Carole M. Cusack, Foreword Carole Cusack Tony Wolf (ed.), Poetic Faiths: New Religions and Rituals as Works of Living Art, Volume 1, Stannard VT, Sky Meadow Press, 2025, pp. i-iv.

https://www.academia.edu/171604153/Carole_M_Cusack_Foreword?email_work_card=title There are shifts in philosophical ideas about human beings: they are basically individualists; however, they are communal; they are innovative and constantly creating new things; yet they are hidebound, clinging to tradition and the mores of the past, unable to overcome their fear of the future and particularly of death.