"George Leonard and Michael Murphy believe the world points beyond itself to something greater and more beautiful than we typically realize--something that impels us to expand, create, and give rise to more conscious forms of life. People in every culture and every age, they maintain, have sensed that we are somehow secretly allied with the creative source of the universe, that we share its all-encompassing power, that we are capable of radical transformation because that is our predisposition. We can join the transformative procession that began with our ancient ancestors." ---Keith Thompson