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Sixty years after Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell issued their manifesto about the growing threat of world war, the globe continues to face the prospect of nuclear annihilation coupled with the looming threat of climate change as well as Teilhard's ominous warning ~ Love one another or you will perish: Allen L Roland, PhD
"We have reached a
decisive point in human evolution, at which the only way forward is in the
direction of a common passion ~ Either we must doubt the value of everything
around us, or we must utterly believe in the possibility, and I would add, in
the inevitable consequences of universal love." Teilhard de Chardin,
Human energy
But we must take little comfort in those accomplishments today for as Pastreich explains ~ " The United States has completely forgotten about its obligations under the Nonproliferation Treaty, and the words “arms control” have disappeared from the conversation on security. The last year has seen the United States confront Russia in Ukraine to such a degree that many have spoken about the risks of nuclear war.
As a result, on June
16 of this year Russia announced that it will add 40 new ICBMs in response to the investment of the United
States over the last two years in upgrading its nuclear forces.
Similar tensions have
emerged between Japan and China over the Senkaku/Diaoyutai Isles and between
the United States and China over the South China Sea. Discussions about the
possibility of war with China are showing up in the Western media with
increasing frequency, and a deeply disturbing push to militarize American
relations with Asia is emerging." See article ~ https://www.transcend.org/tms/2015/07/satoshi-ashikaga-transcend-media-service/
But this time, as
Pastreich correctly asserts, the dangers of nuclear war are complemented
if not reinforced by an equal, or greater, threat: Climate Change. ~ "
Even the commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear,
told the Boston Globe in 2013 that climate change “is probably the
most likely thing that is going to happen . . . that will cripple the
security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all
often talk about.’’
But
perhaps the warning voice of Teilhard de Chardin, who died 60 years ago, should
also be added to those of Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in proclaiming
that our trip on the dark side has only one obvious consequence ~ Extinction.
Teilhard
de Chardin
It
is Teilhard, the Jesuit priest. paleontologist and explorer of the soul
whose life's work was the reinterpretation of Christianity in the light of
evolution, who stands impatiently at the summit of man's quest for the
ultimate truth proclaiming to all that God is love.
To
Teilhard, not only is love the most universal, the most powerful and the most
mysterious of the cosmic forces but it is also the primal and universal psychic
energy ~ a Unified Field of love and soul consciousness
whose primary property is the universal urge to unite.
And
it is Teilhard who writes in Human Energy ~ " Love one another.
These words were pronounced two thousand years ago ~ but today they sound again
in our ears in a very different tone. It no longer says only; Love one another
in order to be perfect but adds Love one another or you perish … Therefore,
despite all checks and all improbabilities, we are inevitably approaching a new
age ~ in which the world will throw off its chains and at last give itself up
the power of its inner affinities ~ the universal urge to unite and universal
love".
We
cannot escape our destiny and it is divine. It
will perhaps happen during our lifetime and we all have a part to play in it if
we will but surrender to what is deepest within us ~ a Unified Field of love and soul consciousness or
as Emerson wrote The thread of all sustaining beauty that runs through all
and doth all unite.
Declaration
on the 60th Anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto
July 9, 2015
In view of the
growing risk that in future wars weapons, nuclear and otherwise, will be
employed that threaten the continued existence of humanity, we urge the
governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their
purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to
find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.
We also propose that
all governments of the world begin to convert those resources previously
allocated to preparations for destructive conflict to a new constructive
purpose: the mitigation of climate change and the creation of a new sustainable
civilization on a global scale.
This effort is
endorsed by Foreign Policy in Focus, the Asia Institute, and World Beyond War,
and is being launched on July 9, 2015.
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Allen
L Roland, PhD
Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
