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

Awakening brings its own assignments, unique to each of us, chosen by each of us. p. 417

We are living at a time when history is holding its breath," said Arthur Clarke, author of Childhood's End and 2001 , "and the present is detaching itself from the past like an iceberg that has broken away from its moorings to sail across the boundless ocean.

We have had a profound paradigm shift about the Whole Earth. We know it now as a jewel in space, a fragile water planet. And we have seen that it has no natural borders. It is not the globe of our school days with its many-colored nations. p.407