Dick Rauscher is a licensed mental health therapist, life coach, and writer. His focus is on the importance of maturing and evolving the primitive ego and its immature early childhood conditioning embedded in humanity’s collective unconsciousness. His recently published book “Waiting Is Not An Option: The Transition from Unlimited Growth to Long Term Survival” illustrates clearly the dangerous threats to social, economic, and civil collapse that humanity’s immature consciousness has created, and the urgent need to begin “now” creating self-reliant local communities and economies for long-term survival.