Q : Nonviolence is a striking contrast between Highly Evolved Beings and humans, and I understand that their awareness of life as an eternal experience can certainly create a context within which violence would be seen as unnecessary.
We’ve tried for several millennia to convince member of our species that their life is eternal. Even with this idea having been accepted by many, it doesn’t seem to have reduced violence in any significant way.
Q : Ah, yes, this I “get” immediately. And I don’t have to be helped by Highly Evolved Beings from another realm to do so. All I have to do is look around me.
I observe that right now most people who believe in God—and that is by far the largest number of people on our planet—still embrace a Separation Theology. Their way of looking at God is that humans are "over here" and God is "over there."
This would not matter if it began and ended there, but the problem with a Separation Theology is that it produces a Separation Cosmology—that is, a way of looking at all of Life which says that everything is separate from everything else.
This wouldn’t be so bad if it was just a point of view, but the problem is that a Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology—that is, a psychological viewpoint which says that I am “over here” and everyone else is “over there.”
This would also be something we could live with if that was all there was to it, but the problem is that a Separation Psychology produces a Separation Sociology—that is, a way of socializing with each other which encourages everyone within human society to act as separate entities serving their own separate interests.
Now we’ve entered into truly dangerous territory, because a Separation Sociology inevitably produces a Separation Pathology—pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands—evidenced everywhere on our planet throughout human history.
To me it seems that only when our Separation Theology is replaced by a Oneness Theology will our pathology be healed. A Oneness Theology would recognize that we have been differentiated from God, but not separated from God, even as the fingers on our hand are differentiated but not separated from each other, but connected by the hand itself, and by the hand to the entire body—even as we are differentiated but not separated, connected by being parts of the body of God.