“I do not believe…that an individual may gain spiritually and those around him suffer… I believe in the essential unity of man and, for that matter, of all that lives.” ~ Gandhi, Mind of Mahatma Gandhi, p. 223

The concept of a spiritual “field” operating throughout spacetime in somewhat the way gravity does, or electromagnetic radiation, is central to the worldview of spiritually based nonviolence. Of course, we can explain a good deal of the power of nonviolence without it, but it certainly accounts for the “nonviolence effect” efficiently and is one of those tenets that has been long held by the wisdom tradition and recently supported by modern science.

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