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THE PHILOSOPHY

OF PEACE

HOW TO ACHIEVE LASTING PEACE ON EARTH AND WHY IT IS NECESSARY

BY

GINO ALIJI

Gino Aliji is a young author from Germany who is currently studying to become a teacher.

© 2020 by Gino Aliji

No part of this book may be altered without permission from the author. Reprinting is allowed for non-profit use and for educational purposes.

This book is dedicated to all living beings on this wonderful planet called Earth. May life on it thrive happily and uninhibited for many millennia to come through love, peace and harmony.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A BLUE PEARL IN SPACE

THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL NATURE OF TRUE PEACE

YIN AND YANG – THE LAW OF BALANCE

IN LAK’ECH – THE LAW OF UNITY

THE LAW OF FREE WILL

THE LAW OF ILLUSION

THE LAW OF CAUSALITY

THE MODERN SCIENCES AND EDUCATION SYSTEM

A WORD ABOUT PESSIMISM AND RESIGNATION

FACTORS PREVENTING OUTER PEACE

FACTORS PREVENTING INNER PEACE

THE PRIMARY REASONS FOR WAR

CONSIDERATIONS OF ADVANCED EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

THE THREE PATHWAYS TO PEACE

I AM STARTING WITH THE MAN IN THE MIRROR

A NEW AGE, A NEW EARTH

A BLUE PEARL IN SPACE

A blue pearl in space,

Being a temple of life,

In deep and black space.

Somewhere in this infinitely vast universe there is a galaxy. At first sight, this galaxy seems just like any other of the almost uncountable number of galaxies in this universe. And in a certain way, it is just like any other galaxy.

However, this particular galaxy harbors a special star system near its outer rim, which in turn is home to a little blue-glowing pearl. Upon closer inspection, this blue pearl in the blackness of space turns out to be a planet of medium size which is bearing a vast amount of water on its surface.

Why is this planet so special to the observing eye? This is indeed a valid question. This little blue-glowing planet is so special because it is harboring life and has been home to countless lifeforms for millions of years, if not more.

It is truly incredible. Such a small speck of dust compared to the infinite vastness of universal space, it has been teeming with life in all imaginable as well as unimaginable forms for a long time and will hopefully continue to support life in the future to come.

At first, there were only small, single-celled lifeforms on that planet, but over time the lifeforms became more complex, starting out in the planet’s oceans and then slowly beginning to explore the shores of its continents and even the air.

After a while, or rather in the very recent history of the planet, a new species appeared. Although all the lifeforms on the planet were extremely diverse and a true testament to the creative powers of the universe, this one species was special because it showed signs of high intelligence and self-awareness.

It learned how to make fire, how to domesticate animals and till the land around it to produce sources of food. For a long time, the species was relatively small in numbers and lived mostly in harmony with the planet and its nature. In short, it learned to live in balance with its environment and seemed to genuinely love the ground it was living on. After all, most of its civilizations and cultures decided to call their world Earth in their respective languages. And they decided to call themselves humans or human beings.

Unfortunately, in recent times, the human species seems to have forgotten most its past and have stopped living in harmony and peace with nature and their planet. There are many theories about how this sudden change in attitude came about. Some think it was their discovery of technology through the aid of what they call sciences, others suggest that at some point in time the humans were overcome by the negative attributes of their minds which often manifest as greed, violence and an intense sense of separation between them.

However, what is more important is the fact that their mental attitudes and behaviors have become a danger for the planet and all lifeforms currently existing on it, including themselves. The technological progress of the human species in recent times is certainly proof of the creative powers of their logical minds but in their present state, the human species is using its creative powers for harmful and destructive purposes.

They are at war with nature as well as themselves, and have mostly used their logic and reasoning to create weapons of mass destruction which could easily wipe out all life on the entire planet. And although those weapons are mostly just objects symbolizing power, they have been put to use against other human beings at one point in the past.

Currently, the human species finds itself in a state of deep outer and inner turmoil. There are great challenges they will have to face very soon. Challenges which they have brought upon themselves. Earth is undergoing climatic changes at the moment which will also change the face of the planet. The human population is constantly growing each passing year and most of the planet is still covered in war. Sometimes because of political reasons, sometimes for economic reasons and often because of the dwindling of the resources they are currently using in their daily lives.

Fortunately, there are some members among the human species who are spending their lives and energy trying to turn the tides of humanity’s fate. Some do it by developing cleaner and more efficient technologies and others have recognized the current insanity of the human mind and have started taking on more harmonious and peaceful lifestyles which are based on universal moral values and a more spiritual approach to life on Earth and beyond it.

Only time will tell if they will be able to really turn the tides of the human fate for the better and that way keep them from experiencing terrible loss and devastating catastrophes on a global scale.

At the current point in time, contact with this planet is not recommended and should be delayed to a later point in time, provided the human species has regained its inner harmony and outer balance with the nature around it. For that purpose, planet Earth should be kept under observation until the outcome of humanity’s decisions has been determined.

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This is what the report by an extraterrestrial entity about Earth and our species could sound like. It is by no means only negative but it certainly contains a warning that something is currently going terribly wrong on this planet, and specifically with us humans.

We all know that in the distant past, this was not always the case. There was once a time when we were able to live peacefully and harmoniously together with ourselves and the nature around us.

How and why this changed in the past does not matter as much as the fact that a variety of global problems are staring all of humanity right in the face. This means that there is not much time left to actually do something about those problems and find viable solutions for them before they turn into full-blown catastrophes and possibly take most of the lifeforms currently living on Earth with them.

How can we best find solutions to those problems and through that avoid global disaster? It is my understanding that we can best work on solutions and implementing them through peace, global and lasting peace that is.

It is also my understanding that not all is yet lost, that there is still time to make a change and through that change make the world a better place for all of us and the myriad lifeforms we share this beautiful planet with.

Adopting a philosophy of lasting peace and putting it to use in our daily lives, we will be able to effect real change and take the next step in our evolution which – contrary to the widely held opinion – will not mean our transformation into technologically enhanced cybernetic beings, but rather our becoming a more loving, harmonious and peaceful race. A race that is completely in tune with Earth and the life it is sharing the planet with.

This will be our future if we can just take it upon ourselves to willingly make a change in both our lifestyles as well as our attitude toward life and the true nature of our universe.

The ways of how to do this and why it is necessary at the present moment will be the topic of this book. It was written in order to effect positive change in the minds of the people reading it and to encourage them to make that small but at the same time very hard step toward a different way of life.

We have the future not only of ourselves but also of the whole planet in our hands at this very moment and not only our children but also all the other lifeforms on Earth depend on us doing the right thing and stopping the insanity we are currently caught in.

Just like the old saying goes, from great power comes great responsibility. It is time that we as the human species take responsibility for the mistakes we have made in the past and try to correct them. It is time for us to take a different path in life than the one of our ancestors. And, above all, it is time for us to stop making the same mistakes over and over again, generation after generation. This vicious cycle has to be finally broken, and who else can do it if not us right here and right now?

It is my sincere hope that we humans will make the right decision when the time comes and opt for peace, love and harmony instead of war, violence, greed and hatred. This book will be my contribution to that goal, and since we all have to start somewhere, it is always best to start with oneself, to start changing oneself.

This book is therefore meant as a source not only of information but, rather, of wisdom and reason. Most of the information and knowledge in this book has been said and written before, in some cases a few hundred years or even millennia ago.

Sadly, however, true wisdom can never be taught, it can only be gained through personal insight by each individual alone. The information and knowledge in this book are therefore meant as signposts leading to that sometimes ancient wisdom. It is worth knowing that the words in this book can only guide us to that wisdom which will give you the power to make a positive change in your life, but you will have to discover and claim that wisdom for yourself all on your own. This is the way true wisdom works and how it is different from knowledge.

May all human beings accept the words in this book in sincere openness and with a mind full of peace, love and harmony.

THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL NATURE OF TRUE PEACE

Peace has many forms,

As within so without, right?

A diverse unit.

When most people think of peace, they tend to have only certain aspects and facets in mind of what true and lasting peace really encompasses. Some people tend to think of what is commonly called inner peace, while others usually conceptualize peace as certain behaviors and attitudes toward life which create what is usually seen as outer peace, or the manifestation of peace in the material, outer world.

However, true and lasting peace is really a combination of certain concepts, behaviors and attitudes toward life. This is also what makes true peace inherently a rather complex concept to grasp in its entirety and may be the reason why true peace seems impossible to achieve on Earth at the present moment.

Still, nothing could be further from the truth, for true and lasting peace is very much achievable through the understanding of its multi-faceted nature and the adequate application of its many dimensions in our daily lives.

Although true peace is really a multidimensional phenomenon and has many layers of meaning, it can generally be described as having two main aspects to it.

One aspect being what is generally known as spiritual, emotional or inner peace. This facet of true peace encompasses all dimensions of the human psyche, our emotions and our minds. Of course, this includes both the conscious as well as the subconscious mind. Only when these aspects of our inner being are unified and exist together in harmony, true inner peace can become a reality.

The other aspect of true peace entails the various manifestations of peace in our material, outer world through adequate behaviors, peaceful attitudes toward life and moral decision-making. This applies especially to all the different kinds of positive action that we can perform on a daily basis in order to be of service to others, helping them become more peaceful themselves, and to generally create more peace in the world around us.

Of course, there are many more secondary aspects that together create or distort true and lasting peace, and those will be a topic of their own later in the book. For now, it is important to know that true peace behaves like two sides of the same coin. They may have different faces but they are still part of the same unit, and none of them would be complete without the other.

In addition to true peace being a multidimensional phenomenon, its different layers are often also built upon each other. Since our actions in this world always have their origin in our thoughts and beliefs, in other words in our minds, the dimension of inner peace can safely be considered the source of what form outer peace – distorted or not – takes in our world.

This does not mean that inner peace is the absolute source of outer peace, however. It just means that the state of our inner being, our emotions, thoughts and beliefs, often create the material circumstances and situations that we find ourselves in. Sometimes, we are surprised by the situations and circumstances we appear to be placed in, and at other times we almost expected things to turn out the way they did. Since this is something that most of us have already experienced more than once in our lives, it can be considered as some kind of proof that your inner world mostly determines the state of the outer world you find yourself in.

Because these two main aspects of true peace are so closely related to each other, they need to be understood as being one and the same, and therefore their principles need to be applied and lived as a whole in our daily lives in order to create lasting peace.

True and lasting peace will never be achieved in our world otherwise, because these two main aspects will act and behave like counterweights to each other if only one of them is actively pursued by us in an attempt to create peace on this world and within ourselves.

What needs to be done, then, is understand the complex and multifaceted nature of these two aspects of true peace and make use of them in symbiosis with each other. For, in truth, one is created out of the other. From inner peace comes outer peace, and from outer peace comes inner peace. As above, so below. As within, so without.

In the past, many people have tried to promote peace in this world. Some have formed peaceful movements, other have written philosophical texts promoting peace and yet others have tried to bring peace into this world by leading by example. Although those various attempts of creating peace were successful to a certain degree, complete true and lasting peace has not been achieved, yet. There are still wars being fought, violent acts being committed and hostilities being propagated throughout our world.

Just by looking at these facts, it becomes clear that there is still a lot of work to be done toward creating true and lasting peace. Although all the effort and energy of those wise and courageous people who tried to propagate peace in this world in the past have made an essential contribution toward more peace and left us with a powerful legacy, the work is not done, yet. And that is why it is our responsibility to build upon this legacy and finally make that step leading us toward a world full of true and lasting peace.

We cannot let their work and effort go to waste because not only our present, but also the future of this planet and all future generations depend on it. They need us to make a change in the here and now, and turn this world away from war, violence, greed and hatred.

Let us become the guardians of Earth instead of its destroyers and bring it back onto a path of peace, love and harmony. Humanity has been at war with itself and nature for far too long, many millennia, if not more. We should not be discouraged by this fact but, rather, see it as all the more reason to finally change that for good.

However, when doing that, we also need to avoid repeating the mistakes our forebears made in the past, but we should not ignore them altogether, either. Rather, what we need to do is learn from their mistakes and take responsibility for our own current behavior, so that we do not run the danger of repeating those mistakes and even making new mistakes in the process.

Let our ancestors be our teachers from whom we can draw wisdom and build upon the work of all those who have tried creating true and lasting peace in the past.

In order to do so, it is first necessary to have an understanding – preferably a deep understanding rather than a superficial one – of the basic principles which govern all of our universe and, by extension, also our current reality here on Earth. Through the comprehension of those principles, it will become possible for us to make better sense of why things are currently the way they are in our world, as well as how we can make use of those principles in order to implement true and lasting peace.

Then, it will be necessary to shine a light at the reasons why true and lasting peace isn’t already a reality here on Earth. From that, we can gain a perspective of what might have gone wrong in the past and why true peace was not possible at those points in time. This will provide us with an understanding of what we need to avoid and what we can do better on our path to achieving true and lasting peace for ourselves and all other lifeforms on this planet.

And lastly, what we need to do is work on finding appropriate strategies which will enable us to implement true and lasting peace not only inside ourselves but also in the world around us. Those strategies can encompass anything from thought patterns to behaviors to conscious actions, aimed at creating true peace. This will take up a whole section of the book later on.

To most of the people reading this book, it will have become clear by now that this will not be a simple endeavor, for true and lasting peace is something which needs to penetrate and infuse every aspect and every fiber of our lives as well as our collective attitude toward life in general.

However, this does not mean that this endeavor will not be full of joy, happiness, fulfillment and even easiness. It all depends on how we choose to tackle this problem of global non-peace and how easy, happy and joyous we make this journey for ourselves. Just like an old master once said, there is always more than one way to achieve something. The result will be the same eventually, but whether you make it hard for yourself or decide to take the easy road is entirely up to you.

There is one more point which needs to be addressed when it comes to the complexity of true and lasting peace. In order to understand what true peace is all about, is will be necessary for us to expand our mental horizons, so to speak, and be open for ideas and concepts most of us are normally not familiar with on a daily basis. In fact, this is not just a way to make understanding true peace easier, it is much more than that. Indeed, it is almost essential to understanding this type of complete and wholesome peace. The reason for this is that our current understanding of ourselves and the world around us is incomplete and lacking in certain aspects, which can be easily proven by the fact that war, violence, greed and hatred are still existing on our planet. If we knew and completely understood what true and lasting peace is all about, war and many other negative influences in our lives would be a thing of the past.

This is why it is important to be open to new information, knowledge and wisdom. For some people, the concepts and ideas in this book might be unheard of and shocking in one way or another. To others, it might seem like make-belief or the delirious fantasies of a young author. All that can be asked for at this point is to just be open to the ideas and concepts written down in this book. See if you can contemplate them deep within yourself and then decide whether they can help you achieve true peace within yourself and in the world around you.

This is all anyone could ever ask of you, and so I will not ask for more than that.

YIN AND YANG – THE LAW OF BALANCE

Yin and Yang are one,

The universal balance,

Black and white merging.

The principle of balance, which is called Yin and Yang in many Eastern traditions, may be one of the oldest – if not the oldest – universal principles known to humankind.

Many people have already seen the famous symbol of Yin and Yang at some point in their lives. They have seen the round shape of a circle with a beautiful curve separating the circle into a black slice with a white dot and a white slice with a black dot. The shape of this symbol in itself is perceived by many as being both quite beautiful and symmetrical. It almost looks like a white and a black coy carp circling each other in a lotus pond, thus creating this beautiful and symmetrical pattern of shapes.

However, other than perceiving the symbol of Yin and Yang as beautiful, most people don’t seem to know much about it when it comes to its meaning and the universal principle it is symbolizing for everyone to see but only for a few to understand up until now.

The shape of the symbol of Yin and Yang is a testament to a deep understanding of the principle of balance which governs our whole three-dimensional universe and, therefore, also our own reality. The two coy carp-like shapes are placed at the exact opposite sides on the inside of the circle and each of them has a small dot being the color of its opposite. When looked at as a whole, the shapes in this symbol are perfectly balanced. There is never too much of one element anywhere in the symbol, they are perfectly evened out across the surface. In short, the two elements are in perfect balance and harmony with each other.

This almost sacred principle of balance is also what creates symmetry in our universe as we currently perceive it. There is symmetry everywhere we look, if we only look closely enough. The orientation of the petals of a flower, the positions of the various branches of a tree, the spiral shape of our own galaxy, even artificial structures like buildings or the design of modern airplanes contain certain symmetries. Because if they didn’t, they would very probably just collapse and not work in the way they are supposed to work.

There are also other kinds of symmetry which are not easily recognizable as such at first. This includes, for instance, the position of the various planetary bodies in our star system at any given point in time. When the planets are in perfect alignment with each other – a phenomenon that is extremely rare due to the different velocities with which the planets go around the sun – symmetry can be easily seen and recognized. However, even when the planets are not in perfect alignment with each other, there is a certain symmetry of forces there which keeps the planets and other celestial bodies on their respective orbits. In mathematics, this would be described as a kind of vectoral symmetry where two vectors – in this case both the centrifugal and gravitational force of the sun – pull at the planetary bodies in opposite directions, thus keeping them balanced in their orbits.

But the principle of Yin and Yang is more than just the manifestation of symmetry and the balance of physical matter in our three-dimensional universe. The principle of Yin and Yang is a principle of multidimensional balance, if you will. Why does it have various dimensions? Because this principle not only encompasses and has an effect on the things that are, but also on the things that are not.

In order to explain this better, we need first need to realize that our current three-dimensional universe is actually binary in nature. Some people would also say that we live in a universe of polarities. The idea here is that everything in our universe as we understand it right now has a direct opposite. There is good and bad, light and dark, love and hate, war and peace. Even gradient concepts such as lukewarm water have a direct opposite in reality, which in this case would be something called “lukecold” water.

As if that weren’t enough already, there is also a much deeper truth hidden behind the binary nature of our universe. In binary systems, its two aspects or elements are always interlocked because one part would not be able to exist or function without the other. In other words, it is impossible for material or non-material things to exist in a binary universe or a universe of polarity without their direct opposite. Although this might sound quite technical and theoretical to some, it is actually one of the biggest realizations we humans are capable of having at the present moment.

This principle governs the basic way our three-dimensional universe works and we are also heavily affected by it on a daily basis. For how can we have light if there is no darkness? How can we take a warm bath after work if there is no cold? How can we be alive if there is no death? How can we show love if there is no hate? And so on…

The thing is that we wouldn’t even be able to know what light is if there weren’t any darkness. We wouldn’t be able to show love and affection toward others if there weren’t any hate. We wouldn’t know that we are actually alive if there weren’t any death. And we wouldn’t know what peace means if there weren’t any violence and war.

All this might be hard to accept but the fact is that in our three-dimensional universe, things cannot exist or be without their otherness. Or, put differently, a thing cannot be if there is no non-thing. Love cannot be if there is no hate and peace cannot be if there is no war. Even outer space could not exist without some form of non-space. The core of the matter is that everything has its opposites and cannot exist without the other part. In a way, it can be said that everything in three-dimensional existence always exists together with its counterpart and, thus, they form a unit.

This understanding of the binary or polar nature of our universe ties in wonderfully with the concept of Yin and Yang. It is also a polar and binary concept – Yin being one part of the unit and Yang the other – and manages to symbolize the union of opposites together forming perfect balance quite beautifully. Furthermore, it shows us through the use of the two small dots having the opposite color that everything inherently contains a small amount of its counterpart. Wherever there is light, there is also a bit of darkness. And wherever there is darkness, there is also a speck of light.

The interesting thing about this principle of Yin and Yang is not only that there are always two parts of something forming a unit together but that through the formation of unity by the two opposite parts, there is also a perfect balance created.

Keeping all this in mind, this principle of balance teaches us that there can never be peace – which in itself is a kind of balance and harmony – without the formation of unity through the reconciliation of two seemingly opposite things or aspects into one unit where one part contains aspects of the other. The beauty of unity in this regard is also that once the two opposites have fused together and contain aspects of their counterparts, they have ceased to be separate, and instead have become one and the same.

To some readers, this might all sound way too abstract and unrealistic to become part of our daily lives. However, history has shown us more than once that wherever peace was achieved, certain kinds of balance and unity – be they social, economic or ideological in nature – were never far behind and, indeed, seem to be part and parcel of true and lasting peace. Of course, this also goes the other way around. Wherever there is unity in certain aspects of our lives, there is also always some kind of peace.

Instances of this peace can be found on a daily basis in our lives. For example, the gradual formation of the European Union in the second half of the 20^th century, after many of the nations of the European continent had torn each other apart in two devastating world wars, has led to a relative atmosphere of peace among the European states through the process of unification.

Another example of a social type would be the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s where the Afro-American population demanded the same civil rights that the privileged white citizens of the of the U.S.A. had enjoyed up until then. Once the Afro-Americans were recognized as being equal in rights to the white population by official authorities such as courts and the government, the American population became more unified in a way, and this process lead to a higher degree of social peace among the population. Although there are still instances of racism and discrimination existing in the daily lives of Americans – as well as other nations – there is much less separation between the various social groups.

Even today, we can see the principle of Yin and Yang hard at work, creating more peace and balance through the process of unity. The most prominent example for this is the dawn and rapid advancement of modern telecommunication technologies like the internet, social networks and satellites which have made the fast progression of what is commonly called globalization possible in our modern times. This process has been ongoing for some years and has made our world smaller and smaller in many respects. Nowadays, it is easier than ever to reach and stay in contact with people all over the world and in a way this has led to a certain degree of unification of all of humanity.

Most people have become more open or at least aware of all the other people on the planet and their respective living conditions. They know that they are not as separate from each other anymore than they generally like to think. They have begun to realize that beyond their concepts of social groups, tribalism and nationality, there are other human beings with whom together they share this planet and form the human race.

Although the process globalization has created many challenges for humanity as a whole, like the outsourcing of jobs, talent and material production to other parts of the world for chiefly monetary reasons as well as the low-wage exploitation in those countries, globalization has nonetheless been a wonderful gateway toward more awareness, tolerance and compassion on a global scale. This can also be seen in the fact that especially nations and governments of a repressive nature find it increasingly harder to keep their respective populations in a mindset which allows them to control their citizens with propaganda and ideological manipulation.

This also applies to the more “open” nations which are mostly ones acting under the flag of democracy. Since politics is more often than not a game of manipulation and exerting influence over the voters by offering changes and making promises, those politicians relying heavily on what some would call double-speak have become publicly exposed more and more frequently due to the use of social networks and non-official channels of information.

Be that as it may, the advent of modern communication technologies and the changes they created in all our lives over the last decades has caused humanity as a whole to grow more closely together, achieving a certain degree of unity.

However, there is still much work to be done in order for this beginning unity to become more pronounced and eventually lead to peace through balance. In order for this tendency of unity to progress among humanity and bring it closer together, each and every one of us needs to embrace this concept of unification and become more aware, tolerant and compassionate to the rest of the people we share this planet with. Optimally, this compassion should eventually also extent toward other lifeforms, thus creating a unity of lifeforms. This aspect of peace will be discussed in more detail in later chapters.

Getting back to the concept of Yin and Yang and its creation of perfect balance through unity, some attentive readers might point out the fact that by applying this principle to the extreme would never lead to true and lasting peace. If there is only true and lasting peace on this planet without any trace of war, then this principle of balance would be deeply disturbed and, as a result, the world would find itself out of balance again. At first sight, this might seem to be true. However, it is only an illusion.

It is true that in order for something to be in balance, there has to be an opposite or counterpart. When talking about true peace without any war left in the world, this does not mean that there isn’t always the potential for war. This is basically what the little dots with the opposite colors in the Yin and Yang symbol mean. Even if there is utter and total peace on Earth, there will always be a seed of conflict and war waiting to grow larger and stronger. This is what Yin and Yang means, one always contains the other.

This is one of the main reasons why it has been seemingly impossible in the past and even in the present to create peace and maintain it for a long time. Even where there is peace, the seed of hate, conflict and war is always there and in the past, people have allowed this seed to grow this seed into open war again and again. This probably happened because our ancestors were not consciously aware enough of this principle of Yin and Yang – one part always containing the other part – and did not know how to put the necessary effort into keeping this dark seed of violence and war from sprouting over and over again.

Attempting to take a much wider perspective on our universe, this very principle of something containing the seed of its opposite can be seen at work when looking at our own planet Earth. While most of the planets and star systems in our immediate vicinity seem to be devoid of life, or at least of any complex three-dimensional life forms, the Earth is practically teeming with life in all possible forms. Our planet can, therefore, be considered the counterpart to all the apparent lifelessness around us.

However, regardless of the fact that life on Earth is so wonderfully diverse and abundant, there is always the potential for death and global devastation. Be that through the unconscious use of weapons of mass destruction most of our nations have currently available or the occurrence of a catastrophic event due to influences from outer space, like asteroids and comets, for example, the seed of death is always there. Not allowing this dark potentiality to grow and become physical reality is where the actual challenge lies.

This means, of course, that even when the utopian state of true and lasting global peace has been achieved, both enough energy and work needs to be invested in keeping this peaceful state alive. Otherwise, the dark seed of hatred, conflict and war will grow and sprout, plunging the world into death, sorrow and suffering once again. That is the way of our universe and this is the way of the sacred principle of balance.

IN LAK’ECH – THE LAW OF UNITY

Oneness with the all,

We are one big family,

The whole universe.

In Lak’Ech is an old phrase from the Mayan language which both eloquently and beautifully encapsulates everything this chapter will be about. Literally, it means “you are another me” or “you are another myself”, and generally speaking, this is one of the most profound realizations we humans can have as a self-aware species.

It almost seems like the Mayans, who once formed part of a great and flourishing civilization, had reached some kind of understanding of what universal principle lies behind this simple phrase. At least, they understood enough about it to incorporate this wisdom into a phrase and make it part of their language. Through that, they were able to preserve part of their knowledge of a sacred principle which will be called the Law of Unity in this book.

Due to the limitations of our current use of both spoken and written language, the Law of Unity cannot be sufficiently described or explained in words. In order to truly know what the Law of Unity really means, it needs to be experienced first-hand. The written words in this chapter can only function as signposts pointing toward the deeper truth hidden behind them, and are meant to provide an easier pathway for the interested reader toward finding the truth expressed by the Law of Unity for themselves.

What the Law of Unity states in general, is that everything in this universe and possibly beyond is in effect all one whole, one being, if you will. This might be hard to grasp at first but when this idea is pondered in depth for longer than just a short moment, then it begins to make more and more sense.

In a way, the Law of Unity is a principle which is very similar to that of Yin and Yang, just that the point of view is different. While Yin and Yang is made up of two complementary and separate parts constantly working on achieving perfect balance, The Law of Unity looks at Yin and Yang from the outside and recognizes the completeness of it, despite the seeming separateness of the individual parts. The interesting thing is that both principles are always there, all it takes is a change in perspective.

Of course, the same is also true for our three-dimensional world. The whole of creation seems to be made of many, many different parts, all of which being separate from each other but still interacting and even building upon one another. And this might very well be true in our current perception of reality, but when the whole universe is looked at as a unit, as one complete existence of variety and apparent separateness, this turns out to be simply not true anymore. Our universe and everything in it – alive or not, physical or not – then becomes one and the same, one infinite being, for lack of a better word.

In the past, there have been human cultures which seemed to have certain understanding of this Law of Unity and saw that everything in our word, though separate and different in many regards, is actually all part of one unit. Most of those cultures were what people today would call primitive in nature and this might have been true regarding their understanding of technologies. However, when it comes to perceiving and comprehending the true nature of our world, they were anything but primitive. Most of them showed this deep understanding in the wisdom of their actions. For instance, they tended to live closely in harmony with nature and only took from it what was needed. There was no greed involved, no exploitation of resources. Also, most of those wise cultures had genuine respect for other lifeforms and revered them as gods or spirit guides, depending on their respective attributes. Some cultures even built temples in all different shapes and sizes which incorporated in some way a natural element, force or celestial body.

All this shows that those cultures knew both about the principle of balance and the Law of Unity. Unfortunately, almost all of them have disappeared by now and what is left is only the buildings and temples, and sometimes even written documents which can tell their stories to us.

We as a human species are very advanced nowadays when it comes to fields of technology but it also seems like we have had to pay a hefty price for it. In exchange for our technological knowledge, we have mostly given up the hard-earned wisdom of balance and unity that our ancestors put a lot of time and effort into living and preserving for future generations.

It is time for us to find our way back to that wisdom and start making it part of all our lives once more for the sake of both Earth’s and our children’s future. Fortunately, it is possible find the wisdom hidden behind the Law of Unity by approaching it step by step. The first step would be to realize that every human, every individual – though often perceived as a single organism – is actually made up of trillions of cells, each of which is made up of an even higher number of atoms. So, in actuality, every one of us is in a way a living unit, composed of many different individual parts.

With this in mind, taking the next step toward realizing that all humans – no matter what size, skin color or gender – actually also form a unit called species is not such a big challenge. Once this realization has become integrated into the minds of people, they will start to see that waging wars, as well as harming and exploiting others is in reality quite an insane way to treat other members of the human family. For what you do unto others, you also do to yourself.

This is the way the Law of Unity applies to us humans and shows us that there is really no difference between people of different nations, or people with different skin colors, or between people of various sexual orientations. They are still all part of the human family and, consequently, should be treated with the same respect and appreciation that we all have for our own selves. This is the true meaning of what In Lak’Ech means. You are another me.

However, this is not where The Law of Unity ends. If taken to its extremes, this universal principle actually encompasses all of creation as we currently know it and beyond. Because everything that exists in creation in one way or another is also part of it, and all those different parts together form a unit as well. No matter what part of creation we focus on – be that the physical part manifested as matter or the energetical part which is not in a state of materialization – all this is still part of one creation, one complete whole. This is also why the universe is called universe. This word literally means “turned into one”. It is truly amazing, considering that an old Latin word can hold such a deep truth.

As can be seen, the Law of Unity plays an essential role in the universe and, by extension, also in our own lives. This inherent union of everything into one whole is always there and all it takes is a change of perspective in order to see it everywhere. Furthermore, the understanding of the Law of Unity is not just an abstract mental exercise but it can and needs to be used in our daily lives if we really care about making a better world today and in the future.

You are another me. We are all one. This is the truth and this is what counts.