This book provides an overview of a holistic framework for developing human potential. It contributes to the growing literature on the need for a holistic approach to preparing children and youth for successful adulthood in the twenty-first century.

"... this volume offers work on an array of cultural moments which express the liminal nature of Taiwan's cultural life on the fault-lines of Asia and the West. The chapters offer a snapshot of the limits of what counts as 'Taiwan' and what is becoming Taiwan studies." -- p. 18.

This book is the culmination of a twenty-five year search for a return to a Centered state of grace that was revealed to me. The final message, as related in "Become as a Child", is that enlightenment need not be an elusive esoteric search without end but instead a thoughful return to one's beginnings. A sequel to "The Nature of Centered Emotion", this book consists of sixteen consecutive interactive mandalas beginning with the Mandala of Centered Vision and culminating in the Mandala of Celestial Horizons. In a wedding of the material and the spiritual, these mandalas encompass a structure containing both the conditioned primal emotional responses of materialism and the light giving spiritual support that lives in and through our center of consciousness. In a revelation of self-awareness, painful error in ego identification learned in childhood are compassionately revealed and replaced by a quintessential spiritual healing.