Our civilization has essentially globalized only the surfaces of our lives. But our inner self continues to have a life of its own. And the fewer answers the era of rational knowledge provides to the basic questions of human Being, the more deeply it would seem that people, behind its back as it were, cling to the ancient certainties of their tribe. Because of this, individual cultures, increasingly lumped together by contemporary civilization, are realizing with new urgency their own inner autonomy and the inner differences of others.

There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anyt…

Cultural conflicts are increasing and are understandably more dangerous today than at any other time in history. The end of the era of rationalism has been cat…

Classical modern science described only the surface of things, a single dimension of reality. And the more dogmatically science treated it as the only dimensio…

'In general they are intoxicated by the fame of mass culture, a fame which the latter knows how to manipulate; they could just as well get together in clubs fo…

For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's…

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, 'I speak as a citizen of the world' without others saying, 'God, what a nut.'