Category: Mind

"Our consciousness is not a permanent fixture. Different levels of human consciousness, with progressive evolution from the lowest to the highest, were envisaged by almost all the great spiritual traditions. Consciousness evolution is from the ego-bound to the transpersonal form. It could produce more empathy among people, and greater sensitivity to animals, plants, and the entire biosphere. It could create subtle contact with other parts of the cosmos. A society hallmarked by transpersonal consciousness is not likely to be materialistic and self-centered."

Ervin Laszlo - Science and the Akashic Field - An integral theory of everything

"All we experience in our lifetime - all our perceptions, feelings, and thought processes – have cerebral functions associated with them. These functions have waveform equivalents since our brain, like other things in space and time, creates information-carrying vortices - it "makes waves." The waves propagate in the vacuum and interfere with the waves created by the bodies and brains of other people, giving rise to complex holograms. Generations after generations of humans have left their holographic traces in the A-field. These individual holograms integrate in a superhologram, which is the encompassing hologram of a tribe, community, or culture. The collective holograms interface and integrate in turn with the super-superhologram of all people. This is the collective information pool of humankind, and we can read this information." 

Ervin Laszlo - Science and the Akashic Field - An integral theory of everything

"Beyond the puzzle-filled world of the mainstream sciences, a new concept of the universe is emerging. The established concept is transcended; in its place comes a new/old concept: the informed universe, rooted in the rediscovery of ancient tradition's Akashic Field as the vacuum-based holofield. In this concept, the universe is a highly integrated, coherent system, much like a living organism. Its crucial feature is information that is generated, conserved, and conveyed by and among all its parts. This feature is entirely fundamental. It transforms a universe that is blindly groping its way from one phase of its evolution to the next into a strongly interconnected system that builds on the information it has already generated." 

Ervin Laszlo - Science and the Akashic Field - An integral theory of everything

"The resulting “integral theory of everything” takes information as a fundamental factor in the world. It recognizes that ours is not just a matter – and energy – based universe, but rather an information-based “informed universe.” The A-field is a kind of active memory field encompassing space (it is everywhere) and time (it endures)."

Ervin Laszlo - Science and the Akashic Field - An integral theory of everything

The A-field takes its place among the fundamental fields of the universe, joining science's G-field (the gravitational field), EM-field (the electromagnetic field), and the various nuclear and quantum fields, which cannot be seen heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. This field is not an imaginary phantasm for it produces an effect and its effect can be perceived. The A-field conveys information, and this information, subtle as it is, has a notable effect: it makes for correlation and creates coherence.

Ervin Laszlo - Science and the Akashic Field - An integral theory of everything

"The quantum vacuum generates the holographic field that is the memory of the universe. The information field that links quanta and galaxies in the physical universe and cells and organisms in the biosphere also links the brains and minds of humans in the sociosphere. This A-field creates the human information pool that Carl Jung called the collective unconscious and Teilhard de Chardin the noosphere."

Ervin Laszlo - Science and the Akashic Field - An integral theory of everything