Question: How can a person overcome growing indifference? Today even people who have creative jobs lose interest in everything, not to mention other people. Take a tile-setter, for example, he can hardly lay one tile; he sits next to it all day and cannot continue. How can we create the necessary motivation if it doesn’t exist?

Answer: There is nothing we can do. You cannot show a person that something is vital for him. He cannot force himself.

Our desire has stopped its linear development, and is now becoming “round” together with the desires of others growing into one integral system. If you don’t practically take a person “by the hand” and lead him into this integral system, he will not be able to do anything because he will not fill the new filling, the integral system that is individually developing inside him.

These are two totally different systems: an individual, linear one and a discreet, analog one. We are entering an integral analog level now and this is a problem; general lethargy and detachment are growing. We are facing today what started in the 50’s as a youth revolution but is now in the form of a much more serious crisis.

The lack of desire is a lack of energy since the desire is the basis for our whole existence. If in the past we could overcome the indifference by the fear of hunger or punishment, today even this doesn’t work anymore. A person cannot do anything by himself, even if you threaten to kill him!

This is the limit when humanity needs a new group psychology.
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From a “Talk on Integral Upbringing” 5/23/12

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The situation in Europe continues to deteriorate. The same is happening in America and all over the world, but in some countries the crisis has really been revealed and in other countries they are still hoping that it will pass over them.

This stems from the lack of understanding that the world has “become round” and no one can escape the results. The situation is much worse that it is described in the media, and indeed, why should the masses be told about the problems if there is no solution? It is better that they don’t know the truth. Similarly we spare a terminally ill patient so as not to add to the suffering. What is more, it is simply too dangerous to tell people about what is really happening. The truth holds unbearable stress, riots and other problems that are prevented by keeping quiet.

But the problem will not go away, and it will be revealed sharply in Europe with which America is interconnected. In the meantime, unpleasantness in one place becomes an advantage in other place—for example, the capital is drained from the old world to the US, but we don’t understand that eventually it will backlash and hit the Americans, so the situation will certainly not be pleasant.

Consequently, it will be easier for us to work with people; we will be able to open more courses, and our groups all over the world will feel how firmly they represent the principle of the correction of the world and of man, and how deeply they understand what is happening. This is what people are lacking since the biggest problem is that they don’t know what they are up against and what is happening to them. It is as if someone is sabotaging me and I find out whom.

In the meantime, we are moving to the preparation stage and we should hasten it. In a couple of months the courses will be ready and we will be able to start working.
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From the 1^st part Daily Kabbalah Lesson  6/20/12 in Toronto, “Messiah’s Shofar”

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The theoretical course of integral education has to be simultaneously accompanied by discussions. Because the course talks about the integral society, these discussions have to be carried out in an integral way. People need to be seated in a circle and explained what integral discussion is. It is when we enter the state of unification between us, when everybody exalts everybody else and wants to be well-disposed towards all others; it’s when we want to connect together, to create around and within us an integral interaction field where we have to solve all the problems.

In the process of discussion each person expresses their opinion, adds to the others, and thereby becomes imbued with these ideas, starts to feel that they can truly live among us. It’s as if we begin to create within and between ourselves the integral society and, by discussing these questions and their solutions, begin to feel that we really have an opportunity to create such society between ourselves.

That is, we begin to build the system of future society during practical workshops. And it follows that at the end of the course, a class with a few dozen people turns into a cell of the next society.
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From a Talk on Integral Society 5/22/2012 

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If one wants to change, he has to be placed into a society that has the power to change him. A person has to “surrender” to this environment. To the extent that he submits himself to the new environment, there will be changes.

This society must always magnify and amplify its effect, and after a short time, we will see changes in a person.

There is nothing that a person has to do except “submitting” himself to the influence of his surroundings. All we have to do is stimulate our surroundings to influence us even more—that’s all.
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From a “Talk on Integral Upbringing” 5/22/12

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We are living in a special, very sensitive time when the course of events is quickly accelerating and several directions of development open up before us. It is obvious that the nation of Israel is a factor that may guide humanity in one direction or another; moreover, these vectors have a life-changing significance for both the nation itself and the world as a whole.

Everything the sages have written has come true over the course of history until the present day—it happens in its own time and in a specific order. And today, the nation of Israel must fulfill its purpose according to the principle of the three lines. On one hand, it advances by using the egoistic desire that every person has, but on the other hand, it realizes the altruistic desire. This way it combines the egoism, which all of us have plenty of, with the call for mutual help, which has always been inherent to it. When these two aspirations are applied correctly, the nation will unite into a “middle line,” in the middle. Then it will establish the right kind of mutual relations in its own environment, and is able to refer properly to the world.

Today, regrettably, the nation of Israel is not very close to the realization of this special path. However, making changes rests specifically on it. If it will really act this way and hand this method of mutual interaction to the entire world, it will become the so-called “light for the nations,” and then everyone will necessarily feel that there is a wonderful way to come out of the crisis and ascend. A prophet has written: “Everyone will know Me, from the small to the big.” In other words, the upper Force, the one that is good and does good, will be revealed in our world.

Naturally, “Torah will come out of Zion, and the Creator’s word from Jerusalem.” However, it is also necessary to consider the role of large foreign communities that influence the state of Israel and its government. Frankly, I think that the nation of Israel would be interested in a strong increase in this influence and of it becoming closer and more mutual.

Today we cannot feel it much. Naturally, Jews from France or the US are concerned for Israel and help it a lot, however, they are not represented enough in the country, they do not have a strong enough connection with the nation for it to really feel their presence. Their articles and appeals are not published in the newspapers, and even though people know that they exist and that they come for urgent actions and gatherings, they act against assimilation and anti-Semitism for the benefit of the people, in social, women’s, and youth organizations, and the people still do not feel that they are among them. And the problem is not their physical presence, but the perception, which is transmitted through mass media, the current events.

This is very important. I assume that this connection needs to be strengthened and maintained. Separation really weakens the Jewish people; after all, it was created out of love. Its foundation was laid by Abraham, literally “the father of the people” (Ab ha-am), who has laid the foundation of love, mercy, and mutual unity for it. When the people fail to maintain this connection, they lose their strength, they become so weak that anything can be done to them. And on the contrary, examples from history, such as the war of the Maccabees, show that by uniting, the nation attains true success, no matter what problems it is facing.
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From the Introductory Lecture 6/5/12, “The Influence of the Media”

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Question: How is it possible to dress Kabbalistic principles in simpler ordinary words so that everyone will be able to accept them and to agree with them?

Answer: It is clear to a person who studies Kabbalah that connection is vital since there was the “shattering of the vessels” and now we are trying to glue the pieces back together. So we draw upon us the Light of correction AB-SAG, the Light that Reforms, which connects us. The upper Light, the Creator, is revealed in this restored, corrected vessel.

The whole process is clear. We are trying to connect and see that we cannot and then we ask the Surrounding Light for help and it connects and fills us by turning from Surrounding Light into Inner Light.

The question is how is it possible to explain all this to every person so that he or she could understand it? I say that we have to connect above our questions.

Never throughout our history have we acted correctly. But if we connect we become “one family” in which everyone loves one another and we are considerate of the needs of others.

Now, within the connection that we’ve attained, we look at everyone and see that there are different layers, different parts of our society, that demand more attention: the elderly, children, young couples, single mothers, and the poor who simply live in poverty, and there are the rich. Only thanks to the connection will we discover how it is possible to distribute the resources correctly.

Now there are the people’s representatives sitting at the “roundtables” so let’s see how we can first of all attain unity. Then we will somehow distribute our general pie. If we do that from our connection and love, there will not be any complaints. Society will be united and consolidated, aiming at goodness and optimism, satisfied and peaceful.

We can explain all this without mentioning “the Light that Reforms.” Although it is understood that the Light performs all the good changes, people don’t need to know that. The Light will reach them through the Kabbalists who are among us.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/20/12, “Workshop”

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Question: What should an expert who has finished the advanced course in integral education know? What should he teach?

Answer: This expert is a unique person in our world who can create small, correct societies. Such people should be linked together into a single integral educational system and constantly take courses in improving themselves, and of course under our supervision. On our part, we must supply work for them, which means organizing a serious administrative and public relations center for finding work for them.

The experts in integral education constantly should receive new information and share it. They should establish a private, virtual site or perhaps, an open one, but on such a unified level that they will constantly be updated about everything and will work on everything that is on the news and all the current problems.

This will enable them to answer any possible questions and to present the latest news correctly and integrally. We must turn them into a whole system, an international institution of teachers and educators.

Question: Are they not only theorists, but also experts in practical application?

Answer: Yes, they are all practical. If they weren’t practical, they wouldn’t be able to change and to teach society. Practice must go hand in hand with theory.
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From a “Talk on Integral Upbringing” 5/22/12

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In the News (from Euronews): “All over the world the economic downturn is having a negative impact on education. Public spending is being slashed and schools have not been spared. Now, as students take to the streets, governments are struggling to maintain education as a basic right.”

My Comment: The education system doesn’t bear fruit because it is not connected with the system of upbringing, and without it the crisis is felt more deeply in all the layers of society. The time will come when even businesses will not be able to operate without uniting all the employees in one team, in mutual responsibility.

Weaving the method of unification in all occupations is becoming more obvious with each day. There will come a time when a necessary condition for success in all actions, as individuals as well as any groups, will be unity, and unity and will precede actions. Thus, the upper authority will force humanity to learn intentions before actions and will lead everyone to Itself.
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The model for the exchange of information between teacher and student emerged in the industrial era. Although the world has changed, schools continue to pretend that they still are preparing the workforce for factories. The primary skills learned are discipline and obedience.

The main structural component is the classroom. One teacher lectures a general lesson to all the students that everyone needs to grasp simultaneously. Such a system is suited for preparing people to work on an assembly line. Since then, it hasn’t changed.

Today, the old system no longer works. We need drastic changes, but any department of education is entirely restricted within a framework of laws. Teachers are afraid of losing their jobs. Parents believe that, at least in school, their children are in a safe state. Thus, the only ones who still have the possibility and the potential to change the situation are us!
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Question: Should we offer supporting study materials for the courses in integral upbringing?

Answer: I think that the basic course should teach people to unite practically. And, the next course, which prepares instructors, should include everything.

We need to provide a future instructor with various systematic materials on every topic with a bibliography and other data. Everyone needs to have a folder from which he could draw solid, compelling information at any given moment to demonstrate, convince, talk about, and teach. He has to be able to use this.
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From a “Talk on Integral Upbringing” 5/22/12

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