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"Dreams don't solve anything," Heather replied instantly.
"Of course they don't," Sylvia defended herself. "Nothing is ever resolved when the mind is asleep. I have never known a person who discovered a profound universal principle in a dream, or even applied a principle in a dream to uplift an unfolding tragedy into a victory. We have to do this when we are awake. But the dreams may tell us where our impasses are. In dreams we ruminate over the lack of a solution. I think our dreams sometimes are our alarm clock, as Tony suggests, that jolt us into recognizing what we have evaded. I think Peter had a profound dream. It tells us of something that we have tried to hide from ourselves. So let's put our heads together and find out what it is. Let's find out why we prefer to lie to ourselves rather than accept the truth."
Ross nodded in agreement. "All right," said Ross. "Let's look at it. Pete was a child in the dream, and the world that he lived in grew into a gigantic and beautiful construct. He lived in a golden tower that was several hundred stories high, which suddenly collapsed into a pile of dust. What could this dream image represent that we already know? The child represents mankind, doesn't it? We are still growing up. And 'The Thing' that became associated with the golden tower is our dawning humanity. It is science, art, music, technology, and intelligence. Those may be its names, but the thing itself is the principle beneath all that, the Principle of Universal Love. The Principle of Universal Love has been a part of the human scene since the dawn of civilization and long before that. It was first seen in a discernable way with the agricultural revolution 7000 years ago when a few people were able to provide food for many so that time could be devoted to cultural pursuits and improvements of the human condition. This 'Thing,' the Principle of Universal Love, was seen again and again in a big way during the Greek Classical Era, the era of Homer, Pythagoras, Solon, and so on. And later we saw it reflected again in the humanism of Socrates and Plato, and then in the Christian era as the sacrament of Agape. It appeared many times in the background. We saw it reappearing after Rome had nearly destroyed civilization. We saw it unfolding anew in the Islamic Renaissance, and later in the Golden Renaissance in Europe, and more profoundly so in the subsequent great Renaissance of the 17th Century centered on the Treaty of Westphalia. The Principle of Universal Love was reflected in all of these developments of renaissance. The Principle of Universal Love was 'The Thing' that Peter saw. It gave us the golden towers of the richest civilization we ever had.
"The reversal began with World War I," Ross continued. "'The Thing' was feared and hated by every empire that ever was. Human progress has always been feared and hated by empires, because this progress would challenge the empire's illegitimate existence. World War I brought the first big attack on humanity. With setting up this giant war the British Empire literally bulldozed the house down that 'The Thing' had built. World War II was set up from the same background, but was escalated onto a bigger plain. Then came the Cold War. Most people regard the Cold War as a nuclear weapons standoff between the USA and Soviet Russia. On the surface it was that, but in real terms this hyped up rivalry was a secondary issue, a kind of smokescreen to hide the real war. The real Cold War was a cultural war, and that war hasn't ended. Cultural freedom they called it in the beginning. It promised freedom in culture, but really meant freedom from culture. It inspired society to claim freedom from its humanity, freedom from the Principle of Universal Love. It meant promoting the globalism of inhumanity, the globalization of looting and slavery. In this artificial inhuman environment 'The Thing' began to disappear. That's when the economies began to disintegrate and the financial system of the world began to become but a hollow shell. Pete saw mankind's golden tower crumble into dust. We have seen many such images already, haven't we? Each one was a symptom of society killing 'The Thing' in its own heart and soul. Mankind was killing itself by aiming to destroy 'The Thing.'
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