Peace, War, Impossibility - Creator-ship run aground
Hi Everybody,
With the continuing eruption of so much global warfare, I'm increasingly frustrated that the inward perspectives on peace, that so many of us are involved with, seem so far outside of the box-of-relevance in political and social discussion, as to be non-existent.
Many who are concerned with the enormous repercussive issues of global conflict realize that any understanding of "the roots of peace" as an antidote, will have to begin within our own thinking; any resolution to any conflict, will come about only as a result of our own mind-works. (My own views here are not unaccounted for as mindful enterprise, having been formulated out of the last two decades of my work on the Speaker Material); yet, like so many of us concerned over global violence of every brand, our inward perspectives are often flippantly dismissed as if they are an illegitimate, lesser kind of knowledge. Many of us have a well thought-out understanding of how the inward conceptual-core that most often defines power as dominative force, has been turned outward - actualized as warfare of every brand.
The actualization that is peace is as equally a creation-of-concept as the actualization that is war. I believe that our integral actions-of-mind are the synthesis of prepetual intellectual and transcendent psychic-spiritual processes; mental motion, projective pursuit as the active agency that we each use to ceaselessly enact our ideas into daily life; and that these "actions-of-mind" are the same methodologies we use for creating both peace and war - whether individually or globally. So to understand the conceptual mind-processes that lead to one, is to have the map that leads to the other.
To my mind, the roots of peace and prosperity, and the roots of violence and warfare, both grow out of the primal imparative of human identity as our nature of creative power. This is by no means a new idea, but perhaps it is an idea "whose time has come - again"? To acknowledge our ability to create as the process of self-actualization, is to recognize humanity's common ground of exsistence - and for existence. To acknowledge our partnered architecture, is to be proactive towards human existence.
Granted, consensus in defining human nature as a creative power rather than a destructive force, may seem to some a simplistic naivety, an inane idealism without relevance to the global issues of peace and war or a sheer impossibility. Yet what does the current creation of global violence and all of its ramifications represent, if not a perfect contradiction to the facts of our identity of creator-ship?
That "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink", is a particular point in our creative learning. Acknowledging our inviolable, Self-to-self, creative nature, is a choice we make - or not; same point.
Speaker Material explores the breadth of concepts concerned with how we define human identity, and how that identity acts as a blueprint to define the reality we produce. Whether we produce peace or war, success or failure, construction or destruction... what we see is what we get. What we say is what we get. What we do is what we get. Contradiction or consensus... Life is, after all, a game of truth and consequences.
Now where are my glasses, my hearing aid, and my...
Spinfo
With the continuing eruption of so much global warfare, I'm increasingly frustrated that the inward perspectives on peace, that so many of us are involved with, seem so far outside of the box-of-relevance in political and social discussion, as to be non-existent.
Many who are concerned with the enormous repercussive issues of global conflict realize that any understanding of "the roots of peace" as an antidote, will have to begin within our own thinking; any resolution to any conflict, will come about only as a result of our own mind-works. (My own views here are not unaccounted for as mindful enterprise, having been formulated out of the last two decades of my work on the Speaker Material); yet, like so many of us concerned over global violence of every brand, our inward perspectives are often flippantly dismissed as if they are an illegitimate, lesser kind of knowledge. Many of us have a well thought-out understanding of how the inward conceptual-core that most often defines power as dominative force, has been turned outward - actualized as warfare of every brand.
The actualization that is peace is as equally a creation-of-concept as the actualization that is war. I believe that our integral actions-of-mind are the synthesis of prepetual intellectual and transcendent psychic-spiritual processes; mental motion, projective pursuit as the active agency that we each use to ceaselessly enact our ideas into daily life; and that these "actions-of-mind" are the same methodologies we use for creating both peace and war - whether individually or globally. So to understand the conceptual mind-processes that lead to one, is to have the map that leads to the other.
To my mind, the roots of peace and prosperity, and the roots of violence and warfare, both grow out of the primal imparative of human identity as our nature of creative power. This is by no means a new idea, but perhaps it is an idea "whose time has come - again"? To acknowledge our ability to create as the process of self-actualization, is to recognize humanity's common ground of exsistence - and for existence. To acknowledge our partnered architecture, is to be proactive towards human existence.
Granted, consensus in defining human nature as a creative power rather than a destructive force, may seem to some a simplistic naivety, an inane idealism without relevance to the global issues of peace and war or a sheer impossibility. Yet what does the current creation of global violence and all of its ramifications represent, if not a perfect contradiction to the facts of our identity of creator-ship?
That "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink", is a particular point in our creative learning. Acknowledging our inviolable, Self-to-self, creative nature, is a choice we make - or not; same point.
Speaker Material explores the breadth of concepts concerned with how we define human identity, and how that identity acts as a blueprint to define the reality we produce. Whether we produce peace or war, success or failure, construction or destruction... what we see is what we get. What we say is what we get. What we do is what we get. Contradiction or consensus... Life is, after all, a game of truth and consequences.
Now where are my glasses, my hearing aid, and my...
Spinfo
An Article by Ruth Cunningham
Composed on: Tuesday evening, September 7, 2006
Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Composed on: Tuesday evening, September 7, 2006
Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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