All -isms End Up In Schisms.

As The Twentieth Century Began, Science Equaled A Materialistic Worldview. As The Twenty-first Century Began, The Worldview Of Science, At Least Of Physics And Astronomy, May Have Traded Place With That Of Religion. Consider Einstein's Famous Equation E = Mc2. Nothing Of Matter Dies But Continues On In Another Form, Elsewhere. The Church Divines And Theologians For Two Thousand Years Have Devised Arguments And "proofs" Of Immortality But Nothing Equal To This.

If Rumi Is The Most-read Poet In America Today, Coleman Barks Is In Good Part Responsible. His Ear For The Truly Divine Madness In Rumi’s Poetry Is Really Remarkable.

Modernity Sees Humanity As Having Ascended From What Is Inferior To It - Life Begins In Slime And Ends In Intelligence - Whereas Traditional Cultures See It As Descended From Its Superiors. As The Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins Put The Matter: We Are The Only People Who Assume That We Have Ascended From Apes. Everybody Else Take It For Granted That They Are Descended From Gods.

The Object Of Pilgrimage Is Not Rest And Recreation – To Get Away From It All. To Set Out On A Pilgrimage Is To Throw Down A Challenge To Everyday Life.

God Enters Our Lives When Through Our Creative Interchanges We Make History More Just.