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"No, no, no," I interrupted her. "What you suggest wouldn't have worked. I might even have tried this if Heather had not left. I certainly would do this today if I had a chance to do it again, in the light of the great urgency that we face to create a breakthrough in relating to one-another as human beings. Nevertheless, it probably wouldn't work, even now. It is unrealistic to assume that this sort of thing could be made to work. We've moved backwards on this front for far too long. We can't bridge all this in a single step. I knew this then. Heather seemed to have had a sense of that too, as her letter indicates."
"That's why the impasse occurred," said Ushi. "We don't allow ourselves to move with the imperatives of universal principle. This is not a case of stepping out of a wrong history. It is a case of starting a brand new and correct train of history, creating a New World.
"Heather's reaction would likely be the same today," I interjected. "And what about Sylvia's reaction? I can't imagine what her reaction would have been had I brought Heather home with me. Not even the most extraordinary woman would be able to deal with this kind of situation, as a wife. As you said yourself, she would be emotionally devastated, if I imposed this on her. Some time in the future this may become possible, but not now. Unfortunately, time is running out for mankind. We are reaching an impasse that is becoming evermore impossible to resolve, while billions of lives hang in the balance and the world remains tied into knots in terms of finding a solution."
"What has time got to do with that?" Ushi asked. "Do principles change over time? What is possible in time is possible today. You say it wouldn't be possible today for society to act as sublime human beings. I say it would be possible to solve the entire problem from A to Z, if we gave ourselves half a chance. We would certainly solve your little problem, that you find so impossible to resolve. And, Peter, I can prove it to you."
"Prove it, Ushi? How?"
"Let me tell you a story, Peter. The story is an ancient legend of the native Northwest coastal nations. It's a story about a magic canoe that enables the people in it to travel instantly to where they want to go. It is obvious how this kind of magic power, to move instantly, would have uplifted the whole community that has this canoe, in terms of finding fish and so forth. I am sure we would have even better uses for it today, if we had that kind of capability. Such a capability would for instance revolutionize space exploration. It would reduce the vast distances of space to zero. It would make the very concept of distance invalid. Of course we may never have this capacity in the physical world. We can't magically override the physical principles of the Universe and the barriers they impose. However, we don't have these limitations in the mental realm, do we? What then would hinder us to reduce all the vast distances that stand between us human beings, to zero, which we have set up foolishly to isolate us from one-another? I see no reason why these distances shouldn't be reduced to zero, since no principle supports this universal division and isolation that we practice. According to Helen's model of the lateral lattice that you are familiar with, Peter, we all exist side by side laterally as children of the same humanity with no distance between us a matter of principle. Nothing exists in this reality that would isolate us as."
I nodded. "You are right, of course," I said quietly. "Only by shutting down the strands of love that are the cement of the lateral lattice that Helen saw, which she beheld in progress, can the isolation between people occur. This shutdown of reality won't likely ever happen in the real world. It would mean shutting down our humanity. However, we do react as if this had actually happened."
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