"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . ." For many, the ambivalence of this well-known opening to Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities could be said to describe the last quarter of our century. But for some, in this age of nuclear concerns, there's no light anywhere. Theirs is a doomsday view: our personal and historical destiny is determined by irresistible forces that drive nations and individuals into irreversible conflicts, featuring arrogance, moral idiocy, and despair, and heading for ultimate self-destruction.
Yet there is a third view. In some ways, the most startling. It is the view that there is a kind of history that heals.
Question: Would we look for spiritual answers today in political or economic history? Hardly. But answers to political and economic problems certainly await us through an understanding of spiritual history.
