About Us
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
Who we are:
The RTA Vedic Peace Fellowship is a religious order within Hinduism, whose members live by specific spiritual practices and a common purpose. Rooted in devotion to core ideals of the faith, we study the Vedas alongside other Hindu scriptures and philosophical texts. Our efforts include teaching, spreading knowledge, missionary work and offering guidance on personal enlightenment and self-realisation.
Membership is a choice, and our members (Āchāryas/Theologians) have a unique charism: Global Peace through the removal of the basis for resource-driven conflicts. We see it as a religious duty to promote harmony at the individual level (life choices) and the collective or planetary level (interaction with nature). This interconnectedness (Rta) is central to Hindu belief, practice, and philosophy.
Interconnectedness of all life forms (Rta)
What is Rta?
In the Vedic tradition, Ṛta is a fundamental concept representing the principle of natural order that governs the universe. It is seen as the cosmic law that ensures the natural, moral and other orders. Over time, the concept of Rta became connected with Dharma (duty and righteousness) and Karma (the law of cause and effect) – both central to Hindu philosophy and intricately linked.
By following Dharma, individuals can generate positive Karma, creating a virtuous cycle of cause and effect. Neglecting Dharma can result in negative Karma and undesirable outcomes. Undesirable outcomes can manifest themselves at the individual and collective (planetary) levels.
The Vedas emphasize the interconnectedness of all life forms. Humans, animals, plants, and the elements are all part of a cosmic order (Rta) that needs to be respected and maintained.
What we do:
Rta Vedic Peace Fellowship is dedicated to promoting philosophical discourse on minimising planetary disharmony. We conduct and share thought experiments on potential solutions for the existential threats facing life forms today, including:
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Environmental degradation (e.g., climate change from combustion-driven systems)
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Natural resource depletion and conflict (e.g., energy-resource rivalry intensified by fossil fuel dependence and nuclear weapons)
In our analysis, a common denominator underlying both threats—including the tendency toward ecological overshoot—is humanity’s sustained focus on a single class of energy: radiating-motion systems derived from matter-energy (combustion and fission). These are the technologies that power industrial civilisation and its weapons.
However, the Vedas teach that nature – as the art of the Devine – provides two fundamental classes of energy.
| Class | Nature | Examples | Human Status |
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| Radiating-motion (matter-energy) | Entropic, dissipative, requires continuous resource extraction, generates waste | Fossil fuel combustion, nuclear fission, chemical batteries | Discovered and extensively exploited |
| Non-radiating motion (non-matter energy) | Non-entropic, self-sustaining, does not deplete resources, generates no waste | (To be revealed by our Fellowship’s work) | Not yet discovered by science |
The Thermodynamic Perspective and a Theological Misunderstanding:
The scientific view holds that the existential threats we face are part of a terminal decree issued by nature on all life forms on Earth—the thermodynamic perspective of life. According to this perspective, life is a system in disequilibrium that keeps equilibrium at bay (ensures survival) by exchanging high-entropy outputs for low-entropy inputs. Applied to industrialisation, the upshot is that an organism cannot survive in a medium of its own waste products and must compete for declining life-support resources.
As a religious Fellowship dedicated to the Divine, we respectfully disagree with this proposition. We do not believe that nature—that is, God—has issued any terminal decree on life forms on Earth. The thermodynamic perspective describes the behaviour of matter-energy systems accurately, but it is a theological misunderstanding—not a scientific error—to mistake a description of one class of energy for a universal law of existence.
Nature, as the art of the Divine, has made ample provisions for human development and has placed no fundamental limitations on life forms on Earth. We hold that the Earth is neither energy-limited nor inherently entropic. It only appears so under the incomplete framework of matter-energy alone.
The Central Hypothesis of Our Fellowship:
Nature has bestowed upon us non-radiating motion (non-matter energy) alongside radiating motion (through matter-energy). Humanity discovered the former but has missed the latter. The work of our Fellowship is to find what has been overlooked—to reveal the non-entropic energy source that can replace resource competition with abundance.
If our hypothesis is correct, the discovery of non-radiating energy will demonstrate that:
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The Earth is not energy-limited
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Ecological overshoot is not a consequence of too many people or too much economic activity, but rather a consequence of reliance on matter-energy alone
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The so-called “limits to growth” are not laws of nature, but artefacts of an incomplete energy paradigm
Why This Matters: A Gentler View of Current Proposals
Around the world today, thoughtful people concerned about the environment have proposed solutions including:
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Consumption curtailment (reducing material standards of living)
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Population curtailment (limiting human numbers)
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Economic growth curtailment (halting development, particularly for poorer nations)
From our religious perspective, while we respect the good intentions behind these proposals, we feel they would be displeasing to the Divine—not because they seek to protect nature, but because they accept scarcity as a permanent condition. They ask humanity to believe that the Divine created a world incapable of supporting its own children. They place the burden of ecological harm on human existence itself, rather than on the specific technological pathway (matter-energy) that humanity happened to discover first.
We believe these proposals arise from an incomplete understanding—a vision of nature as inherently limited, rather than as the generous art of the Divine. They are not evil in intent, but they are, in our view, unnecessary and theologically mistaken.
When our Fellowship discovers the non-radiating energy resource—true to our hypothesis—these curtailment proposals will be shown to be what we believe they are: well-intentioned but unnecessary restrictions born of an incomplete science. Nature (God) will have been shown to have made ample provisions for humanity’s development. The only true limits are those we impose upon ourselves by failing to seek what has always been available.
Our Method and Output:
Our thought experiments are philosophical, grounded in religious teachings and deliberation through meditation. They take many years to mature. When a thought experiment has matured sufficiently that we believe it may enlighten humanity in reducing developmental or planetary disharmonies, the Fellowship’s autonomous authors (āchāryas) patent and publish it—ensuring it becomes prior art in law and can only be exploited commercially by the Fellowship for its benevolent purposes.
The Vedic approach to planetary peace and harmony is distinct from Western approaches. Nonetheless, global peace is essential for a self-regulating market system, which paradoxically requires ever-increasing global standards of living despite ever-decreasing natural resources—a contradiction that only non-radiating energy can resolve.
We have developed a new Energy-Structural Peace Theory (ESPT). ESPT fills the material blind spot common to Western peace theories by specifying that resource-driven conflict is structurally inevitable under finite, concentrated, geographically fixed matter-energy dependence and structurally impossible only under a non-finite, non-concentrated, non-weaponisable energy base—thereby conditioning realism, limiting liberalism, deepening structuralism, formalising ecological peace theory, and complementing democratic peace theory.
Our ultimate aim: To eliminate the material basis for resource wars by revealing the non-entropic energy source that makes resource competition obsolete. (Not all wars would end, but resource wars need not exist.)