1. How will further evolution of the human race take place? How will the crisis and global laws of Nature change our essence? Will the forced transition from egoistic society to an integral model of the world based on mutual guarantee impact only social order or will it also alter the essence and connection between generations?

What kind of world will we end up living in if we manage to connect into one united system that is similar to a living organism? How will our perception of the world’s limitations change?

For that, we have to examine general evolution and its psychological aspect.

2. Protozoan organisms (amoebas), similar to the first simplest creatures on Earth, react to external impacts, but are unable to retain memories or sensations, that is, they do not acquire experience; nor are they able to convey it to future generations.

Comb jellies’ behavior is determined by natural inborn connections; for them, instincts play a tremendous role.

Elementary vertebrates (fish) behave in accordance with hereditary “skills” that were accumulated during their existence. Conservative instincts strictly determine their behavior; they don’t allow them to change their conduct even if it stops being expedient.

3. After exiting water, animals entered a much harsher and diverse environment, and psychological evolution went in two different ways:

• Complication of hereditary “skills” and instincts (insects and Arthropoda).
• Acquisition of the ability to develop vital habits during a life cycle, which allowed making adjustments to a changing environment (development of vertebrates, from amphibian to mammals, gradual suppression of the role of instincts, and enhancement of intellectual functions and rational activities (individual experience).

4. Psychological evolution continues on dry land. Its main point is transitioning from stable hereditary habits to acquired skills that are of non-hereditary nature.

The goal of evolution is a human being; the significance of instincts in human life is minimal. Intellect is what’s important because it allows the fast acquisition of multiple habits and knowledge that, in turn, allows physically weak human beings to adjust to a variety of circumstances.

So, the development of the ability to think as well as the transition from “non-thinking” to “thinking” creatures is a result of a more complicated environment. Man emerged after the environment reached its maximum complexity (after a period of abrupt falls in temperatures). Exclusion of man from the animal world happened as a reaction to more complicated and worsened external surroundings. Man continues to improve both intellectually and psychologically; his evolution is still in progress.

6. Today, we see that the changing environment forces us to adhere to closer interaction with the society. Thus we can assume that the future evolution of human psychology will follow a path of consolidation of human features that will be transferred to generations, but not through genetics as with animal instincts, but rather through “external” social memory.

Future generations are the reincarnations of prior generations; they will receive knowledge that they acquired before through the society that preserves this knowledge in its memory, similar to instincts that are transferred from generation to generation in the animal world.

7. The ability to acquire and pass on the information totally depends on the connection of a person with his or her surrounding society. It becomes a person’s inseparable part and is an everlasting source or storage of skills and information from one generation to the next. Moreover, knowledge will be acquired not through mental efforts, but rather to the degree of one’s connectedness with the environment.

But before mutual unity of a person with his environment is established, it is impossible to ascertain his or her prior properties since they can be socially harmful if not used properly.

Consolidation of habits on the level of instincts can be only applied to bestowal, love of others, a positive attitude to socially beneficial work as an immediate need of every individual, a brotherly mind-set between everybody, meaning that we acquired them through our personal correction during prior incarnations.

8. The process of “instinctive” transfer of knowledge to the next generation will allow them to be morally and intellectually higher than the prior generation. It will determine the essence of a new man through his or her harmonious connection with the society and nature. It will outline the formation of a new type of social environment.

Psychological evolution of the future society will allow it to govern its own nature. Educators’ and teachers’ mission will be among the most important ones: They will be the acting power of the society, and they will be responsible for the creation of a new generation.
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Question: I googled this question: “Why do married Orthodox Jewish women cover their hair?” This is what I found:

“According to The Zohar and Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, the woman is considered Malchut, or the “vessel.” The man is considered Zeir Unpin, or the “drawer of Light and energy.” When a Jewish man and woman marry, their Neshamot (souls) become one and they create a complete system. Universally speaking, the man draws the light down from the universe, and the woman is the vessel in which this Light goes—for her, her husband, and any children they have together.

How does she manage this energy? Through her hair. A woman’s hair on her head (and a man’s hair on his beard and certain parts of his head) act as conduits for this Light and energy. By covering the hair on her head a woman is managing this energy, containing it, and essentially “saving” it for her family. When she does not cover her hair, this energy can escape or become unmanageable bringing challenges to her and her family.”

Is this something that exists in authentic Kabbalah, and if it does, can you please explain what it actually means? Does a woman need to cover her hair? And if so, where can I read about this in the texts?

I thought that we shouldn’t associate our true self with our body because it was just matter? So what’s the reason for these “weird” rules about dead skin cells?

Answer: Unfortunately, the books are written by people uneducated in Kabbalah, and that is why they understand Kabbalistic texts literary, as if they talk about people in our world, and not the souls. It refers only to the desire, the only thing that was created, and its correction by way of the screen or intention.
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The goal of the work is to annul our ego and to try to connect between us. The heaviness we feel in this work stems from the lack of feeling the importance of this work.

On the contrary, everything is arranged so that I feel disregard: “Why do we need to connect? Who do we connect with?” I look at these people, at their faces, at their personalities, and I don’t feel any need to connect with them. I’m in such concealment that the reality I see before me repels me from connection.

This is why Kabbalists recommend building an environment, a group, essentially so that it will reveal to us the importance of the connection and love of friends. This is so because the more important the connection is to us, to that extent we will be able to annul ourselves and begin to connect with others. If I don’t try to find a way to obtain the strength, the importance of connection, I could wander for many years and not even get close to others in order to connect with them in a heartfelt way. Of course, according to this I don’t attain anything.

I heard many claims from people who are with us already for a long time: “I am here many years, what is happening with me? Why don’t I advance?” I didn’t answer them, but I would have liked to reply: “You are here ten years? You seem to me like someone who just got here. Have you connected to the group? Have you tried to build the Shechina (Divinity), the place where the upper Light that will be revealed to you and you will dwell? Have you worried about the vessel that is worthy of the revelation you are asking about? This is what has been placed upon you. Did you do this? So why are you counting ten years? Maybe during all these years you went backward and not forward?”

A person doesn’t examine correctly the efforts he makes in order to connect to others, but calculates the years according to the regular calendar, according to the revolving of the Earth on its axis around the sun. But did the person himself revolve several times in order to reach the goal? He remained as he was, and it is a sign that not even one year has passed.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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