6) The elimination of violence
Based on an understanding that 'my' life is not separate from 'yours', the basis for war and killing is undermined. There can be no killing if 'you are not separate from me' and if 'I am you'. The basis for all violence is undermined as a result of the perception of unity.

Factors that foster the operation of denial and rejection of 'what is', include:

• Helplessness
  The perception of helplessness and the need to counteract it through direct action which creates a feeling of empowerment is the primary basis for all forms of aggression. An inability to tolerate helplessness is the cause, in its many forms, for despair that becomes rage, for desperation that becomes a lashing out at others, and for the pleasure in cruelty that masks the truer and deeper sense of having lost an essential part of oneself - one's heart and one's capacity to love. Helplessness is the single most important feeling and perception that contributes to the willingness to act out toward others and, in particular, the willingness to take the life of another.
• Lack of trust in Divine justice
  In addition to helplessness, lack of trust in Divine justice creates a desire to usurp power and to 'take measures into one's own hands'. The perception that Divine justice is real and that the Law of Cause and Effect operates on all levels, all of the time, takes the burden of responsibility off human shoulders to mete out an exact measure of response to an act of harm or injustice, and leaves it, instead, to the Divine court of law to address issues in which harm has been caused to others. This is not to say that the level of human law is without importance. Only that the impetus and motivation to take things into one's own hands in order to seek revenge, to release long-standing energies of rage at the way one has been treated, or to seek power that will be admired by others - or any of the other many motives of a similar nature that can operate - such motivations are reduced or eliminated if Divine justice is perceived as certain and direct, and if the Law of Cause and Effect is firmly established within each heart.
• Separation from others
  Violence in all forms is also based on separation from others and a sense that others are less real than oneself. This perception is contributed to by the increasing distortion and blurring of the boundary between reality and fantasy that is promoted by media-images that are everywhere today, worldwide. It is also contributed to by the willingness of people to not remember their own true sense of morality in favor of what is popular or what is held to be commonly acceptable. What is a true perception of the suffering of others can only arise when those others are perceived as deeply real, and not as cartoon characters, or figures in a news broadcast, or as 'other' from oneself.

Resolution through the capacity to feel pain and to hold the suffering of all:
    The capacity to feel pain and to hold the suffering of all comes from the possibility of holding these within the consciousness of God's love toward all beings - toward oneself, and toward others who suffer greatly.

    The direct perception of God's heart surrounding situations that are the source of great suffering, allows pain, both within and outside the self, to be held with a sense of peace rather than with a sense of protest. Without the perception of God's love tenderly holding all suffering with the individual who is feeling it, there is the need to either turn away from pain or to feel that something has to be done about it. With the perception of God's love, pain, helplessness, and the causes of suffering that turn into violence can be held within the self without having to be converted into external action of any kind.