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TAMIL NATION LIBRARY:
Unfolding Consciousness
[see also From
Matter to Life to Mind: An Unfolding Consciousness ]
About the Authors
Ervin Laszlo is currently President of the Club of Budapest,
Science Director for the University for Peace in Berlin and
adviser to the Director General of UNESCO. He has written
numerous papers and articles as well as over 50 books
including The Whispering Pond. He resides in Italy.
Stanislave Grof heads the Grof Transpersonal Training
Program and teaches at the California Institute of Integral
Studies. Described by Charles Tart as "the world's leading
authority on the deep exploration of the mind and the soul,"
his books include The Holotropic Mind (with Hal Zina
Bennett) and The Cosmic Game. He lives in Northern
California.
Peter Russell was voted "Eco-Philosopher Extraordinaire" by
the American environmental magazine Buzzworm. He earned
degrees in theoretical physics, psychology, and computer
science at the University of Cambridge, England. He is the
author of ten books, including The Upanishads, From Science
to God: A Physicist's Journey into the Mystery of
Consciousness, and The TM Technique. His home is in Northern
California.
 About
the Book - Editorial Review
"LASZLO: There is a real question about whether we can go
on in today's world as we have been until now without
triggering breakdowns and...so instead of discussing the
usual things that all the think tanks always discuss, just
how many trees that we must cut down or not cut down and
other strategic questions and implications, we should look
squarely at the fundamental issue. I suspect that the first
things we should be asking are where we are, what we are,
and how we look at the world and at ourselves..."
In The Consciousness Revolution, three pioneers at the
cutting-edge of Western thought reflect on the chances of
peace in the world, on how society is changing, and on the
changes we can make in ourselves. They consider the roles of
art, science, education, goals and values, world views,
religion, spirituality and, above all, consciousness - for
the state of our consciousness is the key issue underlying
almost everything else.
As Ken Wilber asks in his Foreword, what does it all finally
come down to? Peter Russell puts it like this: 'Each little
bit counts we are all part of the same ground-swell. The
most important question we need to ask is how can I put my
own life in greater alignment with that ground-swell? How
can I do my little one-hundred-thousandth worth to
facilitate that shift a bit further?'
These intense and memorable discussions among three of the
finest minds of our time convey a sense of excitement and
passion which we can carry forward in our own lives. The
Consciousness Revolution is an essential guide to how our
map of reality is changing in the midst of the global
transformation going on in all parts of the world and in
every sphere of life, in us and around us. |
