The seven novels are built on and around the principle of the cultural reverse paradigm shift. This principle has shaped modern history so powerfully that it literally created a whole new world in whichever age it was applied. The development of the Renaissance is one example. It opened up a new world in which the human scene was radically uplifted and improved.

Prior to the Renaissance the majority of humanity lived as serfs, slaves, or worse; who were treated like human cattle. The Renaissance changed all that. People began to see themselves in a new light, even as made in the image of God, and they began to restructure the world in accord with that new image. They began to build beautiful cities, create great art and music, make scientific discoveries and develop technologies. They began to see themselves as citizens of nations and nation states. In this manner the Renaissance became one of the greatest eras of cultural, scientific, and technological development of all times. Surprisingly, this profound development began with a cultural reverse paradigm shift that linked society back to the best previously established intellectual and scientific tradition. It reconnected society, as it were, to its previous high point in humanist development, a development that had been interrupted by the imposition of intervening dark ages.

The seven novels that are listed above are not directly centered on the Renaissance itself, nor on any other such occurrences. Instead, they are centered on the principle that created the phenomena, and this in a number of different ways. In this context the seven novels can be divided into three different types. The nature of this division is best illustrated by what the novel Flight Without Limits, represents, which makes this particular novel the most unusual one of the three types.

The novel, Flight Without Limits, is a short SCIFI novel that deals with two contrasting worlds in a single story. On the surface the novel will likely be seen as a fun exercise in exploring the limits of physical principles to define the boundary between what is reasonably physically possible, even stretching the envelope to the limits of credibility, and the world of pure imagination.

The world of pure imagination is comparable to the kind of world that one can find in ancient legends, like that of a native culture at the shores of the Pacific North West of North America. There is a legend being told about a magic canoe that enables a person to be transported, instantly, to wherever one wants to be.

These legends of imagination and magic will likely remain forever in the land of dreams. The physical universe isn't organized in a manner that would enable the fulfillment of those dreams. Nor is the fulfillment really necessary. And that's where the fun begins, and a whole new world comes into view that reflects those dreams, but which is absolutely real and achievable in practical terms.

What comes to light is a world that is not imaginary but allows unlimited movement. It is the world of mental movements. While there will never be a magic canoe that enables one to be transported without effort, instantly, to where one wants to be, the kind of rapid transitions that are imagined  in legends, are actually achievable in the mental realm, the realm of ideas.

Any physicist will agree that an idea is not subject to the laws of physical inertia and its limits. We can respond to an unfolding idea instantly and move with it to new worlds in the space of an instant. In a very real sense, we can be wherever we want to be. The reality of it has been proven many times in history.

Human history is also a history of problems where this mental capability, although it existed, was not realized. This opens up a paradox, doesn't it? We dream about miraculous physical capabilities that we will likely never attain, while we reject the mental equivalent that we do have within us to avail ourselves of. The paradox presented here, now defines the division between the remaining six novels listed above.

In the described context the SCIFI novel comes to light as pedagogical devise, a kind of double mirror in which we see ourselves with two distinct faces in terms of our freedom to move in the mental realm. The two faces are presented in the remaining six novels. The novel, Brighter than the Sun, represents the face of society in terms of our inability to move. The opposite face is presented in the series, The Lodging for the Rose, that explores our remarkable scientific ability as human beings in making mental moves on a scale that mirrors the miraculous.

Our inability to move that is represented by the novel, Brighter than the Sun, mirrors our present stage of 'achievement' and the general historic situation of the type that is unfolding today. One might call this the conventional face of humanity. It reflects the kind of thinking that, while we have the ability to move mentally to prevent an unfolding crisis, we find ourselves unable to move on any front until we are kicked in the teeth as it were, by the resulting catastrophes. This has been the historic pattern. Most of the great humanist achievements in modern history were literally forced on us by the weight of some horrendous tragedies that we eventually reacted to, to the point that we got ourselves moving again.

The principle of looking backwards in a time crisis, to the best previously established intellectual traditions and principles, enabled us in such periods to rouse ourselves and reconnect with the brightest historic traditions and principles as a means for moving forward.

In technical terms, looking back in time appears to be regressive, but it isn't. In real terms it links us up with the point in our history at which, for whatever reason, we stopped moving forward. The novel, Brighter than the Sun, follows this pattern. It follows it without any direct references to specific technical aspects of historic events. Instead, it presents a deeply human story of tragedies, trials, daring moves, survival, freedom, and the development of a new future.

The opposite face of our humanity that we see in the pedagogical mirror in terms of our ability to move mentally, is the scientific face. The scientific face comes to light in the five novels series, The Lodging for the Rose. The scientific face is the face that we wear when we begin to react, not to the force of calamities, but to our understanding of the human dimension of a situation in total honesty with ourselves, supported by the most advanced scientific traditions and principles that were put on the map during the bright periods of mankind's universal history. Science enables us to move instantly.

In this context the series of novels, The lodging for the Rose, is built directly on the historic principle of the reverse paradigm shift, except that it deviates from general history in that the reverse shift is not forced by the weight of tragedies, but by the dynamics of scientific development and the discovery of universal truths. For this reason the series presents a face of our humanity that is rarely seen. 

In the domain of science the prevailing historic pattern do not need to be continued, in which society regresses towards a state of collapse with increasingly severe consequences that eventually will whack us to attention, after which we begins to move again like the proverbial mule that needs to be prodded by force of pain. We are human beings. We can do better than that. We can react to higher imperatives, the kind that we find in the discoveries of universal principles which reflect understandable, verifiable, universal truths that we can respond to intelligently, as we sometimes do.

The founding of the United States of America is a historic example of this type of a science motivated mental movement. It started with a rallying to principles by which society created for itself a brand new world. In this case a number of the most scientifically advanced pioneers of Europe, inspired and educated many of the farmers, intellectuals, and patriots in the American colonies, to establish on the North American continent a modern nation state republic modeled after the principles and intellectual traditions established during the Renaissance and the movements towards the Treaty of Westphalia. North America was chosen for the creation of such a republic for the simple reason that it was relatively distant and unpolluted by the mental corruption of an oligarchic centered society in which a people's thinking tends to be regress towards mental impotence. That this kind of impotent thinking has become a near global phenomenon is evident by the simple fact that we live in a world that is saturated with tens of thousands of nuclear bombs and a lot of insane people in high places who threaten evermore to use them.

Our impotence to move mentally on this issue, and similar issues, stands in defiance of the well known fact that our nuclear 'weapons' are totally incompatible with our human world. In a similar impotence, society stands stunned as it faces today's near global economic and financial collapse, being unable to rouse itself to the kind of mental movement that is necessary to create a bright new world that is totally within its reach. Actually, the situation is worse. In many ways society has regressed further, from impotence into a state of denial of the reality involved, that threatens us.

No doubt, many of today's young people in the universities realize that their hard won diplomas aren't worse a thing in a future of a collapsed world into dark age conditions, ravaged by poverty, wars, hatred, fascism, and diseases made rampant by insanities and related economic destruction. This is the future that today's youth of the world is facing, together with everyone else. It is the kind of future that is already unfolding in many parts of the world, such as in South America and Africa, for instance, where large masses of people are starved to death for the sake of collecting a fraudulent financial debt that has already been repaid many times over. Paradoxically, there is nothing happening on the mental scene the resembles anything close to a movement based on humanist principles and acknowledgement of universal truths onto which a new world can be build. A deep mental corruption of impotence grips society today, in spite of the historic achievements in its bright epochs, such as the Renaissance, which itself was created when a reverse paradigm shifts uplifted society to the highest previously established, scientific and intellectual traditions. Ironically, no one even asks today, what level of pain may eventually 'inspire' us to rouse ourselves towards a New Renaissance in our time, and whether that level of pain can actually be endured in a world where increasing levels of genocide no longer stir society into a humanist response.

The acceptance of impotence that grips the world today is challenged in the series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose. Actually, the series is designed to go further. It is designed to take the mental movement into an arena where no significant movement has occurred for thousands of years. This arena exists at the grass roots level of our social existence where we deal with one another person to person; where we are as divided and isolated as in the political, economic, ethnic, religious, and ideological worlds. It speaks sadly of ourselves as a human society that we find it increasingly difficult, even at this level, to deal with one another primarily as human beings moved by a deeply seated honesty with ourselves about the dimensions that define our humanity?

This area becomes increasingly important for consideration, because if we can't deal with one another at this level primarily as human beings, how can we do the same on the world-political, economic, racial, religious, and related levels where the going is rougher and the grade is steeper? In fact, modern historic developments show that we are moving farther apart in the the world's political, economic, ethnic, and religious division. While all of these divisions have been artificially deepened for various types of imperial objectives, we seem to face a natural weak spot that is open to abuse, because of our inability to deal with these issues effectively. The much promoted 'clash of civilizations' war in a theatre of one to two billion people, with threats of going nuclear, is an example of the challenge that we face because of our impotence in dealing with one another as human beings.

Scientifically, this impotence is not surprising. Every issue that we build around religious division; ethnic division; racial division; political division; economic division, and so forth, becomes an issue of technicalities that takes the focus away from the dimension of human living, from relating to one another primarily as human beings. History has shown that we can debate these issues till the cows come home, without anything being accomplished. In fact, the more we become trapped into isolated issues, the further we drift away from the human dimension. This pattern, however, does not apply in the area where the issue is our humanity, exclusively, and directly; where the human dimension is the issue, and the only issue; where we can't be trapped into dead-end technicalities that draw us away from the human dimension. The area of this direct focus on our humanity is evidently found in the grass roots domain of our social living, where the interface is more profoundly on the human level, by sex, by marriage, by sexual attraction, by the countless dimensions of our humanity. Sure, we face enormous problems in this area, of division, isolation, denial, abuse, and so on, but we are also closest in this area to dealing with one another as human beings when we become sensitive to the wondrous dimensions of our humanity.

Naturally, we face significant challenges in this arena. It is an arena in which virtually no movement has taken place in thousands of years, that is laden with emotions and age old axioms; mired in traditions; ruled by countless self-serving powers. Indeed, we find it easier to fly to the moon and explore the universe of infinite space, than to cross the small gaps that isolate us heart to heart as human beings. In this sense, the series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose, which explores this domain, unfolds a challenge of major proportions that has never been boldly faced throughout history, and been won.

At no point in history has a single one of the great cultural reverse paradigm shifts, the kind that have created whole new worlds for society, been reflected deep enough to uplift the grass roots level of our social platforms in the manner in which the political, cultural, and economic domains have been uplifted. They never touched that level as if the discovered principles that changed world didn't apply there. For example, even in our modern age, the historic principles of universal love and universal sovereignty, that underlie the Peace of Westphalia, the founding of the United States of America and its constitution, and shape of near all modern state relationships, are deemed to be totally alien and incompatible with our social world.

In the realm of sex and marriage, for instance, the very notion of universal love and universal sovereignty is deemed treasonous, morally, emotionally, even civilly, as if these long established universal principles didn't exist. But is this denial that we face today any different than the denial that was promoted in the 16th Century when it was said that love and individual sovereignty have no place in politics, finance, and business? The watchword was: Might equals Right! This particular notion caused eighty years of wars that wiped out half of the population of Europe before the acknowledgement was made that the principles of universal love and universal sovereignty are fundamental to civilization. But shouldn't they also be fundamental to dealing with one another as human beings? It is evidently a far greater challenge to achieve that acknowledgement at the grass roots level of our social existence, since the acknowledgement has never been made in universal history. Nevertheless, the challenge remains that we create a global world in which people deal with one another on the platform of human beings in a universal context. It appears that this challenge will never be met for as long as we find ourselves stuck impotently at the home plate of our individual living.

The series of novels, The lodging for the Rose, is designed to explore this dimensions and the mental moves that may be necessary for solving the problem. The chosen process may appear bold, even exceedingly daring, but there exists a historic precedent for its justification that occurred in the U.S.A. during the 1932 presidential election campaign. The campaign occurred at the height of the worst depression in the nation's history. A deep economic and psychological depression had gripped society. It had ravishing for three years, with no end in sight. In response, one of the campaign slogans promised the electorate "a chicken in every pot." The promise must have sounded like a promise from heaven to a starving population. But this was not what the people voted for.

Those who made the promise had moved spasmodically. Nothing had been achieved to ease the depression. They came empty handed, as it were. In contrast, another candidate boldly offered a whole new world. Was this a risky venture? He offered infinitely more than just a chicken in every pot, which seemed too good to be true, but the electorate understood the foundation that this offer was based on. Indeed, how could he have offered anything less, since the offer was extended on the basis of the principle of the reverse paradigm shift, a shift back to the tallest previously established intellectual traditions and principles?

The man was Franklin Delanor Roosevelt. He didn't come empty handed. He came with Abraham Lincoln in his pocket, and Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington, and others. He brought to the table America's brightest historic achievement, and he made good on his promise to create a brand new world. By the time he died in 1945, after twelve years in office, the nation had build itself out of its depression, through his leadership, and became the richest nation in the world and the most powerful economic force of all times on the face of the planet. This miraculous buildup was accomplished in spite of the additional task of having to support twelve million people fighting a war overseas in which huge material resources were wasted that could have been better used to further develop the country and the world as a whole.

Many people are led to believe today, that the recovery was caused by the war itself, that wars are good for an economy. The facts prove the opposite. The USA is presently in a crisis of economic collapse in spite of its massive military involvement all over the world with a defense budget that dwarves that of every other nation on the planet. Obviously, Franklin Roosevelt's American success story was the direct result of the cultural reverse paradigm shift that he had initiated, back to the American intellectual tradition that had built the nation in the first place. The remarkable transformation from poverty to the envy of the world stood on a foundation that was laid on the brightest achievements in European cultural and intellectual development, reaching back to the Greek Classical Period and its roots. This was the force that defeated Hitler's Nazi empire. It was a force of cultural, scientific, political, and humanist principles that created the physical logistics to win the peace for humanity.

What about us, in today's age? What bold reverse paradigm shift can pull us out of our modern unfolding crisis of a global economic and financial collapse in a world ravished by genocide, debt based looting, cries for war, new diseases, a new rise of fascism on the horizon, against a background of countless nuclear weapons that stand deployed to be used? Never before in history has humanity been in a position were it faced such a momentous multipolar crisis as we face today, with a society mired in a mental corruption that ensnares the very age, that got us stuck in a rut so deeply that we don't seem to be able to move anymore. Compared to what we face today, all the great breakthroughs in history occurred in simpler times, end even those were rare, which puts today's challenge into a perspective that demands extraordinary efforts of every human being on the planet. Still, it appears useful to look at the historic breakthroughs that were made, that have never been applied at the grass roots social level, but appear evermore essential to be applied there for meeting the greater challenges in our modern age.

The reverse paradigm shift in the 14th Century.

The Greek Classical intellectual tradition had been almost totally destroyed by the antihuman policies of imperial Rome and its successors, and been nearly forgotten during the ensuing centuries of dark ages. When the dark age collapse finally led to the destruction of half of the population of Europe in the middle of the Fourteenth Century, the intellectual tradition of the Greek Classical Era was rediscovered and brought back to light. The leading scholars at the time, who were evidently reevaluating the nature of the human being and its role in the universe, suddenly became fascinated with the intellectual achievements of Plato, Socrates, Solon, and others, whose tradition in thinking had been discovered in old manuscripts. Naturally, their profound scientific methods were reapplied, and them developed further. The results of this unfolding became the Golden Renaissance, the main principles of which were put onto the world map by the 1439-40 Council of Florence. One of the most revolutionary concepts that came out of this era was a higher recognition of man as made in the image of God. This was an ancient concept that suddenly became uplifted to the level of a universal truth that applies to every human being. This uplifted concept raised the self-perception of society with a new sense of worth, value, purpose, power, and destiny. The heightened self-esteem became intertwined with a corresponding scientific and cultural development that put an end to the dark age and ushered in one of the greatest periods of humanist developments in universal history.

The reverse paradigm shift in the 17th Century

The second major reverse paradigm shift to previously established high points in cultural development, occurred in the Seventeenth Century in the shadow of a campaign by imperial Venice to destroy the Renaissance. The campaign largely succeeded. Over a period of a hundred years, from the mid 1500s on, a new dark age was created that became infamous as an age of perpetual warfare. Counterculture philosophies were unleashed that stoked the endless cycles of wars, culminating in the Thirty Years War which once again destroyed half of the population of Europe.

In the darkness of this ongoing destruction, a new reverse paradigm shift was initiated in which the intellectual pioneers at that time focused back onto the Renaissance and the intellectual tradition that the Renaissance was built on.  The further development that came out of this movement put onto the world-constitutional map certain principles that in due course bought to a close the entire cycle of wars that seemed unassailable, that had developed into the most horrible military escapades in history, prior to the Twentieth Century. The recognized principles became the foundation for the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia.

The Treaty of Westphalia, together with its underlying principles, is still recognized today as one of the greatest world constitutional platforms of all times. Not only were the ongoing wars stopped under this treaty, but they were stopped unconditionally. No reparations were demanded. The war atrocities were forgiven. Even the financial debts were forgiven. Most of all, as a move toward a permanent peace, the nations recognized each other's sovereignty on a universal platform, regardless of their size and power. They thereby recognized each other as of equal worth with universal rights.

Out of this profound shift in thinking a remarkably long period of peace was created. Naturally, the treaty provisions were broken on many occasions and countless wars were fought in the name of defending the peace. Even the Emperor Napoleon, a hundred and fifty years later, named himself the "Defender of the Peace," who was anything but that. Nevertheless, this remarkable historic treaty that was built on a major paradigm paradigm shift, has put onto the world map a set of universal principles that could not be put back into the bottle, entirely. Even Adolf Hitler, who was determined to destroy the Treaty of Westphalia and what it stood for, failed, just as similarly minded madmen in high places are determined today, who have consistently failed for decades already.

The principle of the Treaty of Westphalia.

The most unique achievement underlying this treaty was probably the scientific recognition which united the principle of universal love and universal sovereignty into a single functional principle, which might be called the principle of civilization. By this process, the principles of universal love and universal sovereignty are drawn together in such a manner that they define each other. This process has a profound effect.

When standing in isolation, the principle of universal love, as well as the principle of universal sovereignty, can have destructive consequences. For example, the principle of universal sovereignty can be used as an excuse to dominate other nations, as this is presently done in countless ways, often for personal profit. This concept of sovereignty still reflects the old war philosophies of the Fifteenth Century, like that of Thomas Hobbes, who advocated the universal sovereignty of power under the slogan: Might is Right! It was precisely the Hobbestian type notion, that might is right, that fueled the eighty years rampage of wars in Europe, before the principle of universal sovereignty was redefined by the principle of universal love as we find it reflected today in the U.S. Federal Constitution as the general welfare principle.

In like manner, can the principle of universal love be destructive when it is seen in isolation where it becomes a duty, not a privilege. Obviously, love cannot be a duty. Such a notion would destroy the very concept of love. But in conjunction with the principle of universal sovereignty, love does become a privilege. It becomes the privilege of a human being to love universally, for love is an element of our universal humanity. Shouldn't it be our privilege, therefore, to exercise our humanity fully; to embrace it; to embrace ourselves in it, and one another; to enrich one another in love, and so to embrace this element of our humanity to the fullest possible extend? The detailed footsteps of exercising this privilege are evidently of small importance compared to the principle involved. The footsteps are determined by the democracy of our individual sovereignty that governs the unfolding privilege of universal love. On this platform the historic principles promote the kind of respect for one another that elevates love itself, and thereby the image of the human being and the state of civilization.

By this kind of process, of drawing the principle of universal love and universal sovereignty together, love becomes elevated, and sovereignty becomes raised up to being the guarantor of the universal rights of man. This opens up a profound shift in perception.


Today's need for a new reverse paradigm shift.

If one considers the magnitude of today's rapidly approaching crisis of a simultaneous dark age collapse on many fronts, politically, financially, economically, culturally, and strategically, it becomes evident that it will not be sufficient at this point to merely go back to the tradition that Franklin Delanor Roosevelt had established, and had build his new world on. It becomes evident that we have to dig deeper, to the very principles on which modern civilization itself has been founded. This deep shift must take us all the way back to the historic principles of universal love and universal sovereignty that became enshrined in the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, and beyond that to the very foundation on which modern civilization has been built. And all of that needs to be reflected at the grass roots level, which has never been achieved.

Why have some the historic paradigm shifts become lost?

Why do we find us facing the same types of crisis again that we had experienced in earlier times, which we had overcome, successfully. The obvious answer is, that the various renaissance principle had never been fully implemented, since the paradigm sifts never reached deep enough to touch the social domain where society's lives unfold. The principles had been implemented politically, but never socially at the grass roots level. Consequently, the political platforms for reform that had been established, had no foundation in society's own living that could keep the reforms alive. Indeed, how could such unsupported platforms have endured if they represented merely a cosmetic change in a world, vulnerable to erosion by imperial pressures and influences?

It becomes self-evident, therefore, that the reverse paradigm shifts that need be achieved today, must be more deeply reaching than those of the past.  Except, how does one achieve a deep reaching shift to the principles of universal love and universal sovereignty right across the board to the lowest grass roots level of our social existence where it conflicts with sexual division and marriage isolation, and a whole world of emotional responses? Here one may ask, what about those conflicts? Does our present difficulty in dealing with the conflicts change the principle involved?

Sure, we cannot ignore the fact that we carry emotional baggage that has been built up over centuries in the form of traditions and axioms that we still embrace, especially in the sexual domain, all of which are fundamentally contrary to the universal principles that we need to establish or establish more fully. The principle of universal love, for instance, appears like a treasonous imposition in the emotionally charged domain of sex and marriage. But are the prevailing emotions based on universal truth?

Emotions are often poor guides. Emotions of hate are ripping our world apart in many places while they have no foundation in universal truth. Hate is an emotion that has been artificially created. As the poet proclaims in the musical, South Pacific, we have been taught to hate. We've been carefully taught! Here the question arises: What other emotional responses have we been taught over the ages that have no foundation in universal truth? Have we been taught NOT to love universally? No principle supports this self-isolation from our humanity, and humanity at large. Still, we see precisely this kind of self-isolation expressed. We see it expressed in sexual division, social division, political division, economic division, and so on. The phenomenon of baseless division, evidently has grown into a real monster that now threatens our world. It appears that we need to examine our axioms and our emotions in the light of truth, honestly and scientifically, especially at the grass roots level, in order to create a stronger base for our civilization in the present era of grave global dangers.

The seemingly impossible task that unfolds from this challenge needs to be mastered no matter how great the challenge may be. It needs to be mastered in order that we can create for ourselves the kind of new world in which we are not only able to survive securely, but are also able to develop the human potential beyond anything we have been able to achieve thus far.


The series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose.


The series, The Lodging for the Rose, makes use of the principle of the reverse paradigm shift. Most prominently it focuses back to the principles established for the Peace of Westphalia, the principle of universal love and universal sovereignty. However, since the two principles are unique in themselves, though they cannot stand in isolation in the real world, they are treated somewhat in isolation in this series for the purpose of exploring the unique complexities that each of the two principles brings to the scene. For this reason the five episodes of the series are structured in such a manner that the series begins with a strong focus on the principle of universal love, which diminishes towards the end, while it opens with a weak focus on the principle of universal sovereignty, that develops stronger towards the end and becomes the dominant theme when the series concludes. In this manner, the exploration of both principles can be achieved without the two becoming unduly intermixed.

In like manner are the related aspects of division and isolation separated in the context of the novels. The series begins with a strong focus on division, represented by sexual division, and a weak focus on isolation. This pattern however, shifts, and becomes totally reversed towards the end. The same can be said about the focus on the sexual domain itself. The series begins with a strong focus on sex, somewhat in parallel with the focus on the principle of universal love. But as the series unfolds, the focus on sex falls into the background where it becomes gradually superceded by the developing focus on universal unity. This specific shift in focus corresponds to certain scientific breakthroughs by which barriers are being broken that presently isolate us from certain aspects of our humanity and hinders their unfolding.

Episode 1

The first episode, Discovering Love, is a large novel that also involves an additional reverse paradigm shift. This additional reverse shift takes us much father back in time than the main reverse shift, which links to the intellectual tradition behind the Treaty of Westphalia and its fundamental principles. The main focus, though, is on these principles: the principle of universal love, which is primary, and on the principle of universal sovereignty, which unfolds in the background. The additional reverse link, that is superimposed, also takes us back in time by several thousand years, to the age when the Mosaic Decalogue was introduced, and a politicized version of it became established. It is intended to strengthen the main theme of the novel which is gradually built up around the principle of universal love, and the theme of countering divisions between people. 

Episode 2

In the second episode, Winning Without Victory, the central focus of the first novel is carried forward, but broadens to include the concept of universal unity into its theme as a related element of the principle of universal love. In this episode the principle of universal love is explored in a higher level context. The sexual dimension is likewise focused on in a higher level context, while the principle of universal sovereignty, which still remains in the background becomes more prominent.

Episode 3

The third episode, Seashores and Sand, includes one more additional reverse paradigm shift. This particular shift links us back to the late Nineteenth Century, to the spiritual intellectual tradition established in the USA by Mary Baker Eddy. Her pioneering genius had set up a shift away from institutional marriages, to marriage as a science which opens the scene to the principle of universal marriage that unfolds with an astounding simplicity and complexity all at the same time.

In this novel, which makes up the mid-point of the series, the central focus shifts away from exploring divisions in society, towards exploring the phenomenon of social isolation, including self-isolation, especially sexual self-isolation.

Episode 4

In the fourth episode, Endless Horizons, the focus is centered on the principle universal sovereignty which is brought into the foreground for the protection of individuals and society, while the principle of universal love is given a somewhat lesser profile and is shifted into the background. The phenomenon of social isolation and self-isolation continues to be explored in this context.

Episode 5

One more additional reverse paradigm shift occurs in this final episode , Lu Mountain, the fifth in the series. The additional reverse shift brings Mary Baker Eddy into focus once more. Only this time the focus is on her daring pioneering concept that establishes the sovereignty of an individual's scientific achievement. She established a virtually unknown platform that allows for a person's sovereign self-authorization in taking on a professional title, contrary to the age old tradition in which titles are granted with diplomas of certification by institutional authorities.

As already indicated, the focus in the fifth episode, the last episode of the series, is strongly shifted onto the principle of universal sovereignty as the guarantor of the universal rights of man. Nevertheless, the privilege to love universally, though standing in the background, unfolds in an ever stronger form and on an ever higher level. This escalation translates itself near the end of the episode into the human privilege to be truly alive; to love; to develop; to discover; to build; to create; to care; to enjoy; to find happiness in being truly human.

In the series of the five novels, each episode is a complete work in itself, while the story continues to unfold throughout the series. In building the series, as outlined above, the most advanced scientific traditions were brought into play. The constantly shifting focus throughout the series is designed to correspond with the multifaceted challenge of living in a world that is rapidly disintegrating in the face of a richly endowed humanity whose potential remains yet to be awakened. The series is designed to explore the way-marks on the road of this awakening, thus to inspire the means for elevating our civilization, and for building ourselves a rich and bright new world.