To understand how we humans could live in love, peace, and harmony with each other, we need to recognize the general characteristics that we all share, beneath our unique life experiences.
Most significantly, as general derives from the PIE base *genə- ‘give birth, beget’, it is of the utmost importance that we understand both experientially and cognitively that we are all born directly from the Divine, from which we are never separate.
Probably before 1200, ‘of wide application, of a whole class, generic, affecting or involving all’ (as opposed to special or specific), from Old French general, from Latin generālis ‘general, universal; belonging to a kind, relating to all’, from genus (genitive generis) ‘kind, class; birth, origin; race, stock, family’, from suffixed form of PIE base *genə- ‘give birth, beget’.
The sense of ‘pertaining to all’ gained prominence in Latin from medieval studies of Aristotle and other philosophers and of their study of the sciences or natural phenomena (Barnhart).