A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.