"That is what Fred has put onto our agenda for us to embrace," I said. "We need a paradigm sea change from a vertical imperial regime that spells doom, to a lateral human regime that unfolds the Principle of Universal Love. It always comes down to that, and for that Mary Baker Eddy has paved the way a hundred years ago already, with her proof that the victory can be won on the side of humanity. So let's pull ourselves out from under the empire's claws. Let's uplift ourselves and disable their wars, and uplift them as well."

      I was surprised about the response I got. Nobody complained. Nobody said that I was crazy, or that we had no hope in hell. Nobody even hinted that Fred's expectation were unrealistic. The only comment that I heard during my speech in this regard was Olive reminding us that if we say to ourselves that it may be impossible to achieve what is necessary, then we are saying to ourselves that it is impossible to save humanity from a certain doom. Her other comment was that if we capitulate before this momentous task simply it has never been possible in the entire history of mankind to end the quest for private wealth and power at the detriment of society, then we say that the Principle of Universal Love has no value whereby we condemn four-fifth of mankind to death. She said that since we cannot allow this to happen, it becomes easy as an alternative to do whatever is necessary to prevent it, even if this means taking a lot of our 'holy cows' out of the closet, like sex, and gain a higher perception of them in the light of the Principle of Universal Love.

      "This means that we have to shift our highest scientific perception to a still higher level with Plato's method and Mary's pedagogicals," said Sylvia in response to Olive's point during the discussions that erupted now and then right in the middle of my little speech.

      "This also means that we have to examine everything that we know, under the microscope of Plato's dialogs," Tatsuhiko replied. "It appears that's what Fred brought us here, for," he added. "But what precisely is Plato's method of scientific dialog, and how does sex fit into this scene of Mary's high level Principle of Universal Love? I have been educated in America for a few years, but Plato remains an enigma, and sex possibly even more so, and universal love is being laughed at as a utopian dream. It is drowned in a sea of greed in every domain, from the social to the political, especially in the financial domain."

      "You are more fortunate than most students," Olive replied. "I have asked Fred not to mention Plato when I requested him to stage this workshop. Plato has been slandered. His method has been distorted. He is being portrayed as a hopeless idealist, someone living with his head in the clouds, while his intellectual enemy, Aristotle, who is said to have been his student, is being hailed as the man who brought Plato's idealism down to Earth. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's a slanderous lie!"

      Olive explained that this slander is politically motivated to hide the power of Plato's method. She explained that Plato wasn't an idealist at all, but might be called the originator of the only scientific method that is worth considering in the search for truth. She explained that the only relationship between Plato's method and Aristotle's method of thinking is the relationship of two opposites.

      "Aristotle says in essence, that what you can see is what is real, and that's that," said Olive. "Plato in contrast points out that truthful perception isn't that simple. He points out that what you see may be deceptive. This means that you always need to examine whatever assumptions underlay your perceptions. You have to begin to 'see' with the mind's eye. The question must always be, are our assumptions correct? Are our premises correct that support those assumptions in reference to what we see with the mind, and are able to prove based on what we see there? For instance, the visual image of train tracks that seem to merge in the distance is a false image that needs to be corrected with our understanding of geometry. This understanding then enables us to create a truthful image in our mind, which is often quite unlike what one's limited sensory perception can convey." Olive suggested that sex falls into this category also, in reference to the Principle of Universal Love that no eye has ever seen and our mind has just begun to explore.

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