Today, we have found the multidimensional crisis that is the dimensions of intellectual, moral, and spiritual that never happened throughout the history of mankind. Now these dimensions has spawned a variety of social phenomena and the community at a level that is very alarming as crimes of violence, accidents, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, mental disability, mental illness and crisis on the environment sebagainya.Dampak form of pollution from chemical waste and nuclear, as occurs in developed countries. Due to the already disturbing sanitary waste, which is pure potential habitat for all life. The water we drink and the food we eat has been contaminated by various toxic chemicals. Synthetic foods that are packed as sold in supermarkets, is very rampant. Moreover, pesticides, plastics, and other chemical substances marketed freely.

Deterioration of the quality of the natural environment, has been accompanied by increased health problems for each individual. While communicable diseases and diseases of malnutrition are the biggest killers in third world countries. Industrialized countries attacked liver diseases, cancer and stroke as the main pembubuh. On the psychological side, a great depression (schizofrenia) and other psychiatric diseases seem to have emerged from the decline in our social environment. Coincided with the emergence of various social pathologies, we also witness the existence of economic anomalies that disrupt all of the leading economists and politicians. High inflation, mass unemployment, and income distribution and unequal wealth has become a culture of national economy. Anxiety that arises in the general public and representatives of the people is exacerbated by the perception that the source of energy and natural resources which is the basic ingredient of all activities drained. The experts and politicians no longer know where to start against various threats multidimensional - endless energy, inflation, unemployment, crime, disease, environmental pollution, sanitation problems, the quality of education and so forth.

The situation has been very surprising era because the people who should be experts in various fields, no longer able to solve urgent problems that have emerged in their field of expertise. Economists are not able to understand inflation, a doctor at all confused about the causes of cancer, a psychiatrist confounded by the great depression (schizofrenia), the police are not powerless against crime is increasing, and so forth. The government has turned to the academics to consult either directly or through the brain trust that was formed as an adviser to the government in various policies. Even the government has lifted a lot of experts up to professors from the university to sit together in solving various problems. This intellectual elite to formulate "a major academic views" and usually the government agreed on a conceptual framework that underlies their advice. But The Washington Post contains a story entitled "The duplicators of Ideas is Bare", which tells about the great thinkers who claim that they are no longer able to solve the problems of the most urgent policy for their nations. None of them recognize the real issue underlying the crisis of the idea. The fact that most academics hold narrow perceptions of reality that is not sufficient to resolve major issues on today. These problems, the systemic problems, which means that the issues were interrelated and interdependent. Issues that can not be understood in a fragmented methodology which is a characteristic feature of academic disciplines and government agencies. When we examine the sources of cultural crisis, it turns out figures of thinkers we are using conceptual models that have expired and the variables that are not relevant.
To understand the multilateral cultural crisis, we need to take a very broad view and look at our situation in the context of human cultural evolution. That means we must change our perspective of the early twenty-first century into a time span that covers thousands of years ago, from a static notion of social structure to the perception of patterns of dynamic change. This will be discussed further in this book.

Judging from the intensity of damage to the natural environment and social environment, cultural patterns Toynbee seems very relevant because it turns out it was the result of a number of cultural transition. Among the transitions that there are three components that shake the very foundation of human life and will affect the social system, economic, and political. The first transition is the collapse of the patriarchal system is based on a system of philosophy, social and political where men are considered more than the female role. But the disintegration of the patriarchal began to appear with the feminist movement which is one of the cultural currents that will provide a strong influence on subsequent evolution. The second transition, the collapse of the fossil fuels that are most needed by today's modern technology. From the historical perspective of cultural evolution, before the era of fossil fuels run out and the small peak around the year 2000 and will be exhausted by the year 2300. This decade will be marked transition from the era of fossil fuels to solar fuels era will involve radical changes in economic and political system. The third transition, associated with cultural value called a paradigm shift that will affect thoughts, perceptions, and values in the formation of a new vision of reality. The paradigm that considers the scientific method everything must be transformed kebentuk intuitive knowledge that is more oriented to social and environmental perspectives. Thus there will be a harmonious relationship between various life with nature. As the Chinese philosophy which focuses on the natural balance between Yin and Yang in which Yang is side of rational knowledge, analysis, and expansion while Yin as a feminine figure that is our intuitive wisdom, synthesis and ecological consciousness. With this we will realize how in addition to the scientific knowledge with all its limitations, there is also an intuitive knowledge or awareness of the same valid and credibility of even going to build a new civilization in balance.