I first encountered Marilyn Ferguson in her book, The Brain Revolution, and later in her remarkable bi-weekly research

report, the Brain/Mind Bulletin. Both gave me a foretaste of what was to come. Now, with The Aquarian Conspiracy, she has written a book on the transformation of our consciousness that will itself leave a mark on the consciousness of our time. Marilyn Ferguson is the best reporter today on the farther reaches of investigation into the life and human sciences. She represents a new kind of investigative journalist not a sleuth after the corruptions of a politician but one tracking the spoor of a new research idea i n all its windings; following it to its sources and its affinities in allied fields, its conclusions, its implications for the whole spectrum of human thought and consciousness. She has had the courage to undertake this book as a participant-observer of the transformative process. Setting out to shed some light on the riddle of intelligence, she got ensnared by the mysteries and revelations of brain research, reached out to every discipline radiating from it and was never the same again. She has proven to be a whirlwind of information, thought, and activity, a whole exploratory "network" in herself. Conferences on the mind's dimensions and the brain's functioning have called her everywhere. One day she would be in Los Angeles, the next two days in Denver, the weekend in