"For some decades now, we have been going through a ‘spiritual crisis,’ as I argued elsewhere, and that crisis can be seen as a struggle for the core narrative of our culture. The real ‘culture war’ is between the ‘old story’ that tells us we live in a random universe made of physical particles and an emerging story. This story is, in part, being recovered from a long (and often forgotten) tradition of human wisdom that says, ‘No! We live in a meaningful universe pervaded by consciousness. We are deeply interconnected with one another and the planet on which we live.’"  —Michael Nagler