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the biological and sociocultural human being. Organic growth always implies phases of
transition — passages from one state to another. An end becomes a new beginning, and to
begin without any understanding of what is being initiated condemns the opening phases
of the new process to spiritual barrenness and mental confusion. Because modern
individualistic and materialistic society has lost the sense of the importance of biological
and cultural rites of passage, it cannot easily grasp the meaning of a transcendent Path of
total metamorphosis which involves a series of graded steps and difficult, often crucial,
transitions. Indeed this society operates in conditions of spiritual barrenness and mental
confusion, even though powerful ferments of transformation and metamorphic pressures
are increasingly active.
To assist such an activity ever so little by trying to elucidate what is today at stake and
the deeper meaning of the impending transitions — this is the purpose this book is meant
to serve. The future alone will reveal to what extent the writing of it can be interpreted as
transpersonal service.
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