The Initiatory Way to Peace
The Initiatory Way to Peace is the way to achieve peace and harmony within ourselves and with others around us. We all aspire to be happy in life, and avidly seek the path to happiness. However in our avid search we often confound the path to happiness with the search for a comfortable life, only to discover that the comfort we so earnestly aspired to does not in reality provide us with the happiness that a human being is truly capable of attaining!
The Initiatory Way to Peace shows us the path to be happy by rediscovering our true human nature of peace, love, compassion and original faith. It has been elaborated in collaboration with the Research Institute of Human and Social Sciences for Peace Promotion through research conducted on the lives of eminent peacemakers like Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, HH The Dalai Lama, Jody Williams, Wangari Mathai and many others. The research allowed us to discover a commonality in the thought and approach of these people despite the fact that they come from different parts of the world, different times in history and from different walks of life with diverse social backgrounds, religions, cultures and beliefs.
The Initiatory Way to Peace consists of twelve essential steps that all peacemakers go through in their commitment to an ideal of peace.
First we need to be free from all forms of conditioned patterns of thought and behaviour that we have been confined to from our childhood right through to adulthood as a result of our historical, parental, social, cultural and religious heritage. It is only after attaining this freedom that we can make the choice of love and peace as a way of life, in total consciousness, and commit ourselves to living this choice and making it a reality, as all peacemakers have done throughout history.
It is the way that is accessible to every person aspiring to an ideal of peace and love for it shows us how to Be Peace in order to bring peace.