The Wall had been coming down for a long time before men and women, East and West, began hammering and ripping it apart. Today another process is underway throughout much of the world, a grassroots understanding that spirit and body are joined, that mind can somehow influence matter, that lives can radically change, that the further evolution of humankind is possible. The evidence of this process is all around us, in books that come out of nowhere to top the national bestseller lists, in polls on spiritual matters, in sometimes sensational images in the popular media of angels among us, of contacts with alien civilizations. And yet we meet with physicists who see similarities between certain implications of quantum mechanics and the great spiritual traditions, with electronic engineers who invoke connections between the mental and the material. We find more and more people, including some scientists, willing to entertain the notion that our science itself, wondrous as it is, has not yet adequately addressed every significant realm of the knowable.
Unfathomed possibilities exist in consciousness and the flesh.
Our evolution has not reached a dead end. Despite our frailties and flaws and the seemingly overwhelming horrors of the time, the human species has immense possibilities for advance. The programs described in this book have proven to be of significant value to most of those who have participated in it, with extraordinary outcomes for some. There's no doubt in our minds that a regular, long-term practice which involves body, mind, heart, and soul, and which aims at good health and the cultivation of our untapped potentials, can enhance individual lives and contribute to the social good. In the transformations that emerge from an integral practice, the matter of social support is particularly important.