Peace: Exploring the Solution

Now that we know the who, how, when, and what of the solution to our problem with distrust which will create the conditions for peaceful co-existence, we must now turn our attention to why this solution will work as well how it will accomplish our stated goal. In the process we will find that this simplistic solution to a complex age-old problem actually delivers much more than it appears to offer.

What will be the immediate result of our academicians using available research information to illustrate the inherent organically systemic nature of the human race? The result is that over the years these academicians as well as those who consume their academic offerings will begin to internalize the idea that they are part of one organic whole.

The problem we have with distrust is not a lack of understanding that we should trust each other but that we do not instinctively see ourselves as belonging to the same side, so to speak. Distrust is founded in fragmentation. The task is to get humans to see themselves the same way that other organisms see other members of their species.

Our current education system has taught us that the way to change someone's mind on a subject is to provide them with sufficient information to bring about a change in their thinking. This works often, but it has to overcome the natural tendency of humans to push back against new information. The proposed solution assumes forgotten the notion that oneness is the reality, and not a desired condition.

This solution circumvents this problem in a manner that first became evident to me more than a quarter century ago. I learned from a college professor that it is easier to convince people to your way by explaining why you do what you do instead of trying to tell them why they should adopt your way. It is also easier to get someone to like you by asking them to do something for you instead of doing something for them. In the first case their defenses are unarmed because they do not subconsciously perceive an attempt to influence them. In the second, they must temporarily experience what it is to like you while considering whether they like you enough to do something for you.

As a result of implementing this plan internationally adult humans will eventually come to view world the way that infants view it. It will not be long before we cease indoctrinating our children in a fragmented view of their species.

But this is only the first step. Next time I will discuss why the focus is on the educational system instead of government or religion, the two other institutions that wield influence in our lives.