Our Six Spheres of Activity
Message from Ervin Laszlo, founder and president of The Club of Budapest, co-founder of the WorldShift Foundation and president of its board of trustees.
The Club of Budapest is Founding Member
of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative
12/03/2009 - 12/09/2009
The 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Make a World of Difference: Hearing each other, Healing the earth
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Listen to the Interview with Erwin Laszlo by Eva Herr from Infinite Consciousness
On 12th June 2007, the 75th birthday of Ervin Laszlo, the Club of Budapest WorldShift Foundation was established by Prof. Ervin Laszlo, founder and president of the Club of Budapest, Wolfgang Riehn, until then managing director of the Club, and Johannes Heimrath, who since then is serving as executive director of the new WorldShift Network. The seat of the foundation is Neuss in Germany.
Since 2008 the WorldShift Network forms the action platform of the Club of Budapest International Fourndation, which is seated in Budapest and came into existence in 1993. The idea for the Club of Budapest was developed even earlier, back in 1978. It was the initiative of Ervin Laszlo, system philospher and at that time member of the Club of Rome, which came up in a dialogue with Aurelio Peccei, founder and first president of the Club of Rome. Both friends were convinced that the enormous challenges to humanity can only be dealt with through the development of a cultural and cosmopolitan consciousness.
During the past fifteen years the Club of Budapest has gathered a great number of eminent people from all over the world around its core idea, which is the development of a global consiousness in dialogue. These Honorary and Creative Members and Ambassadors have done much since to address decision makers in economy and politics and popularize the idea of a global change of consciousness. Now the time has come to take up even more responsibility for the young generations and let them participate in the common effort to accompany planet Earth into a new era of changed climate and resource conditions and a habitat very different from now.
In the future the WorldShift Network will act as a weaver’s shuttle between the many strong and in large parts well established institutions, initiatives, projects and NGOs worldwide, which all are striving to do their best in their respective areas—but only too often are lacking internconnectedness and interdisciplinarity. Thus the WorldShift Network will help to initiate the much longed for deliberate evolutionary step towards a peacefully united mankind.
The logo of the WorldShift Network shows the holon Earth, symbolized by the taiji, rising out of the cage of positivism, expediency and exploitation, symbolized by the lower half of the globe.
Wolgang Riehn, Erwin Laszlo, Johannes Heimrath