Louis Dupre writes about the cultural crisis of our time and its one root cause: a gradual loss of a sense of transcendence. For centuries Western culture has singlemindedly pursued objectivity at the expense of the interior life, excluding the very possibility of authentic transcendence . The 'death of God', the symbolic event of our age, announces in fact the death of self. Dupre shows convincingly and movingly the crucial importance of working toward a rediscovery of inner selfhood, and in doing so, he reopens avenues long-neglected in Western philosophy: the inwardness of recollection, the boundary experience of mental suffering, the awareness of permanence underlying the age-old belief in immortality, the consciousness of a deeper self in mystical states.