THE PHISOLAMA FOUNDATION is guided by the certainty that
without peace there is no viable future for humankind. Peace is an absolute term
and means the ending of human violence towards all Life, including ourselves.
Without peace there can be no New Civilization, and thus the FOUNDATION is
committed to the unilateral deployment of compassion and love to the end.
Peace is a state in which the human spirit can soar and
where our hearts and minds are joined in the highest expressions of compassion,
the development of the arts, the promotion of thought and learning, and the
flourishing of the garden-planet. Without peace there can be no Future, and thus
the FOUNDATION is committed to the unilateral deployment of compassion and love
to that end.
There are two general areas the PHISOLAMA intends to
support
Peace projects, events, monuments, publications and the
development of specific peace events and activities. The function of these
activities will be to envision peace; to unite people in religious expressions
for peace; identify and address activities that would tend towards disrupting
peace; and support the human right to live life in peace.
Proactive, preventative and reconciliatory intervention to
diffuse, resolve, and heal the effects of conflict, to find common cause, and to
nurture peace at the grass roots. These projects will foster awareness and the processing of
both small and large tensions as well as peace as the absolute goal.
THE PHISOLAMA FOUNDATION recognizes that the absence of war
does not in itself constitute peace. Neither is 'peace keeping' a sustainable
form of peace, but at best the postponement and at worst the repression of
conflict. PHISOLAMA is therefore committed to supporting and facilitating
programs that move towards an ending of conflict at the point where it arises.
Conflict is rooted in the dualistic nature of thought which separates the 'I'
from the 'other'; and through the action of this delusion manifests in conflict
in all its forms and scales.
With this in mind, PHISOLAMA will support programs
that:
¨seek to resolve conflict through
non-violent means at all levels - from nations to neighborhoods, from families
to the inner conflict of the individual
¨work at finding common cause on a grassroots level
¨emphasize reconciliation and
resolution over mediation and diplomacy.
One of the preventative measures PHISOLAMA would like to
foster is the creation of 'peace conduits'. This would involve the shifting of
resources around the planet to limit the potential for violent conflict arising
out of a struggle to control basic needs, such as after a natural disaster. Like
a macroscale 'world game',
countries could agree to produce a conduit for exchange of surplus basic
resources and skills. These could be water, food, organic fertilizers, energy
technologies, or even the movement of teachers or common farmers in one country
who know a technique which would help the farmers in another country. The
synergistic effect of such co-operation would be a demonstration that through
working together we can solve problems through harmony rather than violent
struggle.
