Huston Smith, The Author Of The Classic Bestseller The World's Religions, Delivers A Passionate, Timely Message: The Human Spirit Is Being Suffocated By The Dominant Materialistic Worldview Of Our Times. Smith Champions A Society In Which Religion Is Once Again Treasured And Authority Practiced As The Vital Source Of Human Wisdom. -- From Back Cover. Part 1 Modernity's Tunnel 7 -- Chapter 1. Who's Right About Reality: Traditionalists, Modernists, Or The Postmoderns? 11 -- Modernity's Cosmological Achievement -- Postmodernism's Fairness Revolution -- Traditional Worldview -- Chapter 2. Great Outdoors And The Tunnel Within It 23 -- Worldviews: The Big Picture -- Decisive Alternative -- Weighing The Alternatives -- Sweetening The Sour Apple -- How Much Is At Stake -- Chapter 3. Tunnel As Such 42 -- Flagship Book -- Tunnel In Question -- A Disqualified Univers -- Chapter 4. Tunnel's Floor: Scientism 59 -- Flagship Book -- Tracking Scientism -- Spinoza's Conatus -- Of Rocks And Pebbles -- From Warfare To Dialogue -- Colonizing Theology -- Tilt Of The Negotiating Table -- Chapter 5. Tunnel's Left Wall: Higher Education 79 -- Flagship Book -- What Happened -- Pull Of Science On Other Disciplines -- From Nonbelief To Disbelief -- Ineffectiveness Of The Theological Response -- New Professionalism -- Chapter 6. Tunnel's Roof: The Media 103 -- Flagship Book -- Kansas Update -- General Picture -- Who Pays The Piper? -- Chapter 7. Tunnel's Right Wall: The Law 121 -- Flagship Book -- Employment Division V. Smith -- Religious Freedom Restoration Act -- Marginalizing Religion -- Handling Creationism -- Part 2 Light At The Tunnel's End 135 -- Chapter 8. Light 137 -- Physics Of Light -- Light Subjectively Experienced -- Chapter 9. Is Light Increasing: Two Scenarios 145 -- God Is Dead -- Eyes Of Faith -- Clearing The Ground -- Chapter 10. Discerning The Signs Of The Times 154 -- Straws In The Wind -- Counterculture And The New Age Movement -- Four Modern Giants Revisited -- Chapter 11. Three Sciences And The Road Ahead 174 -- Physics -- Biology -- Cognitive Psychology -- Chapter 12. Terms For The Detente 187 -- A Glimpse Of David Bohm -- Science Rightly Defined -- Limits Of Science -- Division Of Labor -- Cow That Stands On Three Legs -- Chapter 13. This Ambiguous World 205 -- Life's Cosmic Inkblot -- A Sidewise Glance At The Social Scene -- Chapter 14. Big Picture 213 -- Great Divide -- Subdivisions -- A Hierarchical Reality -- Topdown Causation And The Multiple Degrees Of Reality -- Return To The Inkblot -- Chapter 15. Spiritual Personality Types 234 -- Characterology -- Ubiquity -- Atheist: There Is No God -- Polytheist: There Are Many Gods -- Principle Of One-way Mirrors -- Monotheist: There Is One God -- Mystic: There Is Only God -- Chapter 16. Spirit 255 -- Self/world Divide -- Tacit Knowing -- Spirit And Its Outworkings -- Consciousness And Light -- Happy Ending -- Epilogue: We Could Be Siblings Yet 272. Huston Smith. Includes Index. Includes Index.