To the editors:
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Just as he applauded National Public Radio for encouraging us to “think our way to . . . carefully considered” conclusions, New Dimensions offers us interviews with the likes of the Dalai Lama, Joseph Campbell, Matthew Fox, Dr. McDougall, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joanna Macy, and Robert Bly–people on the cutting edge of spirituality, art, and science–and then leaves it to us to explore, experiment, and decide for ourselves. Is this idiocy? To me this seems highly admirable, especially since we live in a country whose mainstream faiths threaten us with eternal torture in hell if we don’t subscribe to their ideas. Would David Whiteis rather have our spiritual desires catered to by the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Cardinal Bernardin–the religious equivalents of the “unbridled corporate power” he decried?
Nick Kokoshis
