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xx Introduction

violence, divorce, homosexuality, threat of nuclear
holocaust — are all part of everyday life.

Genuine spiritual culture, or the search for God, is almost
completely absent in modern society. The materialistic
worldview is so deeply embedded that cultivation of
transcendental knowledge is not only not encouraged
but is hardly even thought about, not even by leading
intellectuals. The slaughter of millions of animals is
considered so normal and acceptable that it continues
year after year without protest. Governments not only
sanction but support divorce, contraception, abortion,
and homosexuality. Our godless society is so fallen in
every aspect that many books could be written describing
its moral decrepitude. But one word succinctly describes
it all: insanity.

As noted by Sir Arnold Toynbee, the late British historian:
“The cause of [the world’s malady] is spiritual. We are
suffering from having sold our souls to the pursuit of an
objective which is both spiritually wrong and practically
unattainable. We have to reconsider our objective and
change it, and until we do this, we shall not have peace
either amongst ourselves or within each of us.” 2

Much has been discussed about the harm man has
inflicted upon himself and other living beings in the
name of progress. The more enlightened victims-cum-
participants in this catastrophe are looking for solutions

2. From an article that appeared in the London Observer, October
1972.