The biosphere is the ''sensing'' part of Mother Earth. It is her eyes and ears. The biosphere reorganizes itself in response to changes in the environment. Good or bad, environmental alterations alter life.

Because Mother Earth's environment is in crisis, we can see her biosphere responding with massive change. Human beings are part of this biosphere. Like everything else, we will be forever changed by this experience.

This is not the first time that the human species has been altered in response to an environmental crisis. For example, about 25,000 to 15,000 years ago, another environmental crisis brought massive weather changes. In turn, the weather changes probably caused an alteration in our food consumption. Previously, for millions of years, we had survived on a carnivorous diet. Now, for the first time in history, we became farmers.

The resulting dramatic shift in our diet was accompanied by an actual shift in the human DNA. Prior to the agricultural revolution, all human blood -- no matter the skin color or body morphology -- was the same, Type O. But when we became farmers and changed the kind of food that entered our bodies, we needed a more efficient kind of blood to process it. Then, literally out of nowhere, a new human being was born. This new human being had Type A blood and a revised digestive system adapted to processing vegetal foods.

In Eat Right For Your Type, Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo notes:
"The cultivation of grains and livestock changed everything. Able to forgo their hand-to-mouth existence and sustain themselves for the first time, people established stable communities and permanent living structures. This radically different lifestyle, a major change in diet and environment, resulted in an entirely new mutation in the digestive tracts and the immune systems of the Neolithic peoples -- a mutation that allowed them to better tolerate and absorb cultivated grains and other agricultural products. Type A was born."

As time went on, our DNA evolved twice more, adding Type B blood, and then, more recently, Type AB. And again, scientists believe that these evolutionary transformations happened in response to climatic shifts and changes in the food supply.

Now, in our time, one of the biggest climate changes in history is taking place, along with what is certainly the most radical change in our diet that has ever happened in the history of our species -- perhaps of any species.

Within the geological eyeblink of half a century, human beings have begun to eat a diet that was absolutely unknown upon this earth for the previous many millions of years. Never before has any species tried to survive while ingesting foods containing pesticides, artificial hormones, laboratory manufactured vitamins, antibiotics, and grains stripped of their natural food value. Never before have nonfood ingredients laced virtually every bite we put into our mouths. And -- on a happier note --never before have we been able to select our daily fare from among foodstuffs produced in every country and climate in the world. Today, a single human being in a single day can eat food grown in China, Japan, Europe, South Africa, Australia, South America, Mexico, Alaska, and anywhere else where planes can fly and boats can find harbors.

If the only influence upon our species were the unusual, sometimes toxic, sometimes merely exotic foods that enter our bodies, modern-day DNA mutation would still be a predictable response. But there is much, much more going on today than just a shift in our diet. In fact, humans are faced with an all-encompassing change in every facet of our existence, transforming the very mode in which we perceive our world.

There appear to be three distinct new human races being born at this time. And when I say ''new human races,'' I really mean exactly that. Our DNA is changing in specific ways that have never been seen before, ways that alter the description of what is ''human.'' It may be years before science can fully document the extent of the human DNA mutation that has been happening during the past 20 to 30 years, but even now, hard-core scientific research has revealed that these changes are real. And these changes are bringing powers to the New Children that would once have been described -- that we would still describe, if we are honest -- as ''miraculous'' or ''superhuman.''

These children need to be understood, to be cherished, to be protected and loved. For the basic needs of these children are not being met. Many of these New Children -- literally millions of them -- instead of being recognized for their incredible brainpower, higher energy, immense creativity, and telekinetic powers, are being rejected and abused. Labeled as disordered. Told that they are crazy. Told that they are unacceptable. That they are a problem for others. That they are ''bad.''

Next to the destruction of Mother Earth and her environment, the biggest insanity happening in the world today may be the way in which we are drugging our children into submission to a system that never worked very well anyway, and is tragically inadequate to their needs.

In the Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, Volume II, I wrote descriptive articles about each of what I perceive as the three new species of human beings. They are being called the Indigo Children, the Super Psychic Children, and the Children of AIDS. That book was published only half a year ago, and yet already, as I reread what I wrote then, I can see that the knowledge of who and what these children are is rapidly becoming clearer. We are learning so fast!

About two months before Lee Carroll and Jan Tober's book The Indigo Children was published in 1999, an Internet search for the words ''Indigo Children"' yielded only three websites. Currently, there are over 32,000 sites! We -- you and I and all of us -- can make the difference for these children and for our world.

Anyone who really wants to know what is unfolding with these New Children can now go to our database (www.spiritofmaat.com) and search for the information. We have created chat rooms for the children to begin to get to know each other and share their experiences. And we will do whatever we can in the future to find new ways for us all to communicate. Because the children themselves are so different from any human beings that have gone before, our communications will probably end up taking forms that we cannot even guess at today.

To the children themselves, I want to acknowledge that our very survival on this small planet will almost certainly depend on you. For you are going to inherit this Earth. And so we want to help you. We really do have so much to learn. The vision of a worldwide clearinghouse of information and help for Mother Earth's New Children can become a reality.