“Willingness to cooperate with others may reduce hostility, feelings of threat, jealousy and interpersonal conflict, which in turn may minimize excessive forms of stress. When cooperation is valued, the burden of responsibility for success or failure is shared, easing the stress, caused by failure or the fear of failure." (2)Ancestor John Henrik Clarke pointed out what is missing in our education and in our struggle when he said, "“We lost something by way of communication one to the other. There was a period each one of us understood each other's struggle and we gave it a single name, “The Struggle of Africans Away From Home.”In the same sense, we are experiencing the struggle of creation away from the oneness of the Creator, which is peace.
We Need More We, To Live Peacefully
All of the above speaks to the need for us to act as we and that our biggest impediment is the lack of conceiving ourselves as we. This lack of oneness in our thought process causes us to misuse and under-utilize our resources. There is no way to avoid wasting resources when people do not practice oneness with their entire being, with other humans and with the rest of creation. Everything was created for multiple uses, purposes and services to the physical/mental/emotional/spiritual ecosystem of the Creator. Humans were created for multiple uses, purposes and services to this same, overall, universal ecosystem. Our lives and our service to our God must be to the universal oneness of creation. All creation is beholden to share with each other and bears responsibility to other aspects of creation. Humans, in recent, so-called "modern" times, have been irresponsible to the concept of ecosystem, oneness, we, world peace and God. Everything created by the Creator is for the collective - even every life. All things created are for the Creator and not for the sub-creators that we are. Nothing we do is possible without everything the Creator does and has put in place. Know this and know we. Until we once again restore our memory to this place of understanding our collective knowledge of self, world peace can't exist.(1) Myers, Linda James, Ph.D. & Speight, Suzette L., Ph.D., "Reframing Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being Among Persons of African Descent: Africana/Black Psychology Meeting the Challenges of Fractured Social and Cultural Realities," The Journal of Pan African Studies, (2010, June), vol.3, no.8, p. 79, paraphrased.
(2) Myers, Linda James; Montgomery, Derek; Fine, Mark; Reese, Roy, (1992), "Belief Systems Analysis Scale And Belief And Behavior Awareness Scale Development: Measuring An Optimal, Afrocentric World-view, In R. Jones (Ed.), "Handbook Of Tests And Measurements For Black Populations, (2 vols), Hampton, VA: Cobb & Henry Publishers, p. 22.
