If we want to improve life on earth and our own lives, it is necessary to find a new guide: one that can meet the challenges of our time and of the future. The old guides were good in principle, but have become bogged down in calcified structures, often accomplishing the opposite of what was originally intended.

The development of society makes it necessary to find new guiding principles from time to time. To do so, however, we need to know what the history was, how the present society is structured, and how it is likely to develop.

The author aims to discover this by highlighting the following topics:

Information: truth and lies

Conspiracies: real and imagined conspiracies

Nodes and choices: in history and as individuals

Education

Religions

Cultures and subcultures

Good and evil

Resolving conflicts

Freedom

Justice

Security

How a poor country can become rich.

Nature and the environment and global warming

Art

Creativity

The meaning of life

Peace

Reform of the United Nations

Health: Physical and mental

Advice on how to become happy

What ultimately matters is how to safeguard and promote life on earth.

According to the author, making the right choice at certain crucial moments (called "nodes") is of great importance.

Ultimately, it is about love and the unity of all and everything,