Passion Bearers and Peace Psychology

Abstract

This article calls for a passionate psychology that develops and advocates ways to actualize the human potential for peace. This endeavor would combine current work in the United States and the U.S.S.R. on "the further reaches of human nature." Examples are given of Soviet and American "Passion Bearers." New ways are being developed to facilitate transcendence of Soviet-American antagonisms and ideological addictions. The two cultures share a pragmatic tradition of learning from painful past experiences, including self-inflicted ones. Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. Eugene Ionesco