"...while evidence of our intellectual and technological genius is all around us, there is growing concern that in other ways we have seriously underestimated ourselves. In part because of the blinding brilliance of our technological triumphs, we have distracted and dissociated ourselves from our inner world, sought outside for answers that can only be found within, denied the subjective and the sacred, overlooked latent capacities of mind, imperiled our planet, and lived in a collective trance - a contracted, distorted state of mind that goes unrecognised because we share it and take it to be "normality".
There exist within us, however, latent but unexplored creative capacities, depths of psyche, states of consciousness, and stages of development undreamed of by most people."

Walsh, R., & Vaughan, F. (eds). (1993). Paths beyond ego: The transpersonal vision. NY: Penguin Putnam