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Why peace costs less
It's expensive to build things. Creating planes and ships
and guns and bombs costs money, And energy. You can't have
vague gun. You can't have a subtle ship. To build a plane
you need metal (or ceramic) skin, circuitry, computers, software,
shielding, complicated engines, scientists, engineers, research,
mechanics, traffic controllers, trained pilots, etc.
Things are specific. Hard. Creating something that will kill
somebody generally requires hard objects and tremendous support
systems: a whole infrastructure of design, manufacturing,
delivery, training and execution activity.
Killing also is targeted, by definition. Sometimes poorly
targeted. Sometimes a lot is killed that didn't have to be
killed just to kill what we hope to kill. Lots of waste.
Peace, as it turns out, works differently.
Peace is the rest state of any system. As the fundamental,
rest state, it doesn't require added energy, manufacture or
design in order to function.
You have to go out of your way to kill people. It's work.
Not killing people is much easier. However, it turns out
that there are levels of peace-creating forces just as there
are levels of destructive possibilities in various weapons.
Peace is not simply the absence of war, any more than health
is the lack of disease. Defining the positive state by the
lack of the negative state fails to recognize that there may
be levels of optimization of the positive state that are unaccountable
by such categorization.
In terms of health, there are evidently levels of optimization
physically or of self-actualization mentally that exceed the
common levels of ordinary experience. These experiences of
more enlightened states of psychophysiological functioning
have been documented for centuries by literary, philosophical
and religious documents in many cultures. In addition recent
studies on advanced practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation
and TM Sidhi Program, including Yogic Flying have indicated
superior styles of human functioning which can be characterized
as more enlightened styles of interpersonal and psychological
functioning.
That peace is also optimizable is well documented by the
research on TM and TM Sidhi Program, including Yogic Flying,
as well.
But these are simply the results, and not the cause. Perhaps
we should look at why these things work.
Quantum physics indicates that there are levels or strata
of nature that underlie the traditional model of atoms and
molecules, and that these levels are successively fields of
greater and greater power.
Release of the inherent power available at the atomic level
has powered atomic energy plants and atomic bombs alike. But
there are levels of discovery that are far more subtle than
that.
Ongoing research has indicated that underlying all of the
atomic, subatomic, and even more subtle fields of existence
is a unified field of existence that underlies all creation.
Most thinking about this field must account for qualities
of this field which are identical to what would have to be
described as a field of pure consciousness.
There have been ample discussions of these parallels, such
that the burden of proof is far stronger on the positive side
than any other possibility that this field is the fundamental
basis of both physical and human conscious life.
If this is the case, and both experiment and centuries of
human experience indicates that it is, then, any person contacting
such a field would be contacting the source of all energy
and intelligence in creation.
For the individual, this could be expected to be a highly
rejuvenating experience. Since this is the effect of the self
development programs mentioned above, contact with this field
is would be considered to be the operative benific cause.
In addition, we could look at the practitioner of the Yogic
Flying technique, for example, as creating a more long-term
effect, and in the case of group practice of this technique,
evidently a synergistic one.
To understand this, consider that the Transcendental Meditation
technique itself has the effect of allowing the conscious
mind to settle down due to its attraction to this inner field
of energy, which therefore has a corresponding relaxing effect
on the physiology. This has a calming effect on the individual,
and numerous physiological, psychological and sociological
effects, as has been documented.
The TM Sidhi Program, including Yogic Flying, on the other
hand, is based on the individual having established a deep
familiarity with that inner field of silence and then acting
dynamically in the practice of Yogic Flying. This dynamic
expression of the inner field of silence in the real world
is considered to be a far more powerful infusion of the peaceful,
silent, unified, infinitely harmonious unified field than
simply experiencing a meditative experience of restful, inner
silence.
In Yogic Flying, therefore, we are functioning as if as a
tuning fork or a radio, broadcasting that inner silence into
the environment. In addition, the group practice of this technique
evidently amplifies the effect even more powerfully.
Such techniques require no manufacturing, fabrication, maintenance,
storage, fueling or delivery systems. And they have been documented
to create peace.
Peace, then, since it is not fundamentally definable by a
lack of war, but rather as the fundamental state of all existence,
is much easier to establish. It is what we get when we hit
the cosmic reset button.
This, the rest state of the system, is dynamic, integrated,
and infinitely attractive and enjoyable.
This is where we came from. We've had to work and strain
to get away from it.
The effects of people practicing these peace generating technologies
are widely distributed, in that when we stir the infinite
value, the entire creation gets stirred. By bringing more
of the infinite silence into the world, all of life is blessed.
Shooting everyone is a lot of work. Creating peace is easier,
because it comes from a far, far, far more powerful level
that the most powerful bomb imaginable.
War, in turns out, is parochial and localized. Peace is infinite,
far more fundamental, basic, intrinsic, and powerful.
War will always lose this battle.
The question is, how soon?
Now would be a good time.
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