Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world a US News & World Report
cover story called him a genius and a renegade thinker even likening him to Einstein. Lanza
has teamed with Bob Berman the most widely read astronomer in the world to produce
Biocentrism a revolutionary new view of the universe. 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
relationship 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
increasingly being forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory and at the
same time towards doubt and uncertainty in the 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 paradigm life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics.
Biocetnrism takes the reader 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 will shatter the reader's ideas
of life--time and space and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull
worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements
it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal. The 21st century
is predicted to be the Century of Biology a shift from the previous century dominated by
physics. It seems fitting then to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and
unifying the foundations of science with a simple idea discovered by one of the leading
life-scientists of our age. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility and is
full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way
again.
