Preparing for the Miraculous

2012 and 1956: Doomsday? 101revolution of consciousness is perhaps the last, and certainlythe best, hope of humankind.” They want to bring abouta worldwide spiritual renaissance. In Laszlo’s words: “Wenow live in a period of transformation when a new world isstruggling to be born.” 11Laszlo is convinced that the present situation of PlanetEarth is as critical as the scientists in the previous section(together with most reasonable people) think it is. In additionhe accepts 2012, the end of the running period of one ofthe Mayan calendars, as a given. This date will, according tohim, mark a total breakdown of all life-systems on the planetif no conscious and collaborative effort is made to prevent it.However, if such an effort is made, what looms on our horizonas a breakdown may turn out to be a breakthrough.The finding of a solution is urgent, for the window ofopportunity for new thinking is now reduced to a singlelifetime. The present tendencies move at high speed towardsirreversibility. The estimation of the critical points atwhich going back is no longer possible have shrunk terrifyingly:from the end of this century to its middle, then to thenext twenty years, and in some cases even to the next five totwenty years. In The Reenchanted Cosmos Laszlo’s “windowof decision” is 2005-2012, which means that at the presentmoment this window has narrowed further to two years.The physical or natural threats able to cause a globalbreakdown are now well known. The sea level in the wholeworld could rise by more than one meter, with the resultthat many very populated cities, towns and regions would11 The quotations in this section are from the following books byErvin Laszlo: The Reenchanted Cosmos – Welcome Home in the Universe(2005), The Chaos Point – The World at the Crossroads (2006), and Worldshift2012: Making Green Business, New Politics & Higher Consciousness WorkTogether (2009).