A Time for Fusion
A Spiritual Guide for America to Work Toward Globalization and a Coalition of Nations
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A Geographer Halford John Mackinder offered the heartland theory in 1904 a a basis for positioning the west led by England to rule the world. That theory stated what nation controlled the heartland or Eastern Europe and western Russia would be in a pivotal position to control the world. One can see how this theory guided the western world when Napoleon, the Kaiser, and later Hitler attempted to control the heartland by attacking Russia as the finale to their intent for global dominance. Heartland theory is long out-of-date and must be replaced by an alternative that includes all the nations of the world. This book sketches out some of the areas of weakness in America's attempt to use military force to bring peace to the world, and offers an alternative which uses the parallels for religious and philosophical thinking of both the west and the east as typified by the teachings of A Course in Miracles and its spinoff of Attitudinal Healing representing the west and the similar teachings of Buddhism to represent the east. The theme of Fusion is used to describe this process of taking the best parts of east and west and using these to foster the emergence of a true world order that is focused on achieving peace rather than military dominance. World War I is used as an example of how the folly of military preparedness was a crucial event in the occurrence of the war which decimated a whole generation of young men in Europe.
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Fusion offers a backward look at the policies of American and how these policies have failed to advance the broad goals for America. We did come out of World War II at a high point in the ascendency of America, but we lost that high point with our failed attempts to rule the rule as per the Heartland theory which guided the policies of western nations for many years. Now is an opportune time for America to work to become one of many nations and to work on the issues of water, food, and health of nations. We offer a model for fusion.
About the Author
Bill Calhoun was born in California in 1932. He truly feels the experience of being born at a good time for America. We were slowly leaving the great depression behind and entered a war for which we were well prepared and emerged victorious. We were at the top of America's peak in world view and helped Europe recover for the war, established NATO, and helped form the United Nations which could be seen as an outgrowth of Wilson's plan for a League of Nations following WW I. I rode this high into college and naval aviation training about the time of the Korean War which turned out to be the start of America's decline. I completed flight training and served aboard the USS Orinskany for one tour in the Pacific. I flew the Banshee which was an all weather, night fighter converted to carry the nuclear bomb. When my tour was up I returned to College to earn the Bachelors in Psychology at Stanford University and then to U. C. Berkeley to earn the PhD in Psychology. I and my family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee where I was a faculty member until my retirement. Having time I began to write and this will be my fourth book. I became interested in Buddhism and the east and also saw this as a time when America could be crucial in bringing about a new world order in which peace rather than war was the goal. America tried to use its military might to rule the world as if this would bring about peace. That policy has failed in that goal and America's drive for empire is misguided. We need to reorient our national goals with the eye toward furthering a genuine coalition of the nations of the world where we accept our role as one of many nations. For me the parallels of western philosophy and religion and eastern philosophy and religion are clear and offer a means whereby we can seek fusion.