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One World

(See Terrorists' War) (See Twin Towers 911) (See Healing Serbia)

About One World

(My World View)

"One World" is a phrase that captures my personal and professional view of life and our place, characteristics, relationships, and behaviors within it. The focus is on the "one", emphasizing that:

• Every thing is directly inter-connected and an integral component of something bigger, on multiple levels extending to infinity (and beyond)
• Every thing is a unique manifestation of the culmination of the entire history of the universal creative process
• Everything is the seed of its own, and everything else's, future

These statements are representative of "Oneness".   The first statement means that "everything is the same".  The second statement means that "everything is different".  The third statement means that "everything is interdependent".  In all things there are boundaries that distinguish one thing from another, although these boundaries between things do not mean there is separation between things.  For example, the statements "there is no separate death", "death is a unique experience", "there is no separate life", and "life is a unique expression" all illustrate Oneness.   How many of our species deeply understand and operate from these statements?

I submit that there is only one thing in the world, as the mystics have known and the physicists are proving and beginning to apply.  Separation between things in the world is illusion.  This illusion of separation has existed from the time our species gained "knowledge of good and evil", the time in our evolutionary progression when we began to distinguish, symbolize, name, characterize, and categorize ("kind-of" and "part-of" relations) things in the world.  The illusion of separation has utility for our species in allowing us to deal with the complexities our experience brings us.  It is the foundation of our intellectual progress.  But this same illusion of separation, when expressed as a self-deluded belief in "separation as real", is the cause of our fear (fear of what's different, fear of being excluded).  Accepting and expressing Oneness reduces fear because it reduces the false belief in separation between people, and between people and their environment.  We can believe in Oneness, and still utilize separation.

It seems there is a  normal progression and evolution in intellect from understanding oneness spiritually, then scientifically, and then societally.   Through day to day practical experience our sciences and our society are coming to understand and practice that which has been known to many spiritual explorers and to many intuitive, imaginative, and creative persons like artists and children, from the beginning of our intellectual existence.  As illustrated above, the Zen Buddhist expression "Everything is different, everything is same" conveys a spiritual understanding of "oneness" that has existed from before our species' first word, and this expression is intended to reduce fear and confusion in those pondering it.  Or consider the science of Bohm's "Implicate Order" for the same effect.   Practical societal situations where "oneness" is applied are seen in "organizations" in general, from small groups up to the United Nations, and in upcoming Year 2000 computer date error events that will disrupt our control systems and our society to a probably small, but potentially large, degree.  Even some of our religious institutions teach Oneness, and some actually practice it .

Prayer Treatment:  In the great Oneness called God, the world is one, as are we all one.  Therefore, from the infinitely creative good potential of Oneness, comes an appropriate and timely peace and realization of Oneness in the hearts, minds, and spirit of the world's people, and a corresponding peace and realization of Oneness in those whom they wage separatism and wars and personal acts.  And so it is.   Thanks to God.

Terrorist Declaration of War on Civilization

Stand Up for Civilization!

Barbarians have declared war on the Nation most capable of leading mankind into a future of aware Unity, giving our species guaranteed freedoms of individual creativity and expression in line with aware responsibility for our impacts on each other.

I submit that their war is not about religion, country, nation, tradition, or ethnic identity - it is primarily about a few people who have separated themselves from the larger world given to us every changing day, who are extremely fearful of change, and therefore who are extremely hateful when seeking to retain or gain control through use of violence and threats over those that in turn fear them.  It is a war as old as humanity.

Humanity must understand that this age-old war has now become a global armed conflict between our advancing law-based global civilization, and those who seek to retard and reverse its advance back to rule by decree, then feudalism, then tribalism, and and then barbarism.  It is between those who adapt to the evolving new ways and those fear the loss of the old ways.  It is about our species' evolution versus its devolution - about increasing unity versus increasing separation.

The only thing our Nation, the world, and our species need fear is the fear itself.  Fear is the primary instrument of evil.  Evil is the belief by a person or group that they are separate from other persons, and their actions based on that belief.  That belief in separation is the true enemy, and those who act on that belief are its instruments, and it doesn't matter what their cause, they have chosen to be the enemy of civilization!

Comments on the Twin Towers and Pentagon Attacks - 911 (09/11/01)

Part of the U.S. strength is its believe in God, as individually and freely worshipped by all our population. Another part of our strength lies in the fact that our worship does not interfere with our governance by law. Our religious morality manifests indirectly in our laws, adopted/implemented/enforced through our series of checks and balances defined in the constitution and carried out by our three houses of government. When any group's religious morality becomes increasingly dominant and leads to increasing religiously-motivated weakness in that series of checks and balances (e.g., a religiously motivated/constrained government decision maker, and/or lawmaking group, and/or law enforcing group), we experience increasing degrees of first suppression, then oppression, and then rebellion.

This willful act of evil clearly illustrates why personal and family religion must be separated from public authority around the globe. Religious and other zealots often begin to express the first evil by believing in an Us Versus Them "separation" from others, and thus feel justified in their devotion when seeking to "correct and control" others' beliefs and actions. When zealots gain economic, then political, and then military power, all those outside their ardor have to expect the need to protect themselves, in action, proaction, and reaction. We have seen this throughout the slow evolution of our species' history from animal rule, to tribal rule, to barbaric rule, to feudal rule, to empirial/ religious rule, to rule of law, and eventually to the rule of oneness. The rule of oneness will be a world where individuality is cherished and separation is diminished - where we have infinite diversity within an aware unity. Achieving this rule of oneness is one of my life's motivations, primarily focused on bringing about the "aware unity" through the application of information technology to the management of contextual awareness at the individual, group, organizational, and global level. Instead of advancing to a rule of oneness, many seek to retreat from law to a rule of religion, empire, feudal domain, barbarism, tribe, and even animalism.

Now is time for our action to Recognize and Accept that the morality of our internally and internationally practiced civil rights does not preclude us from both proactively and reactively taking measures to swiftly, fully, and repeatedly destroy those individuals, groups, and governments who have gone rogue by openly declaring war on us and the other countries in our global law-based civilization, whether they are internal (e.g., Timothy McVeigh) or external (e.g., individuals and groups from around the world). As I believe one Supreme Court Justice was quoted yesterday: "The Bill of Rights is not a Suicide Pact". In my view, freedom of expression does not include freedom of implementation. Expression must be freely made from the infinite viewpoints present in our world. Implementation must be made only from a viewpoint of harming no other.

While normally a humanist and strong defender of our civil rights (i.e., my motivation for military and civil service), in terms of civil and national security I have always held very strong views, and thus my belief that "openly declared terrorists/predators have no more right to live and express their will than a rabid or invasive animal". I may feel for their humanity and sympathize and want to correct the plight that brought them to the point of emotionally and irrationally choosing this basic evil of using terror. However, once their choice for separation/evil over civilization is made and declared, it is the responsibility of all citizens and governments to contain, correct, and if needed, destroy them for the larger good, as we would an invasive predator or rabid animal. 

From this point, we must teach to all generations that only the rule by a civilization of law and oneness is allowed with their primary instruments being law and awareness respectively, and that rule by evil and its primary instrument of fear is to be totally rejected and forcefully removed from our world.

Comments on the Healing of Serbia.   (02/20/08)

I believe the events in Kosovo, and in the former Yugoslavia over the past several years, are all a direct result of the strong feeling of separation present in the culture of the Serbian people.  This feeling of separation from everyone around them and from God, and subsequent disintegrative words and actions of ethnic Serbs, are primarily a fearful reaction to the loss their nation suffered over 600 years ago in the Field of the Blackbirds, in modern Kosovo, where their entire military force was destroyed in a war with an Islamic military force.  This unhealed emotional wound, and cultural and personal fear associated with that wound, has been the direct cause of the Serbian culture's nationalism, and to a degree increasing with each violent act against non-Serbs and with the rise of a Serbian dictatorial government, of Serbian fascism.  We all protect a remembered wound, sometimes long after a physical wound has healed.   Getting past the fear of being re-wounded, and the anger at having been wounded, is part of healing.  Remember that World War I, and the subsequent World War II, were triggered by an assassination, by a Serbian extremist, of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand who then ruled Serbia.  I believe that unless the world's Serbian people, under the teachings of their Orthodox Christian faith, can be healed of their ethnic belief in separation and their fear, by them forgiving those throughout history from whom they want to separate, then further disintegration of Oneness for our species will occur.  The time for their sadness over past loss is long gone.  Serbian forgiveness and acceptance of God's Oneness with all around them is needed.