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Chapter 6 - The Royal Dance."Isn't this a rather arbitrary choice, to select four types of science as a sufficient basis to cover all human needs?" asked Wai-yi. Steve answered that it is probably not arbitrary, since he was not aware of anything that is vital to human development that is not addressed by these four types of science. He suggested that the pioneers of the past must have recognized that the factor of four appears to represent completeness. The Taj Mahal, for instance, one of the greatest temples to love ever built is of a design that totally incorporates the factor of four. The factor of four is also fundamental to the biblical city foursquare in the book of Revelation. It is also reflected in the way we see the world, in terms of four geographic extensions: North, South, East, and West. It is possible to see a certain logical completeness in a construct based on the factor of four. But most of all, Steve pointed out that the four types of science seem to cover everything that is required for the development of love and the process of healing. Steve then described to Wai-yi what is involved in healing. He described the process according to the experience of a friend in helping to heal another friend. He told Wai-yi that the healer was a woman named Helen, whose friend had been in hospital undergoing extensive surgery. He told Wai-yi that twenty minutes after the surgical procedure had been scheduled to start, the woman had felt a sickening feeling, like an urgent need for help. She had responded to this feeling with a mental process in which certain images came to mind that represented the truth she had recognized about our humanity. Steve said that the woman knew that her friend had had heart troubles in the past. Thus, she saw images of a wide lateral array of human hearts, all connected with one another - a vast network of hearts sharing and supporting one another physically, and contributing some of their strength in support of the strength of her friend's heart. Steve said that the woman saw images of a universal flow of support, which reflected the lateral flow of love that always reflects our common humanity. Steve told Wai-yi that this becoming aware of a need for help was repeated two times, and that each time the woman's response involved images of what she had felt to represent the truth drawn from her own experiences. "After two and a half hours of these repeating cycles, the feeling of urgency for help suddenly stopped," said Steve. "It all became very quiet, even though the surgery wasn't supposed to be finished for another hour and a half. Evidently, the point of crisis had passed." Steve said that the woman told him that her friend looked wonderful when she came for a visit the same evening, in the hospital. She saw her friend bright, with a glowing face and a radiant expression, which are totally inconsistent with someone coming out of surgery only hours before. "That is what love is," said Steve to Wai-yi. "It is a scientific process, and this process involves all of the four sciences that have been identified as essential." Wai-yi reacted astounded. "Of course it is astonishing," Steve replied to Wai-yi. "It is also simple, because it involves nothing more than an intensified form of the same scientific processed that we are engaged in all the time in exploring our world." He explained that normally, when we explore complex issues, or even lesser issues, our thinking processes involve a linguistic dialog with ourselves. We speak to ourselves in our mind. We construct ideas based on what we know, and explain these ideas to ourselves, pro or con, in a linguistic dialog that is focused on exploring the truth. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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