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beginnings and ends of human conflicts take root.

Our basic make-up as people, the Core' human being has remained the same throughout humanity throughout history. This core is not difficult to find.

I found it sitting on a sunny hillside in Santa Clara Valley one summer. This was once home to the Ohlone tribes and as I sat quietly, I began to imagine the lives of these people thousands of years ago on the valley floor below. I watched as these people, who looked and lived so differently from us came out of their domed homes and began their daily chores: stopping to chat with one another, walking away in groups to work, noisy children ran about; it all looked familiar.

I felt at home.

I began to ask myself questions: what were their lives like; what problems did they face each day; what happened inside their relationships; what were their hopes and dreams; their dislikes and fears? What was their pain and happiness?

Intuitively, I realized that if I looked and spoke like them and had their cultural nuances, I could walk down the hill and blend right in. Though the objects of my goals during the day would be different in appearances along with me, my aspirations, my questions, and my dreams in life would still have the same balance of composition as they have for me today.

We face the same distilled and unchanging choices in our actions today that we always have: right/wrong; the same experiences in our emotions: love/hate, and have the same reactions and responses: good/bad; happy/unhappy, content/discontent. We succeed and fail; laugh and cry and people continue to stand up after falling; only the perennial change of appearances is different.

The 'HUMAN CONDITION'

The Human Condition' a thousand years ago was, in its essence, the same as today. Humanity has basic needs, basic strivings, and hopes for life that transcend time and culture.

This is the basic human condition; the common ground we all stand upon in life and creator of the basic human conflicts that continue today as they always have and we are making the same mistakes for the same reason: Us' versus Them'; expansion of social economic boundaries beyond social geographical boundaries in the course of self-interest.

These economic expansions have historically included political and religious expansion as well adding, in past times, cultural subjugation to economic oppression.
In today's smoky social atmosphere, partially a product of individual information overload' and selective mass-media communications,

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