With Whom Does Global Peace Consciousness Begin?

The neophyte peacemaker’s journey comes full circle when they actualize authentic self being and the becoming of a transformative being in peace; peace-conflict-impasse-insight-compassion-contritition-forgiveness-reconciliation-consensus-peace (more succinctly, the cycle is from separation to reintegration).  This process of the introspective journey inspired by the externally experienced life, reveals to us an understanding of the cause of conflict, as well as presents us with a guide to effecting peace beyond ourselves in the world at large.  This guide requires us to return to our understanding of the Global Meta Power Structural Dynamic, from which originates the source of conflict in modern multicultural society.  While the Dynamic’s six ancillary power structural arrangements; Policing, Financial, Legislative, Juridical, Regulatory, and Communicative, are benign operational mechanisms of societal governance, the intrinsic fundamental nature of the Prestige Structural Arrangement embedded at the core of the Dynamic, is to foment the subdivision of humanity.  The nucleus of the Prestige Structural Arrangement is, more precisely, the origin of conflict.  This nucleus is described as xenophobia, the fear of otherness, which germinates from the tension and conflict arising from the unconscious attempt to separate the inextricable connection between authentic self being and humanity.  This unconscious attempt to separate expands through alliance proximity familiarity.  As it evolves through mass consciousness, it breeds increasingly more defined and rigid externalized social division constructs, such as; race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, tribe, clan, caste, class, and political identity.  These social division constructs give rise to the competitive-distributive paradigm, from which emerges the hyper-segregated hierarchical power regime, otherwise referred to as the Prestige Structural Arrangement.

The deconstruction of the established social order organized within the Prestige Structural Arrangement is not enough to complete the cycle from separation to reintegration.  Deconstruction in this regard in and of itself results in a power vacuum, in which the nucleus xenophobia, will inevitably foment a Darwinian-esque re-accumulation and distribution of power in hierarchical allotments among the distinct and cognizable populations comprising multicultural society, either reestablishing the preexisting social order or establishing a new hierarchical power regime.  This phenomenon may be easily observed in the emergence of new social orders arising out of post-colonial societies, such as has been observed in Rwanda, India, Nigeria, and Iraq.  Other examples are found in South Africa and Zimbabwe, where the internal transformation out of apartheid-based social orders resulted in the reverse realignment of preexisting hierarchical power regimes.  In each instance, the competitive-distributive paradigm fomented by a xenophobia nucleus endured and prevailed over the opportunity to establish a new cooperative-deliberative paradigm.  

Thus, the focal point of peacemaking is to effect a mass consciousness shift that restores the inextricable connection between authentic self being and humanity as a new consensus nucleus based on value commitments to peace.  In the same fashion that unconscious separation grows exponentially, the reverse is possible through seeding the natural consciousness of humanity, which is “oneness”, defined by shared origin and destiny.  Like any movement, this movement begins with a spark, an illumination carried by the few; agents of change who might be referred to as “flickerers”.  They are the seeds from which a new global peace consciousness will germinate.  Their cause is to find one another, to nourish one another, to grow in their illumination through sharing and affirming in each other’s journeys from separation to reintegration, each being the teacher and the taught, where and whenever they might gather.  Like seeds upon the wind, their cause is to adventure out into the world and to live within the struggle of humanity, to be; to be transformative beings in peace, in the midst of conflict.  Smaller flames will be drawn to greater flames, each the teacher and the taught in their meeting, each becoming greater in self-knowledge through shared reflection and mutual inspiration.  Each moment, each day, each year, each life lived in this pursuit, a step closer to the actualization of global peace consciousness, simply by following one’s calling to embrace and live within authentic self being.  This is the path of the third rabbi, the journey of the peacemaker, accessible to all who heed the calling.