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A Bloodied Tapestry

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Imagine you’re a young man growing up in the pastoral farmlands of Canada, surrounded by your devout parents and seven siblings. You trek 16 miles to church each Sunday to further devote your life to the religion that you believe to be your calling. Life is hard, but you’re at home and alive. Then, like a shot from destiny, everything changes. You find yourself in South Vietnam in the middle of war, attempting to make sense and reconcile the faith and morality from the only world you’ve ever known with this all-encompassing hell of inhumanity and senselessness. This is the disconcerting experience that author JanStephen James Cavanaugh recounts in A Bloodied Tapestry.

In this autobiographical historical account, Jan takes readers through the time he served as a civilian volunteer in the Vietnam War and shows how this experience altered the trajectory of his life forever. Walk with Jan as he comes to grips with the realities of war, and how injustice and violence betray our better judgements.

Much has been written about the Vietnam War; however, this book is not a retrospect on the utter inhumanity and senselessness of war because—sadly—war continues. Alternatively, Cavanaugh extols lessons and observations about the war that may finally reach our collective consciousness and compel meaningful and noticeable change. Much more insight is needed as we fumble our way toward attempting to find a peaceful way to exist together. Cavanaugh still believes we can make the choice to let go of the injustice and ego that create war. He is still hopeful that together we can make the collective choice to turn our backs on war so we may progress and find greater meaning and compassion in our existence. This pursuit is what motivates Cavanaugh and inspired him to revisit this hell, so that we may finally experience the harmony that comes from humanity living in an age of peace.

Sometimes graphic, oftentimes uplifting, A Bloodied Tapestry is a personal account of one man’s immutable beliefs as they are challenged to the very core and his resolution to survive for a greater purpose.

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JanStephen James Cavanaugh, Ph.D. was born in Canada to a large, very religious family. His dream of the priesthood led him to the US, but, after being turned away from this role by the Catholic Church, he turned his attention to volunteering and found himself stationed in South Vietnam, right in the middle of the Vietnam War. After experiencing the hell of war first-hand as a civilian, Jan returned to the states, and went on to become a professor, psychologist, global business consultant, and surprisingly, a Class A licensed big rig driver. With a Ph.D. in Human Development from Penn State, Cavanaugh has dedicated his life to a deep study of the human psyche with the mission of facilitating ways to encourage the healthy growth of our collective bodies, minds, and souls.

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War Is Winning

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What Do We See: War Is Winning. When I wrote the epilogue to A Bloodied Tapestry in June of 2021, I describe a tightness in my gut that reminded me of the feeling I had in the fall of 67 before Tet 68. Reading the tea then the levels war and more war seemed our future. I see in early 2024 how my gut sensed what was yet unknown. War is winning. Funds for war expanding worldwide … powers afraid and gearing up for war which takes away money to deal with an even greater threat than nuclear war … a planet so warm it is not able to support human life. Our leaders fiddle while our planet burns. Or floods. God help us.

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A Bloodied Tapestry

In journal notes of January 2005, I lament now that so many years later, as I read my reflections of January 10, 1968, how I am once again in war so close to home. I write these words not fifty miles from New York City, a large scar signaling the next stage in a war started centuries ago. It seems we are paying the price for getting into the middle toppling Iranian democracy some half century ago. Imagine if we had not done that. Instead, there is no talk of peace between the warring factions, as each side believes they are winning, and the desire for war is growing among masses on either side.

In my gut, I have the same kind of tightness of fall ’67, and my nightmares of those times come back to haunt me. I pray I project my past onto the future.

I think not as I read the tea leaves in 2021 and reread my reflections of my times past in war. I look out my window and perceive our situation to be exponentially worse than it was in 2005. Newton’s laws of motion. Without a global intervention, humanity is on the path to great destruction in the terrors of war and warming unbounded. Most people seem to be caught in a trance…not wanting to believe that we live in such a treacherous time. And they feel powerless to change what at this time is the inevitability of the Age of Catastrophe. We are blinded by money and power and are not seeing the possibility of an Age of Peace, even as our great books call for it.

From the terror of January 10, 1968, a night so long ago, a dream has arisen: From human civilization founded on war to human civilization founded on justice. True justice is love manifested as right action.

A dream is for humanity to stand billions strong to occupy one virtual conscious space, the energy focused and committed to moving huge steps forward in human development. It is a matter of numbers. In one voice, an awakening global consciousness committed to voting for leaders from every people tribe, nation, and state to build a global civilization living in an age of peace ruled by justice.

End War + End Warming = Age of Peace

We live in a time when this can be done. It is no different from selling Fords.

AgeofPeace2050.com is a vision and a blueprint.

This is my legacy.

June 10, 2021

JanStephen James Cavanaugh, PhD

“It isn’t enough to talk about peace.

One must believe in it.

And it isn’t enough to believe in it.

One must work at it”

Elanor Roosevelt

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JanStephen James Cavanaugh

A Bloodied Tapestry

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War Is Winning

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