Culture of Peace - Munich, Germany

Culture of Peace Munich, Germany, 4. December 2016 The second speaker was Alan Ingram, movement. This was also the motto of his whose talk was eagerly anticipated talk, with the addition of the word because of the unusual title he had chosen: ‘healthy’. The world religions must take ’my life - with one foot in the spiritual up the challenge of working for peace (no world’. world peace without religious freedom - His presentation, also accompanied by Project World Ethics by Hans Küng) as pictures, was mainly a testimony about his must the United Nations, said Dieter. The life and early contacts he made with the UNO is obliged by its charter to invest spiritual world in his childhood and youth. itself first and foremost for peace. He told us about several experiences with He then spoke about the closely connected different realms of the spiritual world. He topic of health. The WHO definition of also related how he met our movement health is: a state of complete physical, and how, eventually, and clearly with mental and social wellbeing, and not God’s guidance, he was ‘matched’ and merely only the absence of illness or By Robert Bentele blessed with Susanne. Albert Einstein’s infirmity.

A statement: ‘He who can no longer pause to Healthy families, loving relationships and Culture of Peace’: this was the wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as topic of a seminar held by the love and fidelity in marriage are the dead’, seems to fit Alan’ life very well. essence of a peaceful society. Sexual abuse Munich branch of the Family Federation for World Peace and Through these first two presentations, we and infidelity bring misery and chaos. Not Unification on Saturday 4 December 2016, were made very aware that man ‚does not only is the nuclear family important, but and attended by 60 first and second live from bread alone ‘, as Jesus said, and also the extended family, relatives, home, generation members. lives not only in the material world, but garden, pets and of course, the presence of also in the spiritual world. It is essential to God. These are all contained in the Korean One purpose was to help us to clarify how unite these two worlds. expression for family ‚kajong‘. to introduce people to the Blessing; and secondly, this was for the time being, the True Parents teach us a new paradigm: last seminar in preparation to receive the God is parents and the world should grow Holy Items. We were especially happy to together as one family under God. welcome our national leader, Dieter The final part of his lecture was about the Schmidt, as one of the speakers. Annette marriage blessing and all the steps and Bentele was the emcee. ceremonies leading up to it. The world peace blessing offered by True Parents is the key for peace. And we all hope that large blessing movements can be established in Europe and the Western world, as they have been in Asia. Before lunch, Thomas Schuhmann and In the breaks as well as after the seminar, Albert Beck were recognized for 40 years there were lively discussions and of membership in the Unification Church/ exchanges about all these topics. Family Federation. They both gave a short testimony. Links to the videos of the presentations: Alfons Wellenhofer gave the first presentation. His topic was: ‘the (eternal) (in German) meaning of life on earth‘. He gave a Die (ewige) Bedeutung des irdischen comprehensive explanation of the three Lebens - Dr. Alfons Wellenhofer: phases of life and about the meaning of https://vimeo.com/194324288 spiritual growth here on earth and how it is a preparation for eternal life in the spiritual Mein Leben – mit einem Fuß in der world. His talk, which was impressively geistigen Welt - Alan Ingram: illustrated by power point, stimulated a https://vimeo.com/194325678 great deal of discussion. Weltfrieden durch gesunde Familien - Weltfriedenssegnung – von Utopie zur The third speaker, also eagerly awaited, Wirklichkeit - Dr. Dieter Schmidt: was Dieter Schmidt, president of the https://vimeo.com/194327221 FFWPU Germany. His topic was: ‘world peace through healthy families - the World Peace Blessing - from utopia to reality’. He began by recalling the large marriage blessing in Madison Square Garden in New York in 1982, which was held under the motto „World Peace Through Loving Families „and was organized by our