Gnostic Intermediaries.
http://integrallife.com/node/54698" The term gnostic intermediaries was used by Carl Jung (1966) to refer to Richard Wilhelm, the translator of the I Ching. Jung suggested that Wilhelm embodied the wisdom of the I Ching so deeply that he was able to transmit not only its ideas, but also the deeper underlying spirit of Chinese culture. Jung does not seem to have developed the concept further. However, I define a gnostic intermediary as a person who is able to effectively translate and transmit wisdom from one culture or community to another. This translation/transmission can be cross-cultural (e.g., Taoist wisdom to Western cul

GAIA
Excerpt from "Integral Psychology" Ken Wilbur: "The ecological crisis--or Gaia's main problem--is not pollution, toxic dumping, ozone depletion, or any such. Gaia's main problem is that not enough human beings have developed to the postconventional, worldcentric, global levels of consciousness, whererin they will automatically be moved to care for the global commons. And human beings develop to those postconcventional levels, not by learning systems theories, but by going through at least a half-dozen major interior transformations, ranging from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, at which point and not before, they can awaken to a deep and authentic concern for Gaia. The