Isn’t it funny that during the last 2000 years the best way to preserve great art and writing was to offer it up to the most greedy, corrupt and controlling entity of Western history—the Church!
Agents of control, it would seem, are needed in this world after all (much to my chagrin).
Or maybe not. I really do feel that people who know how to treat others as themselves (love thy neighbor as thyself) do not need any system of outside control, for they are not in the habit of intentionally hurting others and therefore need no external methods of behavioral programming, much less any type of correctional facility to reprogram personal conduct. If all peoples of the earth simply learned how to treat others on every level of interaction, this world could be a Utopia.
But I have yet to determine if such a kind of existence can truly exist on the physical plane. Perhaps on the astral plane (according to Sri Yukteshwar, it does exist there), but almost certainly not the physical. I really don’t know if it can truly be manifested on Earth.
But then again, the cycle of the ages predicts great changes happening every 13,000 years or so, and most prophets and prescient beings have predicted a manifestation of a heaven on Earth after this next cycle occurs (we are in the middle of the change-over right now according to every spiritual tradition)…so maybe Utopia can occur on the physical plane after all?
Only time will tell.
