True peace above diversity and differences

Question from the Internet:

“How can we attain peace amidst the diversity of culture, practices, and beliefs existent in indigenous communities?”

Peace — based on its Hebrew origin, “shalom” from “shlemut”, wholeness, completion — is specifically possible to achieve only when there is diversity, vast differences and perceived incompatibility between elements of a closed, living system.

“Peace” between similar and homogenous elements is not peace; that is an inanimate and lifeless state.

Life — through a general balance and homeostasis is produced by closed and integrated natural systems, where the vastly diverse and different, seemingly incompatible elements and parts interconnect and start mutually complementing each other.

For the best example, we can look at our own biological bodies, with the myriad of extremely diverse cells and organs that interconnect for the single purpose of enlivening and sustaining the collective body they build.

We will have peace between individual human beings and nations when we all understand that besides and above caring for our inherently egocentric, self-serving and self-justifying individual existence and success, there is a qualitatively much higher and much more important collective existence we all need to support and experience.

Then, just as the mutual cooperation and mutually complementing service of our body parts produce a “composite and collective consciousness” we feel as our selves when human beings build a similar collective organism by acting exactly how our healthy biological cells and organs act for the sake of the whole body, we will also acquire an unprecedented collective consciousness that will provide us all with a completely different, incomparable sense of existence.

And since this collective consciousness will supersede our inherently egocentric and subjective individual consciousness and perception of reality — while this original viewpoint will not disappear — we will all feel our existence above and beyond the egocentric and subjective limitations of time and space.

And this is something we can and have to achieve right here and right now since this is exactly what evolution’s relentless plan and Nature’s strict and unforgiving laws that govern the finely balanced and mutually integrated system demand from us.