This article is on violence. Very sadly, violence is too often in the headlines, especially recently with the case of Columbine School and other shootings*. For those of us who were around in the sixties this reminds us of the Texas Tower killer and the terrible shock of seeing a mass killer for the first time on television shooting from a tower onto people below.
*This article was originally written in the early 2000s.
I think most of us would like to see an end to all this violence. I think a great many of us would like to see the end of violent films which encourage such outrageous acts.
We are afraid often in our own homes, in our schools, in our jobs, and in the street. What will bring all this violence to an end? Can we take an hour or so while reading to begin to examine what is causing all this violence. Is violence a natural act for human beings? Are we a violent species or can we live a life that is free from violence?
Most of our efforts so far to end violence are on the tertiary level.
Violence erupts and we send in a task force to suppress it or we provide our schools with all sorts of devices, alarms, photo cameras etc to stop violence. On the secondary level we bring in counselors to talk to students who have all ready started a conflict such as a bullying situation.
But it is on the primary level which we need to act. We need to prevent violence before it starts.
We will be examining the roots of violence in [other] articles [on this website]. What are the causes of the terrible hurtful actions such as mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and war? What makes a human beings act violently?
Instead of thinking of many reasons for violence psychologically, socially, and politically, we are going to examine the structure of our thinking process directly without any preconceived ideas or beliefs to find what movement in our thought process is creating violence.
When we think, we are creating a movement in time and space. Thinking is a material process something as real as a radio wave. Our thoughts create actions and these actions can be violent. If we can examine our thought process then perhaps we can see in what ways thinking is creating violence, at the primary level.
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