Peace on Earth - The Details
Rev. Alia Zara Aurami-Sou, Ph.D., Head Minister
Lokah Samasthah Sukhino Bhavantu." (Hindu chant and blessing: "May the whole world/all Beings be blessed and experience good things.")
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Let's be specific. Let's unpack the idea of Peace on Earth into its details, what it would look like in our ordinary lives. These are some specifics to stimulate you to articulate your own specifics. This way we can meditate on peace longer and perhaps more effectively.
This is a brainstorm version which includes both positively and negatively phrased statements. The negative ones need to be turned around in a later version of this paper or our reading or contemplating them will manifest more of themselves. Most turn-arounds have been done below, others await. The phrases " not any longer" and "no longer" do some neutralizing of the manifesting power of negative statements.
Slight redundancies among items are beneficial for contemplating and meditating on a Vision. NOTE: This is just a Vision. A description of a desired future. It is not everyone's vision, and doesn't need to be; there is room for diversity within peace. This statement of Vision does not even begin to address the complex matter of how we would get there. That is beyond the scope of its purpose.
And while we're at it, why restrict our vision to Earth? Let's endorse Peace in all of Creation: other planets, other realms and dimensions of Creation, other Universes.
The use of force and threat of use of force are no longer options for interacting among people, for any reason or purpose, no matter how many people think that reason or purpose is a "good" one. (Everyone always chooses peaceful, life-supporting ways of interacting for any purpose or reason.)
No one believes any longer that they have the right or duty to use forceful methods to impose views or restrictions on someone else, or take things from someone else--even for a "good cause," and even if other people approve of that use of force. (Everyone recognizes, and acts accordingly, that peaceful, life-supporting, life-affirming ways are the only appropriate ways of persuading, influencing, or affecting others or getting things from others.)
No one thinks any longer that they need to take resources from anyone else through the use of or threat of violence. (Everyone knows they have or can get all the resources they need at any time, resources they can get in peaceful ways that benefit all concerned.)
Weapons become irrelevant, unused, unnecessary, obsolete. (People relate to one another entirely through materials and substances and things that are life-affirming and life-enhancing for all.)
No one any longer believes any authority--religious, earthly or heavenly--that tells them to engage in violence against anyone else, or harm anyone else. (People give credence only to authorities that endorse peaceful, life-affirming ways of interacting.)
No one any longer feels the need or desire to destroy or get rid of or control or restrict anyone else for any purpose whatsoever, whether religious, economic, or whatever, even for the supposed "good" of the other. (For every purpose whatsoever, everyone chooses ways of interacting that are respectful, life-supporting, peaceful.)
Everyone respects everyone else's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as these are defined by the most respected and wisest minds of the time.
Artificially-defined or arbitrarily-created groups are dropped in favor of natural affinity groups. (People voluntarily and spontaneously group together and organize themselves into natural groups defined by various kinds of affinities and mutual benefits rather than living as imposed groupings whose composition is decided by force.)
Differences of all kinds among people are viewed as sources of potential enrichment and betterment, rather than any longer as threats. This includes differences in gender, color, customs, beliefs, practices, etc. For everyone, individual differences are sources of amusement or amazement or consciousness-expansion, or value, not any longer of fear or loathing or disgust or disdain or superiority-inferiority.
No one any longer feels threatened by anyone else's beliefs or characteristics. (Everyone feels safe among everyone else.)
No one any longer feels superior or inferior to anyone else, so there is no longer any need to "cleanse the planet of anyone inferior" or to prove and establish one's own superiority. (Everyone is aware of the inherent equality among all, and experiences this equality fully with respect to everyone else.)
No one any longer needs to get rid of or control any other people or their beliefs or characteristics in order to achieve what they want to achieve. (Everyone knows they can achieve what they want to achieve through cooperation and Divine Guidance and that others are either neutral or supportive of them.)
No one any longer seeks to own or control through force, resources that they have not produced (such as resources that are in nature or produced by someone else.) (Everyone respects the source of resources, in the natural order of things, and behaves with this respect.)
People are no longer willing to deceive or harm others or the Earth for their own power or financial gain or other advantage. (All people seek to benefit themselves only in ways that have the intention of being beneficial or neutral for others, and everyone is honest with themselves and others about their motives and intentions, all the time.)
Ownership of land and that which is provided by nature is arranged in such a way that respects individual rights and contracts, yet benefits all. New forms of and concepts of ownership are developed to allow this.
Honesty and truth-disclosure prevail, so no one any longer feels deceived or lied to and thus seeks revenge.
Forgiveness and self-empowerment and self-responsibility prevail, so blame and victimhood and revenge are not any longer options.
Everyone takes full responsibility for all of their own experiences, without any longer seeking to blame themselves or an outside person or force; this reduces the need for guilt or revenge!
Everyone's heart chakra is completely open, freely functioning, freely flowing with Divine energies of Unconditional Love. It doesn't mean we personally love everyone in the human emotion of love, but that we allow it to manifest itself in human caring, respect, benevolence, and goodwill, recognizing and acting in accord with the Divine Nature of everyone.
Everyone recognizes and honors at all times in all ways the Divinity, the Oneness-with-Source, of themselves and of everyone else, even if they don't choose to relate to them personally. Everyone seeks to strengthen and support this recognition and honoring in everyone else.
Everyone values and respects everyone else's right to be who they are and live as who they are.
Everyone honors and respects the rights, choices, dignity, and Divinity of others, and promotes relationships in which everyone behaves this way toward everyone else.
Everyone is so mentally healthy that no one any longer has any desire for violence or harm or manipulation. Also we have all transcended whatever violence is programmed into our DNA. We have all dealt healthily with subconscious aspects of ourselves that would result in violence.
People are aware of their motives for acting, and seek to be open with others about these, and everyone values this openness, and everyone is good at being aware of others' true motives.
Everyone has a high degree of empathy for everyone else, even if they differ significantly from someone.
People communicate freely, openly, safely, with anyone relevant, about their needs, wants, and desires.
People generously share their talents, resources, and every aspect of themselves and their lives and their productions.
People are free to live their lives as they choose and see fit without any longer interference, constraint, constriction, or hindrance, as long as they respect others' rights.
New ways and new forms of dealing with behavior that is deemed harmful are developed, ways and forms that respect the innate Divinity and Creative Empowerment of everyone concerned.
No one any longer believes they have the right to receive or use the fruits of someone else's creativity, production, or labor without that person's consent and willingness. (People always get the voluntary consent and willingness of others before receiving, obtaining, or using what the other has created, produced, or made available.)
No one any longer seeks to take the fruit of someone else's labor without their willingness and consent, even to give it to someone who has less. Even the willingness of the giver does not justify the threat of force for noncompliance with the giving. (Those who want someone to give something to someone else use persuasion, not force or the threat of force.) No one any longer tries to force someone to give something to someone else, or to use force or threat of force to prevent someone from giving something to the person(s) of their choice. (Giving is always a totally voluntary, freely-made choice.)
People can move around and travel as they choose and see fit, without any longer any restrictions or hindrances, in the peaceful pursuit of their life business and activities.
People support others in increasing their skills at living good lives. People who have fewer resources and life-substances than others are the objects of great generosity and are taught how to fish rather than just given fish.
The planet herself is treated by everyone with complete respect and understanding of her preference for ecological balance and cleanness.
Everyone always has consciousness and behavior that honors and fosters ecological balance, respect, and harmony among all the life-forms, structures, processes, and Spirit-forms that affect our living planet, Gaia.
Everyone always has consciousness and behavior that
--- plans and acts in ways that would make life on this planet viable and optimal for all future generations,
--- and takes into account the wellbeing of all living Beings on the planet, as an interdependent system.
Everyone's basic attitude toward the planet, all Beings, and all other living things, is one of goodwill and benevolence, seeking to benefit and uplift, always willing to be a resource when guided to do so.
Everyone wishes and seeks for everyone else to be living as much from their God-realized consciousness as possible, and acts in ways to only support and encourage this, including serving as the best example possible. Everyone recognizes in themselves and others their innate Divinity as always already present.
Everyone allows others to access and live totally from their own inner Guidance and Wisdom, and manifest their own God-natures in an infinite variety of ways, without any longer interfering on any level: emotional or physical or psychic.
Everyone is always seeking to expand their consciousness and their capabilities, their health and their happiness and their Spiritual living, and to foster and support this for everyone else.
No one any longer deliberately withholds or falsifies information from someone else about the potential harm from doing something, especially something that benefits the one withholding or falsifying the information. (Everyone acts on the principle of fully disclosing truth that might be relevant for the choices and decisions of others whom they are affecting.)
No one any longer seeks to gain advantage of any kind over someone else, or power or control over someone else, especially not by engaging in secrecy, dishonesty, fraud, or the withholding of information that in benevolence would be revealed. (Everyone always treats others as their equal especially by fully disclosing truths that might affect the life or wellbeing of another.)
No one any longer seeks to manipulate anyone else for their own satisfaction or gain, by engaging in any falsity or deception or misrepresentation, or by taking advantage of someone's ignorance on a matter. (Everyone engages in all honest and truthful behavior that treats everyone else with respect, honor, benevolence, and goodwill.)
Everyone acknowledges and acts according to the sovereignty of themselves and every other individual in the Oneness of all, while honoring agreements voluntarily made, and abiding by social contracts voluntarily entered into.
Everyone lives in a way that fosters for themselves and all others the ability to embody and express the highest and best potentials of human life, to live in the most life-enhancing, life-affirming, life-celebrating ways.
Everyone is aware that every aspect of the human body and earthly life--including pleasure and sexuality--is Divine and can contribute to spiritual upliftment. To everyone, physical bodies are holy temples, creations of God. Everything that benefits, honors, and uplifts physical bodies, of self and others, into health, joy, and pleasure is regarded as sacred. Everyone chooses for themselves and others to be as healthy, thriving, prosperous, flourishing, and happy as possible.
Everyone seeks to foster voluntary, peaceful, nonviolent ways of relating and dealing with controversies, differences, and diversity. Everyone actively seeks to develop new methods, new forms, new concepts of conflict resolution and group decision-making that respect that rights and Divinity of everyone involved.
Everyone seeks to support and encourage groups and individuals whose Divine Purpose includes creating and/or implementing ways of relating and interacting among people in every arena of life (political, social, economic, religious, etc.) that are respectful, uplifting, peaceful, and that work for the benefit of all, as defined by each for self.
Everyone's behavior is totally guided by Higher Guidance at all times, so that coordination of activities for the benefit of all involved is done on a miraculous scale and to a miraculous degree all the time, without conscious effort on anyone's part.
Everyone wishes and seeks the best for everyone else--best as deemed so by Higher Wisdom, not by Ego-Mind. No one any longer believes they know what's best for someone else or seeks to coerce or manipulate someone else into that "best." (Everyone recognizes and acts according to the truth that only each individual can know what is best or will benefit or is life-supporting or life-enhancing for them.) Thus no one any longer takes responsibility for having benefitted or harmed anyone else because they cannot know in fact whether they have done this or not, or even whether what they are planning will do this or not. Everyone counts on everyone else to take responsibility for creating their good in their lives, and assumes this responsibility for self. Thus, no one blames anyone else for harming them and no one feels guilty for appearing to harm anyone.
Everyone recognizes that guilt and blame foster violence. This means that while we are all motivated to benefit others, we recognize that we cannot know or predict with certainty whether any particular or specific thing we might do is going to be perceived by any given individual as being of benefit or harm to them. This means we check it out, or allow our own Divine Guidance to do the coordinating.)
All people have been taught, and have learned, how to truly communicate with people whose mental and emotional processes are very different from their own, such as the other gender. Thus understanding has replaced frustration, harmony has replaced resentment, and peacefulness has replaced anger and revenge-seeking.
All men have learned to deal with the physical, mental, and emotional promptings of the hormone testosterone in ways that keep their behavior inside the boundaries in which all persons are respected and benefited. For example, biochemically-based urges for group loyalty, protectiveness, providership, competitiveness, and physical activeness are expressed while always abiding by principles of respect for the rights of others and for the welfare of others.
All women have learned to deal with the physical, mental, and emotional effects of the hormone estrogen in ways that result--both short-term and long-term--only in behavior that respects the rights of self others and the welfare of self and others.
All men and women have developed and have chosen new cultural ways of Being and acting that promote only peace-enhancing thoughts, feelings, and actions, enabling them to transcend and leave residuals from past experiences.
New child-rearing practices by men and women have been developed and are being used by everyone, that teach children new ways of dealing with natural human emotions such as frustration and anger and natural human urges such as to possess, to win, and to overcome, new ways that are health-promoting and peace-preserving. For everyone, these new ways of Being and of acting are fully integrated and completely natural.
People have developed, and everyone uses, effective, respectful, and non-violent ways of dealing with and preventing recurrences of, any violent behavior by children or adults.
All the personal, environmental, and social roots of and contributors to non-peaceful behavior (which includes verbal violence, emotional violence, economic violence, and physical violence---all carefully defined so as to preserve everyone's rights) have been studied and understood by many, and all cultural and societal institutions and practices have been designed and are operated and geared to the full use of this knowledge and understanding to promote maximum peacefulness on Earth.
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