WorldShift 2012: Making Green Business, New Politics, and Higher Consciousness Work Together - Softcover

"Forewords by Deepak Chopra and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as quotes from other visionaires such as Ekhart Tolle, Paul Hawken, and Albert Einstein, augment WorldShift 2012's message that we can no longer continue with 'business as usual.'" * Susan LosCalzo, New Age Retailer, Feb 2010 * ". . . a challenge for readers to update their ethics and evolve their consciousness in order to achieve 'syntony'--being tuned in to the surrounding world." * Susan LosCalzo, New Age Retailer, Dec 2009 * "[Laszlo] gives us a practical and achievable way to make our world greener and our planet safer by shifting our consciousness towards this view." * Evolve!: Evolutionary Products, People, and Ideas, Vol. 8, No. 4, Nov 2009 * "Think-tank founder and prolific author, Laszlo simply uses the notion of the 2012 breakdown/breakthrough as a vehicle for the tranformation of the world. . . . will appeal . . . to earth-conscious readers . . ." * Library Journal, Oct 2009 * "WorldShift is about an outer world built on inner realization. The higher consciousness that has been evolving through human beings for centuries is seeding a garden of hope and promise. Ervin Laszlo maps this new world and its promise--no one I know is more acutely attuned to it." * Deepak Chopra, from the foreword * "Something is going to happen in 2012, but what that will be is up to us. That is why WorldShift 2012 is so significant as a handbook for this great change--it is the kind of positive cocreative script the world needs in order to conclude and regenerate the cycle on a successful evolutionary note." * Jose Arguelles, author of The Mayan Factor * "This book will help us to evaluate the current situation of our planet and to find the path we must take." * Mikhail Gorbachev, from the foreword *

"WORLDSHIFT is about an outer world built on inner realisation. The higher consciousness that has been evolving through human beings for centuries is seeding a garden of hope and promise. Ervin Laszlo maps this new world and its promise - no one I know is more acutely attuned to it." Deepak Chopra, from the foreword "This handbook for the twenty-first century helps us to understand the current situation of our planet and to determine what we must do and how we must do it to ensure our common well-being." Mikhail Gorbachev, from the foreword The deepening economic crisis and the threat posed by climate change and other social and ecological trends has caused many to despair. But with great danger comes great opportunity - the opportunity for fundamental change that will transform our societies from top to bottom. In WORLDSHIFT 2012, Ervin Laszlo brings together insights for creating sustainable positive change from spiritual leaders, scientists and visionary business people - people such as Albert Einstein, Mohammad Yunus, Vaclav Havel, Eckhart Tolle, Ken Wilber, David Korten, Paul Hawken and Tomoyo Nonaka, former CEO of Sanyo Electronics. He shows how we can replace the limited consciousness of our failing society with the holistic consciousness that is reflected in the unified field of quantum physics: the Akashic field. . Outlines the problems that make today's world prone to breakdown & suggests actions we must adopt in politics, business & everyday life . Replaces the limited consciousness of our failing society with the holistic consciousness that is rooted in the akashic field