There Are No Enemies
A Practical Philosophy of Life
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The book is divided into 7 chapters; A Philosophy of Life for Humankind describes the practical philosophy. The Science of Being Altogether, combines both science, operating in the field of knowledge which is human, and spirituality operating in the field of understanding which is divine. Language can only describe the functions and the components of the Life Force which is the Intelligent Designer, the One, the Moving God, the Providence, the Divine, God, called by any name or no name...Human actions and human behavior are in the realm of human affairs, in the field of knowledge which is different from the state of belongingness or the divine element in the universe affecting everyhing animate and inanimate. Ethics and Spirituality (inherent divinity) overlap but may be described separately. Ethics, governed by actions, concerns itself with human beings' interpretation of the divinity, or the spirituality inherent in their belongingness. It is the science of morals or the moral principals rooted in the divine...By their actions, in the realm of ethics, human beings establish their character. The Understandings. Reverence for Life is the divine gift of belongingness. When reverence for life is the first and foremost guiding principle of living, human beings' most creative energies are expended upon conducting the affairs of the world in such a way as to preserve life. The taking of life, or speciel killing, is not a function of being human. It is a scientifically untenable position to include speciel killing as a function of humanity... to kill another is to kill the self. The Difference between the Female and the Male. The male without conscious effort, does not understand belongingness, the primal right to be in the way that the woman does. Not understanding this, he may base his knowledge upon science minus the being altogether. The Relationship between Belongingness and Ethics. Belongingness is the gift of equality, in the realm of spirituality which is infinite. Ethics is a science, the science of morals. The actions of human beings are determined by individual wills. From birth humans develop their will or will power which guides their individual actions. When (will power) is guided by conscience, it submits to or chooses those actions which are in harmony with the Life Force, God. The Universe of Money and Wealth. Money and wealth are both a-moral. By themselves, they are not a part of the life force... Money does not belong to anything or anyone. Control of money belongs to humans in the realm of human affairs. .. People who revere money give power to those who have control of it....Money is the great contender for people's hearts and minds. In the 21st century, the acquisition of it has overtaken the organic concept of character as the most highly prized of human achievements. The conscience-in-action represents the drive towards harmony with the Life Force. This is possible by way of reverence, reverence for one's own self, reverence for the self of others, reverence for the Life Force, the Intelligent Designer, the Living God, the Moving God, the Providence, God, called by any name or no name. This may be accomplished by religions, meditation, or any activity where the mortal coalesces with the immortal or the divine. Philosophy in Action is a series of essays. The thought of "enemy" and the action of war took us all back in time to the 20th century and not forward into the 21st. Great progress had been made since the end of World War II and World War I to move our global thought beyond the necessity of war toward the necessity of a global community where those who cause destruction are judged and sanctioned by the will of the world and not the terror of war. The Right of the Womb- post 911- excerpts, consists of poems; i.e. Jerusalem - the Pause. Tell them there are no enemies -----Where the blood seeps into the ground----Where mangled bodies are mingled ----All children together now. -----All children of God you raised us -----Brothers and sisters are we ----- You have killed us with your hatred ----- But now we are together free -----Free of all your anger ----- And your claims to God's own ground ----- Israeli Palestinian dead chidren are we ----- And now finally we are all free! Ground Zero May 30, 2002 - My Passing. In this place I drew my last living breath ----- But I am not here ----- I am with you,----- With you, with you -----And if you grieve ----- And believe ----- That life's luster is gone ----- With me ----- Listen, listen ----- My spirit lives ----- I am nobler by far ----- Than that which took my breath, ----- Remember ME ----- And after grieving ----- Grow my love, grow ----- With every act of humanity ----- Think of me ----- Take my life's fulfilment, it is yours ----- Take it and find the joy ----- That was awaiting me ----- Find it my love, it yearns for you --- Strength upon strength upon strength. ----- Adieu, adieu ...Through the Lens of Art, and War for the People - the 20th Century, consist of poems. The final chapter is War is Obsolence, an essay and poem.
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There Are No Enemies explores a Practical Philosophy of Life for humankind based upon reverence for life and The Science of Being Altogether first offered by Aristotle, the Philosopher. Human beings are all deemed to share a common spirituality which can be accessed by the individual conscience and is divine, operating in the field of understanding. The field of science shares the same source as the field of spirituality Written by an artist-scholar, the artistic suspension of disbelief is offered to effect a vision of humanity participating harmoniously in the Life Force of the universe itself and using as a touchstone for their common spirituality, their own religion, their own God, Allah, Yahwah, called by any name or no name. Following the philosophy applications of it are offered concerning Iraq, Israel, Terrorists, the Money God, Hatred, Diplomacy, the War Machine, Australian Aboriginal Spirituality, Native American Peace Examples as well as poetry excerpted from the author's other books: ThuGun and Natasha, The Round Table, Maria and the Comet and Anzac to Understanding.
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About the Author
Mary Anneeta Mann was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Her father was an original Anzac, having fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. He was severely injured in Flanders Field in 1916 and 1917 but stayed in the service until the end of the war. His children however had to become self supporting early and Mary’s formal education ended after two years of High School. She was working at sixteen and secured the rest of her high school through evening classes and correspondence.
She married a new Australian, a young man born in Poland who became stateless after he escaped both Russians and Germans when Poland was divided after the Second World War. He waited five years for a visa to America and the young couple came to Berkeley in 1954. Mary attended poetry classes, meetings and readings in Berkeley and San Francisco in the 1950s while her husband was at the University of California at Berkeley but they returned to Australia in 1961 where she got her B.A. degree from Sydney University. Mary returned alone to the United States in 1966. The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing on the Berkeley campus, as well as the Women’s Movement and palpable opposition to the Vietnam War. She secured her M.A.. Degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970, having written the play Anzac in 1968. It was primarily blank verse after her total immersion in Shakespeare at the university Civil Rights and the Women’s Movement had ushered in a new age of awareness.
Mary worked at the Pacifica Foundation for seven years as its first Controller but came to Los Angeles to secure her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California incorporating assistance with her book on Aristotelian Methodology, HUBRIS, The Construction of Tragedy. Her quest to understand why war was still not ended The Philosophy of Science had to be studied as well as the world’s religions. She co-edited Science and Spirituality with Rev. Leland Stewart and finally in There are no Enemies, a Practical Philosophy of Life as well as the ending of Anzac to Understanding, she found the philosophy and prepared a Diagram.
She was ordained into the Ministry of the Unity- and- Diversity World Fellowship and edited the book Mentoring Poems, Four Centuries of Selected Poetry to be used for educational purposes as well as a volume of her own poetry, Poems of Woman.
In this second edition of There are No Enemies, Mary has begun the philosophical work of bringing Money into harmony with Organic Nature. The meaning of Democracy itself is now under close scrutiny and the potential for peace is threatened more by money than by war.