Introduction

 

Son: We wouldn’t ever eat anybody, would we?
Father: No. Of course not.
Even if we were starving?
We’re starving now.
No matter what.
No. No matter what.
Because we’re the good guys.
Yes.
And we’re carrying the fire.

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire.

—The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 2006

 

“…you engage within a global shift of consciousness, which is a much greater mass event than a revolution of a country. It is a greater action than your world war. It is tremendous…You would not be speaking with this essence were you not approaching this shift…You all are contributant to the action of this shift…” (Elias 1997).