Entries in the 'Dissemination' Category

It’s Not Good To Be Alone

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How can a person prepare himself correctly if he goes out to disseminate alone?

Answer: I believe that a person should not disseminate alone, but if there is no other alternative, then one needs to listen to a talk on the appropriate topic or even a song in order to tune into the correct wave. This will help to connect to the state that we have generated in the group because it exists around us.

However, if you are alone all of the time, then it certainly is not good.
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From Kab TV’s “Through Time” 9/24/13

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Appealing To People’s Feelings

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What is the most successful way to reach a man, through his heart or mind?

Answer: We do not appeal to reason. We always try to bring people to the appropriate feelings so they can draw the right conclusion. That is, the heart is first, and then the mind.

The most effective way to reach the heart of people is to ask them questions that directly relate to their problems. Then we lead them to the possibility of solving these problems through unity, and they draw conclusions from this.
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From Kab TV’s “Through Time” 9/24/13

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The New Old Approach

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: The integral form of education allows teachers and parents to understand issues that are usually never discussed. For example, from the age of three to the age of six a child needs to acquire a global view of the world through an integral system. Naturally the question emerges: “You have a good idea; but how does one do this?”

Answer: This system provides education, first of all the education of the parents and after this the education of the children. Since the education of the child must begin from the age of zero, the parents need to know how to relate to the child correctly, which skills to give him. A child, who “sucks” everything from the surrounding space, feels with his sense of smell, like a small animal, the mutual relationships between the parents, the relationship of the surrounding environment in regard to him and so forth. This is to say, in principle we don’t give anything new here; rather, we put an emphasis on the right environment shaping the person, creating a nice and good “incubator” for him, and nothing more.

I don’t see any particular reason here for emphasizing in what way we are different from others. We put an emphasis on particular elements that are long forgotten and haven’t been used for some time, for example, cooperation in a circle so that children will have the opportunity to talk, to discuss some topic among themselves.

In kindergarten the teacher usually talks. And in school the children are seated according to the German system, so they look at either the board or a computer screen, and the teacher stands facing the class. But the correct learning is when the teacher “descends” to the children. Even if the learning is done by the German method, in any case he must “descend” to the students and organize a discussion among them.

A mother playing with the child or reading him a story is behaving as an equal with him. It’s the same here. This is a natural and soft approach that has been completely forgotten and has turned into something formulaic and dead.
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From Kab TV’s “Through Time” 9/24/13

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Revolution In Education

Dr. Michael LaitmanWhen we educate teachers the method of Integral Education, we must instill in them a framework within which  they will place their subject so they can teach it in the integral style.

Suppose that the subject of their next lesson is Newton’s Laws. I suggest they sit in a circle and connecting together to present the subject from the integral point of view.

First, I read the text in sections and each one of them examines it a bit from his point of view, and after this, I ask a question and they “chew” on it among themselves, trying to answer it. When they reach one opinion, their shared answer will be considered a common test that is carried out correctly, which is called, “friendship won.”

The main thing is to get an integral answer. Together with this, there aren’t any who lag behind or who run in front. Each one must complete the other. That is how we teach teachers to work with the children.

Until the children, all participating in the discussion without exception, have explained Newton’s Laws to each other, they will not understand and will not know it. However, the moment this happens, then the whole class is ready. After all, when children listen to each other internally “chewing” the material, each conveying it in their way, they comprehend everything in another form, and this produces an amazing result! They learn from each other. The teacher is not relevant here at all. He rests.

He can monitor the process but no more than this. If the students correctly or incorrectly say they are confused somewhere or they don’t understand the text, then this must be explained to them in one word, and that is all.

He teaches them to work with the book, teaches them to discuss, and teaches them to understand the material. The content is the material that we give to them  (Newton’s laws for example), whereas the form of approach is ours, it is integral. Here, there will be a complete revolution in education.
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From Kab TV’s “Through Time” 9/24/13

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Enthusiasm From A Workshop

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: If the external public has no great desire to know about recipes for happiness, how can one teach harmoniously, without coercion, to work from a request without pressure? How is it possible to feel this request? Otherwise we are going out to the external public with integral fanaticism.

Answer: You are doing everything wrong; it’s as if you are feeding the infant too much and he spits everything out immediately because it doesn’t give him any pleasure; it doesn’t leave him with a good taste. First it is always necessary for there to be a desire; and only after that comes the fulfillment that matches it. If you are working on overdrive and forcibly shoving a spoon into their mouths, then this will only generate disgust for your method.

Never do this! The strategy must be finely thought out. How do you bring forth a constantly increasing appetite, how do you turn them so that they will always be concerned:  from where, why, etc.?

You gradually  generate all these questions without giving the answers, and after that you sit them in a circle where they will search for the answers themselves. This is a game, a courtship, a flirting. You are producing a new Kli, a desire in them.

What is the flirting for? It is to reveal mutual desires for that type of fulfillment you want to give them. This is very subtle work in the fine tuning of the person; the identification within him of the required yearnings, which he may not have had before.

This must be approached gradually with some kind of hidden secret that must be unraveled, as if you are looking for a treasure on some deserted island. You need to think of all this from the start; you cannot throw it directly in their “faces.”

You, like a guide, only direct the person, move him, and walk beside him. But if he hasn’t made his own way, didn’t suffer from desire, and didn’t enjoy the fulfillment, then you will have done nothing.

For example, the strongest physiological pleasure is sexual contact. Imagine that you must bring the crowd to ecstasy, in that you warm them in the right direction. The first half of the work is that you wake them up, you go around them like a bride dancing around the groom. And the second half is their reaction, for you brought the groom to ecstasy and now he works for the bride himself.

What is this flirting? The first part is initiated by one side as he warms up the partner, and in the second part, he completes the mutual enjoyment for both of them.

The workshop must be finished with ecstasy, with elevation.
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From the Talk About Group and Dissemination 11/24/13

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Work Not According To An Identical Pattern

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How do you see the next level of this world and of our place in it? Will every factory and every kindergarten have its expert in the integral method?

Answer: These are complex questions that are difficult to answer unequivocally. Everything depends on the particular circumstances and even their regions. There are countries in which development can only be from below because the lower classes are suffering and want better lives, while the upper classes are deaf to their desires and longings, for them this is, at best, a temporary whim. Therefore, it is impossible to say in general terms where and how the internalization of the integral method will happen.

I think that in every part of the globe this will be arranged in its own way for the mentalities of the people; the social and economic conditions in various countries are different. There cannot be one template for everyone.

It is difficult to say how this will take place in Russia. I don’t even know how it will be in Israel.

Our teaching is always like water, living water that gives life. We simply need to consistently go forward like water that fills the lowest places and after that rises; where it succeeds in penetrating there it goes through. I think this metaphor applies to our dissemination.

In other words, we need to go to those places where we don’t encounter resistance, where they accept us with a blessing and not because they want to get something from it, to distort our method, to change it and draw their own conclusions: personal, factional, and so forth. Because in the end those will begin to stop us and promote themselves from within.

We need to go to those places where people truly want to hear us, where they are close to being convinced of the end of the present world, in the collapse of the private, competitive, capitalist system that is rapidly becoming bankrupt in the West, especially in Spain and Italy.

In principle, all of us are witnesses to the death of this system. Therefore, we need to understand that our associates are those people who suffer from competition, from capitalism, from all the negativity that exists in it. They have a yearning for equality, for a normal and comfortable existence, etc. These are usually low income populations, and not necessarily elements of a deprived class, among them are many intellectuals who feel the general crisis on themselves to a complete degree.

How do we go forward? I do not know. But it seems to me, that we will move to libraries and the like, where we can be included in the work of these institutions.

I do not believe that we can work from above. It is possible that this will succeed, but only if the authorities would be very interested in us. Everything depends on desire: the desire determines everything. The masses have the desire to improve their state somehow, and the authorities to calm down the masses. If they both become convinced that our method gives them this result, then we will succeed.
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From the Talk About Group and Dissemination 11/24/13

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It Is Better To Do Something Out Of Love Than By Force

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Suppose we have an integral education class with a group of managers who have a certain problem they want to discuss. They are not interested in the connection with each other; they are only interested in financial performance.

Answer: They will not be able to solve the problem if they are not connected because this is what ties them to nature’s general system. They will reach a dead end.

Question: Will they understand the reason and the outcome and that one depends on the other?

Answer: They will begin to feel it. I think people will soon understand what our “ace” is; our method is very simple. What cannot be solved by a frontal attack, we can solve can by embracing one another. This can be much more effective than going to court, arguing, and placing obstacles for one another as a last resort: Love is better.

There is nothing supernatural here. It is simply our trainings and the special games we play that help a person relax and bring him to a state where he is ready to be with others and feels that he cannot do anything without them because one can advise the other and they can both profit by that. They should understand this, and then adapt it to their work.

People who are blinded and trapped will see and feel that they are being offered a new way to solve problems here.

When they understand that our method comes down to reaching unity and connection and that all problems can be solved from this level, we will ask: “How do you propose to introduce our method to solve problems at work?” At the same time, we don’t care what they say about work. What we care about is their mutual incorporation in one another in the correct mutual connection.

Question: When will they be able to pass it on to their workers?

Answer: They will not be able to do that by themselves because in order to start integrally organizing their workers, they need to give up their positions as managers.

So we are the ones who have to come out to the workers and teach them. Only after we train them can there be some understanding and mutual connection between the workers and their managers. They will no longer work due to feeling pressured but to feel inspired.

After four or five sessions, they will begin to feel the connection and fulfillment. They will feel comfortable and pleasant being in this state. They will not want to remain as they were before. People on the outside will seem like strangers, but they won’t be afraid to contact them. After all, when you relate to people like to your own children, it disarms everyone.

Don’t fear that you will be taken advantage of in a state like this. On the contrary, when you relate to others this way they cannot harm you. Even when someone wishes to hit you, he will only hit a vacuum.

So, they will always be able to reach an agreement, to reach the right mutual relations from within the raspberry sphere that is created between them, and to solve problems from that point.
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From Kab TV’s “Through Time” 9/23/13

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A Little Craftiness Will Not Interfere

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Once or twice a month we organize an integral event with planned topics at the public library. Our first event was very active and powerful. But the second time it was less intense. Why does this happen this way?

Answer: This is a sign that you don’t have anything to say to people. You must kindle desires in them, stimulate them through cross-cutting issues, identify “pitfalls” to show them how this method is not simple, how much it touches the deepest strata of the human psyche that has not yet been investigated by us.

This is not just hugging, sitting, and eating together. You must somehow bring them to such a state that they will understand that if they haven’t absorbed this method or mastered it, they cannot live in agreement and harmony with anyone, not even with themselves. All of this must be awakened in them.

I, personally, don’t have the right to do this in my lessons in such a direct method as I do with you because those who study the wisdom of Kabbalah must search within themselves for desires for spirituality. I cannot stretch a spring in them with a key, like in a toy with a spring, so that they will jump from a stimulus, whereas with your audience, indeed you can. Therefore you must.

So, you have to be a little crafty.
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From the Talk About Group and Dissemination 11/24/13

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Discovering The Code Of The Upper Worlds

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: The general public loves the general rules of the roundtables for workshops very much. Can they apply them in life and at work, as a form of mutual cooperation between people?

Answer: In every case, if they try to apply the integral method at home, in the family, when problems pop up at work, in a collective, during discussions in meetings, with this they will absolutely prove that the method works.

The question is: Can they reach the “raspberry ball” in the center of the circle themselves, that is, the awakening of the general characteristic of bestowal and love? I am sure that they can’t because they don’t have contact with the higher power. Contact can only be for those who learn the wisdom of Kabbalah. Therefore they need us.

But gradually this will merge into a single system. After all, in Kabbalah, what are the names of all kinds of qualities: “Sefirot,” “Partzufim,” “Worlds”?—This is about the system of connections between us.

When this system begins to be discovered, people suddenly will discover that this is called this, and that is called that. “From where do you know that this is called this?” “What, it isn’t understood?” And it is not because a person reads this in a book, in general he cannot open it, but he will simply say: “This is called ‘Arich Anpin’.”

For all these names appear from the discovery of the inner links between people. Until then they didn’t exist. Adam HaRishon was the first who brought the language of the upper worlds. In principle, this is not even a language, but a code, like in a computer.

Therefore, sooner or later people will perceive all of this. But in spite of it all, we must guide them, without us nothing will be realized.
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From the Talk About Group and Dissemination 11/24/13

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From A Multitude Of Desires To A Single Prayer

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How can we feel the need, the desire, of the 99% of humanity and fulfill them correctly?

Answer: You don’t need to feel the need of the 99% of the public. Each one of them has a complete collection of unconscious desires for: food, sex, wealth, respect, power, and knowledge. And within these six types of fulfillment that the person wants, there are yet hundreds of small needs.

If you begin to clarify exactly which desire dominates in each person, then there will be no end to this. He will say something else every minute: “I want this, and this, and this….” When you take a small child to a big toy store, he is dazzled by the abundance of toys and he will grab one and then another and another. It is the same thing with us, too.

Therefore there is no reason to look for their specific desires, they are shared by all; moreover, they wander within particular ranges more or less.

We must bring people to the fact that all of their various desires, whatever they might be, are to be summed up in a yearning to unite among them. Then they will discover that power that fulfills them.

It doesn’t matter what they desire! They don’t need to express them or share them with us. They need to carry out actions and go through states that lead to connection and unity. Then a sensation will appear in them that not only will fulfill the desires of each one but also will create additional unity among them. Thus, they will understand how exactly they can be fulfilled.

As they continue to participate in these activities, they will begin to see that the power of unity they find in a collective can solve all their materialistic problems: health, finances, preservation of the family, the education of children, and so forth. As strange as it may seem, the positive force that is created at the time of connection among egoists is really ready to heal all personal and social wounds if people are raised above their ego and become connected between them.

Therefore, it makes no difference who has which specific problems. We never delve into people. Try to arrange a poll on the street where people will enumerate the ten desires that are most important to them and you will see that they all talk about the same thing. They talk about children, about health, about family, about work, about monetary problems…. With all of them it’s the same thing. Any problem can be solved by sitting in a circle, discussing it among themselves, and with this attracting the inner Light so that it will help them. This is called the “prayer of the many.”
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