Consciousness, a word that shimmers throughout the world. The quantum leap in consciousness that the world needs to survive is the inescapable necessity that more and more people see before them. It is therefore consistent that in this edition of Pentagram the consciousness theme returns in every article. As The Night of the Soul says: ‘It is high time we start to live and lift ourselves and our planet into a higher field of life’. And the Sufi leader professor Johan Witteveen in an interview just before his death: ‘The meaning of our lives is therefore to develop an awareness of the divine’. In the documentary HEAL we are also made aware of what the human mind is capable of. And then the columns, more than ‘snacks’: not that many words but enough to think about. Inertia or the memory effect shows how our memory tracks are constantly supplied with new energy that counteracts any change. Only new consciousness offers ‘openings in the roof of our memory museum’.