CONTENTS -- Chapter 1 A Revolution in Religious Consciousness -- Chapter 2 Religious Pluralism as an Act of Globalization -- Chapter 3 Introducing Cipher and the Hall of Mirrors -- Chapter 4 Information as an Inimical Force -- Chapter 5 The Slap and the Salamander -- Chapter 6 Same House, Different Worlds -- Chapter 7 A Return to Beginnings -- Chapter 8 The Skull on the Mantel and the Burden of Goodness -- Chapter 9 Lessons From Three Elephants -- Chapter 10 A Sense of Timing -- APPENDIX A The Shri Yantra -- APPENDIX B An Earnest Inquirer After Truth: Lord Gifford and the Gifford Bequest -- APPENDIX C Acknowledgments -- APPENDIX D Works Cited -- Name Index -- Subject Index.