These are the thoughts of people from the United States who have gathered at the world’s first Peace Dome on the campus of the College of Metaphysics in Missouri. In the center of the first floor of the dome is an eight-foot in diameter Peace Mandala given to Chicago businessman Jay McCormick during a meditation in the dome’s upper chamber. The design is becoming a permanent part of the structure one tile at a time.
The first tile was laid by eight-year-old Hezekiah Condron on the day the Peace Dome was dedicated to the world as a universal site for peace. Since then 6,000 tiles have been placed by individuals during special gatherings at the dome. This is no common feat of construction. What makes this endeavor unique is the science involved.
“It is estimated that human beings think between 30,000 to 50,000 thoughts each day,” says Dr. Barbara Condron, president emeritus of the School of Metaphysics. “The Peace Mandala encourages people to focus on what peace means to them personally. The responses are varied and inspiring.” The aggregate effect of this process is being measured with the most sophisticated biofeedback technology available.
Some say just being in the presence of the mandala, even now, is a healing experience. Twenty-five percent of the tiles have been inlaid thus far. Each small tile is infused with a thought of peace from the person who placed it there. As people visit the Peace Dome, they add tiles and peace thoughts to the design. When it is complete, the Peace Mandala will vibrate with over 24,000 thoughts of peace, one for every tile.
The school is a worldwide not-for-profit educational institute teaching the practical principles of concentration, meditation, and visualization as keys to peace of mind. The daily discipline offers a scientific approach where the development of consciousness can be measured over time and space. Similar, to how those on campus are watching the mandala grow, tile by tile.
“The mandala has changed the whole energy of the Peace Dome. The space is becoming sacred because of all the thoughts of peace that are being infused in each tile that is laid,” says Karen Mosby, a nurse who has become a biofeedback specialist during her time at the college. “There are two fiery, red-headed children, ages 5 and 3, who live on campus at the College of Metaphysics. They love to be in the Peace Dome, watching the play The Invitation, assisting with the laying of tiles, or greeting visitors to the Dome.”
Children have been a part of the Peace Dome from its beginning. Children were present when the sixty foot in diameter and 24 foot tall monolithic dome was inflated. The nine-foot by eighteen-foot relief map on the Healing Wall of the dome was made by children (learn more at www.healingwall.org). Children learn how to think peaceably so they can live peacefully at monthly Peacemakers gatherings.
Each summer, children learn they are part of a global family in a tangible way. “Some of our peace benefactors have expressed a desire to contribute their thought of peace to the mandala yet they do not travel to the United States,” says Condron. “The Odyssey program enables this to happen through a child.”
Those who actively support the Peace Dome are invited to send a thought of peace. That thought is recited by a child who lays a tile in the person’s stead. “It is a tangible way of making the world a smaller place. We send a photo of the moment to the Peace Financier and hope that this begins a lifelong friendship.”
Becoming a Peace Financier is a simple process described at www.peacedome.org. “We invite those abroad to send us thoughts of peace,” adds Indigo Family Odyssey Director Jonathan Duerbeck. “Your thought of peace will be read aloud and recorded in the unfolding history of this project.”
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