Anthony Brooke, born 1912, is a descendant of Sir James Brooke, who in 1841 became known as the first White Rajah of Sarawak. Three generations of the Brooke family ruled the country as an independent sovereign state for just over a hundred years, until it became a British colony in 1946 and subsequently, in 1963, entered the Federation of Malaysia. Anthony Brooke, as Rajah Muda of Sarawak, ruled for a period in 1939, and after World WarII he campaigned constitutionally for five years with Sarawak nationalists against the transformation of the territory into a British colony. Since then he has been associating himself with groups and movements concerned with focusing attention on human unity as an underlying spiritual reality and exploring ways in which individuals, groups and communities, in a network of linkage throughout the world and through inner growth and transformation may serve to make an essential contribution to universal world harmony.

The contents of this book centre around the fact of ever accelerating change, and point to the many different ways open to the individual to become informed about, and respond to, the necessity for inner transformation, so that he may move creatively with the changes and participate effectively in the new world that is coming to birth-and himself help to build this new world.