Volume 4 of The New Way is a series of twenty essays written by Thea for students and friends living in India and throughout the world. Originally presented in The Vishaal Newsletter, between 1989 and 1994, they retain an extraordinary relevance for the world today. Thea offers insights about historical and philosophical issues from a very unusual perspective. In each of her four major themes, she makes a direct application of an Indocentric Cosmology, which she calls The New Way. She writes from the 'centre' that is India: this nation is the 'planetary soul' of our Solar System. It is India, by destiny, who is to come forward to assist the Earth in the work to be done in this 9th Manifestation. The essays offer a vision and a methodology to ensure that the seeker does not isolate him/herself and escape from the experience which is presently being offered to our planet - to see ourselves as parts of one luminous whole Earth. We are a race in transition; a higher Truth is evolving within us and our Earth is the place where the process unfolds, where the Light of a Higher Being can increasingly manifest through us.