WORLD PEACE AND THE WIDER WEB.

There are whole areas in the affairs of mankind which defy understanding and it is from these areas that the influence on the material world comes. The religionists and the politicians may seek to gain control through this paradox, but the open minded seek to discover and understand it in a wider way, and therefore are seldom in fear of it.

What is very obvious now as certain parts of the world become more disparate and divisions between peoples become even wider through war and economic tension, is that those who use the World Wide Web will surely have the incontrovertible feeling that the earth is a smaller place. There has never been so much communication between ordinary people around the globe on a day-to-day basis on day-to-day matters of both their personal and transpersonal lives.

The revolution in I.T. has gone a long way to prove what the quantum physicists say about time and space; that it is one and the same. But as the world shrinks mentally and spiritually because of this amazing technological phenomenon, so does the time it takes information to travel and circulate.

It is no longer so easy for public relations, media, political spin doctors and others to monopolise the propaganda machine - the information access is wider than the previous classified control and is widening all the time. The Internet has set people free, and this colossal breakthrough in world-wide communication must be respected and recognised as the strongest tool given to the earth since the Caxton press. As with all things monumental, it has its uses and misuses. Its dark and its light side. But the Information Highway is truly here. And whilst its here there is no reason for the culture of world fear to take a hold. Or the restrictions on travel and individual movement to foster misunderstanding and ignorance. Whatever your concerns or unrest there is bound to be an information channel somewhere offering an alternative, clearer or more adapted source of knowledge.

One of the main challenges psychologically and sociologically now is ‘discernment’. Reality and illusion! Picking our way through the minefield of fresh opinion and information with which we are bombarded daily, and almost hourly! The curious and seductive facts, the impelling and bizarre information which pours and oozes toward us in the course of a week. If we are here and alive, we are part of the flow. We cannot escape the need to digest and reflect, and then discern. Unless we go and live in a cave we are part of a digitally interrelated mentally questing forward whole motion. And we are given the chance to ‘know’ before we decide what to think. Many have fought in prior times for this privilege, some have laid down their lives and been martyred for it.

Virtual reality is more and more persuasive. No-one can say they entirely believe something (anything) any more unless they see it with their own eyes, first hand, on the spot interactively! But the danger of impression and image indelibly transferred into the mind through photograph and footage remains a constant which is with us now forever. Like the web itself, its not going to go away. It both highlights the point, and manipulates it.

The truth was never more malleable!  The way we use our information is the way we shape our world through the collective mind. And it remains that what we think is more powerful than what we say or do.

As James Allen once wrote:

“Man is mind, and he takes the tool of thought, and shaping what
he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills. He thinks in secret
and it comes to pass; environment is but his looking glass -”

Lyn Shea.

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