I don't know for sure what I'll tell our baby when it's old enough to ask and understand, but we love each other." I looked at Katrina, stroking her h...air gently. "We just can't do it by ourselves." And you feel the same way, Katrina?" Dad asked her. "You really want to have a baby?" Yeah, I do," she nodded. "We've talked about it for a long time now, Daddy. We've saved money for it, planned the future around it as best we can. I love Susan and we're not young or naïve, or rushing into it. We're. That’s the value of the ritual aspects of ritual: through shared symbols we can train ourselves to quickly and easily enter into a shared experience and context. I’ve done this enough times that even when I’m near my worst, the words of a common spiritual path combined with trust I have in the ritual leader and community bring me to a place where I’m ready to be open, ready for an experience.We discuss intent. The plan is for us to do chakra work--work focused on spiritual nodes of our body. ” I still had no real idea of what she was saying, although Ivaguely understood. She untied me, and walked me up the stairs. I was in a ratherlarge house, and there were men dancing with scantily clad womeneverywhere, I was snuck upstairs in a hurry. The lady, who identifiedherself as Marie, put me into a bedroom and shut and locked the door. A few women came in and introduced themselves, there wasRenee, an American, Dominique, from France, and Sidney who was fromEngland. They talked a. “SAL, I know you don’t require sleep, but I do!" she replied, peevishly. “Pardon me for monitoring your bio-scans, but your brain-waves still appear too active for sleep." “What’s on your mind, SAL?" “As you know, I have become curious about the human sexual response. By reading your brain-waves and occipital cortical-imaging, I can interpret an approximation of the erotic experience, perceive the mental excitement, and simulate the emotional satisfaction derived, but the purely physical.