We live in a time of crisis-"a time between worlds and a time between stories." Only profound evolution-transformation-will tip the scale away from catastrophic devolution. Barbara and Marc, rooted in a profound read of contemporary reality, locate the core of the crisis in a global intimacy disorder. The core crisis is no less than a crisis of intimacy.

Our crisis is a birth. To heal the intimacy crisis, all that has been split off-personally and culturally and cosmically-must be welcomed back into the circle.

We have forgotten, or perhaps never really known, that not only live in the Intimate Universe; the Intimate Universe lives in us. Each of us is a unique configuration of intimacy-intended, recognized, desired, acknowledged, chosen, loved, adored, and needed by all of Reality to enact transformation through deepening intimacy.

Evolution is the progressive deepening of intimacies. My transformation is the transformation of the whole. That is what it means to be intimate with the whole.

Intimacy is not generic. Intimacy is always unique. We are unique incarnations of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty of All-That-Is, living in us, as us, and through us. We need to become intimate with our Unique Selves. For the essence of the new human-her creative and transformative power-derives only from the deepest depth of intimacy with one's own self. We need to become intimate with our own power.

This is the journey from Homo armor to Homo amor. It marks the emergence of the new human and the new humanity. The temple of intimacy is built when we stay in and go all the way in this lifetime.