When you are inside a body, your conscious level becomes more individuated because your consciousness is thoroughly filtered. You become focused on your body and your own survival. This is normal. But when you give it additional importance, you develop the urgency to compete, compare, and make conflict or war with others — ignoring the unity around you.
Most of human history is a series of wars. Many great civilizations came to an end simply because of war. Humans have been killing each other for a long time, and the practice continues.
Creatures, including humans, have aggression in their genes as a defensive mechanism for survival. But when aggression is excessively expressed through conflict, war, or violence, it becomes seriously problematic. Modern society has misused the Darwinian ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest.
This article explores what war really is, why it happens, how it affects you, and how it can be stopped.
What War Is
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It involves extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.
War is a situation or period of fighting between countries or groups involving weapons or military organization. It is a man-made situation in which a nation enforces its rights by using force.
War is the most pitiless human activity.
The Scale of War's Destruction
The two World Wars together caused an estimated 70–85 million deaths — including military and civilian fatalities, as well as deaths from war-related disease and famine. [SOURCE: Imperial War Museum, "How Many People Died in the Second World War?" — verify exact figures]
Those numbers are almost impossible to comprehend. Each one represents a life, a family, a future that was cut short. And they are only the two largest wars in modern history. Smaller conflicts have produced their own mountains of grief.
Why You Have Wars
Research shows that male-male competition over reproductive opportunities made men more aggressive, and this initially paved the way for human conflict.
When men became more organized and started civilization, additional meanings were given to the concept of war. War expanded into a country's wish to take control of another country's wealth, territory, and people. It became the severe expression of human greed and superiority complex.
Now war is a political matter — a chance to showcase military power. Some researchers have pointed out that humans may fight wars more often over fundamental essentials as the world's population increases and basic resources such as water and food become scarce.
Conflicts today are less lethal than those that scarred the last century, but this brings little comfort.
How War Affects You
War has a catastrophic effect on the health and wellbeing of nations. Conflict causes more mortality and disability than any major disease.
War destroys families, communities, societies, and nations. Marriages and family relationships are strained by stress, anxiety, guilt, grief, and other emotions caused by war. War makes people refugees, carrying a whole constellation of problems behind them.
War is so destructive that it can destroy a generation of men, causing a dip in birth rates. The social behavior of people, the economy, and the environment all get changed through war. The economic cost of war is higher than ever because of expensive arms and ammunition, and it creates tremendous budgetary pressure.
War produces long-term physical and psychological problems, and it reduces material and human capital. Death, injury, sexual violence, malnutrition, illness, and disability are its outgrowths. It contributes to a range of emotional problems — post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety.
War is a constraint on the next stage of human evolution.
Step 1: Recheck the Past
Conflicts and wars are your animalistic instincts getting activated. It is time to stop.
Look at how humans suffered through wars and conflicts across the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. It is time to change. Cut off funding for war and find a way to peace. Your biological weaponry is now so powerful that it can wipe out the whole species, necessitating external involvement in your recreation one more time.
Military spending is not considered a productive activity that contributes positively to GDP, and it is a major expenditure in many countries. Increased military spending paves the way for slower economic growth.
If countries are more peaceful and cooperative, there is no need for a huge military budget — and that money can be used for the upliftment of society: creating jobs, funding social welfare schemes, and investing in education, science, technology, and medicine. Instead of using nuclear power for weapons, it can produce electricity to power homes, schools, businesses, and hospitals.
Incorporate spiritual values into your educational system. Promote service orientation instead of blood-sucking, selfish business orientation.
Step 2: The Role of Social Media and the Corporate World
Technology has become the new religious order, uniting humanity more than any religious order did. Make technology the catalyst for the next stage of human evolution — where people are more united, more cooperative, and more collaborative.
This is the new order where you think beyond your nation, religion, color, gender, language, and race. These are old constraints on human evolution into a global community where people enjoy global citizenship and globalized life.
Global unity is the first step in the prevention of war. The new generation and the corporate world must come forward, forcing nations to adopt arms control. A new level of diplomacy is needed, recognizing that war is a social — not biological — phenomenon. War is generated by decisions of political, religious, ethnic, or military leaders.
More peace treaties and world peace organizations should be formed, and powerful social media platforms should be used for such activities. If governments and the corporate sector work hand in hand to improve the economic system so that everyone gets social security benefits and chances to pursue their passion, you can get free from the shackles of a cash-based society — which is the root cause of problems like poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, and poor sanitation that trigger war-like situations.
Evolution never happens if you follow the same level of consciousness always. Evolution is the drastic change you make in your reality.
Step 3: An Individual Attempt
You have almost entered the next stage of human evolution. It is a mutual attempt, and each one of you must be 100% cooperative.
Humans are a programmable species, and it is you who is making your reality. Use love always as the tool to operate your system. You use violence and terrorism when you fall victim to your ego — which is the distorted projection of your mind. Never give over-importance to the ego, as it forces you to think in terms of separation and segregation.
Now you can see even youngsters are spiritually awakened. Everything happens with a reason behind it. It is time for a drastic change in the way you have been thinking.
The world outside is waiting for you. Be a catalyst for the next stage of human evolution. Do whatever is possible to speed it up. None can save you but yourself. You have to walk the path — and when you do, you will see how you are helped in your process of ascension. This happens because you are a sentient being who is the maker of your own destiny.
War Begins in the Mind
War does not begin on the battlefield. It begins in the mind.
It begins with a thought of separation. A thought of superiority. A thought of fear. A thought that says, "They are different from us. They are a threat. They must be stopped."
This thought, repeated by millions of minds, becomes a collective belief. This belief, fed by emotion, becomes an egregore. And this egregore, given power by governments and institutions, becomes a war.
Every war is the external manifestation of an internal state. Every battlefield is a mirror of the human mind that created it.
If you want to end war, you must end the thought of separation. You must heal the fear. You must recognize the unity that underlies all apparent differences.
War is not stopped by treaties alone. It is stopped by consciousness.
No One Actually Wins a War
Even the "victors" lose. They lose their young. They lose their resources. They lose their moral authority. They lose a piece of their soul.
And the "losers" lose even more. They lose their homes. Their families. Their dignity. Their future.
There is no victory in war. There is only varying degrees of loss. The only true victory is the prevention of war. The only true triumph is the preservation of peace.
History is written by the winners — but the dead do not care who writes the history. They are gone.
Economic Inequality Is the Root of Most Wars
When people are desperate — when they cannot feed their children, when they have no hope for the future, when they see the wealthy living in luxury while they struggle to survive — they become vulnerable to manipulation.
They become willing to fight. They become willing to die. They become willing to kill.
The elites who profit from war know this. They know that poverty is the best recruitment tool. They know that desperation is the fuel of conflict.
If you want to prevent war, you must address economic inequality. You must create a world where everyone has enough — enough food, enough shelter, enough dignity, enough hope.
Peace is not possible without justice.
Trauma Creates Generations of Warriors
A child who grows up in war becomes an adult who fights wars. A child who witnesses violence becomes an adult who perpetrates violence. A child who loses their family becomes an adult who destroys families.
This is not because they are evil. It is because they are wounded. The trauma of war becomes embedded in their nervous system. It becomes the template for how they relate to the world.
To break the cycle of war, you must heal the trauma. You must create safe spaces for healing. You must support survivors. You must help them process their pain.
Every warrior was once a child.
True Security Is Not Found in Weapons
The more weapons you build, the more insecure you feel. Because the more weapons you have, the more you fear that others will use theirs against you. So you build more.
This is the security dilemma. It is why nations arm themselves to the point of absurdity, spending trillions on weapons that can never be used without destroying everything.
True security comes not from weapons but from relationships. From trust. From cooperation. From the knowledge that your neighbors are not your enemies.
Weapons can defend borders. They cannot create peace. Only love can do that.
Forgiveness Is the Only End to War
War is perpetuated by revenge. Every war creates the conditions for the next war. Every injustice becomes the seed of future conflict. The only way to break this cycle is forgiveness.
Not the forgiveness that forgets. Not the forgiveness that excuses. Not the forgiveness that says, "What you did was okay." But the forgiveness that releases the grip of the past. The forgiveness that chooses a different future.
Forgiveness is not weakness. It is the highest form of strength. It is the only way to end the cycle of war.
Peace Begins Within You
You cannot create peace in the world if you do not have peace in your heart. You cannot stop war if you are at war with yourself.
The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. The wars you see in the world are the externalization of the wars within millions of individual souls.
If you want to end war, you must end the war within yourself. You must heal your wounds. You must release your anger. You must forgive yourself and others.
Every peaceful thought, every peaceful word, every peaceful act contributes to the collective peace. You are not powerless. You are the beginning of peace.
What You Can Do
To contribute to a more peaceful world:
- Examine your own attitudes toward conflict.
- Practice non-violent communication in your daily interactions.
- Educate yourself about the root causes of war — economic inequality, resource scarcity, political manipulation.
- Support organizations and policies that promote diplomacy, conflict resolution, and arms control.
- Use social media to spread messages of peace, not division.
- Advocate for redirecting military spending toward education, healthcare, and sustainable development.
- Cultivate inner peace. By healing yourself, you contribute to the collective peace of humanity.
Peace begins within.
