The four common themes that, over time, the counter-movements rejected and responded to were the beliefs drawn from the dominant political and spiritual traditions that supported and fought the Cold War. These four themes form the core beliefs that grounded and inspired the movement to militarize Earth and outer space.

They include:

1) Life is sourced in an emotion of dreadful fear—of gods or humans or the meaninglessness of life, itself

2) Identifying and naming the Other (stranger, alien, foreigner) as enemy,

3) A spirituality and culture that seeks to annihilate the goddess and/or the feminine and

4) that expresses its heartfelt values through a self-fulfilling apocalyptic story of self-annihilation.