It presents us with a time of opportunity, a time in which we can allow spiritual energies to reach human hearts and minds. The meditating individual is part of a network of meditation. In places groups meet as well, strengthening the ‘channel’. It is a conscious and deliberate process, a reorientation of the heart and mind towards sources of spiritual energy and a conscious direction of the energies and impressions received out into the world, using the mind to create thought currents that will carry new ideas into the world of human thought.