"So what exactly can we expect in the Aquarian Age?... the next Great Age will likely be every bit as complex and multifaceted as every other one that has preceded it... What can we do to facilitate the highest expression of the coming era? ..There are a number of specific steps we might consider for achieving this goal on both the collective and personal levels. On the global scale, it means working to create a society that fosters higher values and ideals, not only through improved laws and educational institutions but the cultivation of increasingly enlightened business models. "If we create the body of civilization," the late philosopher Manly Palmer Hall once remarked, "then the soul body of civilization—which is the 'New Atlantis'—will move in and vitalize it..." (Hall)... enhancing the higher potentials of the Aquarian Age will involve, among other things, developing one's own higher mind and critical faculties, allowing one to remain free from the hypnotizing qualities of society's mental "grid"—the sociocultural matrix of our collective beliefs. Can you stand apart from the crowd and think for yourself? That's a question that's being asked by many of our emerging popular mythologies."