Peace is not a consequence of control

We live in a global culture dominated by an idea that we are able to ‘get’ control over our own behaviour, and this leads us to believe that we can therefore ‘get’ control over the behaviour of others, and from this emerges the idea that though the process of ‘getting’ control, we can somehow ‘get’ control of our future.

Which of course leads us to believe that after we have managed to ‘get’ control of everything, we will begin creating and building a personal and global environment characterised by sustainable peace and our wholehearted participation for the common good.

And we live in a world culture of such denial, that few are even able to acknowledge that any and all of this is ‘pathologically irrational’.

And without being able to ‘own’ the problem, there is little hope of dissolving it, and we’re caught in the trap of being repulsed by the violence and insanity we see in the world, yet remaining completely oblivious to the violence and insanity within.

And we find respite in clinging to the only thing that makes any sense, the illusion of our own self-image, in which we believe ourselves to be peaceful, harmonious, flowing and responsive and yet our experience and behaviour reflects otherwise, and this we simply can’t allow ourselves to acknowledge, because that would mean coming face to face with our own fear, pain and irrational behaviour.

If however, you are able to muster the inner conviction to do this, then and only then does it become possible to begin the process of ‘mastering your mindset’, and for the first time come to fully comprehend what it means to peacefully and non-violently influence change, which is the process of transformation and inner alchemy.