Laszlo looks to the future
A DOUBLE-Nobel Peace Prize nominee used a holiday in North Cyprus this month to set out his ideas on the way forward for humanity and how to conquer cancer.
Visionary Hungarian philosopher Ervin Laszlo gave a talk at the historic Rüstem bookshop, in the heart of Lefkoşa, on his latest
publication The Intelligence of the Cosmos: Why Are We Here? New Answers from the Frontiers of Science.
The book, a compilation of contributions from Prof Laszlo, primatologist Jane Goodall, social scientists and others “at the forefront of science, cosmology and spirituality” proposes a new way forward for humanity to rediscover its identity and purpose in the world.
“We have lost our perspective,” said Prof Laszlo at the event in Lefkoşa’s walled city. “Technology for short-term goals and the search for power and wealth are outmoded, our natural systems are highly exposed and we are poisoning ourselves on multiple levels from the food we eat to politics and nationalism.”
He said that humankind had fallen into a “zero-sum game” and that people around the world would have to either “kill each other or create something new”.
Prof Laszlo, who has published more than 75 books and over 400 articles and research papers, said that he had spent “decades” scientifically observing “how things emerge from complexity, the basic rhythm of life”.
He described the world as an “interconnected, coherent whole informed by cosmic intelligence” which creates a “complex system in space and time” — a “collective memory bank of humankind” which he called the “Akashic field”.
Prof Laszlo continued: “We do not live in a random universe. Despair and depression are symptoms of an underlying separation from natural evolutionary paths. Consciousness gives us the element of freedom.
“Mind is present in the cosmos and although we cannot see it with our physical senses, we measure it by manifestation.
“We are now discovering a lot of intuitive knowledge that we already ‘knew’. I want to catalyse that ‘Aha!’ moment.” Speaking separately to
Cyprus Today in Çatalköy, he talked about his theories on beating cancer, which are set out in his next book, Conquering Cancer and Extending the Human Lifespan,
due out in September.
“Using information from the embryo of the well-studied zebra fish, with which we share 93 per cent of our DNA, we can re-programme cancer cells by exposing them to information in every living system,” Prof Laszlo explained.
“Life starts with reproduction and once accessed, it is simple to use what is the dialogue between mother and embryo to treat all degenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.”
Prof Laszlo was born in Budapest in May 1932. A child prodigy, he became an international concert pianist before turning to philosophy at the age of 26. He gained a Doctorate in Letters and Human Sciences from the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris.
He founded the Club of Budapest think-tank and the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research before writing his first book, Essential
Society, aged 63, as a “notebook for myself to ask what was artificial and what was real”. Prof Laszlo was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005. He now lives in Tuscany,
Italy.