Ken Wilber

My friend Richard has sent me, via email, advertising promos and blurbs of Ken Wilber's books, saying he finds them all--but especially The Religion of Tomorrow--eminently persuasive.  And, judging by the blurbs and testimonials, so probably will I, if and when I come to read them.  But I want to cry halt, for just a moment, to the notion that religion (as ordinarily defined) has a future. The latest generation of young adults, whom we call Millennials, seem quite consciously to deny the likelihood of religion's having a future--and if the next generation after them continues the trend, as seems likely, I think that another fifteen or twenty years should find the whole business of unsubstantiated belief systems--not so much disbelieved-in as--utterly forgotten-about in First World countries: curious relics in the ashcan of history, alongside such monstrous chimeras as Mesmerism, Phrenology and Viennese "depth psychology."  Such at least would be the fitting end of the morbid, cruel and barbaric "Abrahamic" religions.