Bravo Daniel, I have just purchased your book 2012 and am enthralled to learn that there is another synthezist publishing , the idea that the answers to our questions can be as complex as our different perceptions eludes most, the story of the elephant and the blind men comes to mind, as soon as we as a species can come to the understanding that one question can have a myriad of answers then we will start to see the universe in its complexeties, the only thing that I may want to input is that Transformation can have many causes and symptoms concurrently and that the physical universe being enmeshed with the unseen and our perceptions have a multi facet manifistation, certain cataclysmic events in our history ala' Velikovsky' shape our psychic personas ala religion and mysticiscm, that the universe is more complicated than we imagine, that it is more than we imagine eluded even Velikovsky, and by this I mean you are a step closer to illuminating and co-joining the physical with the mind., rectifying experience and interpretation, excuse me for the rambling, I just think that you and whitley are touching the same elephant and that the answer lies in the action humanity will take as things unfold, that whitleys persistence on doom may have been a reaction to safeguard his ideas and reality, but from reading his books I glean that he may not be as nihilist as he sounded that night, Keep up the journey and smile often