“Love your enemies.” Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:44 Loving our enemies is the essential outcome of any spiritual practice and essential prerequisite to any conflict intervention. It’s the ultimate test of our character as a human being, community, or nation. And of course, it’s the central principle of this work. Everything else we can play around…
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I was watching my daily dose of self-enrichment videos when YouTube’s (brilliant) search algorithm popped this video up. I exceeded my quota for the morning, but I was curious about the person in the video and what he looked like… and I can say, I’m now inspired to write my next blog post on this…
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Earlier, I wrote an article on how respect is a prerequisite to any meaningful interaction. There really is no purpose to an interaction, and no fruits can come out of dialog, if there isn’t mutual respect first. We can look at our recent US Presidential Debates to see how no one’s learning anything from each…
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Though I don’t call myself Christian, I love Jesus and the central tenet of this work, and I believe in all of human conflict resolution, is not even our ability, but simply our sincere commitment, to love our enemies… as Jesus taught. You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your…
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Over 2020, in line with the changes we’re going through as a planet, the fundamental premise of the work of Perspective Mapper is refreshed with the premise of processing what we actually feel within. We need to be able to feel each other’s trauma as our own to be able to transcend and work through…
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We’re taught since our early school days — certainly in our colleges — that the more ‘data’ we have, the more informed we are, and the better decisions we make. Many of the past iterations of this project revolved around, or tried to revolve around, the collecting of data of different perspectives. In this age…
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Nothing can be as heart melting and soul touching as genuinely kind behavior. When we experience real compassion, our judgment drops, our barriers come down, and we get a glimpse of otherworldly beauty, within our human existence. But sometimes this doesn’t happen. We sometimes don’t trust or let in kindness. We might associate it with…
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Of course we often like to have a meaningful discussion with a person of a distinctly different point-of-view. This is in order to learn from their perspective, as well as share facets of our perspective…growing together in the process. However, in our eagerness to share, we clumsily skip over the prerequisite in all human discussion:…
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Often we’re tempted to put our mindshare into how others are flawed. We get ourselves wrapped up in how they are foolish, dumb, going astray, making no sense, insecure or simply bad people. And we take it upon ourselves to point that shit out…sometimes to them directly, but often simply among fellow gossip mongers…and feel…
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We sometimes get into dialog with others, hoping that with enough discussion, we’ll be able to work out our differences and reconcile our conflicts. In many situations, dialog works. We do work out our conflicts. And we’re all happier in the process. In other situations, after weeks, months, years or decades, we might find that…
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