In anticipation of hearing about John Mack, this is a quote you’ll like:

“The scientific worldview is failing. It fails in a number of crucial ways. It doesn’t tell us what really exists in the cosmos. It doesn’t tell us about our own inner life. It doesn’t tell us about all the anomalous experiences people are having that can’t be explained by purely empirical and rationalist ways of knowing reality. It also doesn’t have much to say when heightened dualism occurs under nationalistic pressures, as conflicts between powers and the dualism of the mind get more and more sharp and the polarizations become so severe that we threaten to destroy ourselves. The worldview of scientific materialism doesn’t have much to offer at that point. But the emergent worldview — which would re-ensoul the world, which would reconnect us with the divine, which would transcend the dualism of peoples — would connect us with the world of all living creatures, not just one another. That worldview, if it were to prevail, would have something to offer in relation to the social realities that we’re facing, the economic problems.”

This is from a talk he gave shortly before he died that you’d see him delivering in “What on Earth?,” my documentary about crop circles: http://www.SUESpeaks.org/crop-circles. He was the “outside” guest speaker at the annual crop circle conference in Glastonbury in 2004. He came to England early and got into circles where from knowing nothing he said, “They are the most remarkable crossover from the other side in the history of the human race.” We thought he’d be our champion getting the world’s attention to the circles but he was killed by a drunk driver a few weeks after this when he was in England again to give a talk about Lawrence of Arabia, about whom he’d written a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography.