Make Love, Not War
I was invited to submit something to Profound Word Magazine on the topic “Make Love, Not War” and as I am beginning to explore writing more, I figured I might give it a shot. So here it is:
In order for Consciousness to experience itself, it needed to restrict itself into lower and lower levels of probability, and finally into a consciousness that would be separate, so that a self-referrential, self-conditioning system could come to be that could then collapse probability into actuality.
As such, our human consciousness is separate from the whole. Although we are at all times part of the whole, we forget that and consequently suffer. The separation is upheld by fear of otherness, and by desire. Desire results from the misunderstanding that one is separate from other separate entities, and that one needs to conquer them to be whole again. Within the limitations of the ego the path to wholeness leads to the attempt to conquer all. That has given us war: War is the attempt to subjugate everything, consume and destroy if necessary. War is the attempt to blow up the ego to the size of the whole.
This cannot be done. The ego is by definition separate from the whole and can not become the whole. Thus, war is pointless and idiotic. Surrendering the ego, understanding that one belongs to a whole and that the separation is artificial, one can open up the path to connecting to everything again through love. Love is the act of consciously relating, connecting and uniting with the whole. Surrendering the ego, realizing that every living creature, every plant, and even every pebble is as important as oneself, one can begin to develop one’s love.
First through overcoming dualism, through realizing that there is not black and white, friend or foe, male and female, light and dark, but that everything is light, and that darkness is simply the failure to see it. Then, one can expand one’s love, can let it grow and flow to everything that is. If one succeeds in willfully relating to all that is, love all purely, one reunites with the whole in blissful harmony.
Make love, not war.
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