“The premonition was recorded, from time to time, that a minority of individuals would someday be yeast enough to leaven a whole society. Serving as a magnet culture, they would attract order around them, transforming the whole. The central idea was always the same: Only through a new mind can humanity remake itself, and the potential for such a new mind is natural.”

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Two, Premonitions of Transformation and Conspiracy

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American writer 1938–2008

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