Franklin Merrell-Wolff discusses a “commission” he received to formulate a new approach to solving our critical world problems. He states that the threat of serious disaster is so great that there is not enough time to effect change by “transformation,” but that a different method has to be employed; namely, one that could be called “transubstantiation.” He goes on to offer a definition of these terms and an explanation of how they apply to the world’s difficult problems. He outlines the threats posed by the atomic bomb, ecological imbalance, population explosion, and the exhaustion of our energy resources, and suggests that without an intervention from beyond the resources of our unillumined political and scientific minds, disaster for this humanity is imminent. He then gives an account of the moral decay and the open advocacy of indulgence in various forms of lust afflicting our society, proclaiming this to be a far greater problem for humanity than the merely physical disasters outlined above. Wolff affirms that there are powers beyond our human evolution, yet products of our evolution, which may observe and intervene in the evolution of this humanity. He cautions against the attitudes of blind belief (and non-belief), stressing the fundamental importance of seeking to know in terms of an authentic knowledge. Wolff proceeds by stating that there is an imminent inpouring of substance into our world-field that will lead to changes in human consciousness and attitudes. He acknowledges that such a statement presents a problem of credibility and a philosophic view that is not easy for our science-oriented Western consciousness to accept. He therefore begins an analysis of the nature of our science and the possibility of reconciling it with another way of viewing the whole of this world, this universe, and the system of our consciousness.