One + One = Two. Ever so simple!
Evolving thought comes as a person adds one known to another
known to arrive at a third previously unknown from the synthesis of the first two. The
rhetorical saying that I personally subscribed to some years back was: “One must see the
obvious before one can see further. What will be obvious tomorrow is not
obvious today; and what is obvious today was not obvious yesterday.”
One: We live in a world of free-will. We have
the option to choose love or to choose not-love. Still pretty simple! Choosing
love brings a person to better relationships, to the path of spirituality, to
harmony, and to a greater awareness of the connection to the higher realms.
Choosing not-love is just as simple. It brings anger, agitation, judgment,
conflict, and a reduction in awareness of the connection to lower vibration.
Another One: Earth is a planet of balance.
Unlike Mars, we on Earth are not inherently warriors, or adventurers, or
pioneers. And unlike Venus, we are not inherently compassionate, kind, or
loving. Some of us are each of these at different times in our lives. Earth
sits in a position of balance between the planets of love and war. When
imbalance rears its ugly head, most of us do not have any difficulty seeing the
problems it brings. A great deal of the practice of spiritual healing is
focused on re-establishing balance. Disease is an imbalance—too much cigarette
smoke leads to cancer. Perhaps the most noticeable imbalances are those in the
political arena. When dictators, democratic or not, impose their personal agendas,
countries drift toward imbalances. Corruption is an imbalance.
One + Another One = Two: When you add free-will to
Earth’s balancing act, the outcome becomes a choice to live in balance or not.
When the will is in-balance and on the path of love, consideration is given to
others. A person has tolerance, appreciation, and goodwill, without going
overboard. Such a person has goodwill for others, but also for self—in balance.
On the other side of the coin, when the will is
out-of-balance and the person has chosen to not-love, really bad things happen.
What can a strong will from the dark side do? Search the internet for the
movie: “Triumph of the Will”. The Nazis understood the will. World War 2 is a
case of excessively strong will married to the choice to not-love on a global
scale. Bringing the warring world back into balance in 1945 took an atomic bomb
to establish peace. Does this grate against your illusions of how the world is
on Earth. Good! One must see the obvious before one can see further.
Ask the question: why have we, on Earth, had to live under
the illusive hope that there will somehow be world peace? Wars and
interpersonal conflicts have been a part of the past for as long as memory
allows. The present is no different. The threat of mutually assured destruction
from thermo-nuclear war has kept the world at peace since 1945, but pseudo-wars
have broken out in different parts of the globe continually—Khuzestan 1945, Indo-Pakistan
1947, Arab-Israel 1948 /56 /67 /73 /82 /87
/00 /06 /08 /12 /14 /21, China 1949, Korea 1953, Taiwan Strait 1954/58/95, Vietnam
1954/65, Tibet 1959, Cuba 1959, Congo 1960, Ethiopia 1964, South Africa 1966, Gulf
War 1991/2003, and on and on. Current on-going conflicts (how is war defined by
the UN?) include Israel-Palestine, Panjshir, Armenia-Azerbaijan,
Afghanistan-Iran, Sudan-Ethiopia. There was just way too many to list every pseudo-war
or conflict since 1945. As I write this, Russia is building up troops on its
border with the Ukraine, and Biden and Putin are planning a meeting to address
what is going on.
If you think world peace is possible, look at the
fundamentals: balance and free-will.
First fundamental: As a planet of balance, there will
always be imbalance to deal with. This does not say that we are not evolving
towards higher vibrations, which we are. But relations on Earth, including our
relationship with climate, will always experience intermittent states of imbalance,
whether major or minor. War is easy to point to, but imbalances are inevitable
and constant. As a quick example, our dog, Merlin, is full of bounding energy right
now because the ambient temperature outside is -24C and we do not want to take
him for a walk for both his and our sakes—dog-energy-imbalance.
Second fundamental: As a planet of free-will, there
will always be people that choose love and those that choose not-love. War and
conflict are in the realm of not-love. Spiritual practices, kindness, and peace
are in the realm of love.
Add the fundamentals: When the wilful choice to
not-love creates the imbalance of conflict, war happens. When the wilful choice
to love creates the balance of higher vibration, spirituality happens.
The disappointment that arises is that denial leads
to the thought that we are what we are not. Denial avoids the thought that we live
among those that do not choose love and among those that do choose love. Denial
leads us to think that others live as we do. Reality is: some people are good
and some are bad. World peace runs up against the quandary of choosing
love/not-love in a world of balance/imbalance.
The realization that comes with adding these two ‘1’s’ to
make ‘2’ has set my mind at ease with the idea that, while I choose love (at
least half the time), half of the rest of the world chooses not-love (at least
half the time). As I am that I am (to be defined later), the Earth is what it
is. World peace?...... LOL Great Expectations!
Makes me think of Neville Chamberlain's words as he waved a flimsy sheet of paper with Hitler's signature in 1938: "Peace in our Time".
