“It's hard to create anything new in the living world without some chaos or disruption or dissolution of old systems. We're in a situation now that's very much like the development of a butterfly in a chrysalis. The caterpillar's immune system is still trying to protect itself as a caterpillar . . . From a biological perspective it's the job of the old system to protect itself as long as possible. But it's equally the job of the new system to rally its forces until it can overcome the old immune system and build the new.”
— Elisabet Sahtouris, from an interview in What Is Enlightenment? magazineRead the complete interview with evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris in the Spring-Summer 2003 issue of What Is Enlightenment?