Five Signs of the Coming Revolution •The Resurgence of Citizens' Movements -Paul Hawken •The Graying of America -Gay Gaer Luce •The Rising Challenge to Corporate Control of Our Lives -David Korten •Our Rediscovery of the World's Mysteries -James Redfield • A New Connected Generation -Margaret Wheatley Join the revolution! Café Utne is hosting discussions with several of the visionary authors who contributed essays to Imagine. For a full schedule, go to www.utne.com/salon.aspx Related Articles The House that Lois Built A Cuppa Justice Students Say No to Classroom Commercials

I believe that we all know, at the deepest intuitive level, that the human world is changing. The shift has been slow and gradual, but the evidence over the past decade is clear: We are becoming more spiritual. A 1998 Gallup Poll contains an amazing finding: Eighty-two percent of those surveyed reported that spiritual growth was a very important part of their lives.

The use of the word growth in that poll, and the positive reaction to it, sheds light on what is happening. If in the past our spirituality has been defined more by a belief system that is,--by a defined creed--spirituality today seems to be about something more: a deeper personal contact with actual spiritual experience. For thousands of years, the mystics of every religious tradition have described experiences that go far beyond an intellectual understanding--experiences that give us a sense of being expanded and evolved. I believe that we are now searching for and discovering these experiences as never before.