We Are A Blend Of Dust And

After His Great Awakening, The Buddha Continued To Meditate And To Devote Himself To Others; Otherwise His Vision Would Have Receded Into A Pleasant Memory.

We Are A Blend Of Dust And Divinity.

Swami Ashokananda Was A Brilliant And Accomplished Spiritual Teacher In The West.

People Are Not Losing Their Religious Needs, But They Are Going To Three Places To Get Their Needs Met. One Is To Conservative Churches, Which, For All Their Social Benightedness, Nevertheless Do Present Their Congregations With A Different View Of Reality. Second, They Are Going To Asian Religions. Third, They Are Going To The New Age, Which When I'm Feeling Cynical I Refer To As "new Age Frivolity," Because Some Of It Is Rather Flaky.

One Reason Education Undoes Belief Is Its Teaching Of Evolution; Darwin's Own Drift From Orthodoxy To Agnosticism Was Symptomatic. Martin Lings Is Probably Right In Saying That More Cases Of Loss Of Religious Faith Are To Be Traced To The Theory Of Evolution ... Than To Anything Else.