A generation ago ~eilhard de Chardin made a predictior<br >has now become a~ultural reality: "Like the meridians a~<br >approach the pole~， science， philosophy and religior<br >bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole." <br >a fanciful thought that P~re Teilhard had in those dark<br >war days in Paris when le neant seemed to be the ulti<br >expression of Western civilization， but now it is exciti<br >hear the scientist and the mystic speak in similar terms. "<br >new book， The Survival of the Wisest， Dr. Jonas Salk<br >forth a theory of individual and group evolution tt<br >remarkably similar to the work of David Spangler.<br >My aim here is to suggest that the tendency toward t<br >separation and isolation of human groups according<br >EGO values that have formed and prevailed until m<br >has prevented the recognition and expression of t<br >BEING. They have favored the association<br >individuals according to EGO values rather th<br >BEING values. If， as is suspected from what has be<br >happening in the human realm， BEING standards<br >emerging with EGO values appropriate there<br >removing the encumbrance of essentially foreign E<br >values which contributed to the development<br >enormous internal and external conflicts， then Man<br >entering upon a new phase of his evolutiom<br >development.<br >