appeal of mysticism to those wanting to escape from modernism is based on a simple idea: Since materialism leads logically to nihilism, the solution is to reject materialism. In fact, why not go in precisely the opposite direction and argue that the matter and energy of the physicists are not the prime reality — that instead there is a universal energy of which we are all a part and to which we can connect via meditation or other kinds of psychotechnologies? ALL IS ONE The principal inspiration for this approach is Eastern thought, whether the Zen of the beatniks, the Indian religions of the
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