You might be surprised to know that a good deal of this Consciousness and Culture Project has in fact been completed. The result of the research of thousands of workers from around the world, the Consciousness and Culture Project has already disclosed a profound range of higher states of consciousness, stages of growth, patterns of spirituality, and forms of science that often dwarf the more restricted versions sanctioned in our present culture of scientific materialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the postmodern celebration of surfaces.
As you will see, these greater potentials and possibilities are a crucial ingredient in the bigger picture that is presented in the following pages—a bigger picture that is a kind of “theory of everything.” A “theory of everything” is just that: if we assume that all the world’s cultures have important but partial truths, then how would all of those truths fit together into a richly woven tapestry, a unity-in-diversity, a multicolored yet single rainbow?
