In her international webcast, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche referenced the importance of Pope Leo XIV’s speech on Oct. 25, in front of thousands assembled at St. Peter’s Square, where he talked about the founder of modern science and great Renaissance thinker, Nicholas of Cusa. Pope Leo XIV had said that during the fifteenth century, in Cusa’s time, many people lived in fear, took up arms against each other, and looked at their neighbors with general distrust and suspicion, while Cusa, “believed in humanity.” Pope Leo XIV said that Cusa “understood that there are opposites which must be held together.”
Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophical breakthrough, which he developed throughout the course of the Council of Florence from 1431-1445, was his method of the Coincidence of Opposites. Helga Zepp-LaRouche described this method in-depth on her international webcast. The Coincidence of Opposites is, “a method of thinking [of] how you [can avoid getting] get stuck in the nitty-gritties of this problem or that problem, but how you can train your mind to think the one. This is extremely important. The Pope applies it very clearly to the political situation, because, obviously, If you look at every conflict in the world today, if you look at the situation in the Middle East or Ukraine or the Caribbean, if you only look at the facts, the history of the crisis, the tensions and the personalities involved, you will never find an adequate solution. But if you start totally the other way around, if you think the one first, in this case the one humanity—that which unites us all—and then from that elevated point of view look at the concrete crisis, you can always find a solution…. You can apply that method to any problem, to politics, economics, military issues, social issues, cultural issues, because it is a way of conflict resolution which does exactly that: that the hope of synthesizing the next step of the evolution of the development of mankind, you can see something that does not exist but which can be brought about by people of good will by concerted efforts. So, this is a very beautiful intervention…"
The revival of Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophy is one of the most profound questions which will determine the durable survival of all of humanity, during a time when geopolitical divisions are at their height, and when the prospect of thermonuclear war is incredibly high. While a step back from the brink has taken place today, with the meeting of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea, what is needed is a move towards durable survival between nations.
Civilizations have collapsed, not out of fate, but based on whether a culture was capable of rejecting its flawed axiomatic beliefs, and proceeding to a higher solution which seemed impossible before. This is what Nicholas of Cusa pioneered, when he engineered the successful Council of Florence which resolved the schism between both the Western and Eastern Churches. We can do the same today, following the approach of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and Nicholas of Cusa.
Speakers: Bill Jones and Dennis Speed
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In her international webcast, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche referenced the importance of Pope Leo XIV’s speech on Oct. 25, in front of thousands assembled at St. Peter’s Square, where he talked about the founder of modern science and great Renaissance thinker, Nicholas of Cusa. Pope Leo XIV had said that during the fifteenth century, in Cusa’s time, many people lived in fear, took up arms against each other, and looked at their neighbors with general distrust and suspicion, while Cusa, “believed in humanity.” Pope Leo XIV said that Cusa “understood that there are opposites which must be held together.”
Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophical breakthrough, which he developed throughout the course of the Council of Florence from 1431-1445, was his method of the Coincidence of Opposites. Helga Zepp-LaRouche described this method in-depth on her international webcast. The Coincidence of Opposites is, “a method of thinking [of] how you [can avoid getting] get stuck in the nitty-gritties of this problem or that problem, but how you can train your mind to think the one. This is extremely important. The Pope applies it very clearly to the political situation, because, obviously, If you look at every conflict in the world today, if you look at the situation in the Middle East or Ukraine or the Caribbean, if you only look at the facts, the history of the crisis, the tensions and the personalities involved, you will never find an adequate solution. But if you start totally the other way around, if you think the one first, in this case the one humanity—that which unites us all—and then from that elevated point of view look at the concrete crisis, you can always find a solution…. You can apply that method to any problem, to politics, economics, military issues, social issues, cultural issues, because it is a way of conflict resolution which does exactly that: that the hope of synthesizing the next step of the evolution of the development of mankind, you can see something that does not exist but which can be brought about by people of good will by concerted efforts. So, this is a very beautiful intervention…"
The revival of Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophy is one of the most profound questions which will determine the durable survival of all of humanity, during a time when geopolitical divisions are at their height, and when the prospect of thermonuclear war is incredibly high. While a step back from the brink has taken place today, with the meeting of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea, what is needed is a move towards durable survival between nations.
Civilizations have collapsed, not out of fate, but based on whether a culture was capable of rejecting its flawed axiomatic beliefs, and proceeding to a higher solution which seemed impossible before. This is what Nicholas of Cusa pioneered, when he engineered the successful Council of Florence which resolved the schism between both the Western and Eastern Churches. We can do the same today, following the approach of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and Nicholas of Cusa.
Speakers: Bill Jones and Dennis Speed
Gaza and Ukraine Only Non-Linear Approaches Can Bring About Peace
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Gaza and Ukraine Only Non-Linear Approaches Can Bring About Peace
“No more killing!” That is what President Trump told acting President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in yesterday’s two-hour White House meeting. While Zelenskyy probably expected Trump to approve the use of Tomahawk missiles, which are capable of striking deep into Russia and would certainly put the U.S. and NATO in a state of direct conflict in Ukraine, Trump instead referenced the proposal of a Budapest summit between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting separate meetings be held on the sidelines with Putin and Zelenskyy.
This is just one example of the arc of development taking place in the world. We can either stick to the old imperial axioms which have dominated since President Franklin Roosevelt’s death, which will lead to the thermonuclear obliteration of all life on the planet, or, we can shift our axioms, and create the conditions for a new paradigm of coalesce in the world today.
In another area of the world, Southwest Asia, the peace deal between Hamas and Israel, while tenuous by itself, has opened up a new path for diplomacy and economic development which can lead to a reconciliation between both sides. That potential exists with Lyndon LaRouche’s 1975 Oasis Plan, which envisions joint development in water desalination and other infrastructure, to make the deserts bloom, and integrate the region from India to the Mediterranean, from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf, as one development area. The feasibility of implementing such an ambitious undertaking—though unconventional according to linear political thinking—is real, according to Dr. Manuel Hassassian, the ambassador from the Palestinian Authority to Denmark, in an interview with Helga Zepp-LaRouche. In the dialogue, he said to Helga:
“On several occasions, I boosted the Oasis Plan as a prelude to economic development towards infrastructural development. I think this is a recipe which is ready for international donors and stakeholders to use in the process of the national reconstruction and the infrastructural development of Gaza. I think this is the time to market the Oasis Plan, to be factored in by those who are going to be involved in the reconstruction of Gaza.... The Oasis Plan now is becoming more and more visible to stakeholders to factor in [to] any process of development.”
A new approach to diplomacy, which is non-linear and creative, as proposed by President Vladimir Putin at the recent Valdai Club meeting this month, is needed to implement such proposals. Only a transcendental shift in the thinking of citizens can result in such a revolutionary approach to statecraft.
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In her international webcast, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche referenced the importance of Pope Leo XIV’s speech on Oct. 25, in front of thousands assembled at St. Peter’s Square, where he talked about the founder of modern science and great Renaissance thinker, Nicholas of Cusa. Pope Leo XIV had said that during the fifteenth century, in Cusa’s time, many people lived in fear, took up arms against each other, and looked at their neighbors with general distrust and suspicion, while Cusa, “believed in humanity.” Pope Leo XIV said that Cusa “understood that there are opposites which must be held together.”
Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophical breakthrough, which he developed throughout the course of the Council of Florence from 1431-1445, was his method of the Coincidence of Opposites. Helga Zepp-LaRouche described this method in-depth on her international webcast. The Coincidence of Opposites is, “a method of thinking [of] how you [can avoid getting] get stuck in the nitty-gritties of this problem or that problem, but how you can train your mind to think the one. This is extremely important. The Pope applies it very clearly to the political situation, because, obviously, If you look at every conflict in the world today, if you look at the situation in the Middle East or Ukraine or the Caribbean, if you only look at the facts, the history of the crisis, the tensions and the personalities involved, you will never find an adequate solution. But if you start totally the other way around, if you think the one first, in this case the one humanity—that which unites us all—and then from that elevated point of view look at the concrete crisis, you can always find a solution…. You can apply that method to any problem, to politics, economics, military issues, social issues, cultural issues, because it is a way of conflict resolution which does exactly that: that the hope of synthesizing the next step of the evolution of the development of mankind, you can see something that does not exist but which can be brought about by people of good will by concerted efforts. So, this is a very beautiful intervention…"
The revival of Nicholas of Cusa’s philosophy is one of the most profound questions which will determine the durable survival of all of humanity, during a time when geopolitical divisions are at their height, and when the prospect of thermonuclear war is incredibly high. While a step back from the brink has taken place today, with the meeting of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea, what is needed is a move towards durable survival between nations.
Civilizations have collapsed, not out of fate, but based on whether a culture was capable of rejecting its flawed axiomatic beliefs, and proceeding to a higher solution which seemed impossible before. This is what Nicholas of Cusa pioneered, when he engineered the successful Council of Florence which resolved the schism between both the Western and Eastern Churches. We can do the same today, following the approach of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and Nicholas of Cusa.
Speakers: Bill Jones and Dennis Speed
