Clearly, our awareness has led to a decline in the power and reach of the Catholic Church. It is more difficult for them to retain followers or gain new ones. They cannot force people to go to mass, pay their tithes, or adhere to their moral code of conduct.

But today our greater challenge is not only to free ourselves from any particular control structure, but more so to grasp the overall pattern of control that is ever-present in our society, and bring our collective awareness to bear on the fact that we can only be controlled if at some level we are giving our consent for it. This awareness will ultimately give us the power as co-creators of our reality to form a new world that has moved beyond the binds of control.