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Motivation To Get Closer

528.03Question: Many emotional effects appear during communication between people such as the domino effect, the butterfly effect, and the effect of social facilitation.

When I am around other people, all my senses begin to intensify. Social arousal occurs. What do you think the optimal number of people should be to increase a person’s motivation to get closer?

Answer: I don’t know, but the more people that gather around a person, the more they can influence him. It is possible that this depends on the character of the individual. For one person, twenty people is enough for him to get carried away with them and for someone else, it would take 300.

However, this all refers to the egoistic qualities of a person. I’m not an expert here.

Question: Is it better to get motivated in a small team of dedicated people, let’s say, ten people who are seriously moving toward the goal, or in a large environment in which several million people are looking at you?

Answer: I can’t say. This is all very individual for both for a person and for each specific case.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 9/25/20

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External Actions And Internal Intentions

559Question: I know that Kabbalah engages in scrutinizing the intention, which is, from its point of view, action. How should intention and action be combined since it is not always possible through an action to determine how good the intention is?

Answer: We must educate a person so that he acts in accordance with his intentions. And then through his external actions, we will begin to understand his internal intention.

Question: Still, we must evaluate a person by his actions?

Answer: We cannot. We do not really know what his intentions are.

Rabash gives a very good example of this: a child is crying, rolling hysterically on the floor, and his father is standing nearby doing nothing. Passers-by ask: “Why do you treat the child this way?” The father replies: “My little son is asking for a pin to poke his eye. I am ready to take him to the doctor, but he does not want to go.”

In this example, we see that external understanding of an external action does not say anything.

Question: So the intention is hidden from us. We cannot determine human morality by external actions. And what is the solution?

Answer: The solution is to come to a state when we can feel the inner desires, intentions, and actions of people, not from the outside as we see them in this world, but from the inside. To do this, we need to rise to the level of the upper world, and we will see the intentions of a person and not his physical actions.

Question: Do you personally never look at the external actions of a person? Are they not important to you?

Answer: It is the external actions of a person that are important to me because we live in such a period of correction when these actions also affect everyone else and draw them in the right direction. Therefore, you need to verify to what extent they show others the right path.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/9/20

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Natural Laws And Legal Norms

600.02Question: You write that love for one’s neighbor and mutual guarantee (Arvut) are laws of nature. Therefore, non-observance of these causes all the problems and cataclysms that humanity has faced throughout history.

Is it possible to scientifically prove and show the damage from non-observance of these laws, and then introduce them as legal norms so that they are protected by the state at least in an external manifestation, not to mention sensory one?

Answer: You cannot impose laws and rules of behavior on society that it cannot follow, although they are beautiful, correct, and perhaps, even true. They do exist in nature.

But humanity has not yet matured to the need to fulfill them. It can do only what it realizes, sees as a necessity, understands how to realize these laws in itself, and create a framework that protects them, etc.

For example, we know that there is a law of mutual guarantee (Arvut), according to which living organisms interact at lower levels, but we cannot introduce it as a state law because people will still not be able to comply with it.

We reveal physical, chemical, and other laws of still, vegetative, and animate nature, which is in front of us and we are in. By comprehending these laws, we explain them to everyone, because failure to comply with them immediately entails punishment. But in nature there are such laws that the implementation or non-fulfillment of them does not entail momentary reward or punishment.

Question: We do not see the consequences immediately? Or do we see, but cannot connect the cause with the effect?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, we cannot introduce these laws of nature as laws of society. We must pull up society to the point that it realizes or sees with its own eyes their action at the level of earthly sciences. Or so that it feels it inside itself as the laws of moral behavior, correct interaction.

Then you can enter them. Otherwise, you will break society, make revolutions, and you will get what was in Russia when good relations were forcibly introduced between people, although, being egoistic, they did not at all understand why this was required of them.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/9/20

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Uninvented Rules

530Question: There are many rules in every group. If people, form a group to start to study, then certain moral norms are created in their group: what can be said and what cannot be said. For example, in Kabbalistic groups it is not customary to talk about one’s spiritual achievements.

Integral education courses also have groups of people with certain rules of communication. But there is a constant inflow of new students. What is the best way to explain these rules to them?

Answer: It is best if the group starts just discussing it among themselves and creates the appropriate rules on their own. They figure out what it means to come to a certain state in order to achieve a common goal, whether they need it, how, and why, when, in what order to follow changes in their communication, and so on.

In other words, people create the rules themselves. Then it will seem to them that it is natural and necessary, that it really comes from the foundations of nature.

Remark: But we actually do not make up rules because they already exist.

My Comment: Rules exist. But the Kabbalists took them from the foundations of nature that we must attain.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/14/20

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Boost Everyone’s Self-Esteem

592.01Question: One emotional effect is belonging to a group. A person identifies himself with a certain community, seeks to evaluate it positively and in this way raise its status and his own self-esteem.

Is it worthwhile strengthening and cultivating this effect, for example, in a group of people who seek to unite, saying: “You are special, you are the best. Together, we will break through”?

Answer: I consider it is necessary to boost people’s self-esteem, to raise energy and the desire to achieve the goal that is perhaps dormant inside a person, to encourage him, to support him.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 9/25/20

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Can Moral Norms Keep Us From Self-Destructing?

566.02Question: In animals, everything is for show: fangs, muscles, horns, powerful tails, and hooves. Within each species, these weapons are used instinctively to a limited extent. They can fight for territory, but they don’t just destroy each other. This is how nature itself maintains balance in the animal world.

In humans, the opposite is true. An ugly-looking man with a weapon in his pocket can use it at any moment. How will the moral standards that we have come up with be able to keep us from self-destruction?

Answer: They cannot. Only nature can keep us from doing this. It Will not allow us to achieve complete self-destruction because she has a certain plan.

Question: Is there no such restraining mechanism within people themselves?

Answer: No. We cannot limit ourselves. In our hatred, we reach the point where we want to destroy each other.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/9/20

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What Is My Calling?

962.2Question: According to research, there are four main forces that enable a person to determine what they are talented for.

First: a positive state. A person experiences strong positive emotions from an action performed with his inner talent. Second: feedback from the environment, external recognition. That is, if a person does something well, then the environment reacts to it and shows him that he will succeed in it. Third: the will of another person or a teacher who is able to evaluate a person and say that he will be talented at this. Fourth: analysis of the results. A person himself, or with the help of others, analyzes his actions and determines that he is more successful in a certain area.

How do I know what my calling is?

Answer: What you are drawn to the most. There is no need for all those clever definitions listed above. Pay attention to what you want and not what you are forced to do.

As a child, my parents wanted very much to make a musician out of me and forced me to study music. I did everything but that. In the end, nothing came out of it. I grew up a normal person, I think not worse than others.

That is why, there is no need to chase after anything, you just simply have to understand what you have inclinations for, what you can do so that life will give you pleasure and you will give pleasure to others.

Question: Do you think that in this way one can come to understand one’s purpose?

Answer: Yes. When you think about how you can be useful to others, but eventually do what you like, then from these two combinations, you can find yourself.

Question: And how to sort out the huge number of influences from others?

Answer: Do not listen to anyone! No one knows you and no one can give you any advice. Think about what you would like to do, what is closer to you, and how you can give pleasure to others with your profession or craft. And you will be happy.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/6/20

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Synergy Effect

528.01Comment: The synergy effect occurs when people are united into an integral group and as a result the intellectual energy between them increases.

In Kabbalah it is also said that if a person is included in a group of ten people, he receives a power that is not ten times greater but a thousand of times greater.

My Response: Of course, since at the same time he begins to attract the upper energy.

If one annuls oneself and puts oneself in line with the upper source, then he no longer receives an egoistic reaction from the group but an altruistic reaction from the upper source. He succeeds because of this.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 9/25/20

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Effect Of Conformism

547.05Question: The effect of conformism is quite common in collectives where a person obeys the opinion of the majority. How can this effect be used in integral education courses for people who want to somehow get closer to each other in order to achieve a higher purpose?

Answer: I personally never use this effect. I only explain it to a person so that he can use it himself. I do not impose on him any goals or means to achieve them. I only give him a tool in his hand. If he wants to, I let him develop for himself the importance of the goal and the importance of the environment, and then go forward.

I do not manipulate either a person or his group. I let him choose what to do out of his own freewill.
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Social Media As A Business Model

958Question: The main task of social networks is to glue a person to a TV or computer screen in order to sell something to him, although they were originally built to improve communication between people.

Do you think it is possible to change such a virtual environment? In whose hands should the power over people be? What should they watch? What should they read? What should they sell? After all, everything is determined for you.

Answer: Naturally, everything is determined for me. Nobody asks me. In short, a special body should be created that we can trust and that will manage our education and upbringing. Only this body can declare, expand, reduce, change, and dictate what we should watch and listen to.

Question: And if it is in the hands of governments or private people, then nothing will work?

Answer: Governments do not exist as such. They are managed by all kinds of financial and political tycoons. If it should be in somebody’s hands, then certainly not in the hands of governments.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/7/20

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