The peace and the love and the understanding

The quest for peace, love, and understanding has old roots. If peace is the absence of fear, love is active caring thoughts and actions towards people, and understanding is when you feel that another human being has grasped what you are trying to do and say and why you do and say it, then one can conclude that these three, the peace, the love, and the understanding, are universal human emotional needs.

They beget each other. Mutual understanding in a peaceful environment nurtures love, loving and understanding someone makes it easier to keep peace with them, and the peace and the love enables us to explore each others' minds. We need them all.

When it comes to relations between people, the only things that exists are things in the mind. The conditions around the people will naturally affect how they perceive their world, but it will still be their perceptions that defines their relation. How we think and feel about things guides our actions. Peace, love, and understanding are cognitive and affective processes, stuff that takes place in the brain.

Hence the prefix "neuro" in "neurohippies". Being a hippie is about searching for the peace, the love, and the understanding among people. Acknowledging that this is mostly about brainwork, and given that we today know a bit more about the inner workings of the brain than in say 1967, it seems like exploring the neural pathways in ways that modern science has opened up for us can be a fruitful cause for any hippie in 2010s.

In this blog we would like to collect people's experiences in doing this.