To say that the spiritual life of the new millennium has to...

To say that the spiritual life of the new millennium has to some extent found an ally in science is to state only part of the current dynamic however. A renewal of the spiritual life as a genuinely 21st century phenomenon, as opposed to the embattled survival into the secular world of presecular religion, emerges in a variety of contexts.

We can list these as: 1- the 'new' sciences of quantum mechanics, relativity and chaos (complexity) theory, which challenge the deterministic, mechanistic and reductionist worldview 2- the emerging field of consciousness studies 3- transpersonal psychology from Jung to Wilber 4- sections of Postmodern thinking including Heidegger and Levinas 5- sections of Christian theology, in particular the 'Radical Orthodoxy', inspired by Postmodernism 6- the creative arts in the 20th C, for example artists from Constantin Brancusi to Bill Viola who have explored a wide range of conventional and unconventional spiritualities in their art 7- Deep ecology and ‘ecosophy,’ mystical approaches to Nature, from Thoreau to Dillard.…