The spiritual mission of America.

In his lecture on the modern mind at the threshold, Richard Tarnas summarized competing interpretations of the course of Western thought and culture. According to the dominant story, the West continues on an ascent, on the well-established curve of progress made possible by rationality and scientific thinking; according to the other, more recent story, the West is a tragedy brought on by the myth of progress and the disastrous effects of alienation, technology, and gender imbalance. An audience at a conference on "Science and Spirituality" sponsored by the International Transperso