Butterflies and the Peace Propagation Process

Abstract

In this short paper, presented as an autoethnography, I use my individual journey of spiritual and mental transformation towards inner peace to generate general insights into the Individual Peace Propagation Process (IPPP). Employing the metaphor of a butterfly’s life-cycle, I identify key stages within this process, providing the contours of a qualitative Individual Peace Propagation Process model. I then explore various scenarios under the model created, interesting homomorphisms with different yet potentially related processes, possible insights from chaos theory, and relevancy to existing mathematical models of Peace Propagation. The exploration may contribute to the understanding of the individual and interpersonal spreading of peace and its flowering into social harmony, as well as of the ontological and phenomenological dimensions of peace and its propagation.