Paradise Found

This is a short story the first half of which (the 'symbolic' part) I wrote quite a few years ago. About a month ago I roughly doubled it in word count, adding the 'sci-fi' part. They are divided by a *** . In the second part I basically describe 'paradise' itself the way I have imagined it.

I denude all the symbolism and surrealism of the first part and explain the 'evolutionary leap' mankind needs to achieve, the long predicted (since Sumer or even earlier) 'great transcendence'. If you do not want my vision of 'paradise' to 'pollute' your imagination read just the first part. Otherwise read the entire thing.

Just a short story, ~3,000 words long.