Part the curtains of society's racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts, and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers. Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink--or never arise at all--and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered one another because of them.