About the Peace Table
This directory houses the introduction to the mission and purpose of The Peace Table as the public-facing arm of the Lightning Path. It outlines how the publication serves as a gateway to LP teachings and invites readers to engage with the project of building Eupsychia — the Good Society capable of full human flourishing. It includes an article that speaks in detail about the Peace Table as well as several additional articles (some planned) that ground the publication in Psychological, Sociological, Philosophical, Historical, and Information Science Theory.
Table of contents
- About The Peace Table Publication - An introduction to the mission and purpose of The Peace Table as the public-facing arm of the Lightning Path. Outlines how the publication serves as a gateway to LP teachings and invites readers to engage with the project of building Eupsychia — the Good Society capable of full human flourishing.
- Abraham Maslow's Vision - Traces Maslow's pivotal December 8, 1941 vision — the day after Pearl Harbor — when he imagined a "peace table" where humanity could gather to discuss human nature, hatred, war, and brotherhood. Documents his subsequent development of Eupsychian Psychology and the systematic marginalization and defunding of the humanistic psychology movement he founded.
- Humanity's Indomitable Drive for Change - Examines humanity's persistent, cross-cultural drive for social transformation and the recurring failure of revolutionary movements to sustain their gains. Argues that current knowledge technology — the tools we use to record, transmit, and review collective wisdom — is fundamentally inadequate to the task of paradigm shift, leaving us vulnerable to the accelerating polycrisis.
- Humanity's Big Problem - Identifies the core obstacle to human flourishing - a toxic socialization process that systematically damages human potential from childhood onward. Connects this foundational harm to the ideological, economic, and political structures that perpetuate disconnection and prevent the emergence of the Good Society.
- The Vision of Vannevar Bush - Explores Vannevar Bush's 1945 essay "As We May Think" and his visionary memex concept — a mechanized system of associative knowledge linking ideas by conceptual trails rather than hierarchical categories. Documents how this vision of a "pacific instrument" for wisdom was corrupted by commercialization, militarization, and the surveillance capitalism that defines the modern internet.