Today, when political ideologies/'isms' are crashing down and when, at the other end, the great monotheistic religions are trying to survive by turning their backs on logical thinking and intellectual consistency, it might be worthwhile taking a look at the 'alternatives' that by-pass the lopsided views of both materialism and idealism - the alternatives that do not have to explain how an omnipotent and all-benvolent God can permit evil, nor how human barbarism ...