The Change to World Peace is a Deliberate Choice: Chapter One
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | Writings about peace | No Comments
When we review what we know of world events and the socio politics of all cultures and peoples from the last ten thousand years, can we find anywhere there has been a time where the entire planet has been at peace for even one day? How about even one small group of people who lived without war, or the threat of war, for any significant period of time?
So what kind of real, lasting and significant changes would have to be made for world peace to really happen? The United States unilaterally destroying its entire nuclear arsenal? Muslims deciding Jews are all their blood-brothers ?
Jesus landing in downtown Jerusalem after descending from a cloud astride a beautiful white horse? All of us making it alive without a major plague breakout to the year 2013?
Planet Earth has never been a place of peacefullness, so why would peace happen now? The hypocracy of anyone even discussing what real peace might look like versus the common, everyday realities of violence, war and murder is evident. Hypocracy is evident within the non-adherence to the ten commandments, it is evident within the preachings of a judgemental war-god in the old testament; and it is evident within the historical doctrines of Christianity which judged that all Native Americans had no souls, and thus could be tortured and slaughtered without kharmic repercussions.
This doctrine of violence is also evident within the teachings of the Hindus and New-Agers, which tend to preach that everything is quite “OK” as it is….. That once “The Presence of the Source “ had created everything here on earth and in the heavenly realms, the evils and the violence are a stepping stone to understanding there is no good and evil, there is no wrongdoing, everything is OK just as it is; and needs no change. Real change is not necessary for peace to break out in the physical or political world: just as long as the individual is enlightened and feels the “peace that knoweth no understanding” within, the rest of humanity will attain this state in its own due time, i.e. “whenever, whatever, dude”. Then who really is supposed to be left to care enough about an end to war and violence and terrible injustices, that they would actually be so stupid as to try and do something about it?
Besides, the penalty for trying to enact real social, political and religious change is always death and martyrdom: just look at William Wallace, or JFK and RFK, look at Martin Luther King Jr.; look to what happened to Jesus Christ soon after he overturned the money-lender’s tables at the holiest of all ancient Jewish temples….
Is the seeking for peace a riddle with no answer, a great mystery with few solved problems, a goal that can never be reached?
The Change to WorldPeace Is A Deliberate Choice: Chapter Two
Saturday, January 24th, 2009 | Writings about peace | No Comments
Glenn Kamamura, founder and CEO of PeaceSigns (PonyTail at front) focalizing a medicine-peace-wheel ceremony at the “imagine Peace Paint-in , Oct. 9, 2008, Civic Center Park, Denver, CO
According to the teachings of both Buddhism and Hinduism, God created both good and evil, and has total non-judgment over a preference for which are being enacted by humanity.
Actually, the deepest teachings tell us that there is no good and evil, only choices that are made which bring happiness and joy, or pain and fear.
The “ego”, which is a partly illusionary vehicle (much like our cars) is an energetic combination of our mind interacting with our emotions.
How is the ego like an automobile? Our cars get us easily and quickly around to many specific places. Our egos were created to not just keep us alive, but to experience as fully as possible the physical worlds we purposefully reincarnate into. But the ego is entirely focused on either what is fearful, or being in the comparative moments of the absence of fear. Either way, the ego’s job is to always keep us focused on fear.
This important aspect of the ego was designed to make sure we all had a decent chance to survive in a violent and hostile world. It would ensure we experienced timewise enough of the physical reality so that procreation took place for the continued propagation of the human species. We wouldn’t last here very long if the ego’s fight or flight adrenaline responses were offline and wouldn’t protect us from being eaten by bears and saber-toothed tigers, or being speared by neighboring tribal warriors. The kidneys, of which the adrenal glands physically sit directly on top, are the body-area that responds automatically to the emotion of fear.
It is no accident that the adrenals are the home to the hormones aldosterone and adrenaline, and can boost our body’s abilities to extraordinary powers within a split second if physical danger to ourselves or others is evidenced.
If this was the only job the ego was designed for, things might be a little bit simpler for humanity right now; but the ego was given one other job description that is a full-blown catch-22: It keeps us from knowing that absolutely everything is God-Presence. Which means the ego was also designed to keep us from knowing, or the self-realization, that we have always been and always are this very mysterious “God.”
I call this situation God’s “game” because it creates a constant, never-ending adventure through an infinite number of lifetimes, and throughout an infinite number of universes (different types of physical realms).
While a number of religions have morphed this knowledge into the ego being “the Devil”, or making excuses for the huge amounts of violence on earth that “God” didn’t know it was going to get this bad”, I fully believe that since God exists outside of and non-attached to linear time, the growth of violence here is not accidental.
And while the ego was created to be entirely focused on fear, being in a continuous state of knowing that everything including all humanity no matter how violent and evil it appears to be, is God; is being in a continual state of acting from love. Unconditional Love.
This unconditional love operates way beyond the scope of any concepts of philosophies, any physical, emotional and mental controls on anything and everything whatsoever. Unconditional love especially is the exact opposite to holding judgments of right and wrong, good and bad, or plainly: good and evil.
The fears of the ego are operationally created out of our mind having the need to control things in order to feel safe and our emotions having the need to seek pleasure instead of pain, which includes feeling safe instead of vulnerable. Because feeling vulnerable means we are not in control, we don’t know what is about to happen next. To the ego, this is emotionally painful.
God’s love operates from the realms of the energies of the heart, which at times can be unexplainable, indescribable, illogical and unreasonable.
Booth at Imagine Peace Paint-In, Oct 9th
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | Special Specials | No Comments
On Oct. 9th, 2008 we had our first-ever sales booth at a public event. This
was also a first time event for downtown Denver…… the “Imagine Peace
Paint-In” celebrating John Lennon’s birthday.
The pic of the peace-sign made out of rocks was from a medicine-wheel
ceremony led by Glenn Kamamura, the founder of PeaceSigns. (he’s the one
with the pony-tail and the green shirt). This picture was printed in the Rocky Mountsain News, the following day.
We sold 62 PeaceSigns in 7 hrs and considering the event was on a Thursday and was its first time, we feel this was a great retail-launch!
About Peace Signs
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | Special Specials | No Comments
PeaceSigns, LLC. printed its first magnetic sticker, an American flag with the slogan: “I’m For Peace” just before Christmas of 2005. They were placed in a number of local book and novelty stores in the Denver and Boulder Colorado areas, including the University of Colorado Bookstore and the Boulder Bookstore (on the Pearl Street Mall). The monies for startup were a few loans from friends, and credit cards.
The company lay dormant until May of 2008 as a new professional sales force
has come on board. We now have eight new designs ready for sale, a consumer-oriented package shipping company sub-contracted to handle all personal orders, and this “glowing” new web-site designed for simple, easy navigation. Besides the designs you see on this web-page, we have other designs created for sale
around the world. We can custom-design a peace sign for practically any company, any cause, or any idea.
Our goal is to spread everywhere a gentle visual message for World Peace through brightly colored, creative graphics. We are purposely staying away from negative messaging, as we feel this does not spiritually support a positive energy. We believe, “what you resist, persists”, so that our PeaceSigns will never carry a visual or a slogan that expresses any personal desires to stop something going on in the world that many would consider evil, or violent. The way to peace is to focus on all aspects of what is truly peaceful, whether that be daily meditations, helping the homeless and sick without asking for anything back, or being a political peace activist. We must be peaceful first deep inside of ourselves, before we can truly create a lasting change of peace in the outside world.
The founder and owner of PeaceSigns, LLC., Glenn Kamamura, is an Artist and Spiritual Healer who once led peace marches in May of 1970 up through the middle of Manhattan and Wash, DC. No one has ever heard of these events. The marches were so peaceful, that there were no arrests, and no violence broke out.
May peace grow within your hearts as you read this, and in people’s hearts everywhere, as we positively focus on PEACE being not just an alternative to war, poverty and violence, but THE ONLY WAY!
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Whatever We Resist Persists.
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 | Writings about peace | No Comments
Whatever we resist persists. When we focus on anything in a “negative” or yucchey emotional way, we draw to ourselves weird circumstances we won’t like. (unless you are a masochist). The designs of our Peacesigns were created specifically to be either of a “positive” emotional nature, or just plain neutral.
It would have been so,so easy to have some that read “Support Peace, Send the troops home”, or The US has a new plague, have you heard? We’re all infected with Mad Cowboy Disease”.
Let’s not ignore what’s going on politically and socially and economically, either. “PeaceSigns” is a simple, visually gratifying way for us to let the world know it’s time for something better; and it won’t be easy to create the positive changes that are going to have to happen, or else.
So while many of us know that peace must start from within, these PeaceSigns are one way of connecting how we feel within to the outside world too. Nothing wrong in that!