The 3rd and final edition of Not Two Is Peace by Adi Da, on global cooperative order and liberated global living is now in print. In many ways it is an very unusual book, written with the very highest consciousness in mind and a call to real action from that very consciousness, in a nutshell, non duality as unified action –a vision of humanity acting as one unit, based in the intuitive capacity of all men and women to know their inherent unity– rather than the endless divisions we know as our tribe, religion, country, village etc
This book is written with great passion and urgency, as an essential spiritual call advocating Reality itself (rather than any other religion or even Adidam ) as its starting point, but its address is not to Divine Enlightenment, but to practical changes in the world for the benefit of all living things
I mentioned it is an unusual book, because it taps directly into a great deal of very obvious truth, things known by just about everyone, yet rarely verbalized as if the most obvious truths remain unseen and unspoken. Such as the whole concept of “prior unity” for humanity, once deeply considered this concept may reveal itself as obvious somehow, but unless stated clearly would have remained hidden or unnoticed.
Not Two Is Peace envisions the capacity for global change to the world situation passed to humanity, as one collective voice and active power, usurping all localized power bases by the sheer and unstoppable weight of a collective global voice, enforcing right action across the planet
Its essential call to action is based in “everybody-all-at-once”– the united power of humanity speaking and acting as an essential force for change– founded in “prior unity”–the inherent and always knowable non-dual and formless one Reality at the Heart of all beings– (these 2 key concepts are used frequently throughout this book) The concept of a Global Cooperative Forum is introduced as the fundamental means to initiate and empower the “everybody-all-at-once” phenomenon
Anyone interested in world change at any level will find this book at the very least interesting and inspiring, it is also written to individuals or “everyman”, in some sense it is also a grass roots liberating call (and this should not be overlooked), hence it subtitle “The Ordinary Peoples Way of Global Cooperative Order” and the text is much less demanding and non-centric to Adi Da himself as Spiritual Teacher, than many of his other books.
There is also a beautiful print of one of Adi Da’s artistic images in fold out style towards the end of the book. There is an online version of much of the text here,
The terrible problems that are occurring politically and naturally in the world today are the result of pattern-driven human unconsciousness. Human beings are continuing mechanically, trying to repeat modes of effort, even modes of thinking, that were workable — up to a point — in the past, but that are no longer workable now. A new kind of human consciousness is required — based on the working-presumption of prior unity, and on an understanding of the indivisibly single world in which everyone is living. This involves not only the notion that there is such a single world, but it requires grasping the necessity for cooperation, and the necessity to function on the basis of an understanding that the Earth is a single system, and humankind (likewise) is a single whole. Humankind must not be forced to function under some kind of totalitarian singleness. Rather, humankind must function cooperatively — in the sense that everyone is living together on Earth, and functioning through a mechanism of global principles that are benign and right and true - Adi Da
