{"id":6623,"date":"2013-09-21T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T04:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2013-09-21T01:21:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T05:21:56","slug":"is-world-peace-achievable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=6623","title":{"rendered":"Is world peace achievable?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before World Peace, World Prosperity, World Harmony, Health, Happiness, etc. & all that other good stuff can be achieved, we will see it first modeled in miniature.<\/p>\n

That is, in certain areas, people of\u00a0 like-minded mentality will start flocking or congregating towards it.<\/p>\n

Before the proverbial World Peace, we may first have it in certain areas ~ perhaps first in small islands, villages or towns, or larger cities or countries.\u00a0 An example might be when a small country models this, and larger countries eventually follow suit.<\/p>\n

It may happen spontaneously, or organizationally, or both.<\/p>\n

What this does, is to give us a taste, or a contextual field of comparison to experience it in miniature, and this can help us decide what we may prefer to experience as a larger collective.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve not heard of such a place or places yet, but maybe you have?\u00a0 I do believe there are individuals who do this within their own lives.\u00a0 This seems more so now, than at any other time in earth\u2019s history\/herstory.<\/p>\n

Now, if the world truly desired World Peace at this time, we\u2019d put way more education, effort, energy, research & resources toward creating that.\u00a0 So, on some unconscious, or maybe even conscious level, we simply are not ready or willing for it, and couldn\u2019t even handle it if it did suddenly happen.\u00a0 Let me give you an example:<\/p>\n

Years back, I heard a public radio program where nice,
\nmiddle-class couples would take in foster kids, to give them the loving homes they always wanted.\u00a0 Yet what happened, was that the kids would eventually do things like start fires & create havoc.<\/p>\n

I was personally astounded at this!\u00a0 I thought that kids from a chaotic, dysfunctional environment would love to be in a more financially & emotionally prosperous, peaceful and loving environment.<\/p>\n

Yet, what the program reported was that the kids where so used to the negative drama in their lives, that to be moved out of it was kind of a shock, and so they re-created this chaos because that\u2019s what they were used to.\u00a0 They just weren\u2019t ready or acclimated enough for such a huge change.<\/p>\n

I think this can apply to World Peace too.\u00a0 If we had World Peace tomorrow, we might think it to be absolutely grand; however, we\u2019d be so unfamiliar with it, that we\u2019d go back to creating negative drama again, simply since that\u2019s what we\u2019re used to.<\/p>\n

Another example:
\nOften (not always) people who are too quickly put in certain situations, even desirable ones, are simply not prepared for them. \u2026 People who gain fame, wealth, or both, too fast, can have great difficulty adjusting to the suddenness of it all.\u00a0 People often fair better when it\u2019s more gradual over time.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

This is something I think about.\u00a0 I think about it also in relation to people like many of us, advancing on the spiritual path, who feel our evolution, as a world, is just too slow.<\/p>\n

I get that \u2013 I feel it too!\u00a0 The antidote, is to have compassion & love on our unhealed parts or those aspects that are not fully healed.<\/p>\n

That does not mean that we can\u2019t be the influencers, instigators, leaders, movers & role models to move this forward.\u00a0 We can, and this can bring it in more smoothly.<\/p>\n

How many people feel deep inner peace?\u00a0 Or, how many even feel inner peace as a majority of their experience?\u00a0 If we don\u2019t have our own individual inner peace, how can we expect the rest of the world to?<\/p>\n

Many people think there is a point of critical mass, when a certain amount of individuals have inner peace, and it then will spread more quickly, both globally & collectively.<\/p>\n

An example of quick, but also gradual movement, is how smart phones spread worldwide. The first iPhones came out\u00a0June 29, 2007.\u00a0 That\u2019s only 6 years ago!\u00a0\u00a0People adapted quickly, at least those who could afford them.\u00a0 Even many homeless people now have cell phones.<\/p>\n

I think that as more of us work & play to have inner peace & harmony, and emotional & financial prosperity, this will attract more of that to us.\u00a0 This will also influence others to find out how we achieved it, and are able to sustain it.<\/p>\n

Is this a viable way to look at World Peace?\u00a0 Will we ever achieve it?\u00a0 Do we need to?\u00a0 Is it inevitable, given our evolution?\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n

\"Marko\"(Marko Damkoehler\u00a0is an artist\/writer\/musician and creator of markoworld.com, as well as an avid student of CwG. He is also one of the Spiritual Helper Moderators on the changingchange.net website.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Before World Peace, World Prosperity, World Harmony, Health, Happiness, etc. & all that other good stuff can be achieved, we will see it first modeled in miniature. That is, in certain areas, people of\u00a0 like-minded mentality will start flocking or congregating towards it. Before the proverbial World Peace, we may first have it in certain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-column"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}