"Explores how the Universe, our planet, ourselves, and everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose. Examines our emergence as self-aware members of a Universe that is itself a unified and innately sentient entity that exists TO evolve. Shares leading-edge scientific breakthroughs and shows how they support traditional visions of Earth as a living being-Gaia. Rewrites evolution as not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by intelligently informed and meaningful information flows and processes"--