Biocentrism: Uncovering the Link Between Life, Consciousness, and the True Nature of the Universe

Pat Taylor: It gets a little heavy, but the content is compelling.

United States on Nov 18, 2023

Kindle Customer: What if what we observe as the universe only exists because we're observing it? While that sounds like a circular argument going around, well, in circles, it turns out to be more or less precisely what the basic principles of biocentrism posits. But while saying any object exists because we observe it doesn't seem to make any real sense, it does explain what the Big Bang for example can't: what exactly is the real world and how did it get here? And biocentrism explains it using the proven principles of quantum theory to do so. Turns out a trip down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass may be exactly the trip that explains Everything.

United States on Oct 02, 2023

Ernesto: Illuminante, da leggere.

Italy on Aug 03, 2023

Daniela Chiculita: I’ve always been interested in this puzzle of life, since I was a child. When my grandpa dyed, I was 11 years old and I wondered where did he go… I couldn’t accept he was gone for always. One night shortly after that, I saw him in my dreams, and I asked him where he was, because I knew he was still out there. He said to me: it’s a beautiful place, one day on your birthday I’ll take you to show it to you. My mom and grandma got scared when I woke up very happy and told them about my dream. I didn’t understand why they did, at that age. This book revived me those memories, those things we just know… where do they come from? Like when you have a feeling the train will delayed and then you check your app and… yeah, it’s delayed. I’m happy to see that science people realised its more to it that only math and formulas. It is a puzzling whole and some people are more aware of it than others…

Netherlands on Jan 15, 2023

Edward BicketEdward Bicket: I found this book, Biocentrism, by Dr. Lanza, to be fascinating. I knew nothing of biocentrism prior to reading it, nor did I have any understanding of consciousness. If you possess an inquisitive mind, have a thirst for knowledge, are a deep thinker, or seek an understanding of the true nature of our Universe, our existence, time, and space, then you will love this book. My science background is limited, yet Dr. Lanza laid things out in terms that I could understand. He did a wonderful job at summarizing and explaining even those complex areas, so don’t worry if you experience moments of vacuity, as I did, while trying to wrap your mind around the astounding things you will read. This book addresses things that most of us have questioned about our existence, and the nature of the Universe, and he provides answers that will amaze you. When you sit down to read this book, bring your logic, and an open mind but leave the normal human way of looking at things aside.

This book will also have you feeling connected with Dr. Lanza, on a personal level, as he candidly talks about his life and his family. He speaks openly about some of the childhood strife that he and his sister...

Canada on Oct 26, 2022

Dave Todaro: In “Biocentrism,” a prominent biologist teams with a prominent astronomer to tackle the most fundamental set of questions science can ask: “What explains the existence of anything?”

I love and respect science. All the tremendous, beneficial and downright fascinating discoveries we have made on behalf of mankind! I trust deeply upon my Christian faith and understanding of Scriptures to make overall sense of everything I take in. I probably should pay more attention to both faith and science. This book provided a wonderful incentive to do just that.

“Biocentrism” made the most recent discoveries of quantum physics accessible to a person who never had to take a single physics course to graduate high school, college or post-graduate studies. Fascinating evidence that nothing truly “exists” in the absence of a conscious observer, except as waves of probability.

Lanza writes with honesty and in places, surprising humor. He gives us glimpses of the parts of his own consciousness a Christ-believer such as I might call “soul” – as when he tells of the loss of two loved ones, and how he relates his thoughts and experience of these losses to his...

United States on Feb 29, 2020

Steve Eaton: It is hard to disagree with Lanza's view at the start of this book. He describes the discipline of physics as almost desperate, as it not only fails to answer a number of quite fundamental questions through its theories, but also moulds and manipulates its current theories to fit. String theory and the many-worlds theory being two that have been concocted - without any evidence to back them up - in order to explain the current order of things. Of course, by its very nature science is always changing and many theories are updated with new evidence. However, as Lanza rightly says, most new theories in physics that seek to do some explaining can not be shown through experimentation and remain just ideas on paper. Perhaps they may not always be so, but they are as I type.

So Lanza attempts to put forward the theory of Biocentrism as an improved perspective that answers the questions physics slowly backs away from. And, it must be said, he largely succeeds. He argues very convincingly that the notions of space and time can be done away with and from here, moves on to the famous double slit experiment which exposes quantum weirdness and then some. That physics cannot explain this...

United Kingdom on Aug 06, 2015

Peter Purvis: Here is a cool scientific account which provides a theory and some evidence from quantum physics to the effect that consciousness does not arise from matter, but that it is the other way around. At first, an astonishing idea, and one that we are ill-equipped in the West to process; but Dr Lanza shows that the idea of conciousness arising spontaneously from inert lifeless matter is no less an incredible proposition (if you analyse it and many people have!), than for life/ conciousness being the basis for reality, including matter, time and space. Basically, as I understand it (and I am not a scientist), our subjective realities come into 'being' through the act of our 'measurement' (i.e. awareness) of them. Put another way, Dr Lanza posits, what would 'be' in the universe if there were no consciousness/ sentience to feel/ see/smell/ measure/ experience it? Dr Lanza does not fall into the realms of mystical speculation, but he does make tentative links between Biocentrism and Eastern ideas/ outlooks and beliefs, including some of those of Hinduism and many of those of Buddhism e.g. re Samsara and the ultimate nature of reality as 'emptiness', the illusion of time and duality. The...

United Kingdom on May 27, 2014

Stephen P. Smith: Robert Lanza (page 30) writes about his boyhood curiosity: "I rolled logs looking for salamanders and climbed trees to investigate bird nests and holes in the trees. As I pondered the larger existential questions about the nature of life, I began to intuit that there was something wrong with the static, objective reality, I was being taught in school. The animals I observed had their own perceptions of the world, their own realities. Although it wasn`t the world of human beings - of parking lots and malls - it was just as real to them."

Lanza then turns to the question of consciousness, and what looks to be reality. He (page 36) writes: "Some may imagine that there are two worlds, one out there and a separate one being cognized inside the skull. But the two worlds model is a myth. Nothing is perceived except the perceptions themselves, and nothing exists outside of consciousness. Only one visual reality is extant, and there it is. Right there. The outside world is, therefore, located within the brain or mind. Of course, this is so astounding for many people, even if it is obvious to those who study the brain, that it becomes possible to over-think the issue and come up with...

United States on Feb 11, 2010