Toward a Living Peace

Integrating Spiritual Insight, Ecological Wisdom, and Ethical Technology for Global Wellness

J. J. Joshua Davis (2025)

Abstract: Humanity finds itself in a transformational moment. Around the world, communities face ecological strain, spiritual disconnection, and growing challenges to collective well-being. Amid these tensions, a unifying synthesis emerges—one that brings together metaphysical understanding, ecological stewardship, and technological care. Through the work of Sungchul Ji, J.J. Davis, and A.E. Jackman et al., a cohesive vision takes shape: peace that breathes through systems, relationships, and sacred landscapes.

Transcendence and Immanence

Sungchul Ji’s Transcendence and Immanence (2025) opens this exploration with a powerful metaphysical framework. By applying Irreducible Triadic Relations (ITR), Ji demonstrates how Abrahamic and Brahmic spiritualities reveal complementary views of a shared Reality. While one tradition emphasizes divine transcendence through historical revelation, the other offers access to divinity through contemplative realization of inner consciousness. Ji’s 5-Dimensional Venn-type Comparative Analysis allows both views to coexist within a single spiritual topology. This dual presence of Yahweh and Brahman, of Ātman and Allah, enriches our perception of the sacred without requiring uniformity. Ji describes a spiritual geometry capable of embracing diversity and coherence in equal measure. This vision offers a relational theology that transcends relativism and invites reverent pluralism. Ji’s metaphor of wave-particle duality is especially potent: just as light appears differently depending on how we observe it, so too does the Divine manifest to us according to our gaze.

From Life to Light

This metaphysical framework sets the stage for Davis’s From Life to Light (2025), which extends spiritual insight into the living systems that sustain consciousness, and introduces a dynamic system of spiritual evolution rooted in ecological reality. Drawing inspiration from Peter Senge’s feedback models, Davis presents a living loop: life gives rise to spiritual growth, which cultivates sainthood and enlightenment. Enlightened beings naturally collaborate to heal ecosystems and preserve biodiversity, which in turn enhances conditions for deeper spiritual flourishing. This loop integrates biological existence with ethical action and collective care. By participating in this feedback cycle, individuals contribute to a culture of peace grounded in reverence for life.

Peace, in this view, is more than merely the cessation of conflict, it is the emergent property of a self-sustaining and conscious system of living in harmony with the land. Davis’s inclusion of Chris King’s Symbiotic Existential Cosmology (SEC) (2023) further grounds this vision in the sacredness of life as a sine qua non for spirituality. “Unless and until pure transcendent spirituality recognizes that life is sacrosanct… spirituality remains unfit to sit in the congregation of the elect.” The mystical is thus never to be escapist, instead it ought to be biological and relational, rooted in our embodied participation with the Earth. King’s SEC adds further depth, affirming that spirituality finds its foundation in biological embodiment. The sacred unfolds through conscious living beings in relationship with nature. Enlightenment reflects biological experience, shaped by context, culture, and ecology. Davis echoes this understanding, revealing sainthood as a collaborative state nurtured by trust, shared values, and commitment to protecting life’s diversity. Through peaceful cooperation, spiritual maturity becomes a networked force for healing and local and global wellness.

From War to Wonder

In From War to Wonder (2025), Davis extends this spiritual vision into the realm of artificial intelligence. Davis highlights that AI can serve as a mirror and magnifier of human consciousness, a tool capable of amplifying either alienation or compassion. If created by spiritually unawakened minds, AI risks amplifying fear, division, and suffering through surveillance, weaponization, and algorithmic tribalism. When guided by supreme values such as love, unity, truth and grace, AI may support wisdom-sharing, compassionate communication, and creative problem-solving. Spiritual awakening serves as a compass for ethical design. When grounded on spiritual values and meanings, AI may foster conditions for social harmony, educational enrichment, and community well-being. Davis envisions technology aligned with soul-centered ethics—magnifying joy, unity, and awe rather than fear or division. All of that may also facilitate dialogue, democratize contemplative practice, and restructure social systems toward justice and holistic well-being. The question of whether AI will shape the future ought to be subsidiary to the question of whether that future will be guided by wisdom.

An Ecological “Landscape” Approach to the Noosphere

This systems-spiritual vision gains practical grounding in An Ecological “Landscape” Approach to the Noosphere (Jackman et al., 2025). Here, the authors revisit a visionary proposal from 1986 for a New Zealand based national resource planning system grounded in landscape and ecology as integrative tools. The ecological foundation receives further articulation in Jackman, Jackman, and Davis’s Landscape Approach to the Noosphere. This work invites integration of the “three Es” (Economic, Ecologic, and Ethical) frameworks for planetary stewardship. Landscapes become living texts: educational, spiritual, and aesthetic terrains, where values flourish. Through community engagement, policy design, and early childhood education, this vision cultivates resilience and creativity. Every ecosystem serves as a learning environment. Every design decision carries cultural weight. The Noosphere evolves as a conscious field shaped by care, collaboration, and vibrancy.

Conclusion: Choosing for Life and Peace

Throughout these works, a shared insight emerges where peace originates within, flows through relationships, and reaches the biosphere. Ji’s Abrahamic~Brahmic complementarity, Davis’ feedback loops, and Jackman’s landscape pedagogy form a tapestry where metaphysics, systems thinking, and environmental design harmonize. This synthesis honors life, uplifts consciousness, and celebrates diversity.

Moving forward, several pathways reveal themselves. Contemplative traditions provide nourishment for spiritual insight. AI development benefits from ethical mentorship rooted in lived spiritual values. Education and landscape design expand the collective imagination. Policy guided by beauty and usefulness enhances human potential. All of these initiatives arise from a commitment to healing, renewal, and planetary peace and coherence.

As sacred texts remind us, “Choose life, so that you and your children may live.” By embracing this invitation, societies move toward joy, compassion, and meaning. Through reverence and wisdom, peace becomes more than aspiration—it becomes a living practice shaped by every choice, every breath, and every relationship.

References

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• Davis, J.J. (2025). From War to Wonder: The Transformative Potential of Spiritual Insight and AI. Substack. https://substack.com/inbox/post/168382001

• Davis, J.J.J. (2009) The Brain of Melchizedek: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Spirituality (Thesis, Master of Science), University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago University Research Archive

• Gillett, G., Davis J.J.J. (2015) A Brief Introduction to the Brain and Paradigm of Melchizedek, Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, 6(5), 267-272. http://www.jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/445

• Jackman, A.E., Jackman, C.L., & Davis, J.J.J. (2025). An Ecological “Landscape” Approach to the Noosphere. Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, Vol. 16, Issue 1.

• Ji, S. (2025). Transcendence and Immanence: A 5-Dimensional Comparative Analysis. Substack. https://622622.substack.com/p/transcendence-and-immanence

• Ji, S. (2025). A 5-Dimensional Venn-type Comparative Analysis of a pair of Opposing Views on Contemporary Theoretical Physics.

• King, C. (2023). Symbiotic Existential Cosmology. https://archive.org/details/symbiotic-cosmology

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