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Indira turned to Sylvia and Olive. "Would you like to join our marriage on this higher platform? In fact, why wouldn't you? Once an idea has been perceived, and it is being understood, it needs to be acknowledged in life. This is how we create a New World if we are honest with ourselves about what we know to be a higher concept of reality than the shallow and distorted concepts that are conventionally perceived."
"But are your underlying assumptions correct?" Olive asked. "Plato demands that we constantly examine our axioms."
"Aristotle says, 'don't bother with that, there is no truth in anything except what you see. Thus public opinion becomes paraded as the truth,'" I said to Olive. "That's why Aristotle is so destructive. He says, take everything at face value. But Plato says, open your eyes, there is a whole lot more to be found in the universe of truth that what you can see paraded before your eyes. With the 'eye' of the mind you can elevate your perception. You can recognize principles that exist in the complex domain that are invisible to the lower-level senses. What we behold in the complex domain is more profound and the resulting manifest more beautiful, even more beautiful than the most advanced concepts that have ever been created at the lower levels of looking at things, which thereby become actually mediocre in comparison. Our goal must be to always step beyond mediocrity. So, what is it that you want to have proof of that isn't already placed at your feet? I think we must even regard our leading edge perceptions as mediocrity, since there is always a step further that we can go as we look for the universal principle of reality, unless of course, we stop asking the relevant questions. When we stop asking those questions we stop everything. Then, everything becomes finite and small, and decays into lifeless mediocrity."
"At this point religiosity invades ones thinking," said Ross, "which makes one believe that one has arrived at the ultimate perception, and nothing more is possible. When people reach this point nobody cares about proof. At this point we die of boredom and accept any lie that becomes dished up to us. That's the mentality that empires love, which they extensively promote and exploit."
Olive just nodded.
"Ross has a valid point there," said Indira to Olive. "If anyone, I should know. That narrow, dogmatic, dead-end religiosity exists in India almost universally. It's been drilled into people. The caste system is but a tiny example of it. The priests and the rulers are all telling the people that they must accept by faith what they are telling them, because by accepting that, they are told, they have arrived at the truth. The people are told that, literally. They are told that is all that you need to know. That is all that you can know. There is nothing more. This is it. That's where the tragedy begins, because that's when the inquiry stops. But that's not the platform on which our marriage has been built. It has no doctrine. Doctrines are final, and therefore fatal. They tell us, 'don't bother to look for more. This terrible finity closes the door to the spiritual and scientific development that unlocks our human potential, Olive. That is what has largely destroyed the potential of our society. Can you understand this Olive? That is why I can't tell you what our marriage is, because it has no doctrine, only a community of principle as Pete loves to say."
"It is the same in America," I added. "The sense of finality is everywhere and has been for a long time. At election time the empire rolls out its prostitutes that it allows society to choose from. And people go along with that. They say, that the way it is, even if they know in their heart that this is the road to hell for the entire nation. That's the kind of finity that is being cultured, an impotence kind of finity that prevents people from opening their eyes. Our new American religion says to society, 'Greed Based Economics is the ultimate; Free Trade is the ultimate; speculation is the ultimate; war is unavoidable; don't bother to look any further, there is nothing better, there is nothing more.' And people accept that finity, because as you say, the Platonic method of thinking has been squashed in their heart over the last century in order to keep people's thinking fixed onto these destructive, doctrinal, dead-end myths that they are told are the ultimate, even while their submission to the myths is killing them. But this devotion to finity is not the platform on which our marriage has been built," I said to Olive.
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