What an inspiration they presented for us! They were bound together in a form of universal marriage that was the heart of their very being, just as we had discovered the same about our human existence. The outcome was in both cases profound and rich in the resulting splendor. Humanity too, wouldn't exist without the universal marriage that unites us as a matter of principle, reflecting a common humanity, even if that fact is denied vehemently.

      Most of the coral at the reef were soft coral, tubular, like tree trunks with branches growing out of them that ended in flower-like clusters of polyps. Other formations were fanlike, swaying with the currents of the water stirred by the surface waves. We had to remind ourselves, however, that we hadn't come to this place for the snorkeling, though this was without a doubt the snorkeling paradise of the world. We had come in an emergency situation, to do research for a new type of politics that never existed before, built on a renaissance that is rooted in the hearts and minds of humanity at the grassroots social domain, and in the spiritual domain, where it has likewise never occurred there. We were quite aware that nothing in the world affects society more deeply than its politics. Our policies for government and self-government are always the determining factors for society's prosperity or its destruction, which ever it may be. And more than this, our policies determine our happiness, our health, and even our very survival. They are the platforms for wars, nuclear bombs, fascism, or platforms for a future that is rich in human development, culture, beauty, love, creativity, and security. We where aware that how far the balance swings into either direction depends on how deeply society has committed itself to policies of depravities of all sorts, such as greed based economics, or has committed itself to moral and spiritual development, based on universal principles expressed in economies for the general welfare of society. Since every renaissance in history unfolded from a reverse paradigm shift to a type of thinking based on the Platonic method of the Greek Classical era, we had been rightly mandated by Fred with the task of doing the same. Nor was this a trivial mandate in terms of its potential, since it is an evident fact that the emergence of Christ Jesus, the founder of Christianity, unfolded historically on the high level cultural and scientific platforms that were built upon the Platonic method of scientific enquiry. Evidently Fred expected equally dramatic results from our work.

      "We are here because the world is in a crisis that hasn't been resolved yet, but is getting worse," I said in my opening speech that wasn't really a speech, but was more like a beachside chat in which I was doing most of the talking.

     "We human beings are a peculiar people in the way we carry on," I said. "For example, we have known for almost 200 years that our world is in geologic terms in a long-term ice-age environment that gets interrupted roughly every 100,000 years with a wonderfully interglacial warm period of slightly over 10,000 years in duration. We've known for a long time that we are in such a period right now and that this period is near its end. We also know that we have wasted a third of the grace period that the universe has given us to prepare ourselves better for the next Ice Age. We have wasted almost 4000 years of this period of opportunity with perpetual warfare instead of preparing ourselves for the conditions of the next Ice Age to come. We know that we have to create hugely massive infrastructures that are required to enable us to shift our food production, primarily agriculture, into indoor facilities in order to protect our food supply during the next 90,000-year cold period. We know that we have precious little time left to do this, maybe a century or slightly more, but we refuse to even consider it. Instead of securing our future existence on this planet we find ourselves locked into an endless-seeming stream of perpetual war. We've been in a perpetual-war mode for almost 4000 years, locked onto the platform of empire as a form of government. The platform of empire is a platform of permanent war - war to create empires; war to maintain empires, and war to enlarge empires. The face of the wars may have changed. The bloodstained swords of the Roman legions have been replaced with guns, tanks, missiles, atomic bombs, cultural warfare, and even financial warfare, but the perpetual nature of the wars has remained. Now we are in some kind of an end-phase as the intensity and the effects of the wars are increasing. And still we seem unable to get ourselves out of the trap of empire as a form of government that demands these wars.

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