and so we begin to see, in different cultures, hinduism develop, judaism, buddhism, christianity, daoism, alternative religions - in other words, when we take our textbook that we're using in here, if you pick up any textbook on world religions, in one sense, we're being purposely simple; in one sense, what you're seeing, as you move through these great traditions we've listed here, you're seeing a set of answers to profound life questions that meet psychological, emotional, spiritual, and even physical needs, as you come smack up against rites of passage. and it's not the - i mean, you can get much more complex than that, and i'm working off you here, but as i've thought though it over the years and bounced off this, it seems that that's what you're getting. now, just to move to the next set of graphics and one after that, i'm using the term drawn from religious studies - if i had to do it otherwise, i might have changed it, because it has funny connotations - but i would say that our great world traditions are ordinary religion or ordinary spirituality. not ordinary as commonplace or n

theologian woman speaking at a religious conference, and she had in her background shinto and buddhism and daoism and christianity - she is herself now a professor of christian theology at a seminary in new york. but this the quote from her that really struck me. she said, "you cannot achieve integrity until you reconcile with the religion of your ancestors." so she has a big job, because she has several big - but a lot of us have many threads to weave together if we look at our past. >> and that quote, again, takes us - it's wonderful with religion, and i think you're right, and i also think it takes a little bit of maturity to do that. you can't be fully a family until you're old enough to reconcile with that parent, or that sister or that brother, and we hold off on doing that sort of thing. but i believe you need to reconcile. it doesn't mean that you need to go back and sign up with your religion. we've had several comments from people who have left the religion of their birth and gone on. i'm something of the same sort, but i found that i had to come back and reconcile, and it's a very wise