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These times in which you and I live call upon us to live a radical peace. We must live in the center of our souls and be a new way, oblivious to our social and national training, committed to a new convention of relating, doing business, governing, and living healthfully and for the good of the whole. Even people who abhor war often misunderstand peace and are confused about what benefit "doing nothing" offers. Peace, however, is a potent energy that’s assembled in a certain format. Just as some atoms are structured to create the image of a tree, others may be purposely structured to create mass destruction, as witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The distress call that was heard around the world on September 11, 2001 calls us to structure ourselves differently. As a noun, the word "peace" is synonymous with amity, harmony, and concord. The articulation of "peace," as an adjective, is recognized as calm, tranquil, untroubled. In its action state, though, it is synonymous with "being at peace, making peace, and keeping the peace." Many people have the mistaken notion that peace is exemplified by a lack of action, or, perhaps, by a personal calm that blithely ignores "reality." Yet peace is an energy of creation. Quantum physics has shown that our physical world is actually primarily space, and, in effect, the energy of that space holds the molecules of every structure in place, at least until that energy is affected by a different focused energy. Focus of thought, for example, changes the structure of water molecules, resulting in beautiful and varying structures (read The Message from Water by Masaru Emoto). The focus of music, a violin being played for example, causes granules of sand to shift unaided by human hands into elaborate, geometric designs. Focus also multiplied fishes, healed the sick, raised the dead, and toppled British rule in India. All were accomplished peacefully, but certainly something was physically done. The structural results changed! Peace is, essentially, like that vast and powerful space of love between objects that allows for redefinition, redesign, and new functioning. Radical peace is an essence and an agreement we can finally accept. When we do, it is timeless, omnipotent. Its power is within and is not answerable to human-made beliefs and policies, yet it is not stubborn; rather, it is sure, filled with resolve, compassion, and creativity. From the perspective of radical peace, each encounter, plan, policy, agency, and individual is viewed and weighed from a "big picture" perspective. Ultimately, we may ask, is this (act, plan, policy, business, agency, position, person) offering the life of people, our Earth, our universe, our Source, optimal honor, well-being, happiness, and peace? If not, how can we make it so? Now, with vast amounts of unseen assistance, we can lay claim to who we truly are, and we are One with all. We are saints. That idea may be disconcerting for many. Yet, not allowing a doctrine or belief to taint the beauty of the image, in essence what is a saint? Is it not merely a person who feels, accepts, and expresses God’s love and mandate through being and acting in ways that ignore convention and who work, instead, to bring the bounty of God’s love visibly to life on Earth? I’m not talking about just bringing a desire for peace; as saints, as people of peace, we create peace by accepting it as we would a new set of clothes. We live it — we begin now the practice of living — in a way that simply does not accept that there is any rationale or policy that justifies anyone or anything not having their needs met, their existence honored. We can live our lives simply not accepting that there is any other way of being. We recognize instead that those old ways are temporal, changeable, flexible, and full of new possibilities of transformation. We structure the focus of love into daily personal, business, governmental, and spiritual practices. Radical peace incorporates much of what we have read and been taught in spiritual traditions older, most likely, than even the Vedas. It is time now to agree and say "yes" to expressing a new reality upon Earth. How do you demonstrate God’s love? Can you expand it from your present definitions so your light touches not merely you and those in your more immediate circle, but changes the world? If you hang up the phone on a friend or business deal and make a nasty comment or "deal tough" and still think you have remained in your "center," and that such responses "aren’t any big deal," I’d suggest that this requires reconsideration. Every time you approve a personal "bobble," you support tyranny, hunger, disease, war, and shade your light, however momentarily. Reconsideration might also be fruitful for those who believe that our energies shouldn’t be "dissipated" by actively working to change the existing institutional, political structures, or to begin creating entirely new ones. Peace is dissipated when we slip outside our soul-filled love, thinking and acting from anger, despair, confusion, and fear. It’s not dissipated by focusing peaceful intention on creating love, well-being, fairness, abundance, and compassion, and peace where these have been lacking. When you speak your peace in every situation — when, for example, you don’t overlook someone’s complaining about another person’s "error" or "indiscretion," because that’s the acceptable mode of conversing, and instead, say (without personal rancor), "Let you who have not sinned toss the first stone" — you begin creating peace. Jesus is a powerful example of peace lived daily. He set aside the old ways that governed people’s lives. Life could be lived differently and not according to cumbersome spiritual and political rules. Healing the sick was a higher priority than worrying about what day he did it. He replaced heavy-laden commandments with an edict to love God and all our fellow human beings. His healing miracles demonstrated God’s love, but also prove again that as love for all and peace within become our focused center, the physicality of our bonds, the limitations of what we’d believed to be our reality, shifts. We, too, can move mountains. From Jesus’ time forward, love circled the globe, regardless of how people eventually rigidified the teachings into institutions often seeking political and financial gain. Jesus’ seemingly singular act of outrage was upon seeing "the Father’s house" being turned into a shopping mall. That probably irked as being symbolic of what the people as well as institutions would allow. So, when institutional consumerism — greed — ignored the very center of God’s teachings, Jesus exemplified direct action in overturning the tables. Eventually even the Holy Roman Empire collapsed from within. If we fear our ability to live God’s love and sow peace, Christ’s life and the "miracles" show us it’s all been done before. His lessons were brought to life through actions and parables. His death and resurrection lifted the karma of our past, allowing a new beginning. In forgiving even those who would put him to death, nothing was left to chain him to a third-dimensional death, and he stepped free of even that. Accept that you are holier and more powerful than anyone has ever allowed you to believe before, and radical peace begins. Claire Krulikowski, author of the book Moonlight on the Ganga, is presenting "Living a Radical Peace" at Unity of Bellevue on February 20 at 7:45 p.m. Admission is $3.00. Call (425) 747-5950 to confirm. |
Peace cannot exist
outside of our individual lives; neither can it be subject to
the policies and procedures of politics, government, or business
dealings. When we don’t live peace in our feelings for ourselves
and in our relationships with others, the foundation of world
peace is unstable. When subjugated to the "powers"
of governing organizations, we give priority to creating power
for others, not peace for all.