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xiv THE ALLIES OF HUMANITY: BOOK ONE experienced — including the rapid decimation of their popu- lation —is not only a monumental human tragedy, but also a powerful object lesson for our current situation. This time, we are all the native people of this one world, and unless we can collectively muster a more creative and unified response, we may suffer a similar fate. This is precisely the realization that The Allies of Humanity precipitates. Yet, this is a book that can change lives, for it activates a deep inner calling that reminds us of our purpose in being alive at this moment in human history and brings us face to face with nothing less than our destiny. Here we are con- fronted with the most uncomfortable realization of all: The very future of humanity may well depend on how we respond to this message. While The Allies of Humanity is profoundly cautionary, there is no inciting of fear or doom-and-gloom here. Instead, the message offers extraordinary hope in what is now a most dangerous and difficult situation. The obvious intention is to preserve and empower human freedom, and to catalyze per- sonal and collective response to the alien intervention. Fittingly, Rachel Carson herself once prophetically iden- tified the very problem that impedes our ability to respond to this current crisis: “We still haven’t become mature enough,” she said, “to think of ourselves as only a very tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.” Clearly we have long needed a new understanding of ourselves, of our place in the cosmos, and of life in the Greater Community (the larger physical and spiri- tual universe into which we are now emerging). Fortunately,