ABSTRACT
We are alive at a remarkable time in human history. Never before have so many different worldviews, belief systems, and cultures come into contact, interfacing with each other. Just yesterday I was walking through the park a block away from this hotel in Freiburg, Germany. I observed a Chinese man doing his Qigong exercises in one corner. As I walked with my son a litde further, I saw a Muslim couple praying; the man stood looking east toward Mecca while the woman stood toward the west. It was a stylized production of something deep and culturally symbolic—and clearly distinct from the Qigong practitioner moving by himself on the lawn a litde further away. It was also distinct from the young German boy who was playing an American Indian as he raced past a Sikh man dressed in his turban.
