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"Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by 'powers' that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food-- and, above all, an impressive array of neuroses." Carl Gustav Jung "God, as a topic in science fiction, when it appeared at all, used to be treated polemically, as in "Out of Silent Planet" by C. S. Lewis. But I preferred to treat it as intellectually exciting.... Science fiction, always probing what is about to be thought, become, must eventually tackle without preconceptions a future neo-mystical society in which theology constitutes as major a force as in the medieval period. This is not necessarily a backward step, because now these beliefs can be tested." P. K. D. (1966)