Anthony Storr pointed out in Human Aggression, “With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species. No other animal takes positive pleasure in the exercise of cruelty upon another of his own kind … The sombre fact is that we are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth.”

In a similar fashion, Erich Fromm quotes these words of Nikolaas Tinbergen in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness: “On the one hand, man is akin to many species of animals in that he fights his own species. But on the other hand, he is, among the thousands of species that fight, the only one in which fighting is disruptive … Man is the only species that is a mass murderer, the only misfit in his own society.”

Einstein spoke about this critical issue in an address at the fifth Nobel anniversary dinner in New York on 10th December 1945, saying, “The war is won, but the peace is not. The great powers, united in fighting, are now divided over the peace settlements.”

Then, the next year, he pointed out that you cannot solve a problem with the mindset that created it. This is one of many paraphrases of a statement he made in an article titled ‘The Real Problem Is in the Hearts of Men’, published in the New York Times Magazine on 23rd June 1946, which began with these words: “Many persons have inquired concerning a recent message of mine that ‘a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels’.” He then went on to write, “Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.”

Paralogical Integral Relational Logic is the ‘new type of thinking’ that could lead to World Peace, as the Cosmic Foundation and framework for Panosophy, which is the megasynthesis of all fragmented streams of human learning. However, as reaching the Omega Point of evolution is generally regarded to be impossible, Panosophers tend to be cruelly ostracized, not accepted as ordinary human beings, with the same basic needs as any other.