Becoming At Home in the Cosmos
“In ages past the connectedness and wholeness of the world was know to medicine men, priests, and shamans, to seers and sages, and to all people who had the courage to look beyond their nose and stay open to what they saw. This, however, was the kind of insight that comes from the kind of mystical, religious, and aesthetic experience and was private or unverifible - even if it appeared certain beyond doubt. Now, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, innovative scientists at the frontiers of science are rediscovering the integral nature of reality. They lift the private experiences that speak to it from the domain of unverifiable intuition into the realm of interpersonally verifiable public knowledge.”
“We can live up to our potentials as counscious beings: we can come to know the reenchanted cosmos. Not only is this impossible, it is not even particularly difficult. Beyond the complex deductions and abstruse mathematics of the new sciences, the new concept of a coherent, connected, and integral universe is simple and meaningful; indeed, it is beautiful. When we make it our own, we come back to where our fathers and forefathers have been before us. But we come back with more assurance than they have had. Cutting-edge science tells us that we do not delude ourselves: we inhabit an integral, whole universe, and we are part of it. We are at home in the cosmos.”
…Ervin Laszlo, 2006 -Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos:The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality.