Biocentrism

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

By: Robert Lanza, Bob Berman

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

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©2009 Robert Lanza and Bob Berman (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Great Read

I started listening to this book and could not turn it off,it took me to places I thought never exsisted.Biocentrism is a great book and well layed out,I give it 5 stars.

great book but I am not a fan of the reader at all

great book but I am not a fan of the reader at all. the stories are good and great information/perspective. I could listen to this over and over again but I find the readers attitude very unappealing. I have another book with the same reader and I can't even get thru it. it just seems like a phony, unnatural reading voice. if he just talked normal it would be good.

an enlightening new (for me) perspective.

absolutely stunning insight into conciousness and there roll it plays in the universe. for without it, it seems there'd be no universe!

interesting and entertaining

This work puts a new spin on some well know but possibly misunderstood physics concepts/theories. The narrative that's interwoven with science lessons keeps the book very entertaining and not too overwhelming

incredible incredible incredible

I really want to drink a beer with Robert Lanza. This book is everything you already felt was true, but never understood why. Thank you Robert Lanza, and where the hell did the moon go?

Excellent ideas

This book will turn your perception of reality upside down and inside out in a wonderful way! Any reader will find this book fascinating, but it is especially satisfying to those with a science background. Can't wait to read the sequel!

I don’t think that word means what you think it means…

I accidentally read Beyond Biocentrism first. Both books are excellent and provide much to ponder.

Narrator Ruins an Excellent Book

I am not a scientist but I enjoy the wonderment of the theory of biocentrism. The narrator is so intolerably bad it is difficult to focus on the content.

The Copenhagen Interpretation Resurrected

This is a fascinating book which posits that if we accept the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics on face value, a new understanding of the world is possible.

Lanza marries physics with Biology to produce a scientifically grounded world-view which he calls Biocentrism. In a nutshell, the theory states that the world doesn't exist in actuality until we observe it AND since all observation takes place inside the human brain, reality is wholly a construct of human consciousness. While this sounds somewhat audacious on the it's face, there is some extremely good science behind Lanza's amazingly understandable argument and the author presents his case in a manner which is accessible to all. Even if you don't have any previous knowledge of quantum weirdness, this book is comprehendible and, if for no other reason, this makes the book useful.

If you ever wanted to understand the basic strangeness of the quantum world but felt daunted by the scope of the task, read this book and it will make sense to you. If you are initiated into such subject matter and you've started to wonder why there's been no fundamental break throughs in our understanding of the world since the first half of the 20th century, read this book. It's possible that science has been speeding down the wrong track for 75 years because scientists refused to accept what physics experiments were telling them at face value.

Whether the theory of Biocentrism is actually right, wrong or somewhere in between, it's a fascinating and thought provoking read.

AWESOME

Amazing introduction to "biocentrism" and the theory that consciousness is fundamental to the existence of the universe. Narration by Peter Ganim is top-notch. I enjoyed this book very much. A+