"Living a life informed by the sacred amid a technological world poses our greatest spiritual challenge. As we begin to actively engage this challenge, we often come to believe that we must make a choice — spirit or machines. But as computers such as Deep Blue have shown us, distinctions such as this are becoming increasingly difficult to make. Nature has spawned us. We have spawned machines. Any line drawn between these realms quickly becomes arbitrary, a realization that seems to generate a great deal of confusion and fear. But this does not have to be the case. As we reach into the future in search of the age-old spiritual values of truth, beauty, goodness, and love, cyberspace can be a powerful ally. Through the medium of computation, our spiritual experience can be extended in profound ways. We can choose to embrace our cohabitation with computers as a moment of vast evolutionary potential, guided by sacred experience and ethical reflection."