FELIX: I don't really understand as it seems to be very theoretical and a little too abstract for me. Could you give me a simpler example?

FELICIA: Sure, lets take what you said about summer and winter. After a loooong, daaark and cooold winter we are longing for warmth but also after a looong waaarm summer we suddenly feel the opposite again and want a little cooler weather. Martinus calls this "hunger and satisfaction" which are present all things we experience in life. When we have made something or experienced something for a long time, we suddenly long for its contrast. Have you had experiences like that Felix?

FELIX: Hmm.... Yes.. no.. eh... perhaps... Let me think. Once upon a time when I was a little puppy I got a whole box of fish-bones as a present but after three weeks of gnawing on them, I couldn't eat another fish-bone for a long while.

FELICIA: Yes there you go. In this way then the principles of 'hunger and satisfaction' do not only occur in our daily life here and now but also in the bigger picture. As we move through the plant and then animal stages on the way to being 'real' human beings we become more and more satisfied with all the dark and unpleasant experiences and long for more for agreeable and pleasant things. We will experience these more pleasant things in the stages of the human being, wisdom, the divine world and the stage of minerals. Then when we are satiated with the more pleasant things after having experienced them for millions of years, we will long again for darkness with its unpleasant experiences, killings and struggles. That very longing will bring us into a new cycle to renew our life-experiences but this time through darker experiences. like plants we will even enjoy being eaten by animals, to be cut like grass, and to be picked by human beings. Yes, our longing for a contrast will be so strong that we will experience the darkness as a kind of joy and happiness.

FELIX: If I understand you correctly what you mean is that with all the bad or hard things that happen here on earth for example wars and suffering, there is a meaning behind everything?

FELICIA: Yes, in fact for those who want war and darkness, a kind of permission is given to them to struggle until they come to a place where they do not like it any more. Once they are satiated with struggling they then begin to long for peace and more agreeable experiences again with an urge to do more positive and good things. Life is completely natural and logic when you see things in this way. Those who are longing for war get born in to areas of the planet where similar people exist and those who are fed up with conflict get born into regions where people live in more peaceful ways. So even 'war-and-peace thoughts' are guided by hunger and satisfaction and once you have gone through a lot of suffering you are able to feel much more compassion for other individuals in similar, difficult situations. As a result you will be less likely to hurt anybody anymore because you know what it means to suffer.

FELIX: Yes.. Yes.. this seems like a good explanation I agree. I can finally see what you say, that life is like a school. When you make war and other immoral actions you receive the consequences of that and experiencing that over a time eventually changes your desire to that of peace and love instead of warfare.

FELICIA: Life is not so bad after all is it?

FELIX: No, now it is beginning to get very exciting!

FELICIA: And if you want Felix, you can by yourself or together with other friends, read more about the ideas of Martinus. He has written about many other things which we have not talked about but at least you now have an introduction. Also you can always get more information from the internet.