WorldShift 2012 has already been endorsed by Political, Spiritual and Business Leaders, Cultural Ambassadors, Scientists and Academics and individuals.
Simply click the link below to see what these living legends have to say about WorldShift 2012 and the need to collectively and consciously decide by the end of 2012 that we want to transtition to a peaceful, just and sustainable world and why you need to commit to that process and to engage yourself and those in your networks and communities.
Barbara Marx Hubbard (social innovator, speaker, author, founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and philosophical heir to Buckminster Fuller) endorses the launch of WorldShift 2012 on 9/9/9 in a special video message.
Deepak Chopra (physician, spiritual leader, author, and ayurvedic expert) writes of Ervin Laszlo and the WorldShift 2012 movement...
"We are already living in two worlds. One world moves ahead by inertia from the past—like a massive luxury liner drifting at sea—while the other steps into the unknown—like a child entering the woods for the first time. On the front pages of newspapers and on the evening news, the first world gains the lion’s share of attention. A new crisis deepens yesterday’s crisis in Africa or the Middle East. A fresh humanitarian outrage taints a faraway society. One war replaces another. Despite the sameness of these events, they constitute the news of the world as far as the mass media shows it. Yet this world of inertia and non-change is deceptive. Beyond crisis-driven news, another world is rising. In this book Ervin Laszlo maps this new world and its promise—no one I know is more acutely attuned to it.
The first world is a solid wall that looks impregnable, yet behind it people no longer feel protected. They dream of a shift in consciousness, the revolution that needs only to be asked for and it will begin. Material events are but the outward display of consciousness. Paying attention only to the world of inertia and non-change is like dwelling in illusions. In the 1980s the annual May Day marches of massive Soviet armaments through Red Square didn’t reveal that the Communist system was about to collapse. Armies, wars, ecological disaster, unbridled greed and corruption, skyscraper cities springing up like weeds, a deluge of pesticides and pollutants, streams of refugees without a homeland, tyranny spreading violence without check, pandemic disease: these are the fruits of consciousness, too, but a kind of consciousness that is stuck and unable to raise itself above its self-created problems.
What is so admirable about WorldShift is that we are led directly to this diagnosis and then offered a solution that is also in consciousness. Ervin Laszlo joins a small group of deeply versed thinkers who grasp that all experience occurs in consciousness and nowhere else. This insight saves him from the trap of replacing one style of materialism with another. Those on the right who try to impose democracy on societies that have no basis for democracy in their traditions are hitting their heads against an invisible fact: what you aren’t aware of, you can’t change. Those on the left who promote globalism as new partnerships in trade and economics miss the point that the Americanization of the world—bringing rampant consumerism to traditional societies—can turn out to be destructive, not just to valuable folkways but to the planet. Only a shift in consciousness can save the world from impending perils that are also rooted in consciousness.
Fortunately, the second world—the world of timely change—is poised to save the first. People are beginning to confront the world-shaping trends that this book points out so succinctly:
The dispossessed of the earth are rising and won’t be suppressed in their quest for prosperity. The planet’s sustainable resources will be depleted unless human beings find a sustainable way of life in accord with Nature. Materialism has reached its historical apogee and will decline or self-destruct through accelerating degradation of the ecology.
As viewed from the first world, these are such overwhelming threats that the response of governments has been to look the other way or to make little more than symbolic gestures at reform. From the perspective of the second world, it’s no surprise that governments are stymied, because the policies that despoiled the earth can’t be expected to renew it, either by doing less or doing more.
Among his many utterly cogent points, Ervin Laszlo declares that we need a new way to be happy. For me, this is the deepest and most salient point. When an American housewife drives her car to the supermarket, purchases brightly packaged processed food, leaves a full garbage can out on the curb, and sprays a can of insecticide to kill the aphids in her rose garden, none of these actions seem destructive—she’s simply doing the ordinary things we all do in our pursuit of happiness. But happiness based on waste, toxins, depletion of fossil fuels, and endless consumer goods—the paradise we have all chased since the end of World War II—can’t be sustained. Still less can we sustain the massive military forces that serve to shut out 90 percent of humankind so that the privileged 10 percent can promote a worldview that over time will spell the end of their existence along with everyone else’s.
When stated like that, the future seems dire. So it comes as a relief that this handbook for conscious change goes beyond superficial pessimism or optimism, offering instead a new way to be happy. Without a doubt the outmoded world of materialism is leading to greater unhappiness, through pollution, overpopulation, lack of nourishing food and water, and the loss of natural habitats: a sizable percentage of the world’s population already experiences these deficits. Timely change through a shift in consciousness can bring about a new model of happiness based on the principles of higher consciousness. The Indian spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti, not one for blithe cheerfulness, used to say, with justice, that to live beyond the simple needs of a modest house, good food, a few well-fitted clothes, and other necessities was not to become more happy. Quite the opposite. To the extent that we look outward for happiness, the final result will be boredom, stagnation, and bitter disappointment.
WorldShift is about an outer world built on inner realization. Such a world is possible, as this book shows, and indeed is already being born in the hearts of millions of people. The front pages of newspapers and the evening news on CNN aren’t reporting this shift, but scientist-philosophers like Ervin Laszlo have already laid a foundation upon which magnificent edifices may soon rise. Higher consciousness, which has been evolving through human beings for centuries, is seeding a garden of hope and promise."
Dr Jude Currivan speaking at the launch of WorldShift 2012 at The British Museum on 09/09/09
"At the launch of WorldShift2012 and on this momentous day of 9.9.9, I’d like to whole-heartedly endorse the message of its Declaration. Not only to sound a wake-up call to the very real state of global emergency that we are in, but the hope and opportunity for the emergence of a collective breakthrough.
If we are personally ill, when we have a dis-ease; to heal, we don’t just deal with the symptoms, we seek to understand and treat the causes of the dis-ease. The Worldsift2012 Declaration is a clear diagnosis that we have a collective dis-ease. Its symptoms are the economic, social and environmental issues that have brought us all to the threshold of a potential breakdown. But its cause is ultimately our collective underlying world-view.
So if we are to heal our collective dis-ease, we need to radically change our view of the world.
The mainstream scientific perspective of the world – that we have collectively adopted - is of a fragmented, meaningless and solely materialistic universe where consciousness is merely the random outcome of evolutionary forces. Such a sterile and limited worldview has dis-membered our collective psyche; it has split our hearts from our minds, created a rift between our inner and outer experiences of reality and separated us from each other, the Earth and the wider Cosmos.
Only by expanding our worldview beyond its current and unsustainable limits, can we transform the potential of a global breakdown, into a collective breakthrough.
Just as we can’t understand the nature of the ocean by looking only at the waves on its surface, neither can we understand the nature of the Cosmos just by studying the physical universe. Yet mainstream science currently tries to persuade us that we can fully understand the nature of reality solely by investigating the material world and reducing it to its basic components. That’s like trying to analyze a Shakespeare play or a symphony by Mozart only through their letters or notes – it doesn’t even describe them, let alone understand or experience them.
If such science were able to comprehensively describe the universe, then it might have reason to be authoritative. Not only are the current theories that describe the minute world of the quantum and the large-scale world of relativistic spacetime fundamentally incompatible, but over the last few years, discoveries by astronomers have identified that the universe appears to be comprised of only 4% of the matter and energy we are aware of and can measure and an enormous 96% of so-called dark matter and dark energy the nature of which is as yet completely unknown.
So the mainstream science that tries to convince us that it can explain the ocean of reality can’t even explain the froth on top of the waves on its surface!
Physicists hope that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will resolve many of the problems with their current theories. But their search still completely ignores the ‘elephant in the room’ - the nature of consciousness, the understanding of which is key to answering the questions of not only how the universe is as it is – but why?
However, at the leading edge of science and at the frontier of research into consciousness a revolutionary, comprehensive and empowering new vision of the Cosmos and a deeper understanding of the nature of reality itself is emerging.
The emerging vision reconciles science with consciousness and universal spiritual wisdom and offers us the opportunity not only to understand the Cosmos at a more fundamental level but to re-member who we really are. Its discoveries show that we can no longer separate mind from matter, body from soul and ourselves from a reality that is intrinsically integral. In this transformational vision of the nature of integral reality, our existence has meaning and purpose.
Crucially this revolutionary vision of the Cosmos means that we are not only the creation of cosmic mind but the ultimate co-creators of our realities. And as co-creators, our consciousness – on many different levels of perception - is far more powerful than most of us have previously thought.
Our fragmented and limited worldview has brought us to the edge of a global breakdown. But this radical new vision of reality and of ourselves is emerging at this tipping point in history as individually and collectively our awareness is expanding in an evolutionary leap of collective awareness that is becoming known as the Shift.
Until recently, the prevalence of the mainstream scientific view of the world has meant that our personal and collective experiences of the Shift have had no context to encompass and validate our expanding awareness.
Instead of clinging on to the old paradigm that has brought us to the edge of catastrophe, we should follow the increasingly compelling evidence, as Marcel Proust once said: ‘the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.’
As the Shift gathers pace, we are literally waking up – and evermore able to becoming more conscious co-creators. The choices we make here and now are crucial to our transforming the tragedy of an impending breakdown into the transcendence of a breakthrough.
If we are willing to take responsibility for our choices and ready to make those choices from love rather than fear, the emerging view of the whole-world shows that we can really transform our personal and collective realities.
But a choice made from love requires us to re-integrate our hearts and minds. Regardless of our gender, we all embody masculine and feminine attributes whose complementarity and balance are key if we are to fully express the wholeness of life and fulfil our human promise. Yet the feminine aspects of our psyche have been marginalized and denigrated. For us to transform a global emergency into an emergence the return of the feminine is crucial – as the ancient wisdom keepers realized – to re-consecrate the sacred marriage within and between us in all aspects of our lives. The full inclusion of the heart-based feminine attributes of caring, compassion, empathy and cooperation within our collective organizations and societies is urgently needed.
As we each ‘show up’ to hear and enact the guidance of the universal heart – that connects us at a higher level of awareness - we fulfil our highest purpose in being here and now. For completion of the Shift is up to all of us. And whilst our personal journeys of self-discovery have been progressively empowering us to understand that ‘I Can Do It’, we need now to go beyond the Me and become the We that together can do it.
The whole-world invites each and every one of us to show up and answer the call to service in whatever way and to whatever extent each of us can manage.
As Archbishop Tutu has said ‘each of us can do something.’ However small your ‘something’ may seem to you, remember that ‘if you think you’re too small to make a difference share a sleeping bag with a mosquito!’ And for those of you who have a dream that seems too enormous to achieve, remember and trust that ‘no one is given a dream without having everything they need within themselves to accomplish it.’
The Declaration of WorldShift2012 isn’t just to acknowledge a global state of emergency, but is a call to action to re-integrate heart, mind and purpose, to re-integrate and fully express the divine feminine in partnership with the divine masculine – within us all. It is a call for us all to follow where the evidence leads to the acknowledgement – and enactment - of a whole-world view. And it offers us all a clarion call, to come together and to dedicate ourselves as ever-more conscious co-creators to envisage and manifest the emergence of a global breakthrough."
Dame Jane Goodall (UN Messenger of Peace, primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute) endorses the launch of WorldShift 2012 on 9/9/9 in a special audio message.
Jose Arguelles (author, artist, founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time, and executive coordinator of the First Noosphere World Forum) endorses the launch of WorldShift 2012 on 9/9/9 in a special video message.
Mikhail Gorbachev (President of the Soviet Union 1985-1991, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1990, founder of The International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies, and co-founder of State of the World Forum) writes of Ervin Laszlo and the WorldShift 2012 movement...
"WorldShift 2012 is a handbook for the twenty-first century that speaks to you in person. Indeed, this is a message that is addressed to you and to all of us. It is written in the hope that you will not only read it, but will also think through the things it tells you. And with the further hope that you will draw the necessary conclusions, your own conclusions, for yourself, your family, your friends, and everyone close to you.
Why did the author of this book, Ervin Laszlo—the famous scientist and humanist, and president of the Club of Budapest—choose this specific form, the form of a message addressed to us, to each and every one of us, his readers?
In general, when someone’s future or some aspect of the world that surrounds us in daily life is in question, we see the gist of the issue fairly easily and quickly. We see the advantages and dangers and draw the conclusions, deciding what steps to take. This is natural, it corresponds with our habits, it is part of our everyday thinking and behavior. For someone living in a complex world, common sense dictates that he or she must think about whether or not to adapt to the given circumstances, or try to change them. The situation is different when we confront problems that affect the whole of the world, the destiny of all humankind. We are not used to questions of such dimensions. It may seem that they are far away and that some time, somehow, they will be solved, indeed that someone “up there” is taking care of them. “Why us? We are only little people.”
This is why the book in our hand, dedicated to global, world-encompassing problems, addresses us in plain and logical language and marshals persuasive evidence. This makes our task easier. The task is simple. Get down to the basics, understand that global problems are not foreign to us. They are our problems. We are all touched by them, and touched by them not any less than we are by ordinary, everyday things. And it is we, each one of us, who not only can understand these problems, but can also do something significant to overcome them.
The fact is that with the passing of time a whole pyramid of diverse problems has been accumulating in every part of the world: social, political, economic, and cultural problems. Contradictions have appeared in society—in a different way in each country, but present all the same—and they have created conflicts and crises. Even wars. The relationship between humans and nature has become more and more complex and strained. The air has become poisoned, rivers polluted, forests decimated. The numbers of contradictions keep growing, and they are becoming deeper. Society is showing the symptoms of sickness.
In our various ways all of us, in every part of the world, have expressed our dissatisfaction with this state of affairs, have demanded changes, and are still demanding them. Isn’t this story familiar? I think it is.
However, at a certain point, these challenges and contradictions become so serious that changes become unavoidable. If the leaders who decide the life of society prove incapable of understanding the necessity for changes, and of doing something about it, people will not put up with them any longer. Violent movements will arise, such as strikes and disturbances. Society will enter a period of crisis. How will the crisis be resolved? This is difficult to predict. Society’s sickness affects every single member, every single citizen, and threatens everyone with suffering. The end result may be an explosion, a bloodbath that nobody wants, yet which comes about spontaneously.
Is there another way out, a path beyond the crisis? The book in our hand gives an answer: yes, there is another way. We must not wait until society’s crisis reaches the danger point. We must act! Every person can act. If everyone does his or her bit, together we can accomplish what is necessary. We can make an impact on those who decide the politics and the destiny of society, and motivate them to begin making the necessary changes. Changes that not only resolve the crisis, but take us on a path of survival, of healthy development for people and nature, and a better quality of life for all. That is our salvation.
The human community has reached the point where it must decide whether it allows events to take their course (and if it does, we will all be put to a difficult test) or whether it manages to make the turning that changes the character and the content of development for the benefit of humankind. To make this decision, we must first become conscious that change is truly necessary. Then we must understand what we must do to avoid the worst, and how we must do it.
This book helps us to understand the current situation of our planet and to find the path we must take. It helps us determine what we must do and how we must do it to ensure our common well-being. The future that confronts us is an open future. All of us—and that includes you, the reader—can do our bit to decide it.
Read this handbook, and start thinking. This is important for you, for your family, for your present or future children and grandchildren, for your friends, and for everyone around you."
Raffi Cavoukian (renowned Canadian troubadour, record producer, systems thinker, author, entrepreneur, ecology advocate, and the founder of Child Honoring) endorses the launch of WorldShift 2012 on 9/9/9 in a special audio message.
Raffi has also kindly added something in the language of music - his Communion Song.
Tomoyo Nonaka (businesswoman and broadcaster, former CEO of Sanyo Electric responsible for making it a leading environmental solutions company, and current Chair of Gaia Initiative) endorses the launch of WorldShift 2012 on 9/9/9 in a special video message.