The Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University Press. First published in Great Britain in 1979 by Sheldon Press.
Earthly goals come, so to say, under a higher scrutiny.
There is something of this, for instance, in the LSD cult which has developed in recent years. Here is a substance which its users consider to give them a kind of window on reality, through which one sees something deeper and more significant than that which is given in everyday experience. It provides a living meaning which ties in with a social protest and withdrawal from the goals which ordinary social success demands. All this is not to say that the movement has the right values or that LSD stands comparison with the practices of the great religions in bringing people to a knowledge of some transcendental truth. It may be a false, foolish, and dangerous cult, just as some religions are liable to be false, foolish, and dangerous.