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Chapter 10 - Celebrating our Universal MarriageI had hoped that something profound would be unfolding from Ross Christmas present, something that would alter our self-imposed fate. I hoped that our renewed focus onto higher levels of perception would help us to get our earlier vitality back. The potential for that to happen was definitely on the horizon. Once an advance in science opens a door and one steps through it into a New and Brighter World, the Old World with its struggles, agonies, trials, and barriers stays behind and fades from sight. This realization opened a wonderful hope. I hoped that a shift in thinking had begun that takes one not only to where one was once before, but into even brighter realms than those one had until then regarded as heaven. Hadn't the king's daughter brought to the kingdom not only a proposal for a peace, that actually achieved what the Old Rulers would have never achieved by their old methods, but had brought to the kingdom a peace far brighter and enduring than any of the rulers had ever dreamed of? That is what I saw unfolding before us, something brighter than what we have had so far reached for. It appears that we had gotten stuck, because we hadn't been looking up high enough. No doubt I was right on this point. That is why we had gotten stuck. It seemed that Raymond the great psychiatrist had already foretold us our fate, when I told him about my impasse and my apprehension on the day when I asked him for a way to tell Sylvia about Ushi and Heather. Raymond had laughed then, and inferred in his own 'professional' way that my bus was so hopelessly stuck in a sea of mud that I had actually abandoned my seat at the steering wheel and had climbed onto the roof of the bus with all the others in the world, where we had a party together of like-minded stranded people, rather than making an effort to dig ourselves out. Raymond's had suggested that this was a common fault that we were more inclined to party, even if it is in misery, than being prepared to make the effort to dig ourselves out. Having a party is a wonderful way of evading to face reality. The trouble is that that process doesn't get us anywhere, not as individuals, and likewise not as a nation or a world. Raymond had figured me out correctly on this one. His predictions had come woefully true. Even Tony had recognized our predicament. Over the years the mud had become so sticky that none of us could move. Heather had remained tied up with Ross, but they didn't get married. No children were on the way. Sylvia and I were happy with our new house that we enjoyed more and more, but the resulting isolation had created new boundaries. Tony kept on living with us. All five of us had become content to while away the hours at our wonderful beach, which however, had never fulfilled its original purpose. No new revolution had been ushered in. We even told ourselves that we were happy that way, that we were happy without having to deal with the growing isolation that was creeping in between us, that we simply closed our eyes to. I had tried at first to get us back to the way we were, but the more I tried, the worse things got, just as this happened in the kingdoms of Greenfield and Gourdland in the weapons mythology story. Now however, thanks to Ross' Christmas present, a new ending was about to begin with the writing of the end of the history of empire. I was intensely excited all of a sudden, wondering how I would write this final ending. Indeed how does one implement a New World based on the platform of the Principle of the Universal Marriage of all Humanity, even if it is an already established scientific fact? The concept, which the scientific pioneer had put forward more than a hundred years earlier, had the potential, even then, to end all wars. If it had been implemented, it would have prevented World War One and Two, and the Cold War afterwards, and all the wars that came after that. I had to admit with shame, however that we were still no further ahead in applying the pioneer's profound scientific recognition, than we had been a hundred years earlier. The profound discovery of the universal marriage of humanity as an inescapable truth was as scary, when we discovered it, than it must have seemed irrational when it was first put on the table. Still it was bright with a great promise. The challenge now became one of making the promise a reality. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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