Epigenetic Peace

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Epigenetic Peace is the proper name of the peace we seek together as human society. The potential of epigenetics for producing lasting human peace is staggering and very real.

Physically, people have not changed in at least a million years. Our DNA, the basic blueprint of our bodies, and the physiology of our bodies have not changed while people

  • acquired agriculture
  • created complex social hierarchies
  • established cities
  • outfitted conquering armies
  • received great religions
  • built empires
  • conceived of nations
  • launched the industrial revolution and
  • invented the information age.

All in the last 10,000 years. Archeologists can find early evidence beginning about 100,000 years ago but what has happened in the last 10,000 is remarkable.

And what we have done in the last 1,000 years is breathtaking.

It can only be psychological changes, profound new mentalities and different ways of using our heads than can account for these remarkable and breathtaking accomplishments. We did it all by thinking differently.

We, as a people, are increasingly thinking differently faster and further all the time. And this is not even the best part. I’ll get to the best part in a little bit but first lets get a grip on epigenetics.

Epigenetics studies non-genetic factors that cause our genes to behave (or “express themselves”) differently. Epigenetic changes are behind everything we now consider our human birthright, a massive mental construction in its own right.

Think about this.

Something besides our genetics has (and still is at a relentlessly increasing pace) deeply and profoundly directing what kind of human being each of us becomes.

It takes a very small appreciation of human history to begin to grasp the scope of what epigenetic influences have wrought upon human society. Even if you only know some of the stories out of the Biblical Old Testament you have to be impressed with how far we have come.

The best part is that a singular epigenetic influence has recently been identified and confirmed so we now know what it is.

We are the epigenetic influence.

The way this all works gets down to the specifics of how different kinds of people, including all kinds of violent people, appear and reappear throughout human history and how to stop it from happening anymore. That is what I reveal in our special report.

I really think this is important. I really think this has the potential to move the human race forward, past the need to commit violence

  • upon ourselves
  • upon our fellow creatures and
  • upon our environment.

And that is why I am going through all the work of making it into a special report. So you have to excuse me if I look over everything very carefully before I release it.

When it is ready you will hear about it first here. And it will come soon.

Until then, peace in all things.

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