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"You are making this journey," I replied to Anton, "only yours will be different. No one can tell you what you may find in your life."
She nodded ever so slightly.
"These rivers are very real," said Ross to Anton. "I have discovered the concept that is involved, together with Pete. This is not an easy concept to come to terms with, but a profound one when one finally recognizes what it involves. It appears to me, Anton, that we all need to travel these rivers again and again. It seems we need to be involved at every level of human existence, and deal with what we find there, and bring light to it and uplift what can and needs to be uplifted. We must face the depravities, explore the paradoxes, and raise our axioms that have created the paradoxes and opened the doors to depravity.
"We also need to be involved in the moral domain. We need to embrace the good that we find there, that we find in our humanity, and embrace that good to fullest extend possible, and so drag it up with us as we seek higher ground where we can cherish it more and honor one-another more in the flow of it. Then we live the principle of sovereignty, so that it becomes impossible for us to slide backwards into depravity. The rivers are upwards flowing by design.
"In addition, we also need to embrace the scientific element that we find in our journey, in each every river. We need to utilize these 'gates' to reality, these gates that science provides in so many ways. By developing our scientific understanding of the universal principles of the universe, we give ourselves far greater freedoms than we ever had before.
"We also need to dwell in the land beyond the gate that scientific understanding gives us access to. That's the land of the great universal good that all the great thinkers throughout history have associated with human freedom, boundless capabilities, with love, life, truth, even God. Isn't it interesting, Anton, that God and Good are both linked to the same word in English, with just a small difference is spelling. Maybe it is that small difference that we need to erase.
"Maybe this is what the rivers are all about. I think we need to travel these rivers again and again, because there are so many beautiful things to be found at every level, if we open ourselves up to them, even sexual things."
Ross' comment earned him a kiss on the cheek from Anton, and an embrace, and a great big happy smile as if he had just confirmed to her what she had always felt in her heart to be true, but had never had the courage to acknowledge. I never saw her smile that way before, not to me, with a smile powered by such a great inner joy.
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