# War & Peace > Bashar frames war as an energetic problem of denied passion and a collective death wish born from fearing inner polarities, teaching that peace emerges through individuals following their passion and expressing creative and nurturing sides in balance. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/war-and-peace # War & Peace In Bashar's framing, war is not a political problem but an energetic and psychological one — a collective death wish born of denied passion and a culture that fears the polarities within itself. Asked why war is exciting to many men, he does not give a geopolitical answer; he gives an interior one. The same teaching names what dissolves war — individuals following their passion and expressing their creative and nurturing sides in balance — and it is framed as individual inner change rather than as a prescription for policy or for what other people should do. ## War as the externalization of a death wish When people — and in this exchange Bashar speaks specifically of males — deny themselves the opportunity to express themselves fully in their passion, they have to find their thrills somewhere, and they find them in things representative of their disconnection from themselves. War, in his words, is a death wish. The negative route to living in the moment becomes: if I don't learn to live in the moment by putting myself in harm's way, the only other alternative is to die, is to take myself out. The outer enemy is really a mirror — the death wish carried within is projected onto others. The dissolution is the same mechanism in reverse. As people start to really follow their passion and express themselves in more creative ways, bringing out their creative side and their nurturing side in a more balanced way, they no longer need to carry the idea of self-annihilation — because they no longer fear and hate themselves to the point of carrying a death wish to project outward. ## Change yourself; be the example Asked how an individual can help transform war without forcing others to change, Bashar's instruction is unequivocal: if you wish to see anything in your world change, change yourself, and do not care whether they change or not. By being the you you want to be, that is how you show them how to change. You set the example that then exists in your world, and you will only attract those who are willing to share the reality you are willing to be. This is consistent with Bashar's broader framework that the outer world is a reflection of the inner state; the path to peace is therefore lived rather than imposed, and it depends on willingness to embody the change rather than to demand it of others. ## The contrast of a society without war A short exchange sharpens the frame by contrast. Asked whether the Essassani society experiences conflict or war, Bashar's answer is brief: No. We simply have no need. The framing locates the origin of war in need — in the inner deficits that produce it — rather than in any inevitability of physical reality. ## Practical implications Notice where passion is being denied. Bashar frames the thrill of war as a substitute sought when people deny themselves full expression in their passion, finding thrills instead in things that represent disconnection from themselves. Treat outer enemies as mirrors. The death wish carried within is what gets projected onto others; the work is inward, not against the reflection. Express the creative and nurturing sides in balance. As these are brought forward, the need to carry self-annihilation is said to dissolve. Change yourself rather than demand change of others. Setting the example by being who you prefer to be is presented as the actual mechanism of transformation; you then attract those willing to share that reality. Do not treat this material as a geopolitical prescription. The teaching addresses the inner energetic roots of violence; it offers no medical, legal, or foreign-policy direction, and does not minimize the real harms of violence. ## Representative passages When they deny themselves the opportunity to express themselves fully in their passion, then they have to find their thrills somewhere [...] War is a death wish. [...] As males start to really follow their passion and express themselves in more creative ways, bringing out their creative side, their nurturing side in a more balanced way will allow them not to need to carry the idea of self-annihilation because they fear themselves and hate themselves so much that they carry around a death wish and thus project that death wish on others.— Bashar, of4Going M.a.d.Bashar [2015-04-11] (of4going-madbashar-2015-04-11#qa-4) If you wish to see anything in your world change, you change yourself and do not care whether they change or not. By being the you you want to be, that is how you show them how to change. 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