EP 82 — Ervin Laszlo: The Future of Man?

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Paul Chek

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🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

What are the real challenges facing our world? And, how do we begin to return our lives to a greater sense of harmony?

Two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the founder of general evolution theory and systems philosophy Ervin Laszlo describes how to navigate our way past the synthetic world and back to a greater sense of oneness in this philosophical Living 4D podcast.

Special guest James Phelps also joins the podcast to take a deeper look into some of meatier spiritual issues Paul and Ervin discuss.

Learn more about Ervin’s work at his website and the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research on Facebook.

Show Notes

Erwin was a child prodigy and concert pianist. (6:25)
Erwin used curiosity, a fundamental part of being human, to guide him through life. (10:08)
The consequences of living in a synthetic world. (16:01)
“Almost all diseases stem from a basic lack of connection.” (29:31)
At their essence, our lives originated with cooperation. (36:46)
Depression: A lack of connection, energy and vitality. (48:27)
You cannot be afraid to examine opposing viewpoints. (58:58)
Can a crisis be a good thing? (1:08:41)
Even young adults are noticing the effects of disconnection. (1:21:40)
Is fundamentalism breaking down? (1:28:30)
Fundamentalism has a much harder time existing because the Internet makes our world a bit “smaller.” (1:42:11)
There’s big differences between science and scientists and technicians and technology. (1:52:24)
Science for profit versus science for understanding. (2:00:53)
“Primarily, nature is a cooperative enterprise.” (2:17:58)
“If you had to live your life all over again, would you happy with how it’s turning out right now?” (2:27:29)

Resources

Reconnecting to the Source, The Intelligence of the Cosmos and Simply Genius! by Ervin Laszlo
Ervin Laszlo’s Legacy of a Coherent Universe on Gaia
The music of Hilary Stagg
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music by Victor Wooten
Adam Smith: Father of Economics by Jesse Norman
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop
The work of John Wheeler and Huston Smith
Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Nir Eyal

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0:00.0	we have started operating as though we were separate from this world,
0:05.1	as though we could create our own environment, our own future.
0:09.5	And in many respects, this is of course an exercise in freedom and it's laudable and it's marvelous,
0:16.8	but it also has to be aware, it has to be conscious, aware of what the limits are, what the bounds are.
0:25.0	These bounds are very generous, but it's not everything is possible.
0:30.0	So I think we are seeing now the consequences on nature, on society, on each other, of having moved into a synthetic world. Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek. Today Paul is talking with Ervin Lasslow.
0:56.0	Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Professor Lasslow is the prolific author or co-author of 54 books translated into 24 languages and about
1:07.6	400 research papers and articles.
1:11.6	A resident of Italy, he is the longtime editor of the acclaimed international periodical,
1:17.0	World Futures, the Journal of General Evolution, founder of two international think tanks, Club of Budapest and General Evolution
1:27.3	Research Group, he is also the founder and director of the Latslow Institute of New Paradise Research, a global think tank dedicated
1:36.7	to exploring and expanding the frontiers of science and consciousness. Hi everybody, I'd like to begin this podcast by saying thank you all for joining me and for
1:49.0	buying products from our sponsors, which really helps me have enough income to keep the
1:54.2	podcast going, as I'm sure you can imagine.
1:56.4	It does take a lot of my time.
1:59.2	And I'd also like to thank you and give you a great big hug through the airways for sharing the
2:03.4	podcast with other people so we can grow it together and spread the word. If you
2:08.5	enjoy it, I'm sure you'd like others to enjoy it. Today I'm really excited to introduce my guest today, actually
2:15.4	two guests today, but I'm going to start by saying that in my library there's a
2:19.7	literal storehouse of books of the greatest geniuses in many areas of science,
2:23.6	health, religion, metaphysics, and more. In my collection of excellent books are
2:27.8	about a dozen books by one of my heroes, Ervin Lazlow. He's a systems theorist and expert in many different fields of science,
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