What if we took all of these common patterns and put them together? What kind of picture would we get?
This would be very much like the human Genome Project (the complete mapping of the genes of human DNA), except that this would be a type of human Consciousness and Culture Project: the mapping of all those cultural capacities that humans everywhere have access to. This would give us a rather extraordinary map of human potentials, a great map of human possibilities. And it would further help us to recognize any of those potentials that we—that you and I—might not yet be fulfilling. It would be a map of our own higher stages of growth and a map of our own greater opportunities.
