This paradigmbreaking book dares to rethink the whole of the 60s experience not from a political or sociological viewpoint but from an historicaltheological perspective. Camille Paglia wrote that the spiritual history of the sixties has yet to be written. This is that book. The books chapters each correspond to a line in Emily Dickinsons poem Finding is the first act. The parallel to Dickinsons experience in the psychic wilderness demonstrates just how much the experience of the 60s was part of an ongoing American story not an aberration. Though it seems contradictory this book argues for an appreciation of the three 60s 1960s 1860s 1660s each a chapter of the religious core of the American story.