The mushrooming of new religions and the attention that Asian outlooks are receiving in the West are surface signs of change, but more important are the shifts that are occurring in the Western worldview itself.  Science is changing.  It is showing Newtonian matter to be but the frozen surface of a nature which, at its torrential source, is ghostlike, "empathic" in the degree of its responsiveness, and in important ways ineffable.  And along with these changes within science, our attitude toward science is changing; we are maturing in our capacity to see it in perspective.  Impressed by its technology and power-to-prove, we slipped for a century or so into looking to science for the last true word about everything.  Now we see that there are things- they tend to be the higher, more important things- about which it can tell us nothing.  This frees us to look seriously to other sources of knowledge that take those things into account.