Archives: Peace
Epigenetic Peace
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 [...]
A Peaceful Solution Kyle Andrew Scott
Kyle Andrew Scott created the milestone #200 video of A Peaceful Solution. It sure is nice of Kyle to do this for peace, especially since no one we knew thought this project would last so long or get so many people involved. Be we did. We knew there we lots of people out there that [...]
Willie Nelson Peace Mission
Willie Nelson, Liz O’Garvey and Jay Greathouse collaborated in writing Our Mission for the Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute in April, 2007. We launched this blog to represent our efforts toward peace and to reach out to the greater community of peaceful people by offering a platform to share news of peaceful activities around the [...]
A Cognitive Approach To Peace
Noam Chomsky initiated the “cognitive revolution” in his 1959 “A Review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior“ critique of behaviorism and empiricism in general. Further dissatisfaction with the behavioral approach in its simple emphasis on external behavior, rather than internal processes, grew with the development of better experimental methods. In his book The Blank Slate (2002), [...]
A Behavioral Approach To Peace
According to most behaviorists, looking at overt behavior seems the only way to know what is going on in the mind. They assume the mind is a mysterious “black box” that we cannot see into. The term “learning theory” is often associated with the behavioral view. In this context, learning can be defined as the [...]
The Next Level
“It took me a while to realize this, but more than anything else, the things you believe in are what make you the person you are.” -Willie Nelson Liz O’Garvey wrote the first post here on April 19th, 2007, and since then we have published 715 posts (not counting this one) in 10 categories while [...]
A Peaceful Solution Gary Block
Gary Block sent this to us and never got back to us, as far as we can determine. Thank you, Gary Block, where ever you are. A Peaceful Solution might just keep the middle class from joining the poor people in the United States of America. Make no mistake, the United States Armed Forces represents [...]
