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War and Peace: The Collective Addiction to Conflict

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Bashar addresses war not as an inevitable human trait but as a collective belief system that has been reinforced for millennia. He teaches that war is the extreme expression of the belief in separation—'us versus them.' At the individual level, this manifests as internal conflict; at the collective level, it becomes war. Bashar notes that those who most vehemently oppose war often reinforce it by focusing their energy on the very thing they claim to reject. The anti-war movement, from this perspective, is still a war movement—just on the other side. The solution is not to fight against war but to cultivate peace within oneself. 'You cannot create peace by fighting. You create peace by being peace.' He also explains that some souls choose to incarnate into war zones to experience extreme contrast and accelerated growth, though this is not a justification for violence but an explanation of soul choice. He predicts that as consciousness evolves, war will become unthinkable, much as slavery became unthinkable in most societies.
Translation Note
術語對照:Collective Addiction to Conflict → 對衝突的集體上癮;Anti-War Movement → 反戰運動。此為巴夏對社會衝突的形上學分析。
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