The 64th verse of the I-Ching reads: A tree as wide as a man's embrace grew from a tiny seed. A tower nine stories high rose from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles began with a single step. " The Great Work " Human civilization along with the Earth that it inhabits, like The Fool in the Tarot, is on a precipice. We are currently facing two possible broad paths of unfoldment. The path which is currently dominant is one that leads to ever increasing pain, environmental toxicity, exploitation, with overall destruction and degradation being its inevitable destiny. This path can be described in many ways, but primarily is the result of underlying assumptions about what is technically possible. It can