"And Peter, isn't he saying the same thing to you, too, about rescuing America from its impending doom, by getting people to rediscover their humanity? From this point on, I mean once the breakthrough has been made, the implementation of the Principle of Universal Love will follow."

      "He would laugh at both of us indeed," I said and began to laugh myself. "He would point out that we are sadly mistaken to believe that the cultural warfare that had been unleashed against our society had eradicated anything out of the core of our humanity, whether this had been ongoing for thirty-five years, or seventy years, or a thousand years. He is saying to us that none of that matters. He is saying that when one is off the mark, one is off the mark, the rest is immaterial. He is saying that the Principle of Universal Love is still the core of our humanity as it always had been, and that its light can be brought to the surface whenever we reach for it. He is also saying that we have only one problem to solve. He saying that all of our problems are the same and boil down to the same cause and the same solution. He is saying the Soviet Union's problem is the same as America's problem, and the two problems are the same as Astrid's problem of self-isolation, and those three are fundamentally the same as mankind's universal Ice Age problem."

      Nic nodded quietly. "That's interesting, Pete. He is saying that in each case the solution is the same and is right at hand."

      "The question is, will 'we' reach for it?" I interjected. "It's not a question anymore of, can we, but of, will we, and I mean all of us, all mankind. It is a matter of making the needed critical choices. If Christ Jesus had not made the critical choice to get the people to reach deep into their humanity and claim the power to act as human beings, the woman would have been killed like many others before her. Likewise, if we can't make the critical choice today to raise society up to become human beings, then the Soviet Union will die and America will fall behind it in due course for the same reason, and millions of people will perish in the process. Then the Ice Age Renaissance will never happen and civilization will end with the return of the Ice Age. All of this has happened before, but the train can be stopped. The interesting part is that solving Astrid's problem is an element of the global solution, rather than a stepping stone towards it."

      "We are perfectly capable of making the needed critical choices in all of these areas," said Nic. "Just as the wars in history had not been inevitable, though they were allowed to happen by a foolish society, so is the collapse of nations not inevitable, though it may happen when a society foolishly refuses to transform itself and its system into the full reflection of the Principle of Universal Love. Then we may find ourselves unconditioned to survive the coming Ice Age with any form of a civilization and with no more than just a minute population remaining that is sadly condemned to eking out a primitive existence off the land. Without new and efficient power resources mankind will physically collapse back to a near zero-civilization state of a mere animal like existence. That's the obvious end-result if we refuse to live like human beings now. The critical choice lies before us."

      "But why should we fail, Nic?" I interrupted him. "We can fail only if we approach the challenge passively, that is, if we try to meet the challenge like Astrid does without allowing ourselves to empowered by universal principles."

      "What about Astrid?" Nic asked. "Will she continue to foolishly refuse to change? Or will she climb out of her rut?"

      "Astrid is an intelligent woman, Nic," I said smiling. "She has already made a few profound scientific discoveries about herself. As far as I can tell she is on the path of scientific progression. She is on Plato's path with an eye open towards the discovery of universal principles. I think what I love most about her is her insistence on making those discoveries herself rather than subjecting herself to public opinion, or to my opinion. She is saying in essence, I am a human being, I can make those discoveries myself. I don't need to be told what the truth is. If I recognize something as the truth and understand its principles, I move with it as far as I can prove it and then reach out for more. That is what she is saying. That's what it means to move actively, rather than passively. Isn't that what we all do at the leading edge? We move with the power of active universal principles. We move being impelled by these principles. Active living is far richer than being passively dragged along by traditions or public opinions. How else does scientific recognition of the truth become a portal to the reality of our being, than by an active process of moving at the leading edge? I think she stands at the edge of the lateral domain where we all exist side by side as human beings. Here nobody drags anybody along. Once a person is on this pathway the progression becomes far too enriching that one would stop or look back. I think she will continue to move with this progression. She may even ask the two of us for a date before the conference is over, even if it is just for a bowl of borsht."

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