Justice has been long evolving toward wholeness and unity. Our understanding of justice, and our capacity to carry it out, has evolved and expanded with each and every social advance we take toward oneness. As our circles of unity become wider and wider, the effects of justice carried out become deeper and deeper.

However, with the punitive system of justice we have lived by for many centuries now, we have not been able to experience the fullest effects of our growing circles of unity. The “eye for an eye” and a “life for a life” system, along with the extremes of unbridled genocide and war, have created the need for restorative justice, which adds generations on to the process of achieving true justice.

Again, indigenous cultures, by experiencing a living web of interconnections within their communities for a long time, have had a built-in system of restorative justice simultaneously offering meaningful support to victims and helping perpetrators restore harmony in the community. This is a model that can be writ large.

Because our consciousness has evolved to a level of maturity, the world community desperately needs a unitive system of justice, designed explicitly to maintain unity on all levels, built upon the standard of compassion, respect, and equity for all human beings, and with the ability to restore harmony built right in to the system. This, too, requires seeing through the eye of oneness, shifting our consciousness to see the whole first, rather than to give preference to any of its parts.