Steve explained that it is a rarely recognized fact that humanity is a universal whole, an inseparable singularity united in a universal bond established by our humanity. "If our humanity inspires love for ourselves and for one-another, then we enrich one-another and our world and our society with it, uplifting thereby our civilization out of the riches of that love. That's the economic process. It also powers the needed political processes. No one stands apart from that flow. No one is not touched by it. If we corrupt ourselves with greed and poverty, we all suffer the consequences as our world is collapsing and we become trapped into this collapse-process. And so again, no one remains untouched by it. The bottom line is that were are all bound to each other in a very natural unity that no one can escape from," said Steve. "We are individuals only to the degree to which we explore and apply the fundamental principles of our humanity and of our universe. But we are all bound to the effects of these principles. Sure we can rebel and ignore or deny the principles of our humanity, as we so often do, but we cannot escape the consequences of this insanity. We cannot escape the fact that we are all one in being, and we certainly can't escape the return of the Ice Age that may only be a hundred years away. We can protect ourselves from the return of the Ice Age, by uplifting our world in a human manner, and thus avoid the consequences. That's how the Principle of Universal Love gets us out of the default state that would end in a horrendous tragedy."

      I told Steve about the elderly Japanese that I met in the airplane flying across the Atlantic to Germany. I told Steve that he had told me the same thing, only in a still-higher-lever spiritual and scientific context.

      "That's just another facet of the same phenomenon," said Steve. "It is reflecting the same principle in a different manner, in different metaphors. We need to look at everything that has inspired and uplifted individuals to enrich society. But there is still another facet that you need to be aware of," added Steve. "This facet lies above all that. According to all available evidence the development of life on this planet appears to be fundamentally non-linear. It comes to light as a voluntaristic process of intelligently directed progression or creation in which mankind itself becomes a part of the creative process."

      Steve explained that the most potent force in a physical economy are the small entrepreneurial industries that thrive on the wave of new ideas and advanced innovations. "That's a voluntaristic process. These enterprises depend on exceptional ideas for their very existence. They become synonymous with it. But where do the ideas come from? We don't really know, do we? Where does our humanity come from, Peter? We don't know that either. Darwin calls it evolution, but he didn't really believe that himself, did he? He has admitted that much, cautiously, as much as he dared. He was a member of the Empire. His hypotheses were built on speculation to serve what was politically correct for his time, a time darkened by empire. He had to deliver a rendition what fell within the parameters that were predetermined to serve the Empire. The truth wasn't really relevant at this stage, was it? It still isn't. So he fibbed a bit. But our getting back to the truth, as we must get back to it, changes everything. Life isn't a process of linear accretion through mindless actions. It unfolds in qualitative jumps, in principle-directed intelligent jumps. Can we say that ideas emerge through evolution? We can never say that, can we? Evidently, ideas don't result from the molasses of mental accretion. Ideas are explosive phenomena. They unfold in a bang and are often totally complete. Neither does life unfold by evolutionary accretion. It unfolds like a new idea is born. It erupts in new forms of expression, perhaps even intelligently self-directed forms of expression. Are art, beauty, music, loyalty, honor, and love drawn from evolution? No! I can't believe that they are. Nobody really knows where the cradle of intelligence lies? Evidence suggests that intelligence was its own cradle and is powered by its own development, and that its principles and manifestation that we are a part of, have shaped us. The resulting scientific concept lies a far distance from the deadly passive notion of random evolution. There is more evidence abounding that life is voluntaristically determined, with a creative intention behind it, and is actively unfolding, rather than passively by default random motion. My point is that we know far too little about ourselves, which naturally also becomes reflected in the damned small-minded thinking that is destroying our world today. We are so arrogant in our small-minded thinking, which we call knowledge, that we aim to circumscribe all truth with this smallness."

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