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I smiled again. "The universe is a marvel of harmonizing principles that we see reflected everywhere and carried forward also into the biotic world that we are a part of and are at the leading edge of. We are a part of that great miracle."
"So, what's your point?" Indira interrupted me.
"My point is that the universe is inherently a lateral universe," I said emphatically. "If all of the universal principles are harmonizing with one another, then the universe is founded on a lateral platform. That makes it a lateral universe and also an intimate universe, and yes, even a 'mothering' universe. The lateral quality that I see reflected, reflects an intimacy that one might call the universe's Soul. Nobody exists outside the universe. So why shouldn't we celebrate what we got and are and have? Human intimacy, especially our sexual intimacy, reflects this lateral quality of the universe. There is something right, and rich, and powerful about it, especially its mothering quality that is an inherent part of the mind that is reflected in the universe. And this is what I see to some degree reflected in the temples here."
"That's an interesting hypotheses, Peter. But how much evidence is there for it?"
"The evidence for it is found in what you loose when the intimacy is blocked and society becomes increasingly isolated," I replied. "Just look at America where society's intimacy was displaced with a vast array of pornography and the wedge that AIDS drove deeply into the heart of people's intimate sexual associations. America has become a fascist world in the shadow of its isolation from itself. I has forged a fascist economy and a fascist government. We've become the sewer rats of the world, Indira. We are looting the world, terrorizing it, and we are threatening mankind's very survival with our nuclear weapons and whatever products we have brewed up in our hundreds of biological-warfare labs and are still brewing up. That's your evidence, Indira. One find the value of what one had when one looses it. And further evidence if found in the intensity with which the imperial crowd has been attacking and undermining the intimacy of humanity at its deepest level, beginning with pornography. They are attacking mankind's intimacy, because of its value for civilization. The imperial was to wreck civilization. Pornography helps them do this as it puts a wedge into the lateral relationship between people. It denies the principle of the universe and makes the human social scene unworkable. There's your evidence, Indira. The imperials wouldn't attack it if there was no value in it for a renaissance society."
Indira nodded quietly. "I don't think there has ever been one person that came to these temples here with the perception that you have developed. I think most people that come now seek the opposite. They want to see porno-temples."
"And so they will be disappointed," I said to her, "because there is no porno here."
I found it interesting to search out what other people were thinking about the erotic sculptures from a thousand years ago. We asked a few tourists. A woman from Thailand regretted having come. She said it made her ashamed of her own temples. She said that what she saw here was much more beautiful. But she didn't actually mention the erotic element as if she couldn't relate to it.
Another woman equated the erotic scenes with smut. I suggested to her that the smut isn't inherent in eroticism, but is an echo of society's perversion of its sex in a long train of abuses and exploitation. I commented that I actually found the perversion of sex amazingly absent in the temples. I saw no signs of a sex trade. I suggested that this 'purity' made the temples unique. Evidently the society at this time of a thousand years ago had been rich enough not to sacrifice its lateral intimacy to the sex trade that promises to supply unfulfilled wants but does the opposite. She couldn't see the dividing line.
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