Hi Frances, I think this has to be right. It'll take a little time for this to sink in and gel with my now rather complicated world view (which has so many contingencies attached to it that I'm finding it hard to manage). One thing has already arisen which I hadn't spotted before, which is the first of those Guidestone commandments. Maintain the population ... has within it the implication that the population is already 500,000.
But actually the main reason I am replying here is to thank you for all you've done. This is just one of several areas where you've clarified my understanding or steadied my mind. It's also fabulous, and absolutely necessary, to have other people on this journey. A lot of it has to be done alone but you'd go insane if you had to deal with the whole lot entirely by yourself. So, lots of love, Christian. xx