The contemporary world has placed humanity in a unique position. The yantra charts a nonlinear process with multiple points of entry. Whatever the doorway, the practitioner is led in the direction of an increasing awareness of interconnectivity, held in the embrace of an unrepresentable centre-point that is both root cause and the infinity of effects. Transnational media, satellite communication, telephones and the internet mean that wherever we may be, we are far more aware of events both local and global. The complexity of a spiritual perspective cannot be reduced to a set of replicable practices with the promise of specific rewards. Most of the world’s surface is covered by water, and the oceans are not at war either. Be they choppy or calm, the oceans are not involved in combat. Nor are the deserts over which the conflict is taking place, and into whose sands the arsenals of the US and the UK are being emptied.