It doesn’t always appear to be this way, but it is. While, in this issue, journalist Bill Moyers points out the dangers of political policy based on religious fanaticism, Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the deeper nature of war, and Claude Anshin Thomas writes about the soldier's rocky path to peace, you will find in these profound stories the essence of nature and of humankind: love, light and inspiration to uplift our hearts and souls.

It benefits us to serve peace, as we see in "One Humanity" and “Choosing Peace: One Shift at a Time,” because our prayers and harmony with the Earth uplift us into our own evolutionary nature.

We see how nature heals us in Jeremy’s “Incredible Dolphin Adventure,” and in “Children of the New Earth: A Vibration of Love” taste the awesome psychic powers latent in us and full-blown in the new kids on our planet today. We take the "Fast Lane to Heaven" to learn how we too can and someday will travel between the worlds to see with eyes of pure energy.

You will find in this issue an invitation to expand into the open perspectives that enable us to view the world from different angles and solve problems, create beauty and blossom our lives. This invitation, at times, is subtle and begs us to suspend judgment and disbelief. It is only by breaking through contradictions and our differences that we find our common ground and common destiny as Light.

Victor Hugo, the 19th century poet and novelist, wrote, "The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." This is our common ground, of course, and no matter how far any one of us veers away from the road to unconditional love, it is all that we really want and the only thing we need.

I trust and hope that this third issue of OneWorld will inspire and delight you. If you enjoy the content, new design and new domain, I invite you to contribute a love offering of any amount to ensure the magazine’s continuation. Now without a subscription cost, OneWorld Spirit, with your help, is open to everyone and better able to touch and heal people's lives.

You are also invited to visit our sister publication, "The Still, Small Voice," at www.thestillsmallvoice.org, to read articles on how to create inner peace and radiate it out to the world.

The dream of OneWorld Spirit is to build a global network of peacemakers shining light brilliantly into the ethers to uplift humanity. As the Hopi Prayer in this issue points out, we are indeed the ones we have been waiting for and our time is now.