The Importance of Spiritual Transformation

Most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than it was thought sacred yesterday. The Bible and the Quran, it seems certain, would find themselves respectfully shelved next to Avid's metamorphoses and the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Many have observed that religion, by lending meaning to human life, permits communities, at least those united under a single faith, to cohere. But in its effect upon the modern world, religious ideology is dangerously retrograde.