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An Introduction to The Science of Peace: Individual Coherence and Community Consciousness Development towards Social Harmony

Jeffery Jonathan Joshua (ישוע) Davis & Florian Schübeler

The Embassy of Peace, Whitianga, New Zealand

joshua_888@yahoo.com, florian@theembassyofpeace.com

Sound future scientific endeavors will require scientists and prophets to participate equitably in deepening the understanding of human consciousness and values-based decision-making. This will come, we conjecture, with a spiritual~scientific synthesis to overcome dogma, superstition and prejudice. This will also require a paradigm that embraces a systemic approach to the subjective~objective complementary pair, which has the power to cause an improvement in the knowledge of self-mastery, inner peace and general wellbeing as the foundation for social harmony and order. The Scientist of Peace or "Peacetist" as we would prefer to call him or her will strive to answer questions, such as; can inner peace be attained in a human lifetime? With answers to questions like this then, we foresee that humanity will be equipped to produce a mutation or transmutation from Homo sapiens to Homo pacem and bring about a powerful and more comprehensive science of peace.

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Reviewed By: Dr. Siva Shankar | Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahalia School of Engineering & Technology
Mr. Shamneesh Sharma | Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Alakh Prakash Goyal Shimla University, Shimla (H.P.) INDIA
Dates: Submission: 17-Jan-2019 | Acceptance: 17-Apr-2019 | Publication: 18-Apr-2019

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INTRODUCTION

Recently the astronaut Alexander Gerst released a video message apologising to his yet to be born grandchildren for the state of the world on planet earth that his generation has passed on to them (Gerst, 2018). In ancient times a prophet, Tzadik and Saint warned in the writing of The Zohar about the consequences for the world if the Israelite people would abandon the commandments they had been given by The Creator and their prophets (Berg, 2003). One is a message of a scientist and the other of a Tzadik, one from 2018 and the other from some 2000 years ago, both pointing to the responsibilities and consequences of people's actions. The question then is why have we been able to send such a message from outer space, perhaps like The Creator has been doing through the prophets and prophetesses, and yet still remain in social chaos instead of peace? Have we invested in the wrong enterprise or perhaps we just had the priorities upside down?


In order to solve and overcome the challenges of modern times, it will require scientists and prophets alike to actively participate in this endeavour. It will also require, we propose, a spiritual~scientific synthesis liberated from dogma, superstition and prejudice. This undertaking will demand a science that leaves behind a purely materialistic paradigm and that embraces a systemic approach to the understanding of human consciousness and values-based decision-making. The scientists of the near future must always remember that the primary objective of science must be to serve the betterment of the human species by improving the understanding of physical laws and their interaction with the human creative spirit and that, it seems to us, must include an improvement in the knowledge of self-mastery, inner peace and general wellbeing and how to secure them as a means for social harmony and order.


The Scientist of Peace or "Peacetist" should be able to formulate new paradigms and theories about what constitutes inner peace, how to gauge or even measure inner peace directly or indirectly and to answer questions like: Can inner peace be attained in a human lifetime? Are there certain practices, environments or diets that are conducive to inner peace? and other questions as posed in previous work (Davis, 2009), (Zhuang et al., 2016), (Davis, 2016), (Davis, 2015), (Davis & Walling, 2018). Essentially, such a science needs to harmonise ancient spiritual wisdom together with philosophical inquiry and scientific research, be based on new discoveries or the rediscovery of old prescriptions and be able to articulate a form of human sovereignty and jurisdiction based on a more evolved human. A human that has mutated or transmuted from Homo sapiens to Homo pacem and produced - The Science of Peace!


Such an undertaking presents an immense challenge since the investigation of spiritual values and harmonious states of being has usually been accomplished by introspection, meditation, prayer and other spiritual practices, mostly based on subjective experiences, while scientific research has been approached mostly objectively based on experimental data measured according to data collection standards, hence the need for a spiritual~scientific synthesis (Davis, 2009). This need presents the added challenge of a shift in paradigm, where the subjective experience is treated vis-à-vis the objective observations with the potential to produce a synergy for a broader and greater kind of knowledge from which wisdom can emerge (Jahn & Dunne, 2007).


However, regardless of the magnitude of this challenge there are many scientists who have dared to explore such a synthesis and have combined many scientific disciplines like cognitive and systems neuroscience, classical and quantum physics, applied mathematics and systems engineering, biology, philosophy and ancient wisdom to name a few (Davis, 2009), (Davis et al., 2015), (Kozma & Davis, 2018), (Davis & Walling, 2018), (Davis, 2018), (Pribram, 2013), (Vitiello, 2001), (Freeman, 1995), (Aurobindo, 2010). Equipped with ancient texts and stories, modern technology and science as well as personal reports of spiritual experiences and revelatory processes, large amounts of people whom in one way or another put value on inner peace have become part of a technological exploration network of such states via biofeedback systems, a recent technology which allows for human-computer interactions where any person can learn about desired cognitive and emotional inner states as well as how to generate them at will (Childre & Cryer, 2008), (Davis & Kozma, 2018).


This paradigm of consciousness addresses questions about intentionality and how the brain is capable of creating knowledge and meaning in a way that includes a universal framework of spiritual values, inherent in life and nature, continuously shaping human biophysical processes and behaviour (Davis, 2018a), (Davis & Walling, 2018). One such paradigm, The Paradigm of Melchizedek, is also inclusive of the existence of The Creator as the Source of Being, universal values and biophysical and evolutionary processes, existing in time and space (Davis, 2009), (Gillett & Davis, 2015).


At this point we present the reader with two (2) main questions that will be guiding our scientific endeavour: (1) how to attain and maintain inner peace on a personal level and express it in social interactions? and (2) how does peace propagate intra- and trans-generationally in the human species? In answer to these questions, the following basic working hypotheses have been formulated: (1) peace is attainable and sustainable on an individual level and (2) peace propagates through the network of individual human interactions and it can reach a metastable state of collective peace.


The science of peace extends past the currently present boundaries of faculties and asks for an open transdisciplinary approach with fellow scientists from diverse interests and skills who can embrace a commitment to such a holistic and systemic approach to the research of human consciousness and potential. The authors are convinced that such a fellowship of diverse scientists will require the kind of trust that only the embodiment of universal values, such as Love, Unity and Truth for example, can provide. This synergy between scientists from many and diverse fields, we conjecture, will breed new ideas and bring about new solutions to the individual and social challenges we face in modern days. Interdisciplinary approaches are becoming more and more common and the understanding of the importance for systemic ways of thinking is certainly increasing, however, there is still much room for improvement in modern science, especially when it comes to the synthesis between matter, energy, mind and spirit.


This paper serves as an introduction to the scope and purpose of the science of peace as well as to the work presented in this special issue of Knowledge Journal of Modeling and Simulation. Here we present a series of papers, which introduce simulation models that apply the methodologies developed previously in the area of heart rate variability (HRV) signal analysis as well as the theoretical system dynamics framework in the area of peace propagation. In the following sections a brief introduction to the importance of values in science is given, followed by three (3) core areas of the science of peace, namely (a) brain dynamics and the creation of knowledge and meaning, (b) heart rate variability analysis as a tool to understand and monitor general wellbeing, and (c) peace propagation and a new economic paradigm.


A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE VALUE OF VALUES IN SCIENCE

The subject of science and values has been a very heated and debated one in the philosophy of science where we could consider the possibility that scientific research and exploration is interwoven with values-based decisions, including both objective knowledge of the world and subjective experience and therefore we ought to accept that some form of behavioural and normative values must have a degree of influence on scientific research and work (Brown, 2018), (Brown, 2013). However, as important and valid as this may be, normative and behavioural values are just that and they exist in the human mind and biology in intimate relationship with more subtle and powerful essences and presences intrinsic to and permeating life and they have been named by different authors as fields of spiritual or universal values à la (Davis, 2009), as morphic fields in the manner of Sheldrake's morphic resonance theory (Sheldrake, 1988) or Being-values associated with peak and more importantly plateau experiences à la Maslow (Maslow, 1970).


Science is in great need to incorporate the exploration of spiritual and universal values, together with behavioural and biological survival fears since they are the foundation of the human psyche and cognitively are recognized by most humans as very relevant in life decisions and choices. To conduct science intelligently and constructively rather than destructively, we need to allow the scientist the space and time to also develop spiritually and to draw sustenance, energy and inspiration from a deeper and higher inner subjective source (Aurobindo, 2010), (Aurobindo, 1998). This, it seems to us, will bring about a science that is truthful, beautiful and useful and that is concerned with individual peace and social harmony.


In order to provide the ideal setting for the scientist to do research of such nature, it is desirable to create working conditions that foster such an outcome. This may be, for example, in settings of altruistic work, where people provide the conditions where the scientist can conduct his or her research free from profit motives, political or religious agendas and can genuinely focus on the task at hand, a scientific advancement of inner peace and social harmony for all people.


In the following section we present mainly our work in collaboration with others as well as some of the work and research that has been pioneered over the past decade in different areas that have already started to contribute to the science of peace. Since this is an already large body of interconnected research in different fields, we present only a selection suited to introduce the reader to this new and promising field (The Science of Peace, 2017).


The three (3) main areas of work that are very relevant to this brief introduction are: (1) Brain Dynamics and the creation of knowledge and meaning, (2) Heart Rate Variability and the effect of meditation on psychophysiological coherence and (3) System Dynamics and Applied Mathematics to model, understand and shape peace propagation in small, medium and large communities.


THE CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND MEANING IN THE BRAIN

It would be inconceivable to imagine human decision-making or intentional action without invoking first the existence of meanings and values both mundane and sacred. One of the greatest challenges for cognitive and neuroscientists has been to explain how the brain creates meaning and knowledge in order to make sense of and navigate the world of human and environmental relationships. It was the pioneering work of Freeman and Kozma and later on Davis, which via systems neuroscience and mathematical modelling relatively recently addressed this question. These authors illuminated the path and made a start to unravel the series of steps that it takes to process a salient stimuli and how the brain allows for the emergence of new meanings and memory based knowledge. They named this ‘The Cycle of Creation of Knowledge and Meaning' (Davis & Kozma, 2013), (Davis et al., 2013), (Davis et al., 2015), which together with the cognitive cycle are fundamental for values-based decision-making.


This cycle is comprised by five (5) steps as follows: Awe Moment, Chaotic Exploration, Aha Moment, Chaotic Integration and return to Background Activity. The details of this hypothesis are outside the scope of this work, however, the reader must note that all spiritual experiences are grounded in subjective meanings and knowledge of the self, soul and both physical and spiritual realms and if we are to formulate a theory to study the interplay between spiritual and behavioural values, then a very good start from a cognitive science and philosophical perspective would be to explain the processes that are involved in brain dynamics and even heart dynamics. One (1) of the authors in collaboration with others has treated some of the aspects related to the cognition, biology, classical and quantum physics, mathematics, philosophy, and psychology of such a challenging area of research (Davis, 2009), (Davis et al., 2015), (Davis, 2018a), (Davis & Walling, 2018), (Davis et al., 2018), (Davis, 2018).


THE WISDOM OF "THE HEART"

Should we consider the title of this section to be a misplaced metaphor? Or could it be that indeed the "The Heart" as conceived by some of the Greek philosophers, is the seat of emotions, spiritual experience, wisdom and identity. When Jimmy says "I Am Jimmy", for example, would it be reasonable to conjecture that most Jimmies will be pointing to the area of the heart and the chest instead of the nose, the feet or the head. What is this commonly observed body language in Jimmies and others supposed to be telling us? One only has to reflect on one's own experience to, at least subjectively, attempt an answer to this question. However, what if there were biomarkers like heart rate variability, which can aid us in finding correlates between heart rhythms and psychophysiological coherent states? Could these kinds of biomarkers together with EEG information provide some insight into the cognition of emotions and spiritual values? Could we learn how to generate at will coherent inner states associated with peace, harmony and general wellbeing? This has been the main area of research of the team at The HeartMath Institute with whom the authors have collaborated in recent times.


More recently this area of research has been expanded into including the relevance of rhythmic breathing, relaxation and meditation in the modulation of coherent cognitive states (Davis et al., 2017), (Davis & Kozma, 2018) modulated by the synchronisation of the respiratory, cardiovascular and autonomic nervous system (Heck et al., 2017).


The study of heart rate variability (HRV) and in particular its usefulness in order to measure psychophysiological coherence has become a widely studied area in recent years (McCraty et al., 2001), (McCraty et al., 2006), (Childre & Cryer, 2008). The main focus of our work has been: (1) in building a sound methodology of how to analyse and interpret HRV data in a comprehensive and meaningful way (Davis & Schübeler, 2019a), (Davis & Schübeler, 2019), (Davis et al., 2019a), (2) to show how it is a very useful measure in order to learn about one's own psychophysiological states and understand how to improve them from a stressed to a coherent state (Childre & Cryer, 2008) and (3) to understand what activities are most conducive to bring about coherent, peaceful and harmonious states in the human physiological makeup. In our studies we have found strong indication for the positive effect of meditation on producing coherent states and we also found indication that some meditation techniques are more powerful than others at least for some groups (Davis et al., 2019). We foresee great potential for further research in this area and aim in future work to advance the understanding of how people influence one another, for example, by investigating synchronisation or entrainment between people (McCraty et al., 1998), (Denney, 2008), (Radin et al., 2008). This research is paramount in order to better understand how human interactions can contribute to more peaceful and harmonious relationships and therefore to peaceful and harmonious communities and nations.


INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE PROPAGATION

With the use of system dynamics, simulation and systems modelling, we have developed a body of research that provides a picture of how a peace propagation process may be described and explained, what factors contribute to such a process, what dynamics can we expect and what kind of system designs and structures are most conducive to such a process. This peace propagation process, also called Melchidynamics (Davis, 2009), needs and potentially can occur on all levels of human societal structure, beginning with the individual, via the local, communal, regional and up to the planetary level.


We have developed a system dynamics model on individual inner peace (Zhuang et al., 2016) in order to better understand the systemic forces that support or hinder this endeavour for a human being to grow spiritually and foster the attainment of self-mastery. Further, we have developed a community model that describes how different types of interactions with people in different states of consciousness can support or hinder another human being to advance in consciousness and become a more peaceful and loving being (Davis & Schübeler, 2018a), (Davis & Schübeler, 2019d). In order to ignite a planetary peace propagation process, we are convinced that it will require the establishment of communities of peace, akin to a learning organisation that can support others to grow in personal mastery, wisdom and understanding (Davis & Schübeler, 2018). Such a peace propagation process must be accompanied by a change in human consciousness and this stretches throughout all forms and areas of human life, such as economy, agriculture, education and health to name a few (Davis et al., 2018a). We have developed system dynamics and simulation models to explain the behaviour of an economy based on actions of kindness, to explore more deeply how it could function and thrive together with what factors play a crucial part in the realisation of such a shift in economic paradigm (Schübeler et al., 2018), (Davis & Schübeler, 2019c), (Davis et al., 2019), (Davis & Schübeler, 2019b).


THE COLLECTION OF PAPERS PRESENTED IN THIS SCIENCE OF PEACE SPECIAL ISSUE

This special issue is concerned with the development of simulation models and includes nine (9) papers mainly associated with HRV based psychophysiological coherence, community coherence and consciousness, and inner peace development.


These papers are:


1. A Stochastic Process Approach in Modelling the Behaviour of HRV as a Biomarker for Different Cognitive States.
2. A Study on the Behaviour of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) with the aid of Markov Chains Theory and Transition Probability Matrices.
3. A Normalization Algorithm to compare Scores from different Sample Size Data derived from Discrete Stochastic Models.
4. A Small Community Spiritual Evolution Stochastic Simulation Model.
5. A Simulation Model to explore Community Dynamics based on Resources and Quality of Space.
6. A Simulation Model to explore Community Dynamics based on Inner Peace, Perceived Kindness and Actions of Kindness.
7. A Simulation Model to explore Community Dynamics based on Inner Peace, Perceived Kindness, Actions of Kindness, Resources and Quality of Space.
8. Two Agent Coherent-Stressful Interaction HRV based Simulation Model.
9. Individual Psychophysiological Coherence induced by Meditative States can be compromised in Community Dynamics.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We want to acknowledge the many contributors to and collaborators of the work of The Science of Peace, both the ones personally known and yet to be known. In particular, we acknowledge the work of Walter J. Freeman, Robert Kozma, Grant Gillett, Bob Walling and Carlos Warter. We also express our deep gratitude to all those people that have supported and continue to support this work, namely Kali, Colin, Carey, Shahar, Penelope, Sarah, Keryn, Matthew, Shiloh, Enya, Steve and many others.

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