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It's time to open our collective mind.

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Our world is divided, conflict-torn, socially and ecologically unsustainable. We can not remain as we are, nor can we go back to the the conditions that are now behind us. We can only move forward, but not on the same path we have been following until now. We need to find a new direction for our individual and collective future. 

Hello, we’re Alice and we are always in a state of wander. Ervin László, philosopher and systems scientist, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Process spoke with us in 2002. He told us: “Holos arrives if and when there is a real transformation of consciousness. It is the next age in a positive development. We need to work towards it because the age of Logos, which is the current age, is not sustainable as it is. It’s a mechanical, fragmented age. And Holos has to be a whole system culture change. A change from Logos to Holos."

From Logos to Holos

The Greek word logos means reason, logic.
The Greek word holos means entire or whole.

According to Dr. László, human society has passed through three major stages—Mythos, Theos and Logos and is on the verge of its next, and perhaps final stage, Holos. But the transition from our Logos civilization to Holos, like those before it, is not automatic. There is a real possibility that our civilization may fail to make the leap, in which case it will almost certainly break down into global anarchy. But as pragmatic optimists, ALICE believes that humanity can succeed and witness the birth of the first truly global civilization. We are already living in a global village, but still acting in very much tribal, separate village terms. Our challenge is to move to a holistic mindset, where we can all live together on this planet. It will have many implications for our consciousness, for the way we perceive the world, for the way we relate to each other, for the values we hold. The big challenge is to open our mind and to pave the way towards this transformation if we are to avert major social, ecological, political and economic problems that face the world today.

We interrupt 2023 to bring you an idea whose time has come.

Below is an excerpt from a 2002 visit with Dr. Ervin László…

"If we continue destroying the planet, pushing more people below the margins of survival the change will not come, I don’t think, by peaceful methods. Nor will it come by current political expediency. Or either by current business expediency, because the current logic is a short-term logic. It attacks the problems that surface to the extent where they create a crisis. But it doesn’t look forward, it doesn’t look ahead to the kind of problems that are on the horizon, which are not yet on a level where they create a major problem, a major crisis. Or actually some of them are already a major crisis in the world, like hunger for example, or health problems, or the water situation. But they are being ignored conveniently by the leadership, because it’s not expedient to deal with it for the time being.

So that in all respects we need to open the mind, our collective, individual and collective mind, to the kind of world in which we live, which is an unsustainable world, and also open the mind to the possibility of creating the holos world—which would be a sustainable and humane world, which can be created because the technologies are there, the human structures are there, the political-economic structures can be transformed.

Everything is basically available, it is possible to live well on this planet for maybe eight, nine billion people, provided we make best use of the resources that are available, provided we are not working against each other, but together, with each other, and can share the natural resources and make sure that our lifestyles aren’t all consumption patterns. And prevent other people from having access to the resources. So this is a cultural challenge. We have to change our mind, we have to live in a different way. Starting with our individual lifestyles, our consumption patterns, our political behaviors, the way we communicate to others. Because all these things are contagious. They can travel very fast over the world. Now the world, much of the world, has a very elevated idea of what it is to live well. It’s a dangerous, outmoded idea that would allow maybe one and a half to two billion people to live on this planet and the rest would be pushed below the margins of subsistence. If they would, more people would try to live like this, they couldn’t. Our dominant culture is obsolete. There is another culture rising and we have to see that we promote cultural change, so that a new and sustainable culture evolves in this world.”

Not Only Children, We Are Citizens of the Solar System

We need to revitalize some traditional ideas, of belonging to the Earth, of being one with humanity, with nature. And of thinking ourselves as children of the solar system, instead of just being this skin-and-clothes, ego-bound individuals, who only have their own good at heart and to whom everything else and everybody else is a stranger and of no direct concern—Dr. László

“In all of traditional societies there has been a feeling of collectivity, of belongingness. I mean all viable societies. Now I think it’s time to come back to this concept of belonging. To a larger community, the community of life on Earth. Which is itself part of the community of the solar system, part of the galaxy, part of the universe. So this is a cultural change, it’s a change in consciousness. And that I think is the key in creating a future that’s livable. And it’s enduring.”

According to László, traditional indigenous societies were fully aware of nonmaterial connections and incorporated them into their daily life. “The modern world, however, continues to dismiss and even deny these intangible links—taking as real only that which is physically manifest or proved ‘scientifically.’ Consequently, our mainstream culture is spiritually impoverished, and the world we live in has become disenchanted.”

In his book The Akashic Experience, László covers the firsthand accounts of 20 leading authorities in fields such as psychiatry, physics, philosophy and anthropology, and their interactions with a cosmic memory field that can transmit information to people without having to go through the senses—evidenced by cutting-edge science. Known as the Akashic field, their experience shows that there is a cosmic memory field that contains all information—past, present, and future. He posits that the “quantum vacuum” is the fundamental energy and information-carrying field.

In Science and the Akashic Field, he describes how such an informational field can explain why our universe is so improbably fine-tuned as to form galaxies and conscious life forms; and why evolution is an informed, not random, process. “These wave packets (the Akashic field), don’t only store information occurring in the present moment, they contain all information, every thought, every deed, every development that has ever happened since this universe’s existence.”

László explained what we can do with this information field…

“So, if we can learn to make use of this information, there’s tremendous advances that will be possible in our ability to know, to perceive, to communicate. Because information is carried in this field, regarding all things that exist in space and time. The question of reading it is rather like an internet. The internet has this hundreds of millions of sites on it. Information of staggering proportion is there. Now when you enter on it, you can pick out anything you want.. Same with your mind, we can pick out information, but what we are not doing so far is accessing this particular cosmic internet, because the western mindset is such that it believes that it doesn’t exist. And if a child has some intuition, some feelings about scenes or people or environments that he couldn’t have, that he or she couldn’t have experienced in their lifetime, then the parents tell him don’t be silly, you’re just imagining things.

When they have day dreams or night dreams, which bring us to other situations that we have not experienced in our lifetime, then we just dismiss them as idle fantasies, our brain working, without any external connection to it. So we basically think that nothing enters our brain or our mind than what goes through our senses. And that means that all of this spontaneous information through the cosmic internet, through this information field, is being filtered out. Now this is the case for western civilization. It’s not the case for traditional civilization, nor for eastern, highly evolved, sophisticated civilizations, which are relying very greatly on information of extra-sensorial origin. Traditional people, of course, are in contact with each other, they use it, very much, to orient themselves. There’s a lot of anthropological evidence of this kind.

So now for the past 250, 300 years, in the western world we believe that nothing else exists, but what we can see and hear and touch. Or taste, or feel. And this impoverishes our consciousness, and our lives. So the implications are there, and through the latest theories in sciences, we could recognize that the world has a memory that could enrich our lives.”

Imagination is a Field of Information

“Artists and children, of course, are remarkable for their ability to be able to access this information… what we call artistic intuition or inspiration. Or the creativity imagination of children has a very generous dose of information that is beyond the level of the senses. I believe also that the creation of great genius—I certainly do not want to deprecate this great genius, but I don’t think it’s a purely individual creation—it’s the ability of the genius to pick up information.

We know for example in some extreme cases such as Mozart, extreme creativity, he tells us in his letters that his compositions come to him overnight, in his sleep. And they come complete. All he has to do the next morning is sit down and write it down. So our brain, our consciousness, is not really a creator of all the information that we get other than the input of our senses. But it’s really, it’s a receiver. Receiver and emitter. So it’s what we would call in technological terms a transceiver.

Our brain is really a very sophisticated transceiver. We are constantly interacting with the world around us, with the whole cosmos around us. We need to enable our brain to operate in a way that this information penetrates to our waking consciousness. So I think that the next development may well be, in which we are operating on a much broader wavelength, broadband brain, you might say. 

And in that case we should be able to have much more access than we have today. And we should be able to relate to each other and to nature in a much closer way because we recognize that we have this constant input, constant communication, so that we are not separated of, we don’t end at the limits of our skin, and our information doesn’t cease when we close our eyes and ears. That it’s there constantly, basically. And all through our sleeping and waking states, the information is coming. The question is to allow it to penetrate to our everyday consciousness. So we can work with it. So, we need to develop this kind of knowledge. But the evidence is there. And speaks very clearly. In altered states we have a broadband reception in our brain. Whereas in the ordinary western kind of mindset state, consciousness state, our band is rather narrow."

Frequency (as ALICE has explored previously), is that broadband brain. No doubt we are in the midst of a radical social and humanitarian transition, one in which we can exert our interdependent and collective forces to uplift our human potential. Real, transformative, and sustainable change will come only with shifts in human values and consciousness, and in the development of new ideas that will allow us to operate on this planet in fundamentally different ways. Real change will come only from us, the children of the solar system.

We feel your vibes Dr. László, thank you.

What Else We Are Wondering…

👁‍🗨 Citizens of the Solar System… Z to A of the ideas that keep the world spinning.

📘 The Survival Imperative: Upshifting to Conscious Evolution, A Guide to Returning Peace and Harmony to the Planet is Ervin László’s newest book. With humanity facing its greatest series of simultaneous crises, László offers a scientifically based perspective on what is called for at this critical juncture of our existence: A phase of upshift to higher levels of order and coherence to keep us on our evolutionary path. 

🔍  Global Coherence Research: The Science of Interconnectivity
Global coherence research encompasses a large variety of scientific data to gain new insights into the interconnectedness of human/animal health and behavior and the sun and earth’s magnetic activity. The scientific community is just beginning to appreciate and understand the deeper level of how we are interconnected. We are getting closer to understanding why and how magnetic fields generated by the sun and earth affect human health and behavior—and why it is important to know this.

🔍 Starts with Us
This movement is founded on the beliefs that diversity of thought is a strength that leads to our most innovative ideas and that we must cooperate across our differences to solve the most pressing societal challenges of our time.

🔍 A Theory of Everything (Else) 
As soon as you talk about matter and energy, you have to write down the laws that govern matter and energy, but information seems to require fewer assumptions. In the age of computer revolution, it is not a big leap to say that everything can be expressed in information. Jacques Vallée gives us an insight of the limits of physics and introduces us to the theory of information and how it is related to time and coincidences in our lives.

🦋 A Great Wagon Written by Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep.

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👁‍🗨 The Age of Holos with Ervin László, philosopher and systems scientist

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