Footnotes
*1 Das Wesen der Materie [The Nature of Matter], speech in Florence, Italy, 1944. Archiv zur Geschichte der Max Planck Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797.
*2 See the author’s Science and the Akashic Field (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2004); 2nd ed. (2007).
*3 For a more extensive sampling see Ervin Laszlo with Anthony Peake from The Immortal Mind (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2014).
*4 For details see Laszlo with Peake, The Immortal Mind.
*5 There are various versions of this sentence, which comes from a letter Einstein wrote in 1936 in his native German. It is worthy of note that the German word Geist, translated here as “spirit,” is much more basic and embracing than the esoteric notion of spirit: Geist also means “mind” and “intelligence.” In the context of its implications for science, Einstein’s sentence tells us that a mind or intelligence must be assumed to be present behind the laws of nature.
*6 Interview cited in Laszlo, Science and the Akashic Field (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2007).
†7 Nassim Haramein, in Ervin Laszlo’s What Is Reality? The New Map of Cosmos and Consciousness (New York: SelectBooks, 2016).
*8 Thomas, Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press, 1962).
*9 This refers to the fairy tale of Goldilocks and the three bears. Goldilocks found the house of the three bears and in their absence tried the porridge and the beds and discovered that some are too hot or too big, and others too small and too cold. Finally she found those that are just right—like Earth did in the Milky Way galaxy.
*10 Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos, You Are the Universe (New York: Harmony Books, 2017).
*11 Bruce Lipton, A New Model of Evolution: Realizing Our Positive Future. Paper contributed to the Club of Budapest’s Twentieth Anniversary Conference. See www.theclubofbudapest.com.
*12 Tom Freke, Soul Story: Evolution and the Purpose of Life (London: Watkins, 2017).
†13 Judy Rodgers and Gayatri Naraine, Something beyond Greatness (Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, 2009).
*14 Geraldine Cummins, Beyond Human Personality (London: Psychic Press, 1935).
*15 A phrase from Friedrich Schiller.
*16 Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim: Early Masters (New York: Schocken Books, 1948), 86.
†17 See Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution (New York: Crown Publishing, 2016).
*18 Henryk Skolimowski, The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe (London: Penguin/Arkana, 1994), 3.
*19 See www.theclubofbudapest.com (accessed April 25, 2017).
*20 Joseph Chilton Pearce, Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit (Rochester, Vt.: Park Street Press, 2004), 2.
*21 Joseph H. Bragdon, Companies That Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance (Saltaire, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2016).
*22 Podcast conversation: http://insighttoaction.libsyn.com/-toward-a-new-business-leadership-consciousness (accessed April 27, 2017).
*23 Conversation with Nick Zeniuk, former Ford executive, in podcast episode “Follow the Joy,” published on January 21, 2008, www.management-issues.com/podcasts/48/follow-the-joy and https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/evolutionary-provocateur/id1006636782?mt=2 EP82.
*24 Conversation with Joseph Bragdon, author of Companies that Mimic Life, on the Insight to Action podcast: http://insighttoaction.libsyn.com/how-do-companies-that-mimic-life-perform-financially (accessed April 27, 2017).
*25 Gerardo Ceballos et al, “Accelerated Modern Human–Induced Species Losses: Entering the Sixth Mass Extinction,” Science Advances 1, no. 5 (June 19, 2015).
*26 Shamik Desai, Afterword in Ervin Laszlo’s What Is Reality? The New Map of Cosmos and Consciousness (New York: SelectBooks, 2016), 265–66.
*27 Shamik Desai, See 2020: The World through Troogol Glass, 298 (unpublished manuscript).
†28 Highest is used here metaphorically; technically, it is the lowest frequency band of vibrations.
‡29 Huston Smith, The World’s Religions (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 123.
*30 Shamik Desai, Afterword in Ervin Laszlo’s What is Reality? 266–67.
†31 Roger Housden, Dropping the Struggle: Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have (Novato, Calif.: New World Library, 2016), 40.
*32 Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 39–40.
*33 Fernandez-Armesto, Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, 40.
†34 Edward Conze, Buddhism: Its Essence and Development (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 40.
*35 Fernandez-Armesto, Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, 39–42.
†36 Huston Smith, The World’s Religions, 206.
*37 The Jewish (Hebrew) term for God is Yahweh.
*38 Bruce Lipton, A New Model of Evolution: Realizing Our Positive Future. Paper contributed to the Club of Budapest’s Twentieth Anniversary Conference. See www.theclubofbudapest.com.
†39 Orthodox Muslims would take issue with this, maintaining a sharp distinction between the Creator and His creatures.
*40 Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1959); Richard Courant, preface in R. Courant and David Hilbert, Methods of Mathematical Physics (New York: Wiley, 1937, 1989), v; and Gerald James Holton, The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998).
†41 Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (New York: Oxford University Press USA, reprint edition 1983), 312.
*42 Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), xiv.
*43 Erwin Schrödinger, Nature and the Greeks (Cambridge: University Press, 1954), 93.
*44 Alberto Zucconi, “The Need for Person-Centered Education,” Cadmus 3, no. 1 (2016): 1–26.
*45 William Byers, The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011), 103–104.
*46 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine (Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1970), 3.
†47 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 647.
*48 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 647.
*49 Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics, chapter 4.
†50 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 24.