When as a physicist I address the topic of world peace, I won't speak about new weapons, as one might assume, since physics is always involved in the production of new weapons. What I'd like to convey is more powerful.
For more than thirty-five years, concomitant with my thermonuclear research, I have occupied myself with paraphysical investigations, e.g., telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and many other things. I've come into contact with questions that underlie these extraordinary events, questions which touch on the existence of human beings, and, as a result, inevitably go beyond the bounds of natural science.
When you experience such things and approach them without prejudice, when you also establish that your measurements are correct, and that there can be no doubt that the phenomena exist yet no explanation in physics is applicable, then you begin to suspect there must be more to existence than the matter that can be described in terms of our physics, and that there must be a matter which is finer, more ethereal, even though this ethereal matter often seems paradoxical to physics.
There are Laws that govern finer material substance in detail. Ethereal phenomena are not something peculiar, separate from the material world, but are part of one great reality. The laws are the same everywhere; only the forms of the different planes change.
Research into telepathy has proven both the existence of telepathy and also the fact that thoughts are energies. Therefore they can have a devastating effect upon the environment if erroneous thoughts exist in great numbers. But how are we to research this? Many would say that we should approach this field with none other than strictly scientific methods. But this extreme is also incorrect. If we approach the parapsychical, the ethereal domain, with only the conventional methods of natural sciences, thus strictly positivistically, we will undoubtedly make some progress, but we will never reach our goal. It is the same principle as with a balloonist who wants to reach the moon: he can go higher and higher with each improvement he makes to his equipment . . . but he will never reach the moon, since he would need an entirely different paradigm (rocket thrust, in this case.) And so it is with our research into the ethereal: we can reach our goal only if we employ other means, namely the spirit within us.
The great diversity of ethereal happening is described in detail in a book called In the Light of Truth (Grail Foundation Press, 1995), written by Abd-ru-shin (Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, 1875-1941). The astounding thing about it is that the Laws described in it have been subsequently confirmed in all my research.
But what does all this have to do with world peace? Research has shown that a force or energy like thoughts exists even when we can't describe this energy or this kind of interaction by our known physics. And because everybody is thinking something all the time, this telepathic connection is like a huge world-wide web. But it is, at the same time, highly selective. This means that we are connected with other people who are in resonance with us, who have similar thoughts, similar emotions, because the degree of emotion is a measure of the energy, of the force, in telepathy experiments. We create an ethereal environment by our thoughts. Thus, we are able to poison our ethereal environment, for instance, by negative thoughts.
Also, thoughts are not free as so many try to fool themselves. Many treat their thoughts as if they were disposable batteries: things simply to be "tossed away." People are responsible for their thoughts, but since most people are ignorant of this fact, they use them carelessly and irresponsibly. Thereby they constantly damage and poison their environment.
So we are able to "fuel a war" or to make peace with our thoughts. And such thoughts in oneself may be triggered by secondary sources, like television. Just as illegal and dangerous dumping of poisonous matter into seemingly contained ponds or lakes will then be carried through underground channels only to resurface much later in totally different places, so someone, perhaps spiritually indolent and thereby weak-willed, can, through the thoughts of another, be affected in a way he himself would never consciously perpetrate. Hence only one result from paraphysics, the power of telepathy, gives you a totally new picture of your accountability for world peace!
But there are also other results from my 30-year investigation into the paranormal that can change our view. For instance, the fact that our consciousness - our spirit - survives our body means that there is an afterlife. This fact means that I cannot really kill my enemy. I only can change his habitation from here to the beyond. And it may be that I have to meet him again some day. The core of reincarnation explains that race and country are not very important. German Nazis may have been reincarnated as Israelis and Jewish Holocaust victims as Germans. Blacks may be born white next time, and vice versa. The consciousness of these facts in and of itself precludes all wars based upon race, religion, or nationality. And when one knows the incorruptible Law of Reciprocal Action, one has the insight that war as revenge is unnecessary.
The recipe for world peace is simple, and to bring it about we do not need university studies, esoteric techniques, or expensive technical equipment. We only need to lend purity to our thoughts. A more intuitive person will immediately sense this and will perhaps thereby be encouraged also to do it. And then, when many act in this manner, the world will be transformed. Therefore, I would like to give you one of the simplest but most important ideas to take with you. It contains an entire ethereal ecology and its consequences: "Keep the hearth of your thoughts pure. By so doing you will bring peace and be happy." (Abd-ru-shin)
Dr. Friedbert Karger is a plasmaphysicist at the Max Plank Institute, Munich, Germany. E-mail: dtraina@knox.net. In the Light of Truth is available at your local bookstore or by calling the publisher at 1-800-427-9217.