Book excerpt: Science is urgently challenging all humanity to change, to shift our thinking and our way of being in the world; to co-create a new, sustainable future or become extinct. Scriptures greatest messageto love and live in unity and peace (co-create a loving and sustainable world of cooperation and mutual aid) is embedded in cosmic urgency: change the heart or perish. Change begins with each individual. To effectively change the self, each person needs to know how he or she participates in aspects of the human condition that bind us to outdated patterns and beliefs that hurtnot help us as a species, as a planet. Each person is being called to step outside the box, beyond dogma and the shadows of life, to discover the profound as it emerges through the mundane of our everyday lives. In The Essential Code, Arvetta Souza creates a foundational, step-by-step process to stretch the mind, educate the conscience, and cultivate the soul. When each of us dares to let go of who we are to become the potential we were born to be, we birth a new species in harmony with the planetary shift, and the essential, sacred energies flowing from the cosmos. This book is a developmental tool for those awakening to the transformation already occurring in our midst, offering the clarity of a breakthrough Code to understand our potential and the urgent call for unconditional lovea massive energy that pulsates, vibrates, and flows from our cosmic transmitter, the human heart.