era of Well-Being: New Paths to a Better World, world-renowned philosopher Ervin Laszlo provides ideas that will be of practical value as the human community sets about the enormous task of building a better world.

Hungarian philosopher Ervin Laszlo (Reconnecting to the Source) melds science and spiritual practice in this shrewd guide to enlightened living. He begins by highlighting the need to live a life that is both healthy for Earth and beneficial to oneself, stressing that if readers “think globally, [their] life [will] become richer and healthier.” Laszlo explores how spiritual thinking, which is concerned with “experiential and presentational” knowledge, and the concept of “oneness” allows access to knowledge beyond one’s sensual understandings of the natural world.

In this book, Ervin Laszlo recounts the story of his life, describing its fundamental transformations from musician to academic to global activist. But this story, he tells the reader, is more than an entertaining read – it also conveys a message. It shows that the quest that has marked Laszlo’s life is profound and meaningful, and important also for the reader. It is the quest find the purpose that underlies our life. Laszlo marshals scientific evidence that life is not a meaningless accident, but the expression of a universal drive in nature: the drive toward the evolution of complex and coherent systems, and of the consciousness that is associated with the systems. 

"In this interdependent and interacting quantum universe, this discovery endows your life, and all you do in your life, with supreme meaning and significance. By any measure, Ervin Laszlo has lived an extraordinary life that has unfolded within time as well as outside of time, and the world is a better place because he chose to do so." – Gregg Braden, in his Introduction to this book 

To be released by Select Books, New York in September 2021

The great quest is already starting: finding the good way, the “royal road,” toward a better world. Recreating the old world is not an option—it is literally a dead-end. Then what is the right way: what road can take us from here to there—from a crisis-ridden uncertain and chaotic world to a world that offers a better, higher quality of life to the presently suffering and disoriented people of the human family?

The common narrative of spiritual accounts of this story of unity and coherence being (re)discovered by science is that of oneness.  Indeed, while the holotropic paradigm is gaining purchase through areas of scientific research in the sciences of complexity, quantum physics, cosmology, psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology and similar transdisciplinary and integral fields of study, spiritual traditions have long asserted the communion of all with all.