It is unusual for a person such as me brought up in the sphere of the medieval biomedical geological hydraulic parochial form of allopathic medicine to become involved with the whole process of existence and transformation .

However I have been interested in this field for over 20 years and became aware of the irreversible destruction of living and non living resources of the planet in the 1960s with the publication of the book Limits to Growth. At that time there was a wonderful musical composition called Oxygene by Michelle Jarre.

This music was evocative for me in that it expressed the dance of life on the planet and the way the biosphere is like a pulsating matrix--a process which is constantly interconnecting, dividing, living and expressing itself. I realized at the time that we were forgetting to talk with nature and have forgotten our deep connection not only with the earth but also with the cosmos.

Over the past few years I have seen tremendous growth in science particularly with the development of knowledge of the brain and mind and consciousness. This is intimately tied up with the technological revolution in computers and bioengineering. This marks a new phase in the evolution of humanity. However as Peter Russell said in his book The Awakening Earth we are forgetting that we are all connected and have hidden and wonderful potentials that we possess but are not always expressed.