Friends,
Peace Class meets tonight Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 6:00 pm (Pacific). Join by simply clicking on this Zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/j/82150472713. Meeting ID: 821 5047 2713.
Share the link with friends. ALL are welcome. Host Mandy Kahn has new photos of a
National Poetry Month billboard that was running throughout the month of April 2026. May has a live poetry reading she will be hosting on Tuesday, May 26th, in Manly P. Hall's historic religious library at the Philosophical Research Society (
prs.org). We hope to see everyone there. Here's the text of last week's class:
How to use harmony to end a war
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| Mandy Kahn makes it onto LA billboard |
Perpetual peace is a state in which belligerence does not
begin.
We can work to create a state of perpetual peace. When we do, we will have stepped out of the Era of Belligerence entirely.
However, before that occurs, we may find we have a desire to balance out an active outbreak of belligerence—a war—that is presently occurring. A very effective way to do that is to introduce increasing large amounts of harmony into the collective consciousness until active belligerence subsides.
Harmony is energy that balances active belligerence.
Harmony is an aspect of the peace state. A perpetually peaceful world features a pervasive harmony that begins with an honoring of all aspects of the self (atta, atman) and continues with an honoring of all aspects of others.
To introduce more harmonic energy into the collective, we can either create harmony within ourselves or create harmony within a group. Either of these projects can generate powerful, balancing levels of harmony.
Let's look at each of the ways we can choose to work with harmony to end a war.
First, we can play/work to create harmony within ourselves.
Every self features various polarities—various ways of being, various viewpoints, various parts of lived history. When we introduce unconditional love and unconditional honoring to all aspects of self, we create harmony in the self.
If we are not yet ready to unconditionally love all aspects of self, we may work with a gentler energy: We can work with unconditional (universal metta and karuna) loving-kindness and compassion. These also heal, and they create a healed state within which unconditional love can more easily be chosen in the future.
So we can build harmony in ourselves, and when we do, we add harmony by way of individual consciousness to the collective consciousness. Once there, our personal harmony begins to balance harsh judgments expressed as belligerence in the collective.
Secondly, we can build harmony within a group.
In any group, just as with self, there are various viewpoints, various ways of being, and lots of lived history. When we choose to unconditionally honor all members of a group with unconditional love, we create powerful energy for group harmony, which then contributes to the collective consciousness.
Group harmony is a powerful force that balances its opposite, which is the harsh judgment of others. The extreme expression of this judgment is collective violence called war.
But harmony in self and harmony in a group create a powerful healing process in the collective.
(As with the building of harmony in self, when we work with group harmony, we can begin with unconditional kindness and compassion without limit and without end if we do not yet feel ready to work with unconditional love and honoring.
All of these powerful modalities create a platform for the next. Getting to a state of harmony in the collective is a “numbers game.”
A certain amount of disharmony, fear, and lack-of-peace flows into our collective consciousness. That already exists.
All that is needed now is to get to a state of loving, a group expression to introduce the opposite energies of courageousness, harmony, and peace to balance, which creates a stasis of openness otherwise known as peace.
If we choose the energy of harmony, we may simply begin to generate it first within our own consciousness because doing so begins to send into the collective consciousness. From there, we can observe its effects. They indicate how much more is needed.
When we have added enough harmony, we will notice that belligerence has ceased altogether.
Think of playing with these balancing energies as adding hot and cold water to a tub. If we begin with a tub full of scalding hot water when the goal is to achieve warmth, what do we do? We cool water, gauge the temperature, and continue to add what is needed...until we reach what we desire.
Similarly, if there is a state of active belligerence around us and we'd like to create stasis (peace), what should we do? We can add harmony to our collective consciousness, through a group of individuals or an individual, until belligerence ceases. A “warm” state will be achieved.
Peace is a healed state. It is what we experience after what is disharmony has been healed into wholeness with unconditional love and unconditional honoring. Peace is the original state that existed before healing was needed, before judgment was introduced.
Peace is both what preceded judgment and what follows judgment.
When enough harmony is introduced into the “tub” of collective consciousness, it balances the judgment in there. Belligerence ceases to exist. This is natural law.
When we make peace, adjusting aspects of peace such as harmony, we are concentrating a very powerful substance. The energy of harmony is so much more powerful than the energy of judgment that far less of it is needed. Its opposite is overwhelmed and we reach a healed state, a balance, a stasis.
One minute of experienced harmony offsets between 1,000-1,000,000 minutes of experienced judgment or fear within our collective consciousness.
So every minute of experienced harmony we contribute to the collective consciousness is a concentrated, powerful, and incredibly efficient agent of change.
Loving-kindness to harmony...
As we begin to generate the energy of harmony, we find that over time we are able to generate more and more of it. Why? This is because, as we develop harmony, we harmonize ourselves. The more harmonious we are, the more harmony we transfer into the collective.
Let this process be intuitive. If we want to wield harmony, simply welcome it in, honor the effort, and forgive yourself for any time spent out of harmony.
Harmony-building is holy work. We must honor ourselves first and we will bless the world with a holy example.
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In peace, Mandy
See you live for poetry on May 26th and on Facebook and Instagram!
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