A single purpose encourages the heart of the great religious traditions of the world: awakening to the reality of our true nature and the nature of the universe. After centuries of accumulation of layers of relative truths and of focusing attention on myths and rites as if they were an end in themselves, this fundamental truth has become obscured. In this book, Ken Wilber outlines and reimagines a future religion that, while remaining faithful to the original spiritual vision, recognizes the evolution of humanity at each stage. And, if they want to be attractive to modern man and woman, traditions should incorporate the large number of truths about human nature discovered by science in recent centuries; truths about the mind, the brain, the emotions and the development of consciousness that the ancients did not know. Taking the case of Buddhism as an example, Wilber demonstrates the w...read more