We must clearly distinguish between reality (the territory), and whatwe perceive to be reality (the map of the territory)! In our journeythrough life, we need something to guide us, to give us reassurancethat we are on the right track. Modern science has done its best to takethat reassurance away from us, telling us that there is no destination, no purpose, in life, and that in effect our lives are an accident of'Nature'. Religion, too, has become equally unhelpful: it has becomedogmatic, sectarian, and self-serving. We have lost the core, the realmessage, of religion, but we still need true...

Since the Industrial Revolution, the peoples from Western civilizations had developed a more mechanistic point of view of the world. As our knowledge of physics and chemistry grew; and with the advent of the steam engine, we started to see the universe and all life in it as a big mechanical machine constructed from chemical elements. Our knowledge has kept on increasing with discoveries about electricity, electronics, information and communication science, computer science and nanotechnology, and especially quantum theory, and holography. We had a whole paradigm shift, and have since...