Humanity has been beset by a man-made crisis of first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, provoking mass despair, decline, and the escalation of many old conflicts. To find a way out of the impasse, we will have to look deep into the Universe and understand the Truth, and to do this, strangely enough, we will have to look deep into ourselves.
Will humanity cope with the challenges of modern times, or will it turn into just another statistical unit in the history of the Universe, which has been going on for billions of years?
