However, as we come to understand our physical universe as a whole we begin to realize that modern physics is metaphysics in a rediscovered and more perfected form.  Conventional science, the objectively-knowable perspective on reality, and the entire universe it describes, become recognized as objective expressions of a transcendental state of reality which, by virtue of its unchangeable unified condition, is even more real than the physical universe itself.

Students of comparative religion and those familiar with the ancient mystical philosophies do not have a problem with the abstract universal principles of metaphysics and how they relate to the parochialisms of theological traditions.  Ideally, the ultimate goal of any theological tradition should be to bring the individual seeker to a state of spiritual awareness in which all such theological traditions are assimilated, and at the same time, not needed in their traditional form.

Yet, perhaps we are not so lost after all.  Perhaps we are at the dawn of a great awakening, a great remembering, something which has been in the making for a very long time.  It is for you, of course, to think and decide for yourself. Explore the traditions and directions that draw your interest.  Trust your intuition.  The most beautiful mystical realizations are both profoundly simple and strangely bizarre.  It is often said that the Ancient Wisdom takes only moments to teach, yet lifetimes to understand.  This is our Quest.