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.

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS

F**cking Outstanding !
I enjoyed the time spent being able to sit back in meditation and listen to the Wisdom within this book. I am definitely more equipped now to handle conversations with the subjects of Creation, scientific theories, and philosophy. Both basic and advanced concepts 💡 explained. Hallelujah !
הללויה !

Profound Metaphysical Framework: Must Read For The Open-minded And Curious

This book uses valid scientific facts to expose the fallacies of a physicalist ontology and sheds light into the idealist nature of reality. It penetrates the logic of the naive notions of a clockwork physical universe that is independent of a sentient perceiving entity with solid reasoning that’s well supported by scientifically established theories and facts. This is not a mere attempt at justifying a particular religious or new age world view. This is a book that provides a no-nonsense deep investigation into the grand scheme of the universe given all the relevant human knowledge accumulated over the past few centuries. This book contains arguments from the well credentialed and brilliant scientist Robert Lanza who has a very high level understanding of many scientific disciplines such as particle physics, biology, cosmology, and more. This book will entertain you with mind blowing science as well as pluck emotional strings as Lanza includes humanized passages within the book that sets the context for interpreting these implications. An overall excellent book that proves foundational only to those who are open minded and are genuinely in search of the truth without clinging to a particular paradigm or worldview; whether theistic or atheistic. An overall must read.

A great alternative viewpoint on quantum strangeness

Quantum physics has raised many interesting and strange possibilities over time. In this book the author takes a slightly different approach and postulates that, without life, there would be no universe.

My own interest in the subject of late has been more on the nature of time which I think is fascinating. The main premise of a biocentric universe implies that there was no big bag. Instead I think one could say that it infers that there was no physical universe until consciousness came to be. So then, the big bag would be analogous to The moment that some nameless, faceless something open it’s eyes without understanding and possibly self-awareness.

While I don’t think that a biocentric universe represents a theory of everything I do think it provides a potentially important insight into the nature of reality it is definitely worth reading.

Brilliant, but flawed.

While the book is written by one of the more influential scientists of our time, it reads more like it was written by a philosopher if I were to be completely honest. Great ideas, but I fail to see how this provides any real scientific answers to the nature of consciousness and how it ties to everything else. Regardless, I am definitely hooked and am ready to dive in to his follow-up: Beyond Biocentrism.

space and time and mind are ONE

Consciousness is universal. This is why we have success with controlled remote viewing. The first time I described a distant scene from nothing but a six digit number I knew it was true.

Interesting read

It really makes you think about the nature of reality and what we may discover in the future about how much we have gotten wrong.

Food for thought

Amazingly this book talks about the same teachings I am receiving from my meditation teacher who follows the precepts of many of the Eastern philosophies (Hindi, Buddhism etc) as well as aspects of the teachings of Christ as my teacher has read them from the original languages and different and more up to date interpretations of thoes languages from the generally accepted ones used popularly today.

Ones of me all time favorite science books

Biology, not physics, holds the key to understanding and developing a grand unified theory of everything, and consciousness may be the missing piece to the puzzle

Blew my mind

Lanza offered explanations to help me understand concepts I could never understand before such as “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to witness it does it make a sound?” Well he takes your understanding beyond that to explain why there is no tree! My heart pounded with every chapter to learn new paradigms for reality. The principles of biocentrism cannot be ignored and are exciting food for thought for science fiction writers. If you are interested in eastern philosophy you will love this book for its scientific explanation of similar concepts.

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.