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Here, Erica paused as though she was searching for a way to continue the story. Suddenly she smiled and went on.
"My dream about the village became a series of fragments of those earlier times that the villager was relating to me. The settlers found life hard when they arrived, but they had each other. They also understood that if they supported one-another to the fullest extent possible, they would survive and prosper once again. In order to assure that this would happen they developed a code of honor that they all committed themselves to. The code required that the whole community should meet the individuals' most basic needs, with everyone supporting and enriching one-another to the fullest extent possible. The goal wasn't to support a community as an entity in itself, which then would dominate everybody. Instead, their goal was to develop a commitment to support one-another, and thereby enrich one-another's life, and the life of the community as a consequence. The code of honor that they all had committed themselves to, assured that not a single person would be left out, and no one ever ruled over them."
Here Erica paused once more, then continued softly, "To my surprise the requirement of the code was understood to also apply to the villager's sexual needs. Under this code no one owned another person. Neither did any lord or king own their lives as the royal rulers had before. They had escaped this scourge. It had become repulsive to them on any level. Still the human need had to be met. In celebration of their newfound freedom they wowed to purge every last vestige of the old notion of ownership of another person from their conscience. They continued to honor the bonds they had established before, but not the ownership notion, which had created boundaries. So, they made a commitment to eradicate the boundaries and extend the principle of their bonds so that these bonds would embrace everyone in whatever form that appeared appropriate according to the individual needs. This code of honor was their commitment to assure that there would be no abuse within the framework of their newly established freedom. They felt that this would result in a higher form of civilized living, built on principles rather than on duty expressed in the enforcement of formal boundaries."
She explained that the villagers appeared to have recognized a principle that is rarely recognized, even today. "They seem to have recognized that the solution to a problem must always be sought on a higher level platform than the platform on which the problem is defined. They extended this recognition even into the sexual domain and found a principle that elevated the entire sexual scene to a higher level of perception than the one that had prevailed before."
Erica said that she found their approach revolutionary, because it enabled them to approach the sexual question in a human manner. She explained that there exists only one major aspect that sets the human being apart from the world of animals and other forms of life. "We call this element our cognitive powers. We have the ability to see with the mind what the physical eyes cannot see," said Erica. "This gives us the ability to discover principles, and the discovering of principles, in turn, raises our platform of living to a higher level. For example, in very early times someone may have observed that it easier to move a heavy object by placing something round beneath it, over which it can roll. Evidently the human mind extended that idea by 'seeing' the operating principle that was involved, which became the foundation for the technology of building wheels. That technology uplifted the entire civilization of mankind. That process of seeing with the mind, of 'seeing' the principles of the universe that no eye can see, is a uniquely human quality. No animal has yet created the technology for building wheels. Humanity alone has this ability to uplift its platform of living to a higher level by discovering and utilizing universal principles."
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