There's a dawning awareness that the coming together of rationality with spirituality, the "marriage of science and spirit" is THE big shift happening now in terms of cultural evolution--an event on the scale of the Reformation or the Enlightenment. It is the most significant intellectual and cultural event of our time and it will reshape the future of human affairs.

A great public debate has commenced about the terms of this marriage, the "pre-nup" as it were. Although many participants attempt to straddle the safe middle ground, the debate roughly divides into two camps: the strict rationalists (often called agnostics or atheists) and the trans-rationalists (including both mystics and developmentalists).  

In this series, I'll explore the importance of both sides of this debate, circle back and look at the sobering realities of our cultural context and our prospects for synthesis, and then I'll dig deeper into the hidden drama that's unfolding as all of us (consciously or not) continue to participate in this wrestling match over the terms of the "pre-nuptial agreement" for this epochal marriage of science and spirituality -- which may provide the source code for the great event of our time -- a transformation of mainstream worldviews.