What is Consciousness?: Three Sages Look Behind the Veil

Dr. Ervin Laszlo is well recognized as the founder of systems philosophy. While at the United Nations, he headed various research programs related to sustainability. His written work has included an extensive amount of promotion and practice of sustainable efforts. He serves as President and Founder of the Club of Budapest, an organization devoted to promoting a new way of thinking for global solidarity. He also serves as the Chairman of the Ervin Laszlo Center for Advanced Study, Chancellor of the Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University, and Editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. Laszlo is a recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted artist diploma of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates. His appointments have included research grants at Yale and Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems Dr. Ervin Laszlo is well recognized as the founder of systems philosophy. While at the United Nations, he headed various research programs related to sustainability. His written work has included an extensive amount of promotion and practice of sustainable efforts. He serves as President and Founder of the Club of Budapest, an organization devoted to promoting a new way of thinking for global solidarity. He also serves as the Chairman of the Ervin Laszlo Center for Advanced Study, Chancellor of the Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University, and Editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. Laszlo is a recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted artist diploma of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates. His appointments have included research grants at Yale and Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems sciences, and future sciences at the Universities of Houston, Portland State, and Indiana, as well as Northwestern University and the State University of New York. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, and member of the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy. He was awarded the Goi Peace Prize in 2001 and was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2004 and 2005). Laszlo has authored more than seventy books, which have been translated into twenty languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings Jean Houston, Ph.D., scholar, philosopher and researcher in Human Capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She is long regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. Dr. Houston is noted for her ability to combine a deep knowledge of history, culture, new science, spirituality and human development into her teaching. She is known for her inter-disciplinary perspective delivered in inspirational and humorous keynote addresses. A prolific writer, Dr. Houston is the author of 26 books including "Jump Time", " A Passion for the Possible", "Search for the Beloved", "Life Force", "The Possible Human", "Public Like a Frog", "A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story", and "Manual of the Peacemaker". As Advisor to UNICEF in human and cultural development, she has worked around the world helping to implement