Posted by Using force to achieve geopolitical ends is costly and risks calamity.
What do we mean ‘There is a better way’? Well, taking out the bad guys using rockets and bombs has four inherent disadvantages:
1. Such explosive violence, by definition involves loss of life, pain and suffering on both sides, both the innocent and the damned.
2. It may be that the strategy intends to contain a threat and disrupt an enemy’s support system. But there is always the risk that the resultant stress and hatred escalate the problem to an entirely new level. The real danger is that numerous countries and millions of people become embroiled in destructive and lethal warfare.
3. Military action on such a scale is hugely costly to the long-suffering taxpayer and the global economy generally. Aircraft carriers and smart missiles do not come cheap.
4. And finally, looked at historically, it doesn’t always work out the way you planned. Recent, protracted wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq should have shown us this already. Where are the happy outcomes there?
So, given that there are sometimes malevolent forces at work that need dealing with, is there a better way to achieve the desired end without invoking the above calamities? To do this we need to ‘think outside the box’, to use a rather hackneyed management expression. And as a good starting point, I would like to suggest that a better way would be to adopt the ancient Vedic maxim.
“Destroy the enemy before he is born”
Destroy the enemy before he is born
Happily, this does not imply some awful Herodian prenatal intervention, killing off potential enemies whilst still in the womb. No, instead the phrase recognizes that war and conflict are born out of enmity. And enmity derives from the incoherent brains and hardened hearts of a population whenever and wherever they experience a high degree of collective stress.
In other words, where societal stress becomes acute, this sooner or later spills over into crime, corruption, conflict and violence. Where the collective stress is extreme, this stressed thinking manifests in the usual black and white thinking that ultimately leads to either civil or international war.
Reducing societal stress removes the impetus for war
Stress begets stress, so the more that governments, political parties and communities engage in reckless dissension, repressive tyranny or open conflict, then the more the stress self-propagates. So, what the Vedic maxim really means is that if you can find a way to reduce societal stress, you then diminish the enmity, and this takes away the underlying impetus and motive for war, tyranny and conflict.
By adopting the approach of reducing societal stress and eliminating enmity, you avoid the need to embark on costly, high risk, destructive and painful military action.
If this sounds idealistic and impractical, if not downright impossible, the fact of the matter is that there are already tried and tested methods that alleviate collective stress. In essence, it is now possible to raise the level of the collective consciousness of a nation to a point where incoherent thoughts in the minds of the population can’t take hold. When the collective intelligence is high, a much larger percentage of the population live in a low stress, natural brain state. They happy outcome is that collectively society is are less prone to either instigate violence or for that matter pursue any other sub-optimum behaviour.
40 years of research proves there is a better way
Is there any evidence to back up this astounding proposition? Yes – Lots of it.
You probably haven’t heard of it though. And there is a reason for that. Unfortunately, the media, academia and government are too set in their ways. So, routinely they ignore or scoff at alternative approaches that might threaten the status quo. Bearing in mind the need of the time, this attitude has to change. After all there is ever more destructive weaponry coming down the line. There is also accelerating instability in the family of nations. There is a better way and we need to adopt it as soon as possible for all our sakes.
What is the better way?
Quite simply science has moved on from classic physics that depicts life with clear boundaries of time and space. Instead modern research shows that we can quite easily and quickly facilitate world peace through the medium of deep meditation. Specifically groups of meditators trained in Transcendental Meditation and it’s advanced form, the TM-Sidhi programme. The effect such meditators has become known as as the Maharishi Effect or Super Radiance and the pacifying power of these groups is both remarkable and systematic. Where the correct conditions are in place, these groups of meditators can literally:
- Stop open warfare within 24 hours
- Reduce terrorist activity by 72%
- Ease international conflict immediately
- Transform economic prosperity over the long term
If you are interested in learning more, take a look at these studies. And if you like what you see, please share the research with others, especially those in a position to influence things.
Article by Jeremy Old
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