A New Age author expresses that people need to reclaim their personal sovereignty--taking responsibility for their own actions and relying on their own "radical common sense"--to create a new freedom and carry it out into the world.

Marilyn Ferguson published Brain;Mind Bulletin from 19751995. Her work not only culled the best of the new consciousness movement and put the word out, but also offered commentary and insight that helped launch a whole new way of looking at ourselves and the world we live in. She published the bestselling The Aquarian Conspiracy in 1980 (the 25th anniversary edition was published by Tarcher;Penguin in 2005). Voted the most important new age book of the 1980s, this book has remained in print continuously for a quarter of a century.