Biocentrism

How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to the True Nature of the Universe

By: Robert Lanza, Bob Berman

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Every now and then, a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationships with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense.

The whole of Western natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory. At the same time, these findings have increased our doubt and uncertainty about traditional physical explanations of the universe's genesis and structure.

Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around. In this new paradigm, life is not just an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocentrism takes the listener on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe - our own - from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself.

Biocentrism shatters the listener's ideas of life, time and space, and even death. At the same time, it releases us from the dull worldview that life is merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal. Biocentrism awakens a new sense of possibility and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the listener will never see reality the same way again.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2009 Robert Lanza and Bob Berman (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Quantum Leap for the Quantum Theory

With the start of the large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the scientific journey of a life time is just beginning. Looks like a quantum leap for the Quantum Theory of everything (maybe).

I would guess that most of us ,that have a layman's interest in Quantum Mechanics, get through explanations of quarks (Charm, Up, Down, Strange ...) and maybe the double slot demonstration .. but things get very counterintuitive when the human observer instantaneously establishes the states of entangled photons just by trying to measure one of them ... even though they are billions of miles apart. Richard Feynman helped me a little with his sixth lecture in "Six Easy Pieces". But, I have been stuck for the last 20 years...

Hold the phone .. Dr. Lanza (stem cell cloning, etc) has an idea .. in fact a theory of Biocetrism that may help us understand QT. And also provide an explanation of the role of the observer.

Fun book! Easy read. Very non-technical (maybe to it's detrement). Great auto-bio skeches of the author's life experiences.

Enlightening!

I wish everyone would read this book! It really highlights what we don't know and why we don't know it in a revolutionary way

it'll blow your mind. a must listen.

Other than the narrator being monotone, it's a great listen. Lanza is definitely on the right path with his research.

Excellent

A very important work that is presented in an easy to understand way. A must read for those interested in the topic.

Mind Bending & Eye Opening

I love the scientific explanation and the description of alternative viewpoints on the quantum realm. It was not what I was expecting, but I really enjoyed the perspective and it has broadened my mind. I feel like I’ve gained a greater appreciation for life.