Question: How do groups of people who suffer from different illnesses and engage in the integral method differ from groups of alcoholics anonymous, or people who want to stop smoking, or who are trying to lose weight?

Answer: The integral groups work in order to connect. They work on the one most important thing for us: To attain the upper nature, the uppermost point of creation. Alcoholics anonymous, on the other hand, work only in order to kick the habit.

People who engage in the integral method don’t gather in order to be healthy but so they can feel healthy and feel a new life internally in their health. This is how you should attract them since you will not be able to attract people by simply telling them that they will be healthy. To this, they will say: “I am healthy anyway.”

Here, you attract them by saying: “You will begin to feel a totally different, integral life.” When a person transcends himself, he begins to connect with others, and then he feels life outside his body since he actually begins to exist outside his corporeal shell. He cooperates with others more and thus, suddenly, begins to feel that there is something else besides his own life.
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From KabTV’s “The Medicine of the Future” 4/7/13

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Question: In the integral society, each person’s individual pleasure develops into the general pleasure of the whole society. What is “social pleasure?”

Answer: Now, the general mutual connection is being revealed in the world. Studies talk about the fact that we are actually parts of one body and that its general functioning depends on everyone, and each one of its parts is responsible not only for itself, but also for the harm it causes to the entire body if it doesn’t function properly.

So, every individual, every separate part of humanity should understand this, and only integral education helps a person understand this correctly by explaining how the general mutual connection system works.

First, we must establish a society in which all its members feel united and, to the extent that the unity is revealed, the society will be able to create new integral connections among its members.

So, we cannot just establish a new health care system now, since people don’t understand what the integral society is. They still live by egoistic principles.

To the extent that they change and change the relationships between them, they will begin to feel what health care system they need. They will see that it is a totally different system.

They will begin to feel that they totally depend on the environment—on the still, the vegetative, the animate and the speaking—and will aspire accordingly for everything to be harmonious since breaking the harmony is the main source of every illness.

We must understand the part of integral health in the integral education that depends only on the right unity that prevents many problems. Thus, all the nervous and psychosomatic problems in people will disappear. We will discover that even heart disease and other illnesses which are seemingly independent of our nervous system are also caused by lack of unity.

So, only if we assimilate integral education will we understand what we must change; then, there will be a need for a new health care system.
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From KabTV’s “The Medicine of the Future” 4/7/13

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” Article 18

The Book of Zohar – Introduction, “Who Created These,” Item 10, Lesson 8

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Mutual Guarantee,” Lesson 10

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The Book of Zohar, Weekly Torah Portion, Selected Excerpts “Bamidbar“

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In the News (from RT.com): “Facebook’s ascent to global domination has slowed in recent months as the social media giant has struggled to keep users confronted with ever-increasing online options interested.

“In the past six months, some nine million people in the United States and two million in the United Kingdom have left the networking site. Over the past month alone six million Americans have tuned out, a four per cent fall, according to a report from The Guardian citing the analysis firm SocialBakers.

“Americans are also spending less time engaged in their experience, with people browsing Facebook an average 121 minutes a month in December 2012 then 115 minutes in February of this year.”

My Comment: Everything in the world has its own lifespan because our desire is growing quantitatively and, most importantly, qualitatively. Undoubtedly, people will find tiredness and limitation of social networks as fulfillment, as in their time they became tired of television.

All this leads us to the need for “internal” communication through a common natural network that connects our desires and thoughts. But for that we need to stop “inflating” each other in social networks and to reveal ourselves and become closer.
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In the News (from Banki.ru All-RSS.com): “The Economic crisis is not over yet, on the contrary, it deepens. Since the traditional recipes to fight the crisis does not work, the American economist Paul Farrell offers unconventional way out of the recession. He believes that to save the world from the crisis can be the new big war. Fortunately, this proposal is a lot of opponents among economists.
“However, this theory is a lot of opponents.

“’To draw Parallels with the great depression and the current crisis is very fashionable. However, those who do it, forget that some of the country out of recession, and some, on the contrary, almost ruined,’ – recalls the chief economist of the AFK ‘Sistema’ Evgeny Nadorshin. “In his opinion, the military conflict will not be able to lead the world out of the state of economic decline.

“Small war like the Iraq and Afghan not give a significant economic effect. A large-scale war will lead to the so terrifying consequences that the world economy as a whole still will not grow,” – says Nadorshin.
“The effect of the war is that it creates a strong demand for production.
“’Now in the world there is no demand, as the governments of many countries there is no possibility to create it. Developed States came to a crisis of 2008, with huge accumulated debts,’ – explains Nadorshin.

“However, to create a demand can be and peaceful methods. As an example of such methods, the expert cites green technologies.

“’The economic effect of the introduction of these technologies will be such that no war can be compared,’ says Nadorshin.

“An indirect confirmation of his words is the fact that simultaneously with the growth of GDP, Iranian campaign caused the US national debt triple.”

My Comment: The war, global, nuclear is possible if humanity will not have enough “peaceful” suffering to understand the need for a radical restructuring through “Integral Education and Upbringing.” The feeling of suffering from our gravedigger-egoism must be such that we really want to get rid of it completely and permanently. It is not difficult to imagine how unbearable this suffering has to be so that everyone wishes to get rid of its source: egoism.

But this decision can be reached by “brainwashing,” that is, by studying the inevitability of change of our egoistic nature, the harm of egoism, the creation of powerful public opinion, and so on. In this case the transition is smooth, quick, and easy, without destruction and disasters. But will we have enough common sense to test integral education?
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Question: The unity convention in New Jersey is coming soon. We understand that everything depends on preparation. How do our friends throughout the world need to get ready for this meeting?

Answer: First of all, we connect in the convention in order to reach unity, Arvut, merger between us—all those conditions are required to discover the upper force that controls the world and constructs all of reality. This is the goal of learning the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is designed specifically in order to find this upper force. The wisdom of Kabbalah is the revelation of the upper force to the created beings, as Baal HaSulam writes in the article, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”: “This wisdom is no more and no less than a sequence of roots, which hang down by way of cause and consequence, by fixed, determined rules, interweaving to a single, exalted goal described as ‘the revelation of His Godliness to His creatures in this world.’”

This is the reason that we gather at a convention: to build the conditions through which the Creator will be revealed. The discovery of the Creator to the created beings is the goal of the wisdom of Kabbalah. This is realized through the unity between us. This is what we want to attain at a convention, and we must think about this.

The force that we discover is the force of bestowal and love. The “Creator” is the foundation of bestowal and love. He is the good and benevolent because benevolence is the characteristic of someone who does good. And “there is none else besides the good who does good.”

To reveal Him, we also need to acquire two details  of perception:

·       There is no one except us, united as one person with one heart;
·       Each one of us is good and benevolent for all the others.

In this way, we create a “place” where the Creator can be discovered according to the law of equivalence of form. When relationships between us are adjusted to the principle of the “good who does good,” then the upper Good who Does Good will be manifest among us. This is how we will reveal the Creator in the created beings by becoming  Shechinah, meaning the “place” where He dwells.

This is what we want to discover throughout the world in the convention that will be held in another week. This is what we must prepare ourselves for.

It must be said that the convention will be unique in its scope. A wide variety of participants will be gathered there, and this is good. Diversity gives power to unity.

I hope that we can connect properly and that all of us feel that we belong to that unity to which we must return; to be integrated, to be like one again. Then, within this common unity, the one Creator will be discovered, and the discovery of this upper force will solve all of our problems, both physical and spiritual.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/1/13, “The Mutual Guarantee”

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The Torah, “Exodus, Jethro,” 19:16 – 19:19: And it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and sound of a shofar exceedingly loud; so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mount.

And Mount Sinai was altogether in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount trembled greatly.  

And when the voice of the shofar sounded long, and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

Everything that is described in the Torah happens within us. The above excerpt describes the first appearance of the property of bestowal that a person feels inside his properties. They are are still egoistic and contrary to bestowal, but at the same time, they already aspire to similarity, to uniting with these properties, and start to feel that it is something valuable and superior. Inside these qualities, we keep re-assessing our values. However, this process is accompanied by the fear of losing and devastating our internal egoism: “What shall I be left with? Where is my family? Where are my loved ones? How can I possibly give them up?”

After all, we are attached to this world by the threads of various connections. Something is closer to me, something is farther; this one I love, the other one I hate.… Everything is compartmentalized. Our whole existence is about these threads. This is how our lives are set up.

Only a few people are able to decisively cut these liaisons off and will see what  happens next. For us, it’s worse than death since we completely lose self-control. Our egoism cannot tolerate it. This sensation can be compared with the birth process when a little child goes out of his mother’s womb and happens to be in the world that completely separates him from her. Can you imagine somebody who gives us life being cut off? It’s as if being deprived of oxygen.

What’s next? No more egoistic anticipations, no dreams of the future…, There is nothing to which you are accustomed to!

Question: So, does it mean that the training we go through does not prepare us for this stage?

Answer: A preparation period is meant to make you understand that you are not ready yet. Animals that live next to us do not comprehend these issues. This condition can be felt only by the property called “man” in us; it has nothing to do with the property of the “animal” in us. A preparation period is essential to lift us to the level at which we start feeling these nuances. Otherwise, why would this revelation happen, relative to whom?

The awareness of our oppositeness and unpreparedness is already an attainment. We begin realizing that the property of bestowal is contrary to us, that we are not there yet, or that we simply don’t understand it (negation of negation). Thus, we advance.
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From KabTV’s “Mysteries of the Eternal Book,” 2/18/13

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The Light and the Kli, opposed to each other in the world of Infinity, enter each other, build from their integration a system, and evolve downward so as to shape the conditions for our development here, at the bottom.

In the end, everything is derived from the way the Lights and the vessels mutual complete each other. The path that spreads out before me doesn’t leave room for useless questions: “Do I want to?” or “Am I ready?” This is just a style of speaking, our “slang.” In fact, everything is built in an ideal form, everything has been considered down to the last detail.

There is no need for resentment and anger. We are found within a system of the four phases of the Direct Light, spiritual worlds and levels, and we learn about its details, its mechanisms. All the necessary means and forces are available to me. I can use them provided that I am fulfilling my role. My role is to determine exactly what I must be doing now and realize it simply and clearly.

No great intelligence is required here. Everyone can do it because these are the most foolish, simple activities. Therefore, whoever is more “foolish,” less sophisticated, he is more successful.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/1/13, “The Mutual Guarantee”

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