Question: There is a very serious immigration problem in Russia. There were even riots in the southern part of Moscow not long ago. Nationalistic ideas are heard more often among the masses. Should we deal with the issue of the attitude toward immigrants in our dissemination?

Answer: There are objective reasons for this problem. If there weren’t work in Moscow, the immigrants wouldn’t come there since living in a foreign country without work is like dying of hunger for an immigrant, no one will feed him and take care of him.

On the other hand, if there is work, then these people should be provided with normal living conditions. And perhaps it should be enacted into law. I don’t want to get involved in the internal issues of other countries or to criticize them in any way; it isn’t my business. However, the problem of immigration is becoming increasingly more serious.

If most of the immigrants settled in Europe are not working, living on welfare with only refugee status, in Moscow and other big cities in Russia, there is demand for these workers and there is work for them. The government understands that they are essential and that without them their city would not be kept in order and in continued construction. So this problem must be solved because it affects not only Russia but other countries as well and is becoming a global problem.

People don’t understand yet that there are no countries and no borders! A country cannot be free of the illusion that it exists in its borders and that no one will cross them. What won’t he cross? Everything is open! What can you do?

You put up barriers that cause you harm! Don’t you want to import certain goods? It will cost you more in any case because according to the general law, the world already has become round! So, all the obstacles and barriers for people entering or exiting a country or importing and exporting goods costs billions of dollars. There is nothing we can do. Everything must be open!

Today, it is impossible to guard borders. It will lead only to distortions since the body has reached such a level that it wants to work together, while you are causing separation, wanting to control your piece of land, at least. It is against the laws of nature! So, naturally, everything will be distorted. If you want to isolate your country, it will lead to even greater losses.

The problem of immigration is not just an internal problem of Russia or another country, but a global problem. In Russia, however, it is especially serious.

The population must be educated. There is no such thing as we, the Russians, are one people and everyone else is against us. It is an outdated ideology that has no place in the modern world. Unfortunately, there are other nations that also think that way today. It doesn’t work anymore.

On the contrary, if you want to lead, you should open up and not defend yourself with tax barriers and other conditions. It is impossible to go against nature! It is undoubtedly beneficial to a country to be ahead of everyone in resembling nature.

Nationalism will not restrain a country in its borders. It only leads to the degradation of the population. It is totally against nature, although I can understand an individual who wants to live separately, living in a certain city and rejecting people who come from a different culture and have their own traditions and so on. It all comes down to education!

On the other hand, the immigrants are not educated either. It involves great social work. Therefore, integral education is a must for everyone! Without it, a city will not survive and things will get worse every day.

Can a state survive? How can you consider yourself an empire and at the same time reject all the other ex-republics? It means that it isn’t an empire.

So we have a great field for the activity of integral education that everyone needs so desperately and which straightens out everything because resembling nature is essential for a comfortable existence.
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From a Talk About the Dissemination 10/17/13

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Opinion: (K. Sivkov, Doctor of Military Sciences, Academy of Geopolitical Problems):

1. Conflicts that caused global crisis (in fact, a conflict of civilizations):

• Between the growth of supply-demand and available resources, and Earth ecosystem problems;
• Between the “poor” developing countries and the “rich” industrial ones;
• Between nations and transnational elites;
• Between the size of the global “financial bubble” and the scale of the real sector of global economy – the solution is in elimination of the “bubble”, which threatens the loss of power of transnational financial elite, or its “conversion” to real economy sector – leading toward establishing unchallenged economic dominance of transnational financial elite over the world;
• Between lack of spirituality in the “free market” that generates the power of money and spiritual foundations of different civilizations – the Orthodox, Muslim, Buddhist, and others. The solution lies solely in establishing a common spiritual foundation of the world order.

2. The new world order can be built only by one of two models:

• The concept of the “gold billion” – a few “chosen” ones, who define themselves as the “intellectual core of humanity,” preserve and enhance the current level of consumption at the cost of ruthless exploitation of the rest of humanity, accompanied by its artificial reduction, bringing it to critically minimal material consumption and spiritual degradation;
•  “Civilizational mutual support (civilizational harmony)” – the goal of globalization, is not in “unification” but in the development of all the existing civilizations, preserving and extending to every nation and civilization a “field of development,” which is the basis of development of each and all of them together. This is the path to the future.

3. The war will be fought for what spiritual foundation should underlie the new world order. Either it will be based on individualism, egoism, the inhibiting of one entity by another, the principle of survival at the expense of others – or the community, the dominance of the common interests of collective survival and development over the individual ones, the principle of joint survival through mutual support.

4. The first stage – “an attempt to peaceful resolution of the crisis” – is already coming to an end. Its battlefield – Summits G20 – do not work. The beginning of the second stage is “the threat preceding a World War”: the West is preparing local wars and armed conflicts over the resources, as well as limited wars.

5. History shows that the elite of “selfish” civilization won’t stop at human losses if there is a guarantee to preserve themselves in the “bunkers.” A new world war will affect most of the world’s population, leading to loss of hundreds of millions of people.

To prevent this, we have to restrict (by law) the greed of transnational and national magnates of economy and the financial sphere. This can be done only by international consolidation of efforts.

Comment: Clever people, experienced analysts; but there is no motivation to consolidate together and to address people, downward, through Internet social networks, and to governments, upward, because all you can do is call for change!
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Science of our world is constantly changing, we have to keep correcting and improving it without interrupting the search.

Whatever seems to be absolutely obvious today, ceases to be indisputable tomorrow, and it is even possible that whatever was considered beneficial today, tomorrow will become harmful. Our desire constantly keeps changing and we discover a new science in it.

And since the desire to receive pleasure can change into its opposite on a daily basis, then useful things can become harmful.

Moreover, by operating only through our egoistic desire, we use all of the discoveries that were made in nature for the sake of self-benefit, and therefore the outcomes of the evolution of science harm us.

In other words, we always use it for evil. And we see that science mainly develops because we need it for wars and mutual destruction. If not for this, we would not keep evolving at all.

All the wonderful scientific discoveries are used to serve our egoism.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/10, “The Wisdom of Israel in Comparison to Science”

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In the News (from Freelance Bureau of International Investigation): “Up to 500 bandits account for one policeman in the U.S. Street crime hits the U.S. cities. Volunteers of the Freelance Bureau of International Investigation’s North American office, coming out of their houses, were in the midst of gang warfare. …

“The FBI in 2005 equalized street gangs and terrorism, declaring these crimes a major threat to U.S. national security. According to the feds’ official data, more than 33 thousand of gangs operate in the country, and the total number of members exceeds 1.4 million people! Don’t be naive, the FBI didn’t include in the list all American prisoners (there are 2.2 million imprisoned people in the U.S.), but only the active members of gangs, mostly young men. In other words, American gangs include the same number of members as the number of military who serve in the U.S. army! …

“A significant expansion of their activities was an unexpected consequence of the sharp rise in the number of gangs. In addition to traditional racketeering, street trade in drugs and arms the gangs began to put into practice illegal transport of migrants, human trafficking, and prostitution’s protection. Gangs began to develop high tech crimes such as counterfeiting, credit fraud and theft of personal data. These are even more frightening. …

“Considerable figures are even worse when you consider that most of the gang members are men aged 18-25. Tough recruits begin to levy children in school. According to the report ‘The fight against juvenile violence,’ prepared for the U.S. Congress, the schools ranked fourth among the criminal gangs’ recruitment centers. One in five American high school students gets an offer to join the gang. …

“The most common age of the groups’ new participants is 10-12 years old. Moreover, the following cases become more frequent. Gangs’ recruiters affect first-graders (in the U.S. school age start at the age of 5-6 years old). ‘Gangs are worse than terrorists,’ the psychologist Mary Jo Rapini says. ‘They use naivety and low self-esteem. Children see themselves as small, helpless, incapable, therefore, joining a gang gives them a sense of self-worth, care and safety.’…

“Moreover, since May 13, after making of the amendments to the federal regulatory act 32, the U.S. military got official authority to temporarily take over the duties to suppress the large-scale riots amid extraordinary circumstances. To the contrary, if the government fields army troops and heavy weapons against 1.4 million armed gangs, then it will not be the suppression of riots but a real civil war.”

My Comment: The U.S. government is going by the path of suffering, not willing to introduce the method of integral education and upbringing as the only means of salvation from a future civil war. We must use our example to show how it is possible to bring people to good relationships between each other by allowing the force of unity (the Upper Light) to change our egoistic nature. Then everyone will understand that it is possible!
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In the News (from infowars.com): “After illustrating their enthusiasm for repealing the Bill of Rights, a video shows Americans happily signing a petition to support a ‘Nazi-style Orwellian police state,’ in what easily represents the most shocking footage of its kind to date.

“Citing issues with how the government shutdown has impacted the ability of the police to ‘keep the community safe,’ Dice tells San Diegans that there is a need to ‘increase the Orwellian system.’

“‘Not a problem,’ responds one man as he signs the petition.

“‘We just want to model it after the Nazi Germany system to keep people safe and secure,’ Dice tells another individual. …

“The standard bearer for using satirical petitions to illustrate how misinformed Americans really are stretches all the way back to 1990, when it was repeatedly proven that people would sign petitions to ban water, but only if it was renamed “dihydrogen monoxide.” Penn and Teller reproduced the social experiment in 2003 when they were successful in getting environmentalists to sign a similar petition.

“However, Dice has proven that some element of trickery is no longer necessary to convince Americans to support ludicrously draconian policies.

“He quite clearly spells it out to them on numerous occasions what they are supporting – an Orwellian police state modeled on Nazi Germany.”

My Comment: Personal safety is much more important for our egoistic nature than some imagined freedoms. Naturally, first it is necessary to ensure human safety, food, shelter, family, security, and they provide them personal and social freedoms—this is the pyramid of our needs (according to the principle “No flour, no Torah”). This should be considered during the dissemination of integral education and upbringing.
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In the News (from RT): “By 2030, more than half of Americans could be obese, taxing the nation’s health while costing the country $500 billion in lost economic productivity. The food industry, however, is doing its best to keep the public hooked – no matter what the price.

“With one out of three adults clinically obese and 40 percent of children officially overweight, the US is the fattest country in the developed world. The burgeoning public health crisis will see instances of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer skyrocket over the next two decades, taking an already strained healthcare system to breaking point.

“But with food manufacturers keen on keeping customers loyal while maximizing their profits, public health concerns are likely to be dwarfed by the bottom line.

“’What these food scientists have done is that they’ve gone to a lab and they’ve created these chemical concoctions that are very sweet, very fatty and very salty. And they call that the bliss point. Meaning they’ve created addictive foods that are going to get consumers hooked and they’re going to keep wanting to come back for more and more foods,’ Elizabeth Kucinich, of Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, told RT. …

“Kendrik said the reason why food in the US is both addictive and laden with fat, sugar and salt is simple.

“’In one word, I would say: greed. We obviously are putting money above public health,’ he said. ‘Just like with cigarettes, we want to keep people addicted. I equate it to what the cigarette industry did. They deliberately wanted to put things in that were addictive because that drives sales and will continue to drive generations of sales.’”

My Comment: All this is based on the usual egoism that turns everything into “help against you,” and any mechanisms, systems, and companies, created by man, turn against him, profiting from him, not by curing diseases, not by providing him with useful things, not by teaching him what is necessary, but on the contrary, by confusing him and profiting at his expense. But there is the end of egoistic development: It, like cancer, kills the body and itself dies with it.
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Opinion (Ron Paul, American physician, author, and former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives): “Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul doesn’t see a rosy future ahead for the United States. In fact, he sees a repeat of recent history – though not U.S. history – on the horizon.’’

“‘They’re (Washington collectively) not going to work their way out of it, so it’s just (all) going to collapse,’ he said. …

“The physician-lawmaker also said recent polling showing a distinct lack of trust by the American people in their government was ‘a good thing.’

“‘Because that means that now they’ll quit believing the government,’ he told Jones. ‘I mean, they don’t trust the government, they don’t believe the government, the government always lies to them… whether its foreign policy or domestic policy.’

“‘Just think how quickly the Soviet system disappeared. I think that was the greatest miracle, or event at least, in the twentieth century’ that nobody saw coming.

“‘You know, the day before, the month before, the year before, if someone would have said, “Oh, you know, next year,” the Soviet system would be gone, everybody would have considered that person nuts. But it was fragile, and it fell apart, and quickly, and thank goodness we didn’t have to have a nuclear war in order to get rid of the Soviet system.”

“‘We’re probably in 1987, where the Soviets were in ’87, in two years they were gone,’ he said.”

My Comment: The collapse is not yet clear, but the sharp deterioration of public relations is obvious, and what the USA has initiated in other countries, including Israel, will be echoed in it, as I wrote in this blog …
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In the News (from The Global Slavery Index 2013): “The Global Slavery Index provides a ranking of 162 countries, reflecting a combined measure of three factors: estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population, a measure of child marriage, and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country. The measure is heavily weighted to reflect the first factor, prevalence. A number one ranking is the worst, 160 is the best.

“Mauritania, a West African nation with deeply entrenched hereditary slavery, is ranked number 1 in the Index. This reflects the high prevalence of slavery in Mauritania – it is estimated that there are between 140,000 – 160,000 people enslaved in Mauritania, a country with a population of just 3.8 million. This ranking also reflects high levels of child marriage, and to a lesser extent, human trafficking. …

“The countries with the highest numbers of enslaved people are India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Taken together, these countries account for 76% of the total estimate of 29.8 million in modern slavery.”

My Comment: We are all slaves of our egoistic nature, the environment, education and so forth. It all depends on the awareness of one’s slavery! But what can we do with India: in this “spiritual, mystical,” country that promotes “freedom of spirit,” there are castes and slavery?
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Question: How can I expect unity if I don’t feel it and have no idea what it is?

Answer: We have to imagine the state of unity and play it, just like kids who make believe that they are grownups and grow by playing that game. You understand very little when it comes to spiritual states and so you have to play and to develop just like a baby.

We see a very interesting phenomenon in our generation: People are becoming more and more like little children. Everyone is playing games and is in no hurry to start real life. Everyone spends their life playing games, staying in their parents’ home until the age of 30 to 40, not wanting to get married and to grow up, not wanting to make a career, or to take any responsibility, but rather, they wish to pass their life comfortably free of any worries, as if playing a game.

This childish attitude towards life is typical of today’s generation. It is a very special attitude that actually indicates that they are ready to play! The serious attitude towards work is gone, and people pass the time playing games. The main thing is friends, entertainment in the evenings, football, and television.

People are becoming more childish; this is confirmed by sociological studies. And this is an accepted norm both by society and by parents, meaning by the older generation. Parents accept the fact that their 30-year-old son remains a child. Young people themselves also seem to want to remain as children.

This is because we are becoming more worthy of playing and it is by playing that we can succeed and advance in our spiritual development. In previous generations, we were busy fulfilling the ego, our big desire to receive. So we were so serious in order to be totally incorporated in it, to be assimilated in it, and to perform the most serious and difficult actions.

Now, however, it is over. This is an indication that it is in our times that we are ready and worthy of correction! It isn’t the disgrace of this generation that seems to lag behind the previous generations. On the contrary, it is an indication of despair and disappointment from the previous development and the readiness for correction, which we have to perform now. The correction is fulfilled by playing: workshops, connections, different games, activities, songs, and a little bit of work so that we can provide for ourselves. That’s it; this is what life will be like.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/13, The Zohar

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In the News (from Project Syndicate): “Every year, we waste or lose 1.3 billion metric tons of food – one-third of the world’s annual food production. The sheer scale of the number makes it almost impossible to grasp, no matter how one approaches it. Try to imagine 143,000 Eiffel Towers stacked one on top of another, or a pile of 10 trillion bananas.

“The figure is all the more unfathomable, given that, alongside this massive wastage and loss, 840 million people experience chronic hunger on a daily basis. Many millions more suffer from ‘silent hunger’ – malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

“For the more economically minded, here is another number: food wastage and loss, expressed in producer prices, costs roughly $750 billion per year. If we were to consider retail prices and the wider impacts on the environment, including climate change, the figure would be much higher. …

“Food loss – on farms, during processing, transport, and at markets – undermines food security in most developing countries, where post-harvest losses can reach as high as 40% of production. Investment in infrastructure for transport, storage, and marketing of food is badly needed, as are programs to train farmers in best practices.

“In developed countries, food-retailing practices require a rethink.”

My Comment: There is a religious principle in Judaism “Baal Tashchit“: Do not destroy the useful, anything that can be useful to others. It is forbidden to throw out leftovers, suitable for human and animal food, any industrial waste that could be still consumed, etc. because everything is given by the Creator for the correction of the world; thus we must use it, precisely to correct the world. It is possible to use it correctly only to the extent of the correction of the human being, when he naturally, instinctively thinks of the common good.
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