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PostscriptIn writing fiction one runs the risk that the reader becomes disassociated from reality. This can be avoided when the fiction becomes intermingled with reality to such a degree that the reader can never be quite certain if an element of the novel is based on fact or is total fiction, especially when the factual appears more fictional than the fiction does. This reversal, however, reflects the real world, since the reality is often more surprising than what one is inclined to accept. This is the platform on which the novel has been designed to unfold. The drive towards the nuclear war conflagration, which is focused on throughout the novel in the background, is quite real and far advanced. The increasing likelihood for such an event appears to be linked to the ongoing disintegration of the western financial and economic system. It has long been the hallmark of oligarchic powers to create wars at critical junctures when the foundation of imperial power becomes threatened, either by progressive developments, or by the disintegration of the structures that are required for looting the word. In today's age both of these development are coming together simultaneously, with new developments occurring ever more rapidly. As a consequence, the threatened "new big war," as some European analysts have dubbed it, appears to be planned to become immensely large in scope. Indeed, there is much talk about a first strike readiness to allow conventional war to quickly turn into a nuclear war. Great efforts are being made at the present time to utilize the Middle East as the trigger for such a purpose, considering its potential for launching a far-reaching religious war that could spread from the Middle East all the way to China. In the fast disintegrating world of ours, our time is rapidly running out for changing the governing mentality throughout the world. We have a tragic development here that on the surface appears totally fictional, as fictional as the rapid economic self-development of China does in contrast to the equally rapid economic disintegration of the West. These trends appear to be fictional in the public's eye that is fixed on a media generated fairytale world. Both trends are nevertheless true. Another element of the novel which appears totally fictional, are the references of a pedagogical structure for scientific and spiritual development, created in the late 1800s, related to the four development streams and four domains of science that is mentioned in the novel. That structure is real. It is found in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, and some of her other writings. These books contain an extensive outline for a formalized structure for scientific and spiritual development. Its existence presents a paradox. According to all evidence, the outlined structure is the most advanced scientific creation of Mary Baker Eddy, unsurpassed to the present day, which is paradoxically denied to even exist by virtually all of her followers. Here, once again, fiction and fact are reversed. When one encounters such paradoxes, one is forced to dig deeper in order to discover the underlying facts that resolve the paradox. A paradox is a contradiction involving accepted facts. One always has a paradox to resolve when things happen that should not be possible. In a paradoxical situation the actual appears fictional, and the impossible appears real. This sets the stage for the most deeply based reversal between fact and fiction, which the novel is addressing. The reversal from fiction to fact involves the recognition of universal principles, such as the principle of universal love that unfolds a natural unity and the 'marriage' of humanity to one another as a reflection of universal truth, rather than emotions. It is widely perceived that the institution of marriage is the strongest platform for unity, even on the smallest scale. In today's world the global scale has become larger, however. Our perceptions should reflect this fact, but it doesn't. Thus, we face a paradox again between our perceptions and what is evidently a universal truth, the truth that we are all human beings. Since unity among individuals and nations is of crucial importance to our collective survival in a nuclear-armed world, the small-scale marriage paradox that divides the world, needs to be resolved. This means that one needs to determine where on this vast scene of human relationships fact and fiction have become reversed. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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