Alan Watts — The Overwhelming Sensation of Release and Peace

The concomitance of our perilous ecological crisis with the sudden expansion of mass-communication technology does indeed suggest that the world is in an apocalyptic and even eschatological situation. But, on the other hand, it may be something like the overwhelming sensation of release and peace which occasionally comes to people facing death.

Alan Watts
Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion