place where we no longer fit, and in consequence it is reaching out for something more certain, more real, more substantial. And, insofar as it is a quintessentially modern experience, it is light years away from the earlier gnosticism. Yet parallels are not entirely absent for the gnostics, for an entirely different set of reasons, also felt homeless. Philosophically, the new spirituality is not replicating some of the old gnostic theories about reality, but at a psychological level the parallels