Front Cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements and Errata -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Current Crisis -- i. The environmental crisis -- ii. The demographic crisis -- iii. The economic crisis -- iv. The Political crisis -- v. The Moral/Fideistic/Epistemological crisis -- 2 Our Age of Ignorance -- i. Noetic Science -- ii. Physics -- iii. Biology -- iv. Economics -- v. Technology -- vi. Psychology -- vii. Politics and Sociology -- viii. Religion and Myth -- 1. Toward a Description of Universals in Religious Experience -- 2. Myth in religious and 'scientific' cosmogony -- 3. Psychology of the Millennium -- 4. The Problem of Human Suffering -- ix. Value -- x. Some Conclusions -- 3 Theories of Everything -- Introduction -- i. Dei ex Machina -- i.a. The sciences of complexity -- i.i.a. Catastrophe Theory -- i.i.b. Chaos -- i.i.c. Games -- i.i.d Something for Nothing? -- i.b. Information -- i.c. Computation -- i.d. Buckserologists -- ii. Precedence Claims and Claim-Jumps -- Introduction -- ii.a. Physics -- ii.b. Darwinism -- iii. Eschatologies -- iv. State Takeover -- v. Weltanschauungen -- v.a. Gurdjieff -- v.b. Marxism -- 4 Conclusions -- Appendix A: How Does Science Progress? -- Appendix B: The Reduced History of Physics -- Appendix C: Genetic Technologies -- References -- Subject Index -- Back Cover.