Joan Bramsch takes It's a Small World and develops it into an adult sci-fi story. A small diverse group of highly intelligent and gifted individuals unite in a pilot program in a daring attempt to prove that nationalities can come together successfully for the common good.
Miracles take place in Mystic.
The inhabitants focus intently on the strengths of the individual using inherit talents. As a result over the years, medicine, telepathy, agriculture, engineering, ecology and other fields are expanded, mastered and applied for the great betterment of mankind. Gradually, the community secretly plants its young gifted ambassadors throughout the world to gradually work their success in the weave of mankind to educate and improve globally as has been done already in Mystic. But as can be expected, adversaries exist in spite of the weighted advantages of Mystic's teachings. Such enemy still clings to personal wealth and power with little regard to the impact on brother man and mother earth.