Perhaps from the birth of Humanity one thing has evaded mankind, lasting peace. Real lasting worldwide peace has seemed like the illusive ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’. People and nations from all times have sought it here, there and everywhere, perhaps even caught up with it at times, only to discover it evaporating right in front of their eyes.

Any sort of peace achieved has been full of uncertainty and suspicion. Here we are in the 21st Century with generations of scientific achievement and education under our belt but still real lasting peace appears outside our grasp.

The whole world is like a very dry tinderbox waiting to go up in smoke. Outbreaks of fire spring up almost at random in different areas of the planet and governments of the world rush to put them out. Ironically in the dash to do so, they seem to generate more fuel for uncertainty, tension and war.

On the front page of the Independent newspaper on the 17 January 2007, an article by Robert Cornwall revealed that the Doomsday Clock would be moved forward for the first time in five years, indicating that the world was at its most unstable in its history.  For 60 years it had depicted how close the world was to nuclear disaster and scientists moved its hands forward to show that we are facing the gravest threat in 20 years.

If the general question is asked “What causes war?” I suspect the average man and woman in the street would say religion and politics.  In some respects I concur with this, as does history.

Religion and politics have served to galvanise people into groups. Warring factions that believe their point of view must prevail over all others.

Although large numbers of people choose the groups they belong to, this is not true for the majority. For most people what group we belong to is chosen for us. Many factors play a part, but by far the biggest factor for this placement into a group, is where we are born.

In itself, the group we belong to is not the problem directly, but it is the attitude, the control and the effect the group has on its members that is the problem.

The solution I believe is easy! It is the subject of this book.

Ironically, we will never find peace. Peace will find us. More precisely it is already on the way. It is for this very reason that we may think that peace is further from our grasp than ever before. Take heart it is coming and cannot be stopped.

Transition always causes major upheaval. If you have ever had an extension built onto your house you will know just how this feels. Before the work starts the house is often ok and inhabitable but you decide to make it better for the future. The plans are drawn up, approval granted and then the work begins. No matter how well prepared you are the messy transition period tempts you often to wish you had left things as they were. The only thing that keeps you moving forward is the knowledge that you can’t go back and that things will be better when the work is finished.

From the time of Christ up until the turn of the Century we have been living in the era of Pisces. This era is characterised by group dominance. The average person is not capable of thinking for himself and must be told what to do.

With the heralding in, around the start of the new century, a new era, the era of Aquarius began. This era is characterised by people understanding truth and thinking for themselves.

The transition period is causing great upheavals in the groups. Religious and political groups that have dominated are not exempt