As we open the pages of Preparing for the Great Waves of Change, we are confronted with several new challenges and concepts for us as individuals and for humanity as a whole about the world we live in and the universe around us. As a world, we are now facing two significant challenges. The first is what this book calls the 'Great Waves of Change,' which are a converging set of social, environmental, and economic forces impacting the world. These forces are the result of centuries of environmental destruction and misuse of the world which pose a major threat to the well-being of people everywhere, even in the most wealthy nations. The second is Contact with a 'Greater Community' of intelligent life in the universe. Visitation by extraterrestrial life from beyond our solar system is now underway around the world and represents a major step in the evolution of the human species and a significant challenge to our human sovereignty. We are no longer alone in the universe or even within our
