“the anger of the Godhead”: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (New York: Modern Library, 1996), pp. 160–64.
“summary court in perpetual session”: Franz Kafka, quoted from his notebooks in introduction to Selected Stories of Franz Kafka, trans. Willa and Edwin Muir, intro. Philip Rahv (New York: Random House, 1952), p. x.
“more than Art imitates Life”: Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying” (1885), in The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde, ed. Richard Ellmann (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), p. 307.
“Our world in stupor lies”: W. H. Auden, “September 1, 1939,” in Chief Modern Poets of England and America, 4th ed., ed. G. D. Sanders et al. (New York: Macmillan, 1957), vol. 1, p. 360.
“ever written on the subject”: Edmund Dene Morel, founder of the Congo Reform Association. Quoted in Reforming the Heart of Darkness: The Congo Reform Movement in England and the United States, ed. J. Zwick, http://www.boondocksnet.com/congo/congo_heart.
“our beloved though guilty country”: From Letters of a Nation, ed. A. Carroll (New York: Kodansha International, 1997), pp. 103–04.
“only one thing for me now, absolute humility”: Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (written 1897, first published posthumously 1905), (New York: Penguin, 1976), pp. 143–44.
“stand me now and ever in good stead”: Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, p. 273.
“fulfill our assigned role”: Thomas Berry, The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (New York: Bell Tower, 1999) pp. 1, 3, 7.
“colliding in the North Atlantic”: William Rivers Pitt, “Of Gods and Mortals and Empire,” Truthout, Perspective, February 21, 2003, http://truthout.org/docs_02/022203A.htm. (“It sounded like two behemoth icebergs colliding in the North Atlantic, but you needed the right kind of ears to hear it….”)
“cooperation of a whole generation of physicists”: Niels Bohr, “Discussions with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics” (1949), available at http://www.meta-religion.com/Physics/Quantum_physics/discussions_with_einstein.htm.
Part VI: Cycles of Creativity and Expansion
“most remarkable computer-technology demonstration of all time”: John Markoff, What the Dor-mouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (New York: Viking, 2005), p. 149.
“the most influential environmental photograph ever taken”: Galen Rowell, photographer US Nature, http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/earthrise.htm.
“since Newton enunciated his principles”: Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times, pp. 289–90.
“may furnish means of new knowledge”: Benjamin Franklin to Sir Joseph Banks, letter of July 27, 1783, Oxford Book of Letters, ed. F. Kermode and A. Kermode (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p.156.
“expensive to accomplish”: John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961, “Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs,” John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/j 052561.htm.
“Titan, wrestling with the Gods”: Richard Wagner, quoted in Milton Cross and David Ewen, Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, rev. ed. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962), vol. 1, p. 45.
“The coincidence of date is amazing”: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1980), vol. 20, p. 123.
“upon a peak in Darien”: John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” The Norton Anthology of Poetry, p. 699.
“one experiences only oneself”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1961, 1969), p. 173.
“away from all dusty rooms”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 147.
“Or, my brothers. Or?”: Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 228–29.
“an officer storming the barricades”: Nietzsche, quoted in introduction to Lou Salomé, Nietzsche, trans. and ed. Siegfried Mandel (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2001), p. xxxiv.
“many brave pioneers are needed now”: Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Hollingdale, quoted in introduction to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 18.
“all instincts are holy”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 102.
“it is called my Will”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 135.
“overcome itself again and again”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 138.
“to give birth to a dancing star”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 46.
“with your equals and yourselves”: Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 283, trans. Hollingdale, quoted in introduction to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 18.
“only where there are graves are there resurrections”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 136.
“Become what you are!”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 252.
“I know both, I am both”: Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, trans. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1979), p. 38.
“cannot obey himself will be commanded”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 137.
“into the icy breath of solitude”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 89.
“closing in on us”: Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1974), p. 181.
“absolutely fresh and cheerful January days”: Nietzsche, quoted in Hollingdale, introduction to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 22.
“it is mine also”: Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, pp. 102–03.
“the discipline of great suffering”: Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 225, trans. and quoted in Hollingdale, Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy, rev. ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 191.
“had not first become ashes”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 90.
“kill the Spirit of Gravity”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 68
“a sacred Yes”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 55.
“a god dances within me”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, pp. 68–69.
“played with the goad of freedom”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 215.
“Spare me for one great victory”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, pp. 231–32.
“Keep holy your highest hope!”: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 71.
“department of science on which they bear”: Thomas Bell (May 24, 1859), quoted in M. White and J. Gribbin, Darwin: A Life in Science (New York, Dutton: 1995), p.210.
Part VII: Awakenings of Spirit and Soul
“the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe”: Rudolf Steiner, letter to Anthroposophical Society (February 17, 1924), trans. George and Mary Adams, in The Essential Steiner: Basic Writings of Rudolf Steiner, ed. and intro. by Robert A. McDermott (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1984), p. 415.
“touch with our physical hands”: Rudolf Steiner, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment (1904), trans. George Metaxa, with revisions by H. B. and L. D. Monges (New York: Anthroposophic Press, 1947), p. 1.
“is mere merchandise”: Isadora Duncan, quoted in Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2001.
“expositions of the books”: Hildegard von Bingen, quoted in Sabina Flanagan, Hildegard of Bingen, 1098–1179: A Visionary Life (London: Routledge, 1989), p. 4.
“Authority is the weakest source of proof”: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province (Notre Dame, Indiana: Christian Classics, 1981), vol. 1, qu. 1, art. 8, obj. 2.
“and one in loving”: Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation, trans. R. B. Blakney (New York: Harper & Row, 1941), p. 206.
“as being, as activity, as power”: Meister Eckhart, ed. F. Pfeiffer, trans. C. Evans (London: Watkins, 1947), vol. 1, “Sermons and Collations,” no. 2, pp. 9–10.
“were and are endowed”: Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, trans. J. D. Sinclair (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), canto V, p. 75.
“no
t only in my eyes is Paradise”: Dante, The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, canto XVIII, p. 257.
“is all gathered in it”: Dante, The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, canto XXXIII, p. 483.
“the Love that moves the sun and the other stars”: Dante, The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, canto XXXIII, p. 485.
“since the dayis of the Apostillis” (“The most perfect school of Christ that ever was on the Earth since the days of the Apostles”): John Knox (1556), quoted in “The Reformation: Doctrine,” The Columbia History of the World, p. 529.
“profound and solemn festival of knowledge”: Rudolf Steiner, An Autobiography, trans. Rita Stebbing, ed. P. M. Allen (Blauvelt, N.Y.: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1977), p. 319.
“philosophical testament of the eighteenth century”: K. M. Baker, “Marquis de Condorcet,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. P. Edwards (New York: Macmillan, 1967), vol. 2, p. 184.
“embellished with the purest enjoyments”: Marquis de Condorcet, Esquisse (1793), trans. and quoted in Taylor, Sources of the Self, p. 354.
“waters which flow from death through life”: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Defence of Poetry, quoted in Taylor, Sources of the Self, p. 581.
“Silent, upon a peak in Darien”: John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” The Norton Anthology of Poetry, p. 699.
“doubt the faith of my own eyes”: Tycho Brahe, Progymnasata, quoted in Timothy Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way (New York: Anchor Books, 1989), p. 71.
“priests of the most high God with respect to the book of nature”: Kepler, letter to Johann Herwart, March 16, 1598, The Portable Renaissance Reader, rev. ed., ed. J. B. Ross and M. M. McLaughlin New York: Penguin, 1977), p. 603.
“before the high altar”: Kepler, Letter to Johann Herwart, The Portable Renaissance Reader, p. 604.
“persevere to the end”: J. M. Keynes, “Newton the Man,” The Royal Society Newton Tercentenary Celebrations 15–19 July 1946 (London: Royal Society, 1947; New York: Basic Books, 1966), p. 96.
“the magus of a Gnostic, Hermetic ritual”: Ted Hughes, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Becoming (London: Faber and Faber, 1992), p. 331.
“twill be in Shakspeare’s person”: Melville, letter to Evert Duyckinck, February 24, 1849, in J. Leyda, ed., The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819–1891 (New York: Gordian, 1969), pp. 288–89.
“he could not doubt”: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (1868), trans. D. Magarshack (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1960), p. 258.
“felt him in every fiber of my being”: Dostoevsky, as recounted by Nikolay Strakhov, Biografiya; and Sofya Kovalevskaya, Memoirs; quoted in Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990), pp. 196–97. For a slightly different translation of these accounts, see http://www.charge.org.uk/htmlsite/dost.shtml.
“seems to us radiant”: James Joyce, Stephen Hero, quoted in William Rose Benét, The Reader’s Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (New York: Crowell, 1965), s.v. “epiphany,” p. 318.
“as I had never experienced Him before”: Martin Luther King, Jr., this and the preceding quoted phrases from King cited in the introduction to The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume III: Birth of a New Age (Dec. 1955–Dec. 1956), ed. Clayborne Carson et al. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
“it was almost palpable”: Alice Coltrane, quoted in J. C. Thomas, Chasin’ the Trane: The Music and Mystique of John Coltrane (New York: Doubleday, 1975), p. 126.
“even with both hands”: J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (New York: Little, Brown, 1961), pp. 200–02.
“I move not without Thy knowledge”: Epictetus, Discourses (c.104–107), Book 1, ch. 12, trans. H. Crossley, in Harvard Classics (New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909–14), vol. 2, part 2; quoted in Salinger, Franny and Zooey, p. 176.
“new era of religion as well as of philosophy will be ready to begin”: William James, A Pluralistic Universe, in The Works of William James (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977), p. 142.
“an equally incompetent treatment”: William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 300.
“a curious sense of authority for aftertime”: James, Varieties, p. 300.
“cold facts and dry criticism of the sober hour”: James, Varieties, p. 304.
“grasped and held by a superior power”: James, Varieties, p. 300.
“the well-springs of the comprehension of love”: St. John of the Cross, The Dark Night of the Soul, book 2, ch. 17, quoted in James, Varieties, p. 320.
“the expert of experts in describing such conditions”: James, Varieties, p. 321.
“the understanding cannot grasp it”: Teresa of Ávila, Autobiography, quoted in James, Varieties, p. 323.
“really united to God”: Teresa of Ávila, The Interior Castle, Fifth Abode, quoted in James, Varieties, pp. 321–22.
“a remedy for all our ills”: Teresa of Ávila, Autobiography, quoted in James, Varieties, pp. 325–26.
“the creation is love”: Whitman, Leaves of Grass, quoted in James, Varieties, p. 311. A kelson is a long timber that runs lengthwise internally along the bottom structure of a ship and holds everything together.
“optimism explains only the surface”: Whitman, Specimen Days and Collect (1882), quoted in James, Varieties, p. 311.
“the company of those who overcome”: Malwida von Meysenbug, Memoiren einer Idealistin (first published 1868 during the Uranus-Neptune square), quoted in James, Varieties, p. 311. It was at Meysenbug’s house in Rome that Nietzsche first met Lou Salomé.
“the immediate presence of God”: James, Varieties, p. 309.
“by reason of this inflowing tide”: R. W. Trine, In Tune with the Infinite (1899), p. 137, quoted in James, Varieties, p. 309.
“a premature closing of our accounts with reality”: James, Varieties, p. 305.
“who have ears to hear, let them hear”: James, Varieties, pp. 305–06.
“to the point of death in my very self”: Sappho, Greek text in Lyrica Graeca Selecta, ed. D.L.Page (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968), no. 199; English translation in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th ed., ed. Angela Partington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 556.
“Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be”: Walter Truett Anderson, Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World (New York: Harpercollins, 1990).
“rivers of cheering, weeping Germans burst through”: Marcus Eliason, Associated Press, “Ten Years Later, Iron Curtain Is Vanished, Unmourned But Not Forgotten,” Turkish Daily News, October 23, 1999.
“from a distance of 100 light-years”: Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (London: Penguin, 2004), p. 352.
“the single most important instrument ever made in astronomy”: Sandra Faber, University of California at Santa Cruz, quoted in New York Times, July 27, 2003.
“feeling for the organism”: Evelyn Fox Keller, A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, 10th Anniversary Edition (New York: Times Books, 1984), p. 101.
“onto the sacramental and supramental plane”: interview with Ray Castle, “trancetheologian,” quoted in Rave Ascension: Youth, Techno Culture and Religion, ed. Graham St. John (forthcoming).
“vast ecology or aesthetics of cosmic interaction”: Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (New York: Ballantine, 1972), p. 306.
“responsiveness to the patterns which connect”: Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (New York: Dutton, 1979), p. 8.
“the Second Axial Period”: Ewert H. Cousins, Christ of the 21st Century (Rockport, Mass., Element Press, 1992), p. 7.
Part VIII: Towards a New Heaven and a New Earth
“multiple intelligences”: Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, 2nd ed. (New York: Basic Books,
1993).
“perhaps never been so widespread”: Salman Rushdie, New York Times Book Review, April 17, 2005.
“thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern”: Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793), in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 39.
“single vision and Newton’s sleep!”: Blake, Letter to Thomas Butts, November 22, 1802, in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 693.
“mind-forg’d manacles I hear”: Blake, “London,” Songs of Experience (1794), in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 27.
“and Music are Destroy’d or Flourish”: Blake, Jerusalem (1804), in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 144.
“War Governed the Nations”: Blake, The Laocoön (1820), in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 271.
“will turn out to be an aesthetic solution”: Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1997), pp. 99–100.
“sources of the world order”: Plato, The Laws XII, 967c, trans. A. E. Taylor, in The Collected Dialogues, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965), p. 1512.
Epilogue
“the waking realities of science”: Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (1911–15), (New York: Touchstone, 1996), pp. 825–26.
“know the place for the first time”: T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (1943), (New York: Harcourt, 1968), p. 47.
Acknowledgments
During the many years that I was writing and thinking about this book I often remembered the poem by Issa that was posted on Seymour and Buddy Glass’s bedroom door in Franny and Zooey:
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!
In this case, the snail’s progress has had to be witnessed and tolerated by many others—my children, Christopher and Rebecca, whose entire lives have been lived with the book’s looming presence in their family life; my wife Heather, who has deeply believed in the value of this work and supported it in ways beyond counting; my parents, who hoped I was up to something worthwhile; my brothers and sisters, who trusted my long journey; and many friends, from different stages of my life over the past three decades, who made countless allowances for my commitment to this project as only true friends can do. I warmly thank them all. Yet I know that no words can do justice to what has been given.
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