by Motavenda Melchizedek

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Here, David Kilcullen of Caerus Associates and former senior counter-insurgency advisor to General David Petraeus; Michael Hanna, Senior fellow at the Century Foundation; and Bill Spindle, Middle East Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal Discuss the rise of ISIS with Charlie Rose

Even with highly educated, contemplative people applying themselves sincerely to understanding and resolving these issues, it is hard to not sense the fultility in trying to solve things of this magnitude without going to higher places of truth and understanding of the foundational, soul level seed points of what we see flourishing in the existing forms of violence and suffering across the earth today.

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Where do we begin to understand what we have participating in creating if we deny the truth of our own accountability personally and societally?

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"You cannot grieve for what you know not of"....Christopher Gunness, UNRWA Spokesman