A holistic model of healing does not just apply to a physical body; it applies to a social body as well. Right now, our primary mode of fighting terrorism is allopathic, focused on suppressing and eradicating external symptoms. Clearly those symptoms are deadly, and the most powerful allopathic treatment is called for. But the holistic paradigm emphasizes mind and spirit as healing modalities too. Internal powers should not be seen as the weaker step-sister of brute force. In fact, at this point the use of brute force in fighting terrorism is doing as much to create enemies we dont have yet as to kill the ones we do. No one knows this better than those who are applying the brute force, yet were caught in the inescapable bind of having to apply it nevertheless. So what are the internal powers that need to be identified? How do we harness them? What strategies best put them to use? In seeking to answer these questions, were confronted by challenges more difficult than you might imagine. On an external level, our problems involve politics, police, and military. On an internal level, our problems are no less difficult -- not because theyre complicated, so much as because they challenge the very notion of what it means to be a civilized society in the 21st Century. We need to ask deeper questions than, What should we do? We need to ask, Who should we be? And even more importantly, Who should we be to each other?
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:15:53 +0000
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