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In part one<\/a> of this series five-part series about personal empowerment, we touched on what can be considered the most important single action an individual \u2014 any individual \u2014 can take to begin to restore a sane direction to our culture: Back away from the commercial media. We regard this as the most important project to restore a sane direction to humanity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my new book “The Third Harmony<\/a>,” I offer more details on how our media went off the rails. One aspect not touched on there is what one journalist has called the \u201cjournalism of deference\u201d in which the White House and the military control the presentation of war-related news, creating, in other words, the “military-industrial, media and entertainment complex.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, for a breath of fresh air, let\u2019s look into step two: \u201cLearn all you can about nonviolence.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the psychological level any positive news will help us, as common sense, personal experience and a lot of science confirm. At the Metta Center, we believe that news about nonviolence \u2014 and anything we can learn about nonviolence \u2014 is particularly effective because we regard nonviolence as the most positive thing that can be said about the human being, and about our possibilities in this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raising this consciousness is precisely Metta\u2019s project, of course, which we try to carry out with all our projects that are aimed both at the level of particulars and their overall meaning for our culture and life. In other words, we are focused on facts about nonviolence itself and efforts to build a culture based on that principle.  Accordingly, we suggest that people go to our website<\/a>, books, courses<\/a>, etc. as our default recommendation for anyone who wants to begin or deepen their journey to that discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Metta was born in 1981, you could read just about everything available on the subject of nonviolence \u2014 leaving aside Gandhi\u2019s enormous contribution \u2014 in a few years.  Now it would take a few lifetimes. Academic programs were nearly nonexistent; now there are several within the peace studies fold that do a creditable job on nonviolence, like the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute <\/a>at Stanford and the Endowed Chair in Resistance Studies at UMass, Amherst<\/a> held by Prof. Stellan Vinthagen.  (Since there is virtually no funding in post-secondary education for anything outside science and technology, an endowed chair \u2014 which I tried in vain to establish at Berkeley \u2014 is about the only way to open the field). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside the universities, we have free-standing institutes like the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict<\/a> in Washington, D.C. and specifically nonviolence-oriented non-profits like Metta, Nonviolence International<\/a>, The Resource Center for Nonviolence<\/a> in Santa Cruz, the MK Gandhi Center for Nonviolence<\/a> in Rochester and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these resources are useful in themselves, and most useful as preparations for the best learning tool: our own experiences.  Nonviolence begins within us (the “third harmony”) and can express itself in almost any situation on any scale from one-on-one interactions to global politics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have an unfailing \u201clibrary\u201d of experiences to learn from \u2014 that is, once we know what to look for.  <\/em>To be clear, we don\u2019t just look at immediate, tangible results, but also for processes going on under the surface that may show up far down the road, not infrequently with better results than we were aiming at.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Metta we call this \u201cwork\u201d vs. work,<\/a> and the classic example is Gandhi\u2019s salt campaign of 1930, which actually achieved very little in terms of relief from the oppressive salt laws but which many recognize as the end of British colonial rule that was formalized 17 years later.  Spot some of your own! It\u2019s a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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