It illustrates that most violence today is completely invisible both to those who do it and to those who suffer it. This is because the prevailing concept of violence is inadequate. If our concept of violence encompasses only its physical or sensible forms, we will not see it when it operates even when we think we fight against it in its emotional and especially in spiritual forms. Today the dominant form of violence is spiritual. Today we can even love violence because we suffer from it in ways we do not see.
Today there is violence in our acts of love.
We must be concerned, therefore, both about our love of violence and the violence of our love. Integrative studies focus on searching for a principle of unity or integrity to hold together our knowledge and our life. These studies concern themselves with consciousness and conscience. Consciousness and conscience are different from mere knowledge and value judgments. Consciousness and conscience are comprehensive and integrating instead of single, narrow and analytical.