Using logic and reason, avoiding superstition is the only way humanity can make progress — morally and ethically.

Imagine a future world that pushes science into the fringes of respectability. The ability to sense, to interact with unseen forces has become the only way humanity can make progress — morally and ethically.

There is a balance between them, but it is unstable and unsteady. Attitudes change.

A compelling short story of a fantastic future world dancing in the light of the polarization of those two forces. It's a world Harlan Ellison or Rod Serling might find normal, even comfortable in how out of joint it is.