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The Upshift
- Author
- Ervin Laszlo
- Publish Date
- 14 June 2022
- Run Time
- 3 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
We live at a historic turning point. The global crisis from which we are emerging is an unique opportunity: it holds vital lessons for our lives and for our future. It makes clear that we are all in the same boat—we are one people with one destiny. But it also makes clear that our boat is unstable and in urgent need of repair, indeed, of redesign.
The political and the business communities are now waking up to the need for serious change, but creating a fundamentally new world doesn’t depend on political and business people, but on the will and the vision of the bulk of the human population—on people like you and me. Do we understand what is at stake, and what it is that we can do about it? Given that the aftermath of a crisis offers the opportunity to create a new world, understanding the nature of the world we could create is crucial. Whether or not we seize the opportunity to create it decides whether we shift up to a sustainable and life-friendly sphere of life, or drift down to growing and ultimately terminal conflict and chaos. In the last count, it decides the destiny of the human species on earth.
Creating a world in which we live in harmony with each other and with life on the planet is feasible. But to create it we must know how to live more wisely in our own life, right here and now. This is the task and the opportunity we discuss in this book. Waking up and acting on it is in our own vital and immediate interest.
The Upshift is to help you meet the challenge of our epoch. It is a handbook for urgent action—for wiser living by you and by me, and by all conscious and ethical people in the womb of a delicately balanced web of life on our precious home planet.
Critics Review
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“The Upshift is a perfect blend of rock-solid science, spiritual philosophy and common sense woven into a practical guide to life in the post-pandemic world!”
Gregg Braden, author of The Wisdom Codes
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“Your book, right now here today, is the most important book out there. It’s a blueprint. It’s not necessarily easy being the change you want to see in the world—it takes some very conscious decisions. But your book is so important for people today that I cannot thank you enough.”
Michael Sandler, host of The Inspire Nation Show
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“Road map for liberation.”
Deepak Chopra, MD
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“Ervin Laszlo offers a road map for liberation from suffering that satisfies our deepest yearnings. It’s scientific and spiritual at the same time.”
Deepak Chopra, MD
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“If you are looking for hope, for a ‘way out’ of our present situation, for real solutions, and for crystal clarity in how to apply them right now, read The Upshift by Ervin Laszlo immediately. Your search will end—and your yearned-for future can begin—on its pages. Thank you, Ervin, for capturing all we need to know, and sharing all we need to do, for us to produce all we need to experience in order to meet the promise of our highest and most loving-for-all tomorrow.”
Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God
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“Ervin Laszlo, our generation’s greatest planetary philosopher, author of so many books that helped shape my awareness, has written a simple, clear set of steps we can all follow to create the thriving human society in harmony with our planet that, in our hearts, we know is possible.”
Hazel Henderson, author of Creating Alternative Futures
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Details
- Author
- Ervin Laszlo
- Narrator
- Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki
- Duration
- 3 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 June 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200982851
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Environmental science, engineering and technology, Conservation of the environment, Social forecasting, future studies, Social classes, Society and culture: general, Spiritualism, Chakras, auras and spiritual energy
Synopsis
We live at a historic turning point. The global crisis from which we are emerging is an unique opportunity: it holds vital lessons for our lives and for our future. It makes clear that we are all in the same boat—we are one people with one destiny. But it also makes clear that our boat is unstable and in urgent need of repair, indeed, of redesign.The political and the business communities are now waking up to the need for serious change, but creating a fundamentally new world doesn’t depend on political and business people, but on the will and the vision of the bulk of the human population—on people like you and me. Do we understand what is at stake, and what it is that we can do about it? Given that the aftermath of a crisis offers the opportunity to create a new world, understanding the nature of the world we could create is crucial. Whether or not we seize the opportunity to create it decides whether we shift up to a sustainable and life-friendly sphere of life, or drift down to growing and ultimately terminal conflict and chaos. In the last count, it decides the destiny of the human species on earth.Creating a world in which we live in harmony with each other and with life on the planet is feasible. But to create it we must know how to live more wisely in our own life, right here and now. This is the task and the opportunity we discuss in this book. Waking up and acting on it is in our own vital and immediate interest.The Upshift is to help you meet the challenge of our epoch. It is a handbook for urgent action—for wiser living by you and by me, and by all conscious and ethical people in the womb of a delicately balanced web of life on our precious home planet.
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