Ego transcendence, self-transparency, freedom from anxiety, openness, emotional availability, bodily presence, the ability for genuine intimacy, reverence for all life, the capacity for service, and love — this, says Feuerstein, is what the integral consciousness of our next evolutionary goal looks like. In this book, he looks straight into the eye of the dragons in our path: How are we to balance two fundamental and complementary spiritual urges that are driving us — one to forsake ego and world in favor of the formless infinite, the other to integrate mystical experience with daily living?