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Future without War |
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from the German by Sten Linnander |
ISBN 978-3-927266-24-7
Paperback, 120 S., Format 14,7 x 21cm
12,80 €, 19,80 Sfr, 16,80 US-$
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Is
there a foreseeable future on Earth free of 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, born 1942 in Berlin,
sociologist, psychoanalyst, former Marxist and one of the
leading heads of the '68-Student Movement in Germany 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, whose realization
could create a fundamental shift in the direction of peace
on Earth.
In his book “Future Without War” Dieter Duhm
outlines this global peace strategy. It is based on the
idea of modern natural science that the building component
of mater is not the atom, instead it is energy, frequency,
information. Earth with its atmosphere and magnetic field,
with its waters and landscapes, its creatures, biotopes
and human societies is an integral, oscillating and living
body that can be healed, just as a human body can be healed
if the appropriate medicine, i.e. the appropriate information
is administered.
The healing information is wanted most at the points where
new wars are created daily: in the cohabitation of human
beings. In this area far reaching change is necessary. Words
and appeals alone are not enough. The peace information
needed will emerge from social structures whose ethical
basic values of compassion, trust, mutual support and solidarity
are no longer being destroyed, but rather, they are being
generated and maintained.
Places are needed where the conditions for peaceful co-habitation
are researched and put into practice.
Dieter Duhm calls them “Healing Biotopes”. These
act rather like acupuncture points to foster a new future
in the body of Earth.
The book explains why worldwide only a few such centres
will be sufficient to tip over the “information field”
of violence. It is not the first time this possibility is
seen. David Bohm, a quantum physicist, had too mentioned
it, so did spiritual masters, such as Sri Aurobindo (India),
Satprem (his deciple) or Dhyani Iwahoo (Leader of the Tsalagi,
USA), or Teilhard de Chardin.
Together these few centres will create the microscopically
small change which may and will have a large effect on the
“Whole”. Dieter Duhm: “Decisive for the
success of such peace projects is not how big and strong
they are in comparison to the existing apparatuses but how
comprehensive and complex they are, how many elements of
life they are able to combine and to unite in a positive
way. In the field buildings of evolution it is not the law
of the strongest, but the success of the more comprehensive
that counts. No new developments would otherwise have been
able to assert themselves had they not all begun small and
inconspicuous.”
The development of the first such centre began in 1995 in
Portugal. Today approximately 150 people are engaged there
in the development of a life form which is to be free of
fear, lies and violence. Further initiatives in this direction
have started in Israel/Palestine and Colombia.
Some statements:
“This book ist a powerful formula
for achieving peace by peaceful methods. For us who live
under occupation in Palestine, working towards the realization
of such a perspective provides an answer not only to how
to end the occupation but also to how to prevent future
conflicts once the occupation ends.”
Sami Awad (Director of the Holy Land Trust, Trainer for
Non-Violence, Bethlehem, Palestine,)
“The vision presented here is not only described in
a vivid way, it is also well-founded in scientific terms.
As someone who was actively involved in the kibbutz and
peace movement since the foundation of the state of Israel,
I can only say: may this Utopia blossom in the heart of
many people.”
Reuven Moskovitz (Author, Historian,
Israel)
“This is an
outstanding book that every peacemaker must read!”
Arun Ghandi (Institute of Nonviolence,
USA, grandson of Mahatma Ghandi)
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