The economist E,F,Schumacher, but who is also a humanist - our present social order makes us sick, and that we are headed for an economic catastrophe unless we radically change our economic system.

The need for profound human change emerges not only as an ethical or religious demand, not only as a psychological demand arising from the pathogenic nature of our present social character, but also as a condition for the sheer survival of the human race. For the first time in history that physical survival depends on a radical change of the human heart,

Myth in primitive culture fulfilled an indispensable function: it expressed, enhanced, and codified belief: it safeguarded and enforced morality. Myth is thus, or was and still has the power to be a vital ingredient of human civilisation.