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with contributions from Ken Wilbur, Jeff Jacoby

"When you ask many people what made the modern West different from other cultures around the world, most of the answers are terribly negative: the disenchantment of the world,.... the death of God,... nightmare after nightmare. These naysayers tend to overlook ... the abolition of slavery, the rise of democracies,... and so on. Until we honor both the good and bad news of modernity, we're not going to see our situation clearly....

"While [the] downside of modernity must be acknowledged,... we need to hold on to what it is that we've gained and move toward a higher integration, not jump on the regress express, as many ... would have us do."

Ken Wilbur, philospher and author of
The Marriage of sense and soul:Integrating science and Religion
Quoted in UTNE Reader
July—August 1998

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