The Philosphy of Peace. Gino Aliji
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the current point in time, contact with this planet is not recommended and should be delayed to a later point in time, provided the human species has regained its inner harmony and outer balance with the nature around it. For that purpose, planet Earth should be kept under observation until the outcome of humanity’s decisions has been determined.
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This is what the report by an extraterrestrial entity about Earth and our species could sound like. It is by no means only negative but it certainly contains a warning that something is currently going terribly wrong on this planet, and specifically with us humans.
We all know that in the distant past, this was not always the case. There was once a time when we were able to live peacefully and harmoniously together with ourselves and the nature around us.
How and why this changed in the past does not matter as much as the fact that a variety of global problems are staring all of humanity right in the face. This means that there is not much time left to actually do something about those problems and find viable solutions for them before they turn into full-blown catastrophes and possibly take most of the lifeforms currently living on Earth with them.
How can we best find solutions to those problems and through that avoid global disaster? It is my understanding that we can best work on solutions and implementing them through peace, global and lasting peace that is.
It is also my understanding that not all is yet lost, that there is still time to make a change and through that change make the world a better place for all of us and the myriad lifeforms we share this beautiful planet with.
Adopting a philosophy of lasting peace and putting it to use in our daily lives, we will be able to effect real change and take the next step in our evolution which – contrary to the widely held opinion – will not mean our transformation into technologically enhanced cybernetic beings, but rather our becoming a more loving, harmonious and peaceful race. A race that is completely in tune with Earth and the life it is sharing the planet with.
This will be our future if we can just take it upon ourselves to willingly make a change in both our lifestyles as well as our attitude toward life and the true nature of our universe.
The ways of how to do this and why it is necessary at the present moment will be the topic of this book. It was written in order to effect positive change in the minds of the people reading it and to encourage them to make that small but at the same time very hard step toward a different way of life.
We have the future not only of ourselves but also of the whole planet in our hands at this very moment and not only our children but also all the other lifeforms on Earth depend on us doing the right thing and stopping the insanity we are currently caught in.
Just like the old saying goes, from great power comes great responsibility. It is time that we as the human species take responsibility for the mistakes we have made in the past and try to correct them. It is time for us to take a different path in life than the one of our ancestors. And, above all, it is time for us to stop making the same mistakes over and over again, generation after generation. This vicious cycle has to be finally broken, and who else can do it if not us right here and right now?
It is my sincere hope that we humans will make the right decision when the time comes and opt for peace, love and harmony instead of war, violence, greed and hatred. This book will be my contribution to that goal, and since we all have to start somewhere, it is always best to start with oneself, to start changing oneself.
This book is therefore meant as a source not only of information but, rather, of wisdom and reason. Most of the information and knowledge in this book has been said and written before, in some cases a few hundred years or even millennia ago.
Sadly, however, true wisdom can never be taught, it can only be gained through personal insight by each individual alone. The information and knowledge in this book are therefore meant as signposts leading to that sometimes ancient wisdom. It is worth knowing that the words in this book can only guide us to that wisdom which will give you the power to make a positive change in your life, but you will have to discover and claim that wisdom for yourself all on your own. This is the way true wisdom works and how it is different from knowledge.
May all human beings accept the words in this book in sincere openness and with a mind full of peace, love and harmony.
THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL NATURE OF TRUE PEACE
Peace has many forms,
As within so without, right?
A diverse unit.
When most people think of peace, they tend to have only certain aspects and facets in mind of what true and lasting peace really encompasses. Some people tend to think of what is commonly called inner peace, while others usually conceptualize peace as certain behaviors and attitudes toward life which create what is usually seen as outer peace, or the manifestation of peace in the material, outer world.
However, true and lasting peace is really a combination of certain concepts, behaviors and attitudes toward life. This is also what makes true peace inherently a rather complex concept to grasp in its entirety and may be the reason why true peace seems impossible to achieve on Earth at the present moment.
Still, nothing could be further from the truth, for true and lasting peace is very much achievable through the understanding of its multi-faceted nature and the adequate application of its many dimensions in our daily lives.
Although true peace is really a multidimensional phenomenon and has many layers of meaning, it can generally be described as having two main aspects to it.
One aspect being what is generally known as spiritual, emotional or inner peace. This facet of true peace encompasses all dimensions of the human psyche, our emotions and our minds. Of course, this includes both the conscious as well as the subconscious mind. Only when these aspects of our inner being are unified and exist together in harmony, true inner peace can become a reality.
The other aspect of true peace entails the various manifestations of peace in our material, outer world through adequate behaviors, peaceful attitudes toward life and moral decision-making. This applies especially to all the different kinds of positive action that we can perform on a daily basis in order to be of service to others, helping them become more peaceful themselves, and to generally create more peace in the world around us.
Of course, there are many more secondary aspects that together create or distort true and lasting peace, and those will be a topic of their own later in the book. For now, it is important to know that true peace behaves like two sides of the same coin. They may have different faces but they are still part of the same unit, and none of them would be complete without the other.
In addition to true peace being a multidimensional phenomenon, its different layers are often also built upon each other. Since our actions in this world always have their origin in our thoughts and beliefs, in other words in our minds, the dimension of inner peace can safely be considered the source of what form outer peace – distorted or not – takes in our world.
This does not mean that inner peace is the absolute source of outer peace, however. It just means that the state of our inner being, our emotions, thoughts and beliefs, often create the material circumstances and situations that we find ourselves in. Sometimes, we are surprised by the situations and circumstances we appear to be placed in, and at other times we almost expected things to turn out the way they did. Since this is something that most of us have already experienced more than once in our lives, it can be considered as some kind of proof that your inner world mostly determines the state of the outer world you find yourself in.
Because these two main aspects of true peace are so closely related to each other, they need to be understood as being one and the same, and therefore their principles need to be applied and lived as a whole in our daily lives in order to create lasting peace.
True and lasting peace will never be achieved in our world otherwise, because these two main aspects will act and behave like counterweights to each other if only one of them is actively pursued by us in an attempt to create peace on this world and