UESTION: I am em-
barrassingly skeptical

y about my own op-

” timism. I would ap-
preciate-your commenting on
such a strange phenomenon.
Although so many frighten-

ing signals are being hoisted
these days that warn us of all
sorts of tragedy being too
close for apathy, I, never-

theless, have what must be an |

intuitive feeling that a great
deal of progress is being
made in humankind’s
evolvement..

So much evidence seems to
discount any logical reasons
for optimism. Yet converse-
ly, a lot can be made of some
of the signs of transforma-

tion within the human fami-
ly. Trouble is, from my no-
man’s-land of hope and op-

‘timism, I keep scurrying back

to the logical tried and true
pessimism in which all too
many of us have become used

to sheltering. My hope is
bright, but my habitual
tendency is to take leave of
my hope and, sometimes
(with apparently good
reason), opt for pessimism
and even fear.

It seems so much more sen-
sible these days to be
negative, even though, in the
midst of the negativity, one
does not really feel at home
or at least I don’t. I am truly
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optimism. So why do I run
away from it and seek out
what seems to be a dwelling
place more appropriate to the
negativity which is so abun-
dant in the year of our Lord,
1984?

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I don’t deny my hope even
when I turn my back on it. 4
just turn away for a while,
knowing that my desertion
will be temporary and that
someday soon, I will feel at
home again in my hope for
mankind. I suppose al) this
leads, not to a question, but
rather to an invitation for
you to comment.
STEWART: A_ question
might have made it easier for
me! I’m with you in your sen-
Sing that there is a positive
stirring in the human family.
jt has been so especially in
this particular period of time
from the early 60s to the pre-
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moving extremely rapidly
(and woefully awkwardly) in-
to a ‘‘new age”’ ’ has a tremen-

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port it.

If you are ‘‘a reasonable
man’’, there will many a time
when you will sense that
pessimism must be your
“‘dwelling place’’, if you are
to keep your integrity. But if,
as it appears you are also, a
feeling and intuitive person,
there will be times when you
are bewildered by your
pessimism.

_ This is a day when reason
and logic are sorely needed.

And it is also a day when the -

heart, or spirit or ‘‘inner-
man’”’ is speaking more clear-
ly and more often to more
people in more lands in more
different ways than any time
I know about. In the ‘‘age”’
that is limping toward its en-
ding, we tried desparately to
enthrone reason as our prime
authority. Now there is a sw-
ing to honoring our
“‘snirits’’. It is not that we
need one emphasis and not
the other, but that we are
coming to see that it is time
for us to honor our total per-
sonhood. We are awkward
just now because we have
been thinking for ages that
we could not be reasonable
lovers and we do not yet have
the confidence needed for be-
ing loving reasoners.

But we are drawing closer,
thanks to people like you
who are interested in finding
the good balance of
wholeness.

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