In The Post-individualistic Era, Science And Spirituality

Institutions Are Not Pretty. Show Me A Pretty Government. Healing Is Wonderful, But The American Medical Association? Learning Is Wonderful, But Universities? The Same Is True For Religion... Religion Is Institutionalized Spirituality.

Ancient Wisdom And Quantum Physicists Make Unlikely Bedfellows: In Quantum Mechanics The Observer Determines (or Even Brings Into Being) What Is Observed, And So, Too, For The Tiwis, Who Dissolve The Distinction Between Themselves And The Cosmos. In Quantum Physics, Subatomic Particles Influence Each Other From A Distance, And This Tallies With The Aboriginal View, In Which People, Animals, Rocks, And Trees All Weave Together In The Same Interwoven Fabric.

The Crisis That The World Finds Itself In As It Swings On The Hinge Of A New Millennium Is Located In Something Deeper Than Particular Ways Of Organizing Political Systems And Economies.

...the Single Destination Of Sanctity Could Admit Of So Many Different Avenues Leading To It.

Historically, Religion Has Given People Another World To Live In, A World More Adaptive To The Human Spirit. As A Student Of World Religions, I See Religion As The Winnower Of The Wisdom Of The Human Race. Of Course, Not Everything About These Religions Is Wise. Their Social Patterns, For Example - Master-slave, Caste, And Gender Relations - Have Been Adopted From The Mores Of Their Time. But In Their View Of The Nature Of Reality, There Is Nothing In Either Modernity Or Postmodernity That Rivals Them.