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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - An Extraordinary Correspondence on What Prevents Peace from two Young People Taught to be Enemies
107 pages • Size: 6" x 9" • Paperback
If Ignorance Can Bring About War, Education Can Lead To Peace.
We Can Help Build a More Peaceful Future –
One Book at a Time
The most important element of a free society is democratic thinking. Conflict in human relationship is created by thinking that is conditioned to a particular fragmentary point of view due to the particular environment one has grown up in. Conditioned thinking prevents democratic thinking and action because it fixes antiquated ethnocentric beliefs into dogmatic, rigid patterns of behavior that divided people into opposing tribal ideologies. The foundation of a humane and intelligent society is open-minded, enlightened free inquiry, that is, the freedom to think without any restrictions or pressure due to fear or coercion of any kind. In this way people can intelligently question the underlying conditioning that creates this fragmentation.
We ask you to help enlighten the minds of people around the world who are oppressed by autocratic political, religious or nationalistic systems of belief that hinder democratic thinking and living. Please read this book and then pass it on to a friend. There is an urgent need, especially in the world today, to question the conditioned thinking that has time and again led us into conflict. Your sharing of this one book has the possibility to help another to be free of ignorant bondage.