its greatest artists and writers, and the dreams that rise from the primordial depths of our unconscious. However different the heavens hoped for, wherever there is humanity, there is hope. The question of hope is at least as ultimate as the other two great questions. For it means “what is the point and purpose of life? Why was I born? Why am I living? What’s it all about, Alfie?” Most people in our modern Western society do not have any clear or solid answer to that question. Most of us live without