We Are One. Adjust!
A Handbook Of Understanding To Help Us Build A Bridge To Peace
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This book is about the understanding–love continuum. From understanding comes acceptance, from acceptance comes trust, from trust comes love. And with enough love, we can create a joyous and peaceful world for all humankind.
It has been said that there are three great miracles: the planet Earth, humankind, and the ability to communicate. Humankind finds itself in a very unique, interesting and yes, troubling situation. It is an ever growing collection of vastly different yet remarkably similar people gathered together on a blueish planet called Earth. Our planet home is hurtling at 66.700 miles per hour through space and time in an infinite Universe. While on this journey, humanity has developed and become subjected to a growing number of maladies.
One malady stands out as most significant – fear — and most significantly, the fear of differences – differences defined by religion, color of skin, wealth of a society and technological advances. As we have noted, we believe this fear – the fear of differences — is the underlying cause of the problems that have plagued humanity throughout history. While acknowledging that humankind’s progress has sometimes been aided by fear’s opposite – love – we have evolved principally through fear; we fear differences.
Humankind has developed without fully comprehending some basic truths:
· We all have a mutual Creator by whatever name we care to call it – the Allah of Islam, Lord of Judeo-Christian faiths, Supreme God of Hindu tradition, or Great Spirit of Native Americans.
· We are all spiritual beings.
· We each have a physical body.
· We all share a physical environment, the planet Earth.
So, we have evolved through fear, without appreciating our commonality and all the time begging the questions — Why are we here? What is our purpose? Humankind has been asking these questions since it first began to wonder.
We believe that the answers lie in first achieving understanding: an appreciation of our commonality. We feel it is the failure – an unwillingness to understand each other — a turning of our backs to the practice of love — a seeking of salvation everywhere but in love — that is at the root of humanity’s fear.
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Throughout its history humankind has continued to wage war on itself. Why can’t we get along? The authors’ combined experiences was suggesting an answer and, more importantly, a solution to this problem. To test their ideas, they conducted a survey of hundreds of people domestically and internationally, from all walks of life. The survey produced significant data to support the authors’ answer and solution.
The findings showed that humans share a common purpose — to know their Creator and to serve their fellow humans. And yet humans don’t always practice their purpose. Why? It is because we learn to fear differences and therefore choose to fear each other. We have been unable — unwilling — to appreciate the commonality of humankind. Whether it’s the shared planet, the shared Creator, or the recognition that we are all together in this human experience, we just don’t see that We Are One! So we choose not to accept one another and therefore choose not to extend love.
The choices are driven by belief systems which are created by our individual life experiences. Therefore, the belief systems must be altered to allow for understanding, and from understanding will come acceptance, and then trust, and finally love. The changing of the belief system is simply a matter of choice — choosing how you react to what you see and hear. It’s not easy, but it’s that simple.
So changing your belief system will change your perceptions and you can change your world!
About the Author
Don and Thelma Olexa are parents, grandparents, have had successful careers and are world travelers.
After raising and college educating their blended family of ten kids (who have blessed them with 20 grandchildren), and completing exciting careers – Don as an attorney and corporate executive, and Thelma as a professional actress and singer, they began a new mission.
Don holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from
In 1987 when Thelma was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, defeating that disease became the Olexas’ mission. Research, studying, traveling, meditation and prayer were all put into play. And Don took early retirement to ensure that their time together was productive. And it was! Together they explored most medical possibilities — traditional and alternative — as well as cultural and religious teachings. The search was a marvelous education and experience (The authors wish everyone could take such a joyous ride.) A secondary benefit of the healing that took place was the understanding of how much similarity there is among people all over the world.
As world travelers with countless face-to-face encounters across many cultures – they visited over 75 countries on 6 continents.
The end point was the realization and confirmation of the power of the mind and how we all have control of our lives through choice. There was an underlying recognition that we are all
bound together on this planet Earth, sharing a common Creator by whatever name and pursuing a common purpose — to know yourself and your Creator and to serve your fellow humans. The result of their studying and searching revealed the one basic truth — successful fulfillment in life is based on love.