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self-doubts. Nation after nation is retreating from democracy. Contemporary political, economic, environmental, and social crises are reflections of an underlying moral and spiritual crisis of industrial civilization. Their resolution depends on the resolution of that crisis. A noetic science a science of consciousness and the world of inner experience is the most promising contemporary framework within which to carry on that fundamental moral inquiry which stable human societies have always had to place at the center of their concerns. We do well also to recall that it was this nation more than any other in recent times which has clearly at its inception given this knowledge the capstone position, as symbolized by the All-seeing Eye in the Great Seal on the back of the dollar bill. Public acceptance of the validity of a noetic emphasis in the human sciences has been rising. More importantly, there is widespread recognition of the need for deeper understanding of our spiritual nature and of the essential goals and characteristics of a workable humane society. Reprinted from IONS Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1978. Willis Harman was president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences from 1978 until his death in 1997.