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So people want a new global vision, but not one (in the event) which upsets their presuppositions or their present security: 0thers may have to undergo radical reform, but not "us". One presupposition which in my view will have to go is that of human free-will. This underlies our entire western system. If there is no free-will, then there is no individual responsibility, and the entire culture of guilt, blame and -- let it be said --self-righteousness falls. We are as ants, plants, or molecules. Part of the cosmic pattern, cogs in the machine, obedient to the logic of it all in every aspect of our lives. That this is so, I have no doubt.

Modern science reveals the intricate workings of the entire system, and to presume that we are somehow uniquely free to decide what we think or do is typical human hubris. I am sure that, were one to view humanity from"above", with sufficient intelligence to see it all -- as monotheists believe god does -- , we should see perfect logic at every point. Given the knowledge of all circumstances, every thought, feeling and action occur as they must.. Nothing could be different from what it is. Given our actual imperfect knowledge, the future is never perfectly predictable, the pResent never perfectly intelligible. Nevertheless, it is possible to accept that all is perfect as it is, at every point. What occurs may not suit our prejudiced ideas, there is suffering, both physical and mental, but "seen from above" everything is in order.

So long as humanity is riven with internal dissension and our future seemingly insecure, it is clearly difficult for people to accept that allis perfect. But the moment we conceive that our troubles have been a necessary item in the creation in the cosmos of the wonder of intelligent love, of loving intelligence, we can see the possibility of acceptance. And if, as I believe, the present time is ripe for our species to transcend its past divisive half-understanding and unite in optimal behaviour --with the accompanying general healing that logically co-incides with this transcendence -- general acceptance of the wonder of the cosmos may readily be anticipated.

According to much of our fundamental mythology, humanity departed from the natural acceptance of the rest of life on this planet at an early stage, when we first began asserting ourselves and testing everything out. It is worth noting here that "sapience" derives from a latin word meaning"tasting".....we have been "tasting" or trying out from early on. My thesis is that now, at long last we discover truth -- and consciously re-enter the automatic order of nature, as the only "knowing" species on the planet. Nor is this "our" doing, but something the logic of the cosmos forces on us.To accept our non-autonomy at this stage is to re-enter paradise, sapient at last. And our task to cherish the rest of life on the planet, and the understanding and love in our hearts and heads. Together. In harmony. Humbly. Willy-nilly. Amen. May we at least discuss it? For 28 years I have been waiting so to do. That too I presume is perfect in its necessity -- much of our scientists' understanding of the workings of everything has been acquired in this time. My contribution perhaps caps it all. Throughout I have felt it "automatic".