Evolution of the
Humane - Globalisation of Peace - World in Balance (
pdf.file
) (spanish)
( german
version
) About the
Urgent Necessity to Intensify -
Hiroshima, 911, Bali, Iraq, Palestine, Madrid, Moscow,
Darfur, Beslan, London - Inspired by
Contributions to the Online , Discussion Group
„Religiously Motivated Violence" at the
Global
Network of the Council for a Parliament of the World's
Religions by
Wolfgang Fischer Are condemnation
of violence and fighting against it sufficiently safe
reactions? Violence will neither
be overcome by condemnation of violent acts nor by fighting
against them - however cruel and disgusting they might be.
Violence is not a solution. Violence causes
counter-violence. The
more bluntly violence crosses our paths, Only by understanding
and revealing the respective motivations for violence, by
answering why? and for what? we will create
our own chance to overcome violence, be it originated from
states, groups or individuals. I do not at all agree
with the blaming of Islam. Such a vision is too simple and
therefore false. I agree with all of you who are aware of
the dead end road of pointing the finger at others for
'their being violent'. Following considerations should or
could invite more people of different cultural or religious
background to look for roots of violence within their
respective domains. As we only start to question such
subjects we already have identified to be dubious, it is
imperative to look for and to identify such roots. As long
as we do not start to investigate the complex and
interlacing web which nourishes violent action, we will not
have any chance for peace. On the contrary, our growing
destructive potential threatens global survival. Till today,
human race has used its abilities to a major extent only to
reconstruct the bludgeon of biblical Cain into a machine of
industry, which with its "excretions and radiations being
hostile to life" jeopardizes the genetic as well as the
cultural roots of health and life. We have to blame
ourselves who tolerate violence as a means of human action -
be it in our families, communities or
nations. Readiness to accept
violence as a tool to reach certain goals or as a structure
to built societies upon is rooted deep down in the human
mind. Some people try to justify violence biologically when
they speak about the survival of the fittest. By doing so
they think too short as evolution since long proves that the
fittest is by no means the strongest, but the organism which
cooperates best is. Overall cooperation
to make real justice come true is the lesson we have to
learn on a global scale if humanity's goal is its survival.
We, the people of the
world suffer from structural injustice, from built in
failures of our social systems. Elitist, hegemonic and
supremacist tendencies enforce by nature the longing for
human dignity and justice. The longing for dignity and
justice, however, often openly conflicts with the interests
of those in power. The
spiral of violence is spinning further. From oppression to
state terrorism. We suffer from a
global terrorist war, which is being legitimatized by so
called democracies although a majority of citizens oppose
war and terror. Greed for oil,
resources, economic and military supremacy are the fuel of
war; local violent and terrorist acts often are mere
reactions to the underlying terrorist war for global
dominance in the name of a God, who is to bless solely
America (1).
An intolerant-elitist notion triggers ignorance of the right
to exist for others and for different ways of Life. To the
respective audiences such messages create false and
completely misleading identifications - identifications
which are furthermore abused by the administration making
people ready for sacrifices in favour of their
identification - voilà! - again we discover a source
of violence! Such messages are widely spread and represent
nothing but strategically utilized manipulation (Public
Awareness Management). Ordinary people are
being sacrificed, they are the victims. That is why we, the
ordinary people of the world, regardless of religion,
belief, ideology or colour have to join against the
strategists of Death in order to support the creational
forces on this planet. Crusades, slavery,
Inquisition are part of human history, or to be more
correct: part of the history of monotheism, part of
Christian history, of patriarchy, of
capitalism. In
a profound context they are part of the strategy of
dominance - still in the name of the good against evil, of
God against those who believe in a different way of
life. So, if we want to
overcome dominance and develop a global society in
solidarity, we have to confront ourselves also with the
mental pitfalls of human psyche on its path towards maturity
and freedom from violence. Responsibility
for life increases quality of life The young and still
unconsciously acting psyche defends the standard by which it
has been shaped and tends to reproduce the quality of life
which it experienced. It tries to carry on the
experienced normality into the future. This is, on the one
hand, why we tend to react with resistances against
alterations or modifications. Within a larger frame this is
the reason for resistance of social bodies like those of
nation states against alterations - independent from being
demanded by the populations, or from being required by the
necessities of circumstances. On the other hand, by this
quality of the still immature psyche the paradox of the
child which was brought up under violent conditions, and has
been violated, becomes clear. It becomes
understandable, that this child later on when being an adult
despite all suffering tends to tolerate and even utilize
violence - a vicious circle which is to be
overcome. It is the tragedy of
maturing-process of psyche under compulsive conditions, that
standards are being passed on, the quality of which are not
questioned. Direction by others prevents a maturing step
towards conscious acceptance and adoption of personal
responsibility, the decisive step towards autonomy. However
we are held responsible for any way of living, be it
individually or socially - also in the dimension of history.
This is the true meaning of karma. If religious or social
structures defend themselves against promoting individual
autonomy as this would contradict their own fundamentalistic
striving for supremacy, they put themselves in the wrong
position. Administrations lose any legitimacy when they try
to interrupt by law and violent actions emancipation
and naturally growing self-responsibility. The natural urge
for emancipation (2)
produces a tension, the counter-balance of which is being
legitimized beyond human made law. Responsibility
belongs to us by birth. Responsibility is
being completely ignored by fundamentalism of all origins.
Fundamentalism thwarts the chances to mature towards human
autonomy when it moves to the domination by a God and his
governors. Unfortunately no government feels responsible for
the destruction of Nature which is caused in the run of
history. That is why we - regardless of being Muslims,
Christians or of any other religion or conviction - have to
speak up against the fundamentalism and dogmatism of all
kind as they do not support further emancipation. Let us try not to fall
victim of the «divide et impera!» (lat.: bring
them up against each other and dominate!) of the
strategists of Death and Dominance (3);
let us accept responsibility and prove social competency in
joint and public action against further domination of
life! Let us communicate
even in case our opinions differ - being aware that we would
be blocking a further leading and saving flow of information
when stopping communication. We have to admit that
free flow of information is the prerequisite for human mind
to develop and to attune to this overall existence which,
expressed in terms of human perception and experience, is
sequential and dynamic in the sense of ever becoming better
than before and ever more diverse and complex. Only free flow of
information will lead to the truth of understanding.
And part of this truth
is, that injustice and terrorism have their malicious
reasons, they do not fall from the sky. Nobody is evil by
birth. That proves the fact that evil has a social
origin. So lets courageously
face the fact that we all are being responsible for all what
happens, no excuse. Either we jointly
overcome injustice, hatred and violence or we will never get
peace. Let us clear the fogs
of our anger and frustration originating from certain acts
of despair, hatred or greed to give us the chance to re-open
our clear view for life supporting essentials. Do we by nature feel
sympathy for all the sad things which happen all around the
globe? Do we really think
human beings are not aware about the different motivations
for terrorism? Do we really think
human beings are not willing to unveil the public excuses
for manslaughter, be it the victims of traffic, of war, of
industrialized and mentally as well as actually poisoned
life? We do have to argue if
we want to find out about the true and deep reasons for
violent actions from all sides which are hidden behind
mainstream thinking and awareness. From pornography to
arms-industry via mass-media and churches - the open
disregard of the polluter pays principle, and the widely
spread manipulating use of information prove the already
mentioned structural irresponsibility of a society which
abuses and consumes itself. Nobody can
seriously deny that the current world order and economic
system rule the world with repressing and marginalizing
strategies that dominate the social order of societies and
create a „Culture of Hatred"
(Hobsbawm). Its is not the needs
of living people which shape global politics but the wishes
of lifeless capital which recently turned to direct military
action instead of democratic decisions in finding solutions.
Unmasking is the proposal of European constitution with its
constitutional obligation for yearly increase of national
spending on the military. War against Terror is nothing but
a false excuse to solve the crisis of global capital by
military violence. War against Terror marks the end of the
„never seriously performed experiment" to react
politically to the growing global social problems. Iraq is a
proof - Chechnya is a proof - Palestine is a proof
. Again I say let's not
fall victim to alienation which makes it easy for
subjugation. The real and decisive "battle" is not a
clash of civilisations, but a decision within entire
humankind itself, a decision everybody is confronted with:
it is about how we deal with violence with the goal to
overcome it. Across all communities it is about development
of justice and wisdom to survive. Lets us jointly share
our perceptions, fear, joy and visions in patience without
pointing at others while neglecting profound reasons within
ourselves. We are to understand
this mechanism of violence, alienation and subjugation and
to confront this vicious circle and the people who run it
with the true power of universe: our LOVE. Also we must have a
closer look at our religions which often only allegedly
stand against barbarity. Allegedly - because everyday
reality teaches the truth of a different effect. I am a Christian by
education. Still Life taught me more than that. I learned
from Islam that there only can be ONE law (not a political
one AND another religious one) and I learned that each
religion has its treasure. But - «not yet really
having come to terms with our history, we are suffering from
the effects of unclear religious ideas and future
perspectives. This applies to the Christian, the Jewish and
the Islamic world, as well as the Eastern world - we are all
suffering from our non-compliance with the requirements of
nature due to fanatical schisms and self-righteous
overestimation. We are suffering from a lack of trust in the
power of pluralistic dialogue. We are suffering from the
negative effects of suppressed human history. We are
mutually suffering under one another because, in spite of
all religions, we lack a common orientation that would be
conducive to peace.» (4) Certain notions of the
monotheistic way of thinking and world view are
triggering switches in the brain, consequently making
violence acceptable, tolerated and made use of. Those
switches however have their origin in human nature not in
monotheism, although especially monotheism dangerously
tampers with those switches. What am I heading
at? The elitist notion and
traditional conception of being something special, of being
unique, of preferring the (easy, strong, clean) mono-polar /
un-pair (impair = not a pair) and uniform equal as being
found also in monotheism - separates all the naturally
unequal and diverse, and thus perpetuates a splitting into
good and evil. Within this defective and incomplete
conception of the world all the following is nothing but a
separated and consequently alienated copy of the preceding.
Consequently the 'new or the different' is dealt with
suspicion and fear and will be fought against.
Fundamentalism, fanaticism and fascism live upon suspicion
and fear. Further reaching and
integrating the balance of diversity of Life are following
conceptions: «Conception of the world of binary
equalities, of in principle two different elements (Yin and
Yang, Yana and Yanan e.g.), the characteristics of which are
reciprocal proportionality and mutual
complementarity.», Javier Lajo, Peru, and:
«Universe of Unified Opposites», by Elisabet
Sahtouris (5) Resulting concretely:
if I only oppose 'the evil' without doing enough
good, I promote 'the evil' even against my intention.
The more I do the 'good' , the less space will remain
for the 'evil'. So let us keep on
talking with one another tolerantly especially in case of
conflict. May be Evil loves it when we argue, but
Evil will win if people or nation states do not talk
and do not share their identical feelings of fear and joy.
It is the feeling
of joy and peace which leads better than any arguments.
Emotionally truthful communication leads to this satisfying
feeling and existence. War and terror only
can be urged out of our social reality by means and effects
of justice, compensation, solidarity, never by war and
terror. Violence only
can become neutralized by its counter-part, by Love.
Long since Physics has
apprehended a world view, passing beyond the theory of
relativity and quantum mechanics with its super-strings and
their resonance patterns which always occur in pairs - as
well as, both/and -, which is identical to the age-old
conception of the dynamically contrasting counter parts
which behave in reciprocal proportionality and at the same
time also supplement complementarily to the whole.
Still we miss the
transformation of such an understanding into the global
social reality. Here we miss veracity and authenticity.
Why did we not yet
reach this decisive goal? Why did we not learn better from
history? One important reason for the missing, setting the
course towards the global good, is because neither the
present is being experienced and perceived as it actually
is, nor is history. This is being caused by manipulated
information for dubious reasons. Journalists, politicians,
clergy and opinion leaders bear the burden of a very special
responsibility because the consequences of shaping deficient
or even false dominating mainstream perceptions are
devastating on the long run - although they may be
profitable and of advantage at first glance. This is why we
urgently need a public dialogue based on a partnership of
all people who care for the common good. The hidden
effects related to the quality of traditional conceptions,
values and standards have to be questioned, discussed and
disclosed for the sake of global survival. Mediating and
meditative meetings expose the overwhelming spirit of love
beyond any dogma and vitalize the intellectual as well as
the spiritual world of ideas. Apart from being mentally
fully awake, our hearts will be re-opened to feel and
understand. People widely re-learn
to trust their hearts as the sensitive organ which it is,
apart from being the pump of our circulating and life
maintaining blood flow. The human heart is an organ which is
able to distinct between life saving and life threatening if
we are trained and allowed to listen to its decisions.
Sensing words,
feelings or situations which are coherent with overall
life's needs, will cause a warm heart full of inner joy and
satisfaction, whereas, when detecting radiation or vibration
with information which is harmful and threatening to overall
life's needs we know how that feels. Fearful and tightly
squeezing the chest to such an extent, even often not being
consciously felt, we stop or at least reduce breathing and
by doing so get even more fearful and timid, freezing
physically and mentally. Such a way many people are being
kept where they (mentally) are, (imperfect) social systems
are being perpetuated, fear helps the status quo to continue
no matter what kind of quality concerning life's needs it
presents. Let us train human
hearts to courageously detect the quality of vibration which
they are confronted with in different situations. Let us use
and develop our mental abilities and at the same time always
listen to the message of our
heart. Such
a way we will create the human analogue to the natural
instinct: Practical
advice Sharing visions
about our common roots will lead to growing understanding of
diversity. The greater our
thoughts get determined by profound understanding than by
dogma, the safer become our actions, and then less dangerous
life. Each of us who at
least once transcended one's own traditionally shaped mental
borders and realized the space of pure existence and being
with genuine experience is aware about the common roots of
Life and its web-like interconnectedness that is based on
something overwhelmingly warm, bright, loving and abundantly
nourishing. We cannot really describe this finally though
some people use the name God. -
Beyond Description & Imagination By
emphasizing on conduct of life, We all can learn that
we all are human beings - originated from the identically
same source of Life - with identical material as well as
spiritual needs. We all own a brain to think and a heart to
feel and we can learn to make use of both of them at the
same time - IF certain cultural/mental prerequisites are
being met (this is what my website Emanzipation
ad Humanum is
all about). Traditional meditation
which has been utilized since ages and still is being
utilized by many people is a life saving tool to balance
diverse mental concepts with existential and perennial
needs. Such way life tries to make sure authentic paths of
development for the benefit of all and at the same time
aiming at a growing diversity, complexity, ability and
completeness in the service of the overall global good.
Does modern
civilisation - be it Christian, Jewish, Muslim or whatever -
integrate this life saving tool? Hardly - as we know.
Unfortunately people still are widely being manipulated and
tight to material, insignificant or false objectives in
order to serve alienated goals. Some people profit, the vast
majority suffers - just have in mind history and face
nowadays global threats. Mental concepts such
as 'Armageddon' or 'a son of God, who is to rescue us' or 'a
final court, which dispatches the good ones to paradise and
the bad ones to hell' stem from the unreality of
patriarchal metaphysics beyond any law of physics,
confuse and help to divert our mental capacity away
from perennial global needs toward alienated goals of
maximising power in the hands of a few which makes possible
violence against Nature and domination of Life. Obvious and evident
results of such a way of life are growing individual and
social malfunctions or diseases - which all take us back
toward a way of life that supports the overall global good.
Consequently a
suggestion to overcome the created and tolerated
pathological symptoms of VIOLENCE and DOMINATION is
double-fold: First of all let us
strengthen the qualities of our pulsing heart by listening
to its message, by sharing this message and bringing it to
the public. Sympathy is a key to sensing the quality of
vibrations. Information contains vibration, vibration is
information. Secondly, when taking
up religious or any other information, when LEARNING,
let us not only mobilise our mental capacity but also the
(cap)ability of our heart. Such way we can sensitively learn
to distinguish between genuine vibrations on the one hand,
which supply us with energy and nourish our life-drive, and
alienated information on the other which makes us freeze -
empties us emotionally and by doing so creates the secondary
drives like greed, addiction etc. It is healthier and of
advantage for all to trust our hearts than to suffer from
mental prejudice or error. We all consist of the
same molecular patterns and we all depend on the same
nourishing vibrations. Fully awake and fully aware, living
and learning by using brain and heart at the same time, by
mentally and emotionally being sensitive, by having all
existing needs in mind, we are very well equipped and
enforced. We are connected to what I call a 'Divine
Umbilical Cord'. We are being interconnected to and by our
genuine Human Religion in the service of the present and the
future. We are ONE, the problem still is, some do not
believe, do not know yet. Finally, against all
resistance we will be mature human beings and make a quality
of life come true which will remain paradise. People who are touched
by similar visions consequently want to serve the common
good. Guided by the pressure or duty to emancipate
they want to liberate culture from violence and destructive
tensions towards a global culture of reciprocal dialogue and
steady balancing without winners and losers, a culture which
meets the life saving standard of natural instinct - a
culture which guarantees the social dimension of humanity
that is embedded in Nature will provide chances for the
future. Epilog: Isn't
harmony a quality of unity? Does unity really stand against
diversity? Isn't nature the proof for unity in diversity?
Isn't convergence actually motivated by a deeply rooted and
still hidden consensus which is waiting to be discovered by
human consciousness? Ordinary people, be them believers or
not, proceed more courageously towards consensus than their
respective religious bodies and institutions. Not to mention
the political structures! Their administrations fear loss of
influence in case of growing independence and autonomy of
their respective communities. Isn't the common goal of peace
within the global community compensation enough to heal from
that fear? Isn't justice and peace within the global
community of life the highest goal we ever can achieve?
Isn't it exactly that goal what all religious founders
originally had in mind? Footnotes: (1)
'Full
Spectrum Dominance'
is the
key term in Joint Vision 2020: "America's Military
Preparing for Tomorrow" Summarized
contributions of all participants you may find
here see also:
Global
Governance and Justice
-
Civilisational Tendency towards
Barbarism
by
Yash Tandon ( german
version
) and:
The
Interconnectedness of All Being: A New Spirituality for a
New Civilization
(pdf) - CAPITALIST
PATRIARCHY AND THE NEGATION OF MATRIARCHY - THE STRUGGLE FOR
A "DEEP" ALTERNATIVE
(pdf),
by Claudia von Werlhof and: The
Mind
of the Prophet
by Satheesan Kochicheril and:
Qhapaq
Ñan: La ruta INKA de
sabiduría
(pdf)
by Javier Lajo and: Johan
Galtung: Peace by Peaceful Means - Building
Peace Through Harmonious Diversity, THE SECURITY APPROACH
AND THE PEACE
APPROACH
- WHAT
COULD PEACE BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND AL QAEDA/IRAQ LOOK LIKE?
Some Points for Presidential Candidates to
Consider
The
Media Culpability for Iraq
(October 11, 2004) & How
Silent Are The 'humanitarian' Invaders Of
Kosovo?
(December 09, 2004 ) by John Pilger
http://emanzipationhumanum.de/english/human/violence.html
Beyond Violence and Domination
a Broad Inter-Cultural
and Inter-Religious DialogueSummary:
More and more people perceive the urgent necessity to
intensify a broad inter-cultural and inter-religious
dialogue. Urgently we do need a focussing and mediating
access to the topic violence. An access which transcends
traditional mental borders will definitely expose an
overwhelming spirit of love beyond any dogma and vitalize
the intellectual and spiritual world of ideas. Such a
vitalization will lead to a kind of re-birthing of human
existence - to an existence beyond violence.
The more violence is being forced on us without
alternative,
The stronger demanded are the lovers of peace,
To stimulate non-violent solutions.
Children as hostages represent an intolerable
acceleration.
To actually sacrifice them
Increases delusion immeasurably.
- Beyond Him & Her
- Beyond Space & Time
- Law & Love
- Oneness & Existence
- believers are invited to join striving for conditions on
earth
which deserve divine dignity
- non-believers are invited to join striving for conditions
on earth
which do not put anybody to a disadvantage
- all are invited
to create a global community in peace and justice
which serves as the foundation for future life.
(2) Free intention and the liberty to decide
together with relative ignorance produce the various
realities. By pressure/duty to emancipate we
understand that part of the drive of life, which strives for
realisation of a social reality, which preserves the space
of life for all and in future finally is about
responsibility. It is about utilizing the monopoly
of force of the power of Life with responsibility in
which the effect defines the quality of action. Here we get
into the sensitive area, the space of understanding and
perception and of re-action. As long as our sensors are not
wrongly adjusted by misjudgement, feelings of joy and
sorrow are aiming towards necessary corrections. Perception
of urgency and overwhelming dimension of the global state of
distress which is caused by patriarchal - capitalist conduct
of life confronts all people without any exception
automatically with a moral imperative which breaks any laws
and customs which are hostile to life. People who oppose
this life long illusion are persecuted again and again in
the course of history, because they don't want to betray
life and nature. Finally however they will succeed or
humanity will terminate to exist. Therefore we have a mental
approach to the problem of violence.
(3) Separating into poor and
rich, into the mighty and those without
rights, partition of nations, annexation
of regions hardly serve peace. On the contrary, they provide
persistence and even growing of potential conflicts, which
only serve one-sided and manipulating interests.
(4) Global
Responsibility - New Orientation in Culture and Politics -
Reflections on what it Means to be
Human
(5) 5
Cornerstones of a Responsible World
View
- The fifth of them is: UNION OF ALL BEING - FEDERATION OF
LIFE - UNIFYING LAW (TAO) - and
The
Biology of Business, New Laws of Nature Reveal a Better Way
for Business
(pdf) by Elisabet Sahtouris
Emanzipation
Humanum,
version October 2004, Criticism, suggestions as to form and
content, dialogue, translation into other languages are all
desired
http://emanzipationhumanum.de/english/human