holy grail

From Michael Baigent et als work: Holy Blood & Holy Grail - "If the Prieure de Sion intends to 'show its cards', the time is ripe for it to do so. The political systems and ideologies which, in the early years of our century, seemed to promise so much have virtually all displayed a degree of bankruptcy. Communism, socialism, fascism, capitalism, Western style democracy have all, in one way or another, betrayed their promise, jaundiced their adherents and failed to fulfil the dreams they engendered. Because of their small-mindedness, lack of perspective and abuse of office, politicians no longer inspire confidence, only distrust. In the West today there is increasing cynicism, dissatisfaction and disillusion. There is increasing psychic stress, anxiety and despair. But there is also an intensifying quest for meaning, for emotional fulfilment, for a spiritual dimension to our lives, for something in which to genuinely believe. There is a longing for a renewed sense of the sacred that amounts, in effect, to a full-scale religious revival - exemplified by the proliferation odf sects and cults, for example, and the swelling tide of fundamentalism in the United States (me: and elsewhere)". page 437.

This book was first published 1982! Correctly analytical but prophetically inaccurate as yet>