Peace

Cats and Bars: Why you may have doubts

I'm sure that you have some interest in peace, but how can any truly level headed person think anything other than this entire Peace Congress concept is just a bunch of bunk, hooey, hogwash, or at least, a pipe dream?

Won't a truly sensible person just look at the situation and say to us: "Okay, so you are against war, and the defense establishment, and all that, but what are you going to do when the (fill in enemy name here) attack your home town?"

And the answer is, probably, fight tooth and nail just like you. And, if facing professional soldiers, just get killed. Or maybe do the Gandhi thing. I don't think anyone really knows what they'll do when they are literally under the gun.

But it doesn't matter. The point is not what one would do if things were terrible, but how to keep things from getting that way. Many a brave man has died in war, but let's remember one thing. They're dead. And we don't have them here with us to build families and companies and inventions and a more productive and happy world.

You may say that they died to give us a chance at that, but I say that is an extremely wasteful way to get what we want.

On the other hand, guns and defense systems, are not hooey, imaginary, or theoretical. You can feel it when you get shot. War hurts. When we look around at what we have, we want to put up walls and fences to protect it from getting hurt.

It only makes sense.

You can't see peace. You can't see (probably) pure consciousness. You can't see, when you look around, what physics tells us, that the entire planet is simply a manifestation of a field of pure energy. Some people say they can see that, but you're not them.

You're not alone, of course.

Research on newborn cats (by Nobel Prize winners Weisel and Hubel, among others) indicates that if you put them in a box when they are born that only has vertical bars painted on the walls, they will, if left in the box long enough, subsequently never be able to see horizontal shapes, and will actually blindly walk into bars put horizontally in their way when let out of the box. Conversely, if raised in a box painted only with horizontal bars, they will one day walk into chair legs without even seeing them.

Without having the experience of one or another of these shapes, they never gain the ability to recognize these shapes as an adult.

Similarly, we are born with our eyes, ears, and senses of touch open to the world, and nothing much indicates that there is more to experience other than that. Certainly we experience varying degrees of inner happiness or alertness, but there is rarely any human experience to indicate that there is any more experience to be had in the subjective direction.

Our senses relentlessly pull us into the world of objective experience, and so that is where we tend to view the actions of life and the solutions to the problems, individual and collective, that we face.

So, there is no reason that a normal person would "see" the answer that we are describing here.
It's as if you are standing on a cliff and looking at the world through a pair of binoculars, and by some cruel fate you can't get the binoculars off of your eyes. You can see anything that is far away but nothing that is up close.

Guns are visible, bombs take obvious effect. Any moron can see that a bomb or guns will stop an enemy from doing something you don't want him to do.

But it takes an exceptional person to see that by experiencing more pure consciousness, more of what you truly are, you will somehow radiate a more peaceful influence in the world around you, and your enemies will cease to be your enemies and come over and talk to you and ask why you are so happy.

If you have never plumbed the depths of your own consciousness using the techniques of transcending all relative experience provided by the Transcendental Meditation and TM Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, you will not have experienced the fact that consciousness itself is as real as a fence post, an actual field of experience, and in many ways, far more real and substantial than any material object, because it never changes or wastes away, and, indeed has always been there and will always be there.

If you have never experienced the deep, unmistakable reality of your own inner reality, how can it seem real to you? You will just assume that it's all smoke and mirrors and conclude that the only way to influence people who won't do what you want is to force them to do so.

The only problem with that is that you, then, are part of the problem.

You don't want to be that.

It's better to be "THAT," i.e.- to manifest that inner cosmic potential which is your own true nature, and if possible, to do it in the group setting of the U.S. Peace Congress. Or, if you don't have time to include that timeless value in your life, even in the immortal cause of world peace, fine, just don't say that there is no other way than guns, bombs and force/intimidation, just because you don't understand the other way.

Let someone who understands both the stars and the stripes of life create the peace.

Just send money.