It would seem that Perry, Yatri, Bucke and myself share certain concepts which appear to represent a common perspective gained through peak experience. These concepts would at least include the following:

I have no doubt that over time more books will be generated by individuals who will have had a peak experience, and that they will be identified by the words that they write. In time there will be enough of these people to affect an overall change in perspective of our reality. Even now there are a great many people who understand the need for a major change in direction if humankind is to survive, and they are working to accomplish this. A greater global consciousness is beginning to break down the barriers between different political systems and religious ideologies. A great deal of effort is being made to save our planetary environment. There will be an acceleration of this process over time as our individual and collective consciousness increases. Hopefully this will occur swiftly enough to preclude our self-destruction.

My self-elected task is to search for possible ways to make the achievement of a peak experience a realistic expectation for anyone strongly enough motivated to seek having one. As of now they would appear to be mostly unpredictable random events. However, by better understanding them it may be possible to facilitate their occurrence. There are those, including Stanislav Grof, who believe that this is already possible.

This book was written as an attempt to give recognition to P.E. and to motivate as many people as possible to study its origin and meaning, and as a result to begin harnessing the unlimited potential that it presents to humankind.

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