What would you do if you suddenly realized that the entire evolution of the human race rested on your shoulders alone? … Suddenly you find yourself overwhelmed by a blazing white light. … Would you be able to avoid the overwhelming implications of a call from the Absolute? … In order to be able to live up to the liberating idealism that many of us have experienced clearly at one time or another we have to be ready to assume a great burden, and that burden is the evolution of the whole. Because to succeed, we must be prepared to do battle with the powerful conditioning, conscious and unconscious, of the whole race. That means we have to come out from behind the shadows and be seen. Like Atlas, we have to be willing to hold up the whole world on our own shoulders. It’s an awesome task. 

- Andrew Cohen said in Freedom Has No History,