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And it's important, I think, also for our children from an early age to begin to understand and realize this, because as we mentioned right in the beginning. We learn our first beliefs, our first entire systems, we actually come across it as we're growing up within the family, or whether it's within the care givers that surround us and the support systems.
And hence, I feel that children need to start exploring this at an early age.
And as they grow up to be more independent, it would be wonderful if each youngster will have the opportunity to travel on their own outside of the family unit, outside of the belief systems, outside of the group mentality, outside of boundaries.
Even sometimes our peer groups might be that group mentality. But just to, to leave that familiarity.
And, there's a saying that goes:
Familiarity breeds contempt.
And, and this is what I mean to, we need to break free from that familiar surrounding and to be in a different location, to explore the world, explore the different cultures, the newness of everything, the different people, the different languages, the different lifestyles, the different beliefs, the values.
And that way, as we mentioned in the previous episode as well, the brain itself begins to expand its capabilities. We become more intelligent. We're using more of what we were bestowed with.
And that's how we start this movement of inner peace to world peace, with children, with the youngsters.
And as we believed the universities used to be a place where we, we could voice our opinions. We could articulate about all sorts of things. It used to be the ground where everything could be discussed, because it's only through dialogue, it’s through discussions, we begin to understand each other and we can forge the way ahead as a collective.
And I think this is quite evolutionary and what I've seen as well around the world throughout my nomadic life, where I've come across youngsters who are already beginning to explore the planet at an early age, and their perspectives are quite different from that, what we see in groups and clusters of people who say, no, this area needs to only be for people with our beliefs, who look like us, who think like us, and who have our values.
That becomes very restrictive and limiting and as we discussed in the previous episode, shrinks the ability of the brain itself!
We've actually seen this limited thinking in play, especially when the Ukraine war started, and the world just came together with the shock from the atrocities.
And in the USA and EU we, we heard this one mantra being repeated;
“Oh goodness, they look like us, so we have to help them.”
And so the borders were open, countries were inviting the refugees in, they were giving them visas and work permits, jobs, hotel accommodation, registration into Yoga and dance classes. They were treated like precious humans.
And then something similar happened where Palestine and the strip of Gaza has been invaded. A similar situation as to what happened in Ukraine, a smaller area invaded by a military power -even though Ukraine was a sovereign country with its own military power.
A completely different reaction played out that was most revealing. Because the people no longer looked like us.
And this is what I'm saying, if from an early age our youngsters can explore diversity outside of this comfort zone of their religions, their group mentality, their systems, their country, their nationality, then we can actually pave the way for a better, better future because we're creating a collective mentality.