PEACE from the Quantum Level

Comment by Cosmic Claire on April 4, 2009 at 8:50am

I remember reading about these 'peace fields' in a newspaper article when I visited the US in 1981, referring to a research study which had been carried out by the Maharishi University in a Southern State, Georgia perhaps? Groups of people meditated in anonymous locations (warehouses etc.) in various areas, some of which were high in crime. Controlled studies, some groups just met and did nothing, others meditated for specific periods. Statistically significant differences were found to appear in crime statistics, the crime rates in high crime areas dropped during and for a significant length of time after the meditation groups were in the areas.

However, crime did not disappear completely, and I believe there is a specific reason for this. It wasn't mentioned in the article I read, but it was only a newspaper so didn't go into so much detail. Whether the study looked at this, I don't know.

There are two possible reasons why crime did not disappear entirely. First is that there were not enough people meditating, or they didn't do it for long enough.

However, I believe that it is probably the case that either way, a small residual level of crime would persist. For a start, you cannot suppress people's free will by your own meditation, and even if you could it would be a violation.

So this would need another explanation, Second: that there is often a small percentage of the population who have a (perceived) investment and advantage in their criminal or negative behaviour. Such people would actually be likely to resist the increase in peaceful vibes, indeed they might even recognise that such a thing was going on. It is possible that they would try to take advantage of such a change in psychic atmosphere and become even more predatory.

War criminals who don't give up when their side loses but instead go into hiding or on the run are examples of this. Peace in this case may not be initiated by meditators (but who knows?), but simply be a natural result of the mass decision of a population.

There is reason to believe that such a phenomenon exists and is taking place in the world even at the present time. For a start, in physics, and evolution as well, if something is possible, then it will happen at some time or other, the 'If it is not forbidden it is compulsory' law.

Humans have learnt that to lie and deceive can bring short term perceived local benefits for the individual. However, in due course, the species needs to learn that such a behaviour is counter adaptive to its good in the long run, and therefore to unlearn that behaviour.

There are always likely to be a small number of hardened recidivists, those who are so deeply in that they have become ringleaders, who will resist the tide of peace, because they actively override the peace wave in the mistaken belief that it is contrary to their interests. They have the maladaptive point of view that they as individuals are more important than anyone else.

There is this debate with some proponents of Buddhist ethics about how to deal with such people. I have heard it argued that to let them have what they want is what should be done. Up to a point perhaps, but where do you draw the line? My own view is that to allow such people free rein is not survival adaptive. The wolf among the sheep metaphor. Pacifism at all costs is a license to warmongers. To compassionately restrain someone after they have committed a crime is entirely different from brainwashing them so that they are unable to do it in the first place, that is to remove their freewill before the action.

I am definitely in favour of spreading peace through spiritual means. I have spent much of my life working to do that. However we should never blind ourselves to the possibility of hidden negativities. Shadows and blind spots will always exist, and they are indeed a stimulus to our own evolution.

This is a subtle and complex debate which requires balance, a balance which perhaps may nev

Comment by Vanese Va Voom on April 4, 2009 at 2:24pm

Claire, one of the teachers I work with John Demartini smiles at ideas like this. He believes there is balance in all things. You cannot have one side of a coin, the yin without the yang. ( In 3D anyway). I was quite discouraged by this, but he explained to me several ideas....
1) Good and Bad are judgments we make because of our values....
e.g. Robin Hood - good or bad? -The answer really depends on your values and whether he took or gave to you. As silly as this sounds, there must have been enough people to support Hitlers values too!

2) If you use the analogy of the body, if cells do not have a mechanism to curb the growth and kill a number of them off, it is called cancer. To the individual cell it sucks to have to die, but to the body it is necessary. So are white blood cells good or bad? Or whatever the mechanism is. In some way this relates to things like Hitler too he explains. I am doing a horrible job to explain it, but again if you take your values above the issue and look down at the possibility that perhaps the earth does need to trim off some of us now and then, is the mechanism that performs that good or bad?

I have sat with this a long time, and I guess my values still get in the way a bit : ) but it is interesting to consider.

Comment by Leanne on April 4, 2009 at 10:20pm

i get the feeling that to really experience peace within one must necessarily give up the attachment to what this means without....i..e. whether this creates peace externally or not.. I think peace/Love ultimately does not blanket everything and everyone in a false sense of peace..one that robs them of free will....real Love is incapable of robbing anyone of their free will...but rather releases into the world Forces that stimulate the reawakening of humanity (which could account for the initial 'high' amongst most people so that the crime stats drop)...however, this might also mean that things get worse for a while before they get better...as all the subconscious ego driven stuff is released..Its like Jesus said...Love keeps that which is like Itself...prunes that which is similar..and totally cuts away that which is unlike Itself..so there is a cleansing process that is inevitable..and while the cleansing is occuring then 'negative' stuff is going to happen...but at least we are now on an upward trajectory rather than a downward trajectory!!

Comment by Vanese Va Voom on April 5, 2009 at 12:48am

That is really interesting Honey....
In playing with what Demartini has said to me and in trying to come to terms with it, I had to do just that....let it go. In fact I think that one of the things that has helped me the most is....letting go, and not judging : ) I try to stay in my Truth, and act with coherence for me... and my world is getting better: ) ( Now watch what happens since I said that LOL!!!!! )

Comment