Opinion: (Yuri Yakovets, Professor, Russian Academy of Public Administration; from the report to the UN): “In the first half of the 21st century the world of civilizations faced new challenges of the next whorl of historical progress, was hit with a wave of global crises – financial-economic, energy-ecological, food, technological, socio-cultural – and is now on the crossroads.

“The multi-polar world has become a reality. A strategic choice is made between its two models: multi-polar world based on the confrontation and conflicts of civilizations or on their dialogue and partnership.”

For the time being, the predominant strategy is to adapt to new conditions, thereby prolonging the agony of the old regime and exacerbating global conflict. But having outlined a future society, it is necessary to develop and implement the strategy of becoming an integral civilization, the foundations of which originate before our eyes, thus alleviating the birthing pains of the transition to a new stage of our development.

My Comment: The stages of “fetal development” and its birth have been already described; we only need to circulate and implement them. The events should unfold like in a Hollywood movie that shows how the inhabitants of the Earth prepare for the arrival of aliens from outer space. We too need to rush to get ready for the coming of a new world. We feel its manifestation and our lack of preparedness as a crisis. This crisis is in us, but if we start to change, our bitter sensations will turn into their opposite.
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Karl Marx, “Theses On Feuerbach”: Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Comment: With regard to this, it is necessary to set a goal for our economic development. Otherwise, continuing the process of reproduction becomes pointless.

At this stage of its development, despite various contradictions, humanity sees itself more and more as a single whole and wonders about the purpose of its existence. In our opinion, economic theory must include the study of the meaning and purpose of the economic process, taking into account the increasing unity of human society.
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Opinion: (Floyd Norris, The New York Times): “If there was one lesson to be learned from the European sovereign debt crisis, it was that monetary union by itself cannot work indefinitely. If Europe really wants to preserve the advantages of the euro currency, it will need far more fiscal and economic integration. Nations will have to give up a significant amount of sovereignty.

“European leaders seem to be willing to accept that reality. But persuading publics may be far more difficult.

“Those realities will continue to pressure Europeans toward either abandoning the currency union or accepting much more financial union. For now, anyway, they are choosing the latter course.”

My Comment: But any alliance calls for the consent of the citizens, and that requires educating people in the spirit of considering all society as a single system. Otherwise, the government will not have the support of its citizens. But it is impossible to persuade the public to go against their own interests in one go. This requires multiple, extensive explanations of the general condition and its single solution: to bring the EU countries to general (financial) guarantee.
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Question: According to Kabbalah, what is better for further development of humanity: socialism or liberalism?

Answer: Rav Kook, a Kabbalist who lived in the 20th century, a friend of Baal HaSulam, writes in this regard that historical materialism will come to our service by itself. It comports with the Light of the aspiration to the Creator. And it is by far more superior than limited liberalism, produced by human thought during a shaky historical moment.
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Question: If I start to correct in my little group and my group is doing well together, what impact will that tiny particle of the total population have on the rest of the world if the majority of people still stubbornly refuse to change internally and connect?

Answer: Since we are all connected into one general creation, by this you evoke in them the circulation of the Light, and they awaken for spiritual attainment—the property of love and bestowal.

Question: Are there any questions or methods that can awaken people’s point in the heart and make them ask about the purpose of life? Or does it depend only on the amount of suffering?

Question: The question about the meaning and life and suffering.

Question: What should the government in the UK do to stop the riots?

Answer: Start educating the entire nation: pay those who study and train them to be teachers. We have prepared the methodology for this and are successfully applying it in practice.
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Shamati #232 “Completing the Labor”
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Question: How can the Reflected Light be a vessel for fulfillment?

Answer: What else can be a vessel for fulfillment? A desire cannot be a vessel because a vessel is a place fit to receive the Light, the revelation of the Creator—the fulfillment I have chosen as my goal.

After all, my goal is to reveal the Creator within me. In other words, I strive to become just like Him, to build His model in me, and this model will correspond precisely to the qualities that I will receive from Him and clothe myself in. And then I will become similar to Him, and we will merge into one whole according to the law of equivalence of form.

My final goal is adhesion. In other words, I need to reveal my forms of merging with the Creator; I should merge with Him more and more one degree at a time. And I can merge with Him only according to the law of equivalence of form. Therefore, I need to reach exactly the same degree of bestowal as He has, and to this extent we will unify or merge.

The form of bestowal in which I wish to clothe myself in order to identify myself with this bestowal is the Reflected Light. Thus the Reflected Light becomes a means for adhesion, a vessel for receiving fulfillment, for me.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/2011, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah

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