If, at the risk of scandalising both traditionalists and drop-outs - and that would include quite a lot of people -I have dared to develop the comparison between Prayer and drugs, which the former regard as a sacrilege, and the latter as regenerative and demagogic, it is because such a comparison is not gratuitous, as I hope I have shown.
It is also because I am convinced that today man has no longer a choice except between prayer and drugs. Either we dope ourselves more and more with the drugs of our post-industrial society, in which case we shall become the slaves of that society and the inmates of a vast opaque prison; or we keep the world 'open', by prayer, despite all obstacles, and in this case everything is possible, including the baptism of the most fiendish forces of science, knowledge, violence, sex and drugs. Only prayer can cure our existential anguish. Only prayer can bring us to the living springs of being.