The culture as a whole and most of its members are insane. The culture is driven by a death urge, an urge to destroy life.

DERRICK JENSEN, ENDGAME:
THE PROBLEM OF CIVILIZATION

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie with the kid, and a calf with a lion’s cub and a fatling together, and a small child shall lead them. . . . They will not harm or destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea.

ISAIAH 11:6–9

The Messianic outlook is rooted in the prophetic temper. It maintains that all people are made in God’s image, it is passionately concerned with social justice, and it is actually or incipiently democratic in character, expecting God’s will to be implemented in historical time in ways that disclose the truth and that will rally all of humanity to its senses.

DANIEL BURSTON,
THE CRUCIBLE OF EXPERIENCE

As Jung prophesied, an epochal shift is taking place in the contemporary psyche, reconciliation between the two great polarities, a union of opposites: a hieros gamos (sacred marriage) between the long dominant but now alienated masculine and the long suppressed but now ascending feminine. . . . We seem to be witnessing, suffering the birth of a new reality, a new form of human existence, a “child” that would be the fruit of this great archetypal marriage, and that would bear within itself all its antecedents in a new form.

RICHARD TARNAS,
THE PASSION OF THE WESTERN MIND