Is there a realistic chance for world peace?
Monika Berghoff/ Verlag Meiga, Oktober 2006

Is there a foreseeable future on Earth free of murder and war? Will the rivers flow in their natural beds again; will animals be freed from their cages for ever; and will all the children of this world have enough to eat and a sense of belonging?
In the face of the violence which is daily inflicted on this planet upon human beings, animals and nature these questions seem absurd, naïve almost beyond human reason.
Nevertheless, they are the crucial questions of our time and from the answers we find to them our future and the further evolution of life on Earth depends.

Under the direction of Dieter Duhm (psychoanalyst and art historian), Sabine Lichtenfels (theologian) and Rainer Ehrenpreis (physicist), a group of European researchers is working in this field. For 28 years these questions are the main focus of their research. They have developed a planetary idea, a global peace plan, whose realization could create a fundamental shift in the direction of peace on Earth.
The idea comprises the following main proposals:

1. A new world view and subsequently a new political action
2. New ethics for all those who wish to participate in the realization of this peace plan.
3. A new social basis for the reconciliation and the love between the sexes.

1. A new world view
We leave behind the material era and enter the era of energy, frequency, and information. Energy and information creates the material world. The Earth with her magnetic field, her waters, landscapes and creatures is a homogeneously vibrating body in the frequency field of the Universe. This body can be healed just as a human body can be healed if administered with the appropriate medicament, i.e. the appropriate information.
The healing information sets in where the wars are created afresh every day, in the cohabitation of human beings. At this point far reaching change is needed. The wanted peace information addresses the essential realms of our life: community, partnership, love, sexuality, and is not to be found sitting behind a desk, rather through concrete life praxis which is to be developed at special research centres (Healing Biotopes or “Peace Research villages. Tamera, located in Southern Portugal, is the first of such centres having been developed during the past twelve years. The so called “Political Theory” establishes how a few of such centres could suffice to initiate a global change.
In the fall of 2006 a new book on this subject will be published: “Future without War” by Dieter Duhm. It describes the “Political Theory” in detail.

2. A new ethic for peace workers
The new ethic is based on the realization that the amount of peace that can be created in the external world depends largely on the amount of peace that has been built up in the internal world. The problems or faults are not only to be found in external situations but above all in the internal structures and thinking patterns of the human being. It is impossible to develop a non-violent society if the inner impulses of rage and violence are merely suppressed and not dissolved. A revolution that has not taken place internally cannot be successful externally. This is one of the teachings of history. Efficient peace work therefore asks of all those participating for a self-change and for a decision to follow the new ethic The cue to this is “GRACE” as described in the book “GRACE. Pilgrimage for a Future Without War” by Sabine Lichtenfels. Its subject matter explains the new ethic along the example of a pilgrimage through Israel and Palestine.
“GRACE is a specific attitude towards life. Living out of this attitude, you will not judge and condemn, you will see the humanity in your fellow human being and let your self be moved by his or her history rather than be deterred by their world views and opinions. GRACE reminds you that behind the horrible dimension of our culture there is another truth and another reality. It is a simple truth which is the same everywhere”. (Sabine Lichtenfels)

3. A new social basis for the love between the sexes
Eros is an elementary force which has been regulated too restrictively in our culture – rather like a river whose natural bed has been straightened and forced into a bed of concrete. This results in “flooding” and catastrophes in the form of illness, depression and violence. A new civilisation is based on a new relationship between the sexes which is free of fear, dominance and violence. To realize this, a new social structure is needed which allows for a stable connection of Eros and trust. The basic thoughts on this subject are explained in chapter 11 of “Future without War”.

In Berlin on November 9th, 2006, the books “Future without War” and “Grace” will be presented to the public for the first time.
The historical date of November 9th was chosen in memory of the “Reichskristallnacht” of 1938 and in memory of the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. On the same day in 2005, a peace meditation, developed by Sabine Lichtenfels, was held in various places, amongst them at the wall in Baqqa (Israel) and in Auschwitz.
This year the meditation is to take place in Berlin. Groups from all over Europe, from Columbia, India, Israel and Palestine will participate in the meditation at chosen places in their own countries by doing so form a “Ring of Power”. Interested people are invited to get in touch with us.
The books are written in German and available in the book trade or directly from the publishers. Both books will also become available via the home-page in English, “GRACE” at the end of 2006 and “Future without War” at the beginning of 2007.
We are grateful for any support. May peace prevail on Earth.

In the service of warmth for all that has skin and hide.

Monika Berghoff/ Verlag Meiga
www.grace-in-berlin.net

Verlag Meiga
Dieter Duhm: Future Without War.
ISBN 978-3-927266- 24-7, Verlag Meiga, 2007
Sabine Lichtenfels: GRACE.
Pilgrimage for a Future Without War.
ISBN 978-3-927266-25-4, Verlag Meiga, 2007

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