Summary: Satin, who now edits an extraordinary political newsletter out of DC, made his first stab in this book at a "grand scale" assessment of what ails the human species. More importantly, he made a valiant attempt to understand how a new person-centered and planetary-conscious politics could heal the damaged psyche and stimulate creative action. And he descibed, in some detail, what that politics would look like. The book was so potent that a political movement began to form around it, taking shape in the New World Alliance. While Satin might be embarrased today to read what he considered then to be the "essence of politics", it is still a pretty powerful document worth reviewing for some potent ideas applicable to our precarious situation today.