My profound thanks to Dame Phyllis Rodin, my Crone, for engaging me in long deep conversations about the life-force. Also thanks to Charles Frances Carroll and Don McNaughton who helped edit the manuscript. My deep appreciation goes to my parents Marion and Ainslie Hubbard who helped me break free.
Friendship is the outgrowth of true education.
As the human race approaches the 21st Century, the world's spiritual, political, social, economic, educational, and scientific philosophies appear out of balance with the emerging global consciousness brought forth by today's advancing technologies. Former President Bush's New World Order is really the same old nation state order of international anarchy. All the ancient problems seem to have reached a critical point. Now, a critical idealism in education, which is a call for spiritual action, is necessary in order to have the power to bond like-minds to cure our ancient social diseases. The scientific and social movement which scientist James Lovelock named the Gaia theory, named after the Greek Goddess of the Earth, is on the verge of creating world-wide evolutionary change.