Although they themselves moved beyond the dominant ideas of their day, they carried few of their contemporaries with them. Most often they were misun… - Marilyn Ferguson

In their sharing of strategies, their linkage, and their recognition of each other by subtle signals, the participants were not merely cooperating with one another. They were in collusion. "It" — this movement — was a conspiracy! At first I was reluctant to use the term. I didn't want to sensationalize what was happening, and the word conspiracy usually has negative associations. Then I came across a book of spiritual exercises in which the Greek novelist, Nikos Kazantzakis, said he wished to signal his comrades, "like conspirators," that they might unite for the sake of the earth... Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau... quoted from a passage in which the French scientist-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin urged a "conspiracy of love."

It's like the old dilemma: You can't get a job without experience, but you can't get experience because no one will give you a job.

The Crisis: Our institutions—especially our governing structures—are mechanistic, rigid, fragmented. The world isn't working.