EXPLORE OUR WORLD
- DISARMED

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate;
but, it is fear.”
Ghandi

To excavate and prepare ground
for deep peace is to move our global politics beyond the fray of
personality, nationalism,
tribalism, and division.

DISCOVER OUR POTENTIAL FOR PEACE
The Soul of Peace Institute
works to open a “way of seeing” into our historic dilemmas that moves us beyond the chatter, expands our worldviews – responds affirmatively to what resists clinical, religious, and military intervention. This opening of worldviews positions the fundamental nature of the work, which evidences as we:
See though the noise
Create sacred spaces where the sensibilities of soul help us see through the noise of fear – in our own psyches and in the psyches of nations, races, and faiths. Expose the powerlessness of fear as a defence. Risk peace in ways that mean something and can change everything.

Open deeper ground for peace

Enter in real time local, national, and global places of disturbance and fear, conflicted needs, protracted abuses of power, and mutual dreams. Honour primal drives and aspirations. Acknowledge historical wounds. Position and embed soul sensibilities as “pre-conditions” toward shared meaning, hope, and a lasting peace.

Strengthen trust

Use autoethnographic-ethnographic living research process to see into the most primal psychospiritual roots of fear and of deep peace. Name what causes us to cut short or move forward that trajectory of deep peace. Lay out a developmental framework all peoples and nations are called to gather around to strengthen trusts and alliances.

BELIEFS
Prepare the ground
Spirituality is not another dimension of peace building – it is core ground. Sensibilities of soul set the tone, attitude, and intent; they are pre-conditions for preparing this ground.

Relieve global anxieties

Human movements exist in a state of psychological, social, and cultural development. Fear arrests this progression, but trust expands what we see and how we lead people and nations through periods of deep fear and insecurity. Global anxieties are relieved as we: get beyond our perceptions of what is unfolding in our politics; release our personal, political, and religious “certainties”; and (instead of fleeing, defending, or posturing) stand in often-conflicted places of grey – to be transformed there.

Shape how we see the world

Personal life experiences, racial histories, cultural legacies, and international usurping of power all form trajectories and narratives that shape how we see the world and our place in it.  We construct human identities based on these views that we defend (sometimes violently) in proportion to our fear that no greater form of our selves, nationalities, and religious and spiritual traditions exists.

See the truth

It’s possible to expand our personal, cultural, and national worldviews; they develop as our ability to see what is truly before us matures. Truth expands our experience of co-existence.

Accords and treaties are sustainable when they mean something to us; a greater justice becomes possible. They have, bred into them, a vision and covenance beyond the immediate truce. When soul-based understandings under gird these accords and treaties, it creates sacred ground on which geopolitical terms of peace can be negotiated – and risk is manageable.

Move beyond the fray

Soul work is deep work. It moves us beyond the fray of personality, nationalism, tribalism, and divisions to deeper relational experiences and a more discerning sense of where truth lies. It exposes and confronts falsities that attempt to confuse those truths.

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