Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
White Papers
For World Peace
There are billions of Homosapien bodies in the world, but why so few humans that occupy them? There is the spirit species, Homosapien masculinis and feminis; there is Homosapien theosophist and all its subspecies; there is Homosapien politicum, Homosapien philosophist, and Homosapien traditionalist, in that, the values associated with being human have been superseded by all other spirit species and their subspecies..pre'empted, as it were, by one's choice of deity, political party, tradition..by one's own chosen philosophy, or pre'occupation with identities associated with gender.
There are many spirit species among Homosapiens, and they are all human, but being human occupies a lower station, perhaps the lowest..especially so with regard to one's adopted deity.
There are deities, many and diverse; however, aspiring for all humans to have the same deity is unreasonable, improbable, or even undesirable. The argument here is that world peace will not evolve by one deity conquering all others, nor by the attrition of deities where at some future time, the victor is the last survivor. As deities, or what is held as divine consciousness, will and should vary..what is in common is in how one should conduct a relationship with another. It has been written by many religious traditions, 'Treat others as one would like to be treated.' The hope for peace between humans resides on the common ground to which human beings belongs, or 'what it is to be human.'
For world peace, one's religious vantage must be removed from the public pulpit and moved to the private sector, where it is not the state of the religious majority, nor any other spiritual tradition, but rather, religious majority and minority protected by a neutral state. For the purposes of global social unification, human understanding and its associated values must be promulgated in the nursery and cultivated as primary in the adult simply because it is apprehensible by everyone. This can be effected without sacrificing the sacro'sanctorium of religions or any spiritual vantage with the understanding that the development of divine connections was never meant to unify all human beings. Each human being has an inalienable right to determine for themselves what that divine connection is to be. As long as that connection works for an individual, no matter what that connection is, one connection is as good as another, insofar as one connection does not interfere with another. Any reference to the traditional spiritual majority on public property, podiums, or materials amounts to oppressive imperialism for the spiritual minority, which undermines any effort to give humanism a cardinal rank for world peace. Religion or any form of sacrosanct spiritualism and its articles of faith as political entity, cannot be the source of world peace.
A human being is essentially four'dimensional...'I think, therefore I am'...'I feel, therefore I am'...'I know, therefore I am'...and 'I am that I am.' Each human being needs acceptance, and respect within each of these dimensions.
There are values associated with all other vantages, and learning what they are, is a worthy pursuit. For world peace, however, all human beings must make presidiary..the human family to which they belong. This must be taught in the cradle and deep'structured in society. Once this awareness is made primary and permeates every facet of human society, respect and compassion for each other shall follow, just on the basis of being human. World unification and peace with human sense and sensibility is at hand; unification of divine connections, philosophies, traditions, and genders is not.