Do you think, as do many adherents of the so-called New Age, that one day all religions will be one?  When I was asked this question recently, I had to consider several things.  One, clearly, few religions agree with each other.  Two, some religions that disagree with each other do so in often very violent ways.  Three, religion is often as much a product of culture as imagination.  Four, faith is a multi-faceted phenomenon whose contours are broad and exceedingly complex.
     On the other hand, most, if not all religions agree on this:  buried in the human psyche and experience is a sense of otherness and mystery, a sense that there is something besides us, something that although it may not be visible physically, is nonetheless apprehensible in mind, heart, and imagination, something which in some way gives life a fuller meaning.  Unfortunately, religions differ on precisely what this something is.
     So should we therefore suppose that in no way will all religions ever be one?  Religions will only be one when every human being agrees on who she is and why she is here, an outcome which is not likely to occur any time soon.  To wit, it is not so much that all religions may well become one, but that that which is oneness itself will be clearly manifested to all of us as the meaning of all that is.
     For this, some still wait; for some, it has already come.  Either way, it seems that whatever it is, it is already "here."  We need only believe we can see it.