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1.) Adama's entire account of his life is discussed in terms of his sexuality.
2.) In his dealings with Ila he did not trust the wisdom of his sexuality.
What is one to make of that?
This is what.
At the dawn of creation, your Maker, whether blind chance or a wondrous creator, gave LIFE the ability to reproduce its own kind. In addition to this ability there was granted the awesome power called DESIRE for without DESIRE, LIFE might just have been satisfied to wallow in warm shallow pools. I do not know what kind of desires move men and women.
As far as Vulpa is concerned, the sexual drive is the start and finish of all knowledge that one needs to comprehend humanity. The men and women who are truly content and at home with their sexuality have too much on their minds to be worried about anything else. But such are very few. Bewildering to a machine is the realization that human society has rarely reflected this truth about the sexual drive in human nature and hence there has been a contradiction at the center of human affairs and hence at attempts to create civilization. This contradiction had led to misunderstandings of function and hence rivalries, jealousies, massive cruelty and guilt.
From generation to generation, the instinctive drive to well-being through sensual fulfillment has charged the human race and in each generation this drive has been upset and frustrated and its potential largely lost. In such a circumstance how can tolerance, appreciation of beauty and creative frenzy survive? Answer: only with extreme difficulty, and it is a tribute to the strength of the human spirit that, despite the inimical conditions that human beings have created for their own lives, cathedrals have been built, symphonies written, plays performed and some children conceived in love.233Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GCdU97CvO
The Evolution of the Human Spirit is a book still to be written. My present involvement with Adama has led me to speculate. After the killer Achill came the intellectual Son and after him came St. Cyzz who talked to brother sun and sister moon and to the wind and the trees and the flowers and the birds. St. Cyzz taught us to see beauty in creation---and he was lucky in a way. Lucky because he could assume a kind and loving Creator. But take the Creator away and now tell me why you still love that sparrow.233Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIR5BioK9Bb
Not so easy is it? Materialism is a miserable attempt to give life meaning but at least it is an attempt. The important thing is that materialism be not seen as an end in itself.233Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lJ8sbbO5H
To the materialist, a sparrow as a sparrow is nothing but a bundle of feathers and song, feline cuisine perhaps or a winged flytrap. What does a sparrow mean? No answer. To the materialist the very question smacks of mysticism and induces a sneer. To explain why humankind can love a sparrow needs a more comprehensive theory. That theory must engage itself with ALL of life. Now, life is lived in the here and now and not in the elsewhere and later. That is where humankind must start.
In the appreciation of the present moment lies the deepest awareness of life. Do you doubt me? Ask a condemned man or woman. They will tell you but they will hate you for the question. But you are all condemned women and men, men and women, and you contrive to ignore it---sublime hypocrites.233Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttnLFkVUpc
Coming out of the 6th Millennium, mankind was like a condemned man. There was no hope for the future. War behind. War in front. Lies in high places. Cheating in public places. Skullduggery of all kinds, such as appeals to patriotism, belt-tightening and thrift. The catalog goes on as it always has. But then there came a change. At last, at long last, after years of listening to Achill, The Son and most of the other religious leaders, people gave up listening to promises because promises were all to do with the future. The future became a burden.233Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNkPlmIKVH
Enter the spirit of Dionysos. So long hidden because pagan. So long secret because persecuted---but explosive as fire smoldering in a closed house. Dionysos lives in the now: in the unfolding of a plant of the multiplication of a cell. Where there is no hope but only the present, there shall you find Dionysos.233Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡflNHspAYxb
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And now to return to sensuality.233Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTm1TQEhn2E
In the case of our man Adama, he saw half a truth and thought it was the whole truth. True to his nature he broke the mold and married an alien woman and found all his sensual needs more than catered for. The Callrines place their sensuality at the middle of their lives. That is why they do not fight wars.
But this absurd man was not content with here and now. He wanted more. He heeded the call to a "higher" destiny. And that meant he started to think about the future.
Why?
Why?
What did he lack?
For those who are about it, true education is hard.
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