Arcturus is the principal navigation star in the Pacific. The Hawaiians refer to it as Hoku lea, the star of gladness, as it signaled the helmsmen to the Hawaiian archipelago. This is a course in designing the direction of our civilization toward the states of grace.

Imagine having a knowledge-base that systematically assembles both the ancient and modern tools of culture-craft. This journey thoughtfully arranges and richly illustrates a path we can travel through the worlds of tribal ritual, medieval pageantry and modern technology with a clear sense of how they work as building blocks for new communites, new cultures and a new civilization. Included in this journey are examples of new forms of social architecture that will be referred to as social inventions.  For without assembling and stabilizing the more precious working elements of social architecture we could forge an artless civilization.

The principal author has himself been an active social experiment most of his life. He has led paratroopers in combat, he has helped direct ten of the world's hundred largest corporations with his visions and story-telling, and he has pioneered radically new social combinations with his social architecture team. This is the knowledge base about how to build communities that include the dimensions of productivity, sustainabilty, heart, and spirit . . . together. This guide will enable any leader to point a culture towards its higher purpose and simultaneously allow it to taste its richest experience of life. These are the tools for a new practice . . . social architecture. These are the social graces for a new planetary class of humans. These are the secrets to the second renaissance.