The Butterfly Effect of Peace
Here is a poem I wrote on the Butterfly Effect and the wikipedia explanation of what it means.
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT TRANSFORMS ALL LIFE
Is life chaotic or ordered?
Is it confusing or clear?
Uncontrollable or predictable?
Stable or unstable?
Under what conditions?
Is it the viewer or the object that changes?… Continue reading
United Nations: The Rights of Nature Is Our Right to Life
Interestingly, the rights of nature would not need to be regarded when we are in harmony. I can envisage extraction industry people, politicians and those espousing business-as-usual scoffing at The Rights of Nature as an idealistic unrealistic statement. Yet in truth it is the very life support beneath their feet. Denial is… Continue reading
We Pretend to Emulate Creation
ONE BODY
Evolution of layers,
placed carefully one by one,
piecing together the jigsaw,
so beautiful so complete,
but some pieces are missing,
I can’t find them on the floor,
why doesn’t it make sense to me,
anymore.
Universal connectedness,
some are conscious of the spiritual path,
a subtle knowledge,
cannot be… Continue reading
The Power of One is the One Power
I felt this today. Then I saw the Power of One the movie about apartheid in South Africa. It was hard to watch the violence but I made myself love the perpetrator as the yin/yang of an experience where in the movie the indigenous South African’s experienced their great courage and solidarity. That wouldn’t be… Continue reading
McNamara: Lessons from War and Peace Perspectives
Robert McNamara in the previous blog featured in a documentary called the Fog of War depicting his recollections of pivotal wars in US history. It appears to me to be an honest account and retrospectively drawing upon his own lessons that he learned from mistakes. I feel from his experience he is… Continue reading
Evolution of A Global Peace System
As we start to see ourselves as one with each other a responsibility to protect the environment and each other emerges. It is to learn to engage in nonviolent approaches to resolve conflict and to see conflict as an opportunity for growth rather than persecution. What we have seen over history is a clear trend… Continue reading