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"We are giving the architect a chance to design a real house, the way houses should be build that grow with life," I added. "We are opening for the architect a door to the future. That's how I see it. I don't think the way humanity lives right now in its tiny, finite enclaves where everything is fixed and rigidly terminal will be humanity's future, because on that small and narrow platform it won't have a future. I think we are setting a new standard for this future. We may not be able to go back to the Earth again, to a world that we have outgrown, but I cannot believe that we will not have an effect on this world and uplift it in many ways and drag it out of its narrow, pathetic doldrums where nothing moves forward anymore. I think when the ship arrives back on Earth it will hit this tired world like a whirlwind. This world will change. We are just putting a challenge before the architect to be ahead of the game. In the same manner we are putting a challenge before us to further explore the universality of love which defines our own future by the imperative of its principle that we can never escape from even if we tried."
It appears that everyone agreed with me on that, including Olaf and Odessa.
My plan also involved Martin in a more special way. I told him about my challenge of bringing my family from Earth to Bohr's planet. We talked about it during one of our daily walks along the beach. Martin referred to the astrophysical phenomenon of a black hole again, something that we had long ago dealt with and had considered from every angle in the early days. "From inside a black hole, an observer can't see the universe that we see. Our universe appears totally black from this vantage point within that isolated part of space," he said. "The black hole creates this isolating confinement with its immense gravity that pulls everything into itself, even the latent energy that pervades all space, so that all light is blocked. One can't project ripples across a lake that has no water in it, that has run dry. Is that mankind's lot on Earth?"
"I don't think so," I replied.
"There is your answer," said Martin and added that it is likewise impossible for us to see the world that exists inside a black hole, as if the two were separate universes, which they are not. But this doesn't describe mankind as I know it. That is why hope remains."
"Don't you think that this black-hole isolation that makes everything appear black, is how our world on Bohr's planet must appear to my family on Earth that lacks the mental technology that we have acquired?" I countered Martin.
"If that is what you think, what will you tell them then?" he asked. "Whatever you will say to them will never be more than a fairy tale to them. They live in a mental environment that hasn't seen any significant movements for decades. But you have moved. You're miles ahead in many ways, at least to them you are."
Martin reminded me not to forget that the Earth has a history of conflicts between the old and stagnant, and advancing ideas and technologies. "Many within society that have been put to sleep mentally are afraid of advanced ideas and discoveries. Entire strata of society are so affected. With that in mind you must answer yourself one important question: On which side does your Wendy stand? Is she part of the sleeping strata? Is she open to advancing ideas, or is she rooted in narrow-minded concepts and traditions that imprison people?"
Olaf suggested that even under the best of circumstances, I would be facing quite a challenge. Still, he offered to help. "Let's find out where she stands," he suggested.
Olaf selected a place on the Hawaiian Islands that he remembered, a quite place on a beach where Martin would bring my family to. He suggested that this be done just day's prior to the ship's arrival on Earth so that we could talk in peace and save them the shock of finding out that I would not be on the ship with the others.
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