No one has captured better than Capra the need to marry metaphysics with physics in a meaningful way in order to bring peace to our planet. With the only notable exception, perhaps, Gary Zukav, author of a true masterpiece The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (1979).

That is, Campbell, Jung, Edinger, Levy, Capra, and Zukav understood what Jesus Christ really meant when he said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6) Jesus was speaking to the Tao, the "way of spirit" in all its manifestations, names, and forms, and this is what people must understand at the end-time, The Turning Point of civilization, because,

When the concept of the human spirit is understood in this sense, its mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is truly spiritual. Indeed the idea of the individual being linked to the cosmos is expressed in the Latin root of the word religion, religare (to bind strongly), as well as the Sanskrit yoga, which means union. (The Turning Point, Capra, 1982)

In other words, the single purpose of religion and science worldwide is to "collapse the waveform of cosmic consciousness" through the opening of our third eye. Interestingly enough, it was the physician Luke that stated the case, "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness." (Luke 11:34, KJV)

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.-Matthew 10:34, KJV

This scripture above is one of the most arguable in the Holy Bible as to its meaning; it is clearly misunderstood by the majority of scholars in theology. Thus it is by default extremely useful to the overall mission of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity: To promote utter chaos within and between people and nations. Indeed, the preachers of all three major tenets that spew hell, fire, and brimstone from the pulpit are themselves some of the most valuable servants of God's master plan.

They are, perhaps, second only to the megalomaniac dictators, corrupt politicians and lawyers, the types of folks the clueless "talking heads" of the media love to interview on the nightly news and morning talk shows to trigger interpersonal conflicts ad nauseam. Indeed, most of these programs make us sick to our stomach, or worse, give us a pain where a pill won't reach, as my beloved late grandmother Mary Evelyn Decker (1888-1977) put it.

For without religion and politics, and the "salvation armies" they create to enforce their will, in concert with electronic mass communications technology that disseminates and perpetuates the silliness and sickness in society, we may have never known that a "symbolic" war of words could lead to a collapse of civilizations. That is, our belief systems and the icons we defend until death do us part-baseball, apple pie, mom, and Chevrolet-create the chaos that we see today as a teaching tool. What we are willing to live and die for provides the mirror image to our bipolar state-of-mind. It speaks to the level of consciousness that we are currently experiencing. I mean a CEO that gets ulcers upon reading the stock market report is a far cry from the tranquility displayed by the Dali Lama as he confronts China over Tibet.

But, surprisingly, this has always been the goal of the myths that became scriptures in the Western world and the self-negating koans-puzzles-in the Eastern world. These are thresholds made to be breached, rungs to be climbed on the ladder to enlightenment. In fact, modern quantum physics is also riddled with contradictions; everywhere we turn there are only uncertainty principles, approximations of a reality that is not fixed rather fluid!

The only thing constant is change, the wise ones claim; so whatever generates chaos is always in the service of new order. That then is clearly the Tao, the way, the truth, and the life of God.

In plain terms, crisis creates the opportunity for our growth to a higher, "deeper," or maybe even lower order of consciousness. It is how we are allowed to return to the source of creation, albeit bruised and brokenhearted oftentimes, once we learn our lessons.

Thus, our mission is a hero's journey, and should we accept it, calls us to hunt down and unmask the self-fulfilling doom and gloom prophecies, and slay them without mercy. However, to do so one must have the courage of a warrior, initially be able to tolerate the tug-of-war, the tension innate within the polarized opposites of creation and the fears that they create within us. In particular, we must cultivate stillness in the face of the most formidable foe known to mankind: suicidal death by nuclear holocaust.

Be sure, WW III is an extreme sport!

For that reason the shaman employs the "trickster coyote," whose greatest joy is to spread strife, polarize every situation in life until the "warring organs of the left-right brain(s)" collapse upon itself claimed mythologist Joseph Campbell.

How is this achieved? The Taoist sages say that it is by entering into the silence in one's Self, or metaphorically "clapping with one hand" until we surrender our ego to the presence that is greater than ourselves.

In other words, we must exhaust our intellect to intuitively sense the intention of life without ever being able to "figure it out." As Albert Einstein realized, one cannot solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Bluntly, we get in the way of Our Great Self when we treat reality totally objectively rather than subjectively. Life is the experience of God, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The observer is the observed.

Optimally, we are called to be the pivot point around which the polarized world revolves without participating in its madness. This is a wasteland. It is filled-to-the-brim with the walking dead.

Our mission is to become centered in order to serve the creation by reconnecting to the Creator, zero-point field of life. Speaking to this realization, life scientist John James, Ph.D. confirms, "The Field is the superstratum of all creation, the all-pervasive, all-inclusive essence from which all is created and within which all exists. It is as close to the meaning of God as we get," in The Great Field.

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