I paused to give her time to react, but there was no further reaction. "I regard myself somewhat like a pioneer in trying to reverse that, Sylvia," I continued. "I am trying to be the kind of pioneer that we must all become in full measure to shut down the trend that is destroying our world. How else can we end the Three Thousand Years War and whatever rests on it, like the Three Hundred Years War, and the Thirty Years War, and the Three Years War of psychological warfare, and the Three Days War of nuclear holocaust that is looming on the horizon already, and create for ourselves an Ice Age Renaissance? Tell me that you have a better idea to achieve an Ice Age Renaissance than allowing ourselves to be empowered by the Principle of Universal Love to create a New World."

      I told Sylvia to picture in her mind a great dam holding back a mighty river, and to picture the village located downstream behind the dam in which we all live. I explained that the dam had been built for irrigation and that the village represents our present dwelling places set in the midst of a traditional agricultural world. Then I asked her to picture the dam in a state of breaking up, bit by bit, because that is what the coming Ice Age will do. It will wipe out our traditional agriculture and in many places overlay our land with ice. I suggested that none of that can be avoided, but we can relocate the village to higher ground and create a new form of agriculture. I pointed out that the only thing we must not do, is stay put and keep on wasting our time when so much is at stake.

      "This means that we are all involved, right?" I said. "We all live in the village downstream, and the dam is beginning to break. We are involved, whether we want to be or not. Nevertheless, most people are in denial of that reality. Everybody is saying: the problem with the dam doesn't effect me; the dam isn't my business; I am not involved; I have a vegetable garden to tend to; I have a business to run; I have a wedding planned. Nevertheless, everybody is involved. It is impossible for anyone not to be involved. One is either involved with creating a solution for the problem, or one is involved with creating the conditions for the destruction of the village by not responding to the reality of the situation, and thereby one's own destruction. One way or another, everyone is involved."

      I asked her to consider what our options are for becoming a part of the solution. "How can we break the chain of denials and self-denials that prevents us from acting like human beings?" I asked. I suggested to her that the sexual dimension might be the only dimension that offers us any hope at the present stage to cause a breakthrough, because people want to be honest with themselves and respond to their sexual attraction to one-another, rather than maintain the ironclad sexual division and isolation that the Three Thousand Years War is imposing, which all the other wars are built on. I pointed out that the current sexual stage has become a stage of universal division and isolation by design, for the purpose of denial of the Principle of Universal Love.

      "So, why shouldn't we start there, with looking deeply into the sexual domain where the core issue is presently located, to achieve the needed breakthrough?" I added quietly.

      Sylvia shook her head slightly as if to protest, but she didn't say anything. Instead she called the waiter for the bill without ordering any dessert. It appears that she used the diversion to avoid having to face the question of sex in the world of universal love. She normally loved desserts.

      I suggested to Sylvia that people do have a natural tendency to be honest with themselves about their sexual love for one-another, especially about their sexually inspired feelings of love.

      I felt daring suddenly. I felt that I needed to poke this issue once more, to stir up the muddy riverbed to ultimately make the waters flow more freely. I also suggested to Sylvia that only a few ancient and modern axioms stand in the way of people responding honesty and with joy to what is in their heart. I suggested that we should be able to deal with these few interposing false axioms if we put our mind to the task. I also suggested that the realm of sex and marriage is the only realm that focuses directly onto our humanity without secondary issues standing in between, like we have it politics, finance, business, religion, and so forth, where the human dimension plays a secondary role or none at all.

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Stories about  Healing from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche