Book Review

Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
Ervin Laszlo, Inner Traditions

Review by Jaye C. Beldo

Most alternative science books tend to collapse during their second act, once the premise is established and the reader is persuaded to further investigate the claims of the author. Having read dozens of tomes by 'maverick' science authors who claim they are breaking away from and challenging mainstream science institutions, I have detected a pattern that often betrays their assertions that they are truly contributing to the inevitable merging of science/spirituality and initiating a 'paradigm shift.' How? Primarily by tabulating how many times I have come across the following terms in dozens of books in this genre: the Hundredth Monkey, the Butterfly Effect, and Schroedinger's Cat.

This terminology has, through sheer repetition, concretized into mind-numbing dogma and hardly serve to inspire anymore (if they ever did in the first place). The flapping wings of the butterfly do not create a hurricane a thousand miles away. Rather, it is the hangovers of USFA personnel responsible for the implementation of Project Cloverleaf that do. Other than George W. Bush, there is no hundredth monkey and there never was (apparently the story of yam washing simians was pure fiction). As for Schroedinger's Cat, I think I saw a WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE poster with the feline's mug on it, on a ghost town laboratory tour in the outback of Los Alamos.

When I attempted to delve into what I thought would be a promising book by touted Club of Rome member Ervin Laszlo on the Akashic records, i.e., the universal templates that record every and all phenomena that occurs in the cosmos, I was confronted with the same hypnotizing Quantum 101 crap I've read so many times in the past. What is being exposed overall is an utter poverty of imagination and severance from living metaphorical realms that could serve as catalysts for authentic paradigm shifts.

It is evident that authors like Laszlo haven't escaped the materialist conditioning of their very own training, even if they claim they have. That they have been molded according to the dictates of those who hold the keys to science itself becomes more obvious if one scrutinizes the so-called metaphors they employ to spin their works and cast a spell on the reader. Even more telling is the blurb on the inside cover page by Ashok Gangadean, director of The Global Dialogue Institute, who says: "the reader who encounters this book will be irrevocably transformed and will henceforth experience the world through a global lens."

I'm left wondering about this global lens. Is it perhaps that Illuminati surveillance camera otherwise known as the Eye in the Pyramid? Several other red flags popped up in Laszlo's book, hinting that he hasn't broken free of the conditioning and intense behavior modification that scientists are subjected to by their patron overlords. Laszlo dares to fancy himself as the next Einstein, moving beyond the gravity of relativity theory into a more rarified definition of the universe as a 'coherent fine tuned interconnected whole.' He even provides a graphic depiction of this so-called progression with himself at the vanguard.

In my opinion, the only thing that will ever create a tangible paradigm shift or help us to fully realize the 'fine tuned interconnected whole' of the universe will be the global development and implementation of free energy technology, a technology that already exists but has been ruthlessly oppressed, its inventors conveniently murdered and their devices shelved away. A paradigm shift isn't going to happen with alternative scientists pontificating ad nauseum on Akashic fields and Grand Unified Theories of Everything.