Encouraged by sites such as Match.com, Facebook, and Friendster, more people than ever are meeting in virtual spaces.

On the southwest coast of Australia, as the culture has for the last 100,000 years, there is an Aborigine teaching his daughter to use her dreams to tap into the energy formed at the dawn of time. In Dream Master schools, created by the shamans of Indonesia, rows of students sit in silence utilizing conscious dreaming as a method of intense meditation.