Question: If you had participated in the discussion in a circle, how would you have reasoned to bring integrality into this discussion?

Answer: I would have allowed people to express the most opposite, differing points of view, and then I would ask, “In order to come to an agreement, on the basis of the conditions that we have, what conditions do we use in order to choose, from all your proposals, the most appropriate, beautiful, and necessary one that has the right to exist?” A criterion should be for this.

It’s not what we are doing, but do we see in this more communication, warmth, security, adhesion, and higher attainment, that is, advancement, progress in integrality? If nature sets us up for this, do we go in unison with it? If so, then, yes. If not, then no.

We are in the process of evolution. Where does it go? We need to anticipate and predict its next step, and in line with how we foresee this step, we need to bring our actions closer to it, and we will succeed in life. It will be easy, free, and simple for us.

What is nature’s next step? It is necessary to bring them to these thoughts, and then, with the help of higher integral sensitivity, they will determine how to do better.
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From a Talk on Integral Upbringing 3/1/12

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The current egoistic education erases a person’s uniqueness. Movies newspapers, the media, and the Internet all aim at that.

You assume that the Internet helps you keep in touch with others, but the truth is that it helps you be like everyone else. It locks our whole egoistic integral world in itself in the worst way possible, and as a result we are all connected to one another and are all identical.

We must admit that the Internet assists our development and brings us close to the end of correction since it reveals the evil—but in an evil way. We see standard examples through the net and consume a standard meaning. The “virtual machine” duplicates us like parts on the assembly line.

In spirituality it is the opposite; you don’t resemble others in any way. You are absolutely special and no one can intervene. After all we all have different directions; we work on different frequencies, and we don’t meet, don’t touch each other’s qualities. Everyone has ten Sefirot, but they are divided into another ten and then more and more. Eventually everyone makes a huge tangle of interwoven connections, each according to his measure and to his quality. You can resemble another, but you are not equal to him in any way.

Question: But does the environment influence a person in spirituality too?

Answer: There the environment only inspires you to use your uniqueness and nothing more than that. In our world advertising constantly imposes something upon you, while in spirituality the friends only spur you by envy, lust, and the desire for respect and you operate on your own, internally. It is as if they give you a battery, but the engine, the means for perception, is yours.

Question: In our world I also use the desires that are awakened in me by myself, isn’t that so?

Answer: No. Here you are attracted to duplicating an example that is shown to everyone; you are presented with a certain standard and whether you like it or not, you fulfill it by the way you dress, in your behavior, and mainly in your inner perceptions. The example influences you whether you like it or not.

Therefore, we develop the integral education, according to which the example is a “round” system, in which we are all connected to one another. Thus we have to expel all the other examples. Otherwise, we will simply not survive.

Question: But according to the integral education I will also want to be like someone else.

Answer: Everyone needs to be like someone who is more successful. For example, when you engage in bodybuilding in our world, Schwarzenegger is the example you follow and the incentive is the environment that respects him.

You put your desires under the external pressure and fulfill them. In other words, the ego pushes you forward and you sculpt yourself according to the generally accepted model—according to the example of Schwarzenegger. You have been told that you should be like him and you work on yourself in order to equalize your form to his.

On the other hand, in the internal work you fulfill your attributes when you focus them anew from egocentrism outwards. This allows you to use them differently, and to be in contact with those around you. You get an opportunity that you didn’t have before and build something new.

Although the group is homogeneous, you connect to every member by your attributes and these connections are different for everyone. After all, everyone has his own internal structure.

You are told that you have to reach an equivalence of form with the One who bestows. But where is He? You are called to connect with the friends as one man in one heart, but where is the example? What is the standard?

You hear from the environment very clearly: “If you don’t do that, you are worthless.” So what should I do? After all, there are no examples I can follow. You have read each article a thousand times and you still don’t understand anything.

It is all so that you will look for yourself. The environment only challenges you and that’s all. The friends don’t stick posters like those of Schwarzenegger on the wall. There is no actual example and you don’t know what to do. It is a real problem.

So you are constantly searching: “Perhaps this way? Perhaps that way? What does the Creator look like? What is the attribute of bestowal? How can I transcend the mind? I don’t know anything! So let me see and hear something at least!” But no. It is impossible to perceive spirituality in our sensory organs.

This is exactly what “self-fulfillment” is: No one is pressuring you, not even the teacher. During the lesson he can speak openly, but never personally to you—never. It is forbidden to invade a person’s inner world.

Question: Does this means that I have to despair that I don’t find examples?

Answer: Search; don’t give up. The example is in the group, and you will find it if you dedicate yourself to this search. “I have to find it. The Creator’s image is concealed there, among the friends, in the connection among them.” You don’t see it, but if you focus, it will appear like in a three-dimensional picture.

This is your internal work and no one has access to it. Only you build the attitude to what we call a “group.” You enter it and operate there until you find an image, a form, the attribute of bestowal, its limits, its imprint, the impression it leaves.

Question: But is this example concealed from me?

Answer: And how will you see it without an equivalence of form? The Creator is before you. The attribute of bestowal, the upper Light fills everything. If you want an example, bring yourself to the minimal level of compatibility with it, make efforts (this is called a prayer), and He will help you.

Then you will see Him, but through your inner sight, much clearer and “juicier,” than you temporarily feel in all your senses, that penetrates far and deep and is a thousand times clearer than our ordinary sight by which we only see the externality, without learning even the least bit about the internality…
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/12, “Peace in the World”

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Question: Quite often during our discussions in the integral education groups, we slip into the usual, ordinary state. We begin to compliment one another and so on. How should we escape from such states so that we will not waste our time?

Answer: There has to be a clear plan in front of everyone or a big screen with the text, and you should know that you must flow along its path as if you were in a little, common boat. Imagine that we are in the huge sea and this text is our guide.

Together, we read the same article and its study is a certain step forward on our part. The article is divided into parts or sub-steps. We read one or two sentences and discuss what they say and how they help us unite, rise, and correctly use everything that exists within us. At the same time, the text itself must direct us and give us clues as to what we should do. Essentially, it should play the role of a teacher.
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From a Talk on Integral Upbringing 3/2/12

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Connection determines everything in our life, and if we achieve it we will rearrange our entire life, but without it life is worth nothing. But a person is lazy by nature and will not accept connection until life grabs him by the throat and he feels that it is a matter of life and death.

Indeed, connection is against our nature, and we are capable of rising above our nature only at the threat of death. But how can we unite and reach a good life before we are on the brink of death? This is possible only through the environment.

The environment can make a criminal of you, but can also turn you into a good person: It all depends on the environment in which you find yourself.

One will be hanged for his crimes and another will become famous, a great man. Your whole life can be changed in an instant because you entered the wrong door once, and what happened afterwards did not depend on you.

That is, we must build a good environment. We need another earth that will have different kindergartens, schools, relationships at work, home, between neighbors, and the government. Then everyone who enters this world will be immediately affected on all sides from this environment that will definitely make him a good person.

How do we start to save ourselves now, in our present state, when we are steadily heading for catastrophe? Let’s build this new world in the virtual space of the Internet. It was given to us for this purpose; this is our earth that can be good. We will make such a virtual capsule out of it, and we will only live on good terms with each other.

Everything that we do in the real world, we do only when necessary. Then we come into this virtual world and there our real life begins. Let’s create a special, wonderful country for ourselves and live in it. Everyone will feel as in a dream, a fairy tale, like a child caught in a great adventure.

You will see how much this will influence those who will be involved. Then we will attract more and more people on the condition that they do not destroy this country that we built and decide to live in it. Thus, we will cure the world.
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From a Talk About Dissemination 9/7/12

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We are building our future. To the extent that we become integrated, we will reveal it much faster than when it becomes materialized in us mechanically. We walk one step and perhaps a few steps ahead of the history of the world.

Our world is moving like a cart with a horse; I mean precisely an animal force pulls it forward. However, we are moving like a person who strives forward, driven not by the whip and spurs, but by his aspiration, like a quick runner who is racing ahead of the heavy horse-drawn cart. This is because the cart consists of individualists who need to be forced to understand their commonality, integrality, and globality, while we gather in this integrality in advance.

Thus, we are represented not by a huge cart with billions of people sitting in it, but by the image of the collected horseman, who along with the horse (with his animal inclination) moves purposefully towards the goal because both the horse and the rider understand the purpose. It is a completely different speed. Today, we are building our future practically.
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From a Talk on Integral Upbringing 3/2/12

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Question: Let us say that we are discussing a certain integral system in a group of integral education. I cannot restrain myself; I wish to explain the way I see it, but someone else also wants to express himself at the same time. What should I do in regard to my desire? Should I restrain myself and let the other person speak?

Answer: The way you express yourself does not really matter here because you are beginning to transition to the field of feelings. When you begin to work with them on the level of the integral inner composition, you will see that your feelings and thoughts add together with the others. Suddenly, others begin to express your thoughts and feelings, to the point that you do not really need to speak. It turns out that when you include yourself this way in everyone else, you begin to influence them.

You can reach a state where you will begin to feel and perceive one another without words, without the help of your body since you will perceive and feel like you are inside that system you have created between you. And you will not need any physical, verbal communication. You will feel and perceive like you are together in one system where there is no need to descend through our bodies and discuss things on the corporeal level through physical communication.

In other words, we will feel so strongly that we are together in one desire and mind that we will not feel a need to communicate through our bodies. It is just like a mother feels her child, the way we feel people who are close to us even by their movements, or we simply feel what is happening to them.
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From a Talk on Integral Upbringing 3/2/12

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Question: When people interact in an integral group, they suddenly experience powerful emotions, strong feelings, sometimes positive and sometimes negative, but suppressing these emotions does not do anything.

Answer: Of course not. This is why the main thing is for people to express their creative abilities, how they build their unity. First of all, we must not fully reject our egoism, but create unity above it. We must use egoism as a starting point and foundation, instead of just soaring up in the sky. It is necessary to understand that the level of unity is based on rising above the egoism, on turning this egoism into an inverted imprint.

In other words, our spiritual image—the collective image of Adam, our inner spirit that separates us from animals—is made through an imprint of our individual egoistic desires above which we rise and combine ourselves. This requires everyone’s individual work because one must turn himself into an inverted, altruistic imprint of a patrix into a matrix, of a negative into a positive, like a stamp, like its image.

Then, every one of us rises above egoism in its opposite form, the form of bestowal, the form of connection, in other words, instead of individualism, integrality, instead of only desiring to receive for yourself at the expense of others, ascent and investment into something common, whole. When we work this way, then, by rising above our egoism, we begin to understand what this new system consists of.

It is the opposite. It is like anti-matter. It consists of something that does not exist in this world. Let us become this!

This is the discussion of our special anti-image. However, it is not just opposite to each one of us, but when every one of us turns himself into the opposite of himself. At the same time, he starts combining himself with the others. He seems to lose his individuality through acquiring a common one, and, this way, he begins to perceive a single nature: its integral.

These are the kind of articles and materials that should be discussed in the groups of integral learning. They will take people to the next level when, on one hand, my individual work is necessary in order to rise, but on the other hand, my individual work together with everyone else’s work is necessary in order to connect.
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From a Talk on Integral Upbringing 3/2/12

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Question: On one hand, when we work with a group of regular people, we explain to them that they must establish the kind of relationship between them that will make them happier. On the other hand, we tell them that we are in the middle of a common universal process when the entire society will be changing. This evokes a corresponding reaction in people: “For example I do something in my group, but nothing will change until the government, the entire country, and the entire society take measures.” How can we convince people that things depend on them?

Answer: The thing is that when some ten years ago we would tell people that a crisis has taken over the world, no one believed us. Even in 2007, Nobel prizes were given out for theories about the absence of a threat of a crisis. But it struck in 2008!

Mankind always drives itself into a corner because they do not have a method, a plan; they lack understanding of what they are doing and where they are going. They neither know the goal nor the forces of the world that develop them. And this is why it naturally seems to them that it is impossible to achieve unity of society.

They do not perceive the net that exists between all the people in the world. Even though we speak about the butterfly effect, about different interconnections between us, they obviously do not feel it. And this is why they think: “What will it do if I make one group or another? What of it? What will it lead to?”

They do not understand that this way they join an inert mass, they launch it, and it moves on its own. And a month or two from now everyone will be saying the things we say between us today. This is why when they work with a small group, in reality they use it to create a buffer between them and the entire world and this way they pump the entire spiritual energy through them and the group to the entire world.

Even though these forces, this net of connections between everyone, is absolutely invisible, you suddenly begin to feel that people begin to say the same things as we do all over the place, and this is the way it spreads. In other words, you see by the reaction, the response, the echo, which come from around the world, that the things you used to say a month ago are now becoming the property of masses. Even though, in general, they did not hear anything from you, but they feel it subconsciously on the inside because the upper Light has come to them and is working in them.

We can explain to the masses that we are all connected (there are many scientific articles regarding this), and when all of us do something, it necessarily becomes the property of the entire humanity because it passes through the net of connections.

Today we do not even need to use Kabbalistic terminology. The connection between people, the globality of the world, oneness of nature and its integrality, today, all these things are fully manifesting, and this is why we are also coming out to the world.
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From a Virtual Lesson, 8/26/12

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Question: In lectures for the 99% can I use the examples of threats of war, famine, and crisis? To what extent can we use them?

Answer: You should not use examples in this form. You just need to show the development of the world and where it is heading and to do this in a scientific way, explaining that in accordance with the development of our egoism, there may be some problems, etc.

The crisis will not pass on its own; we have to correct it in ourselves: This is the crisis of relations between people, not a financial, economic, or environmental crisis. That is, nature is against us, and we are its ever-growing opponents. We need to show people where it is heading from a scientific point of view, without feelings. Of course, all this leads to wars and big problems if we do not step in and begin to move the world towards balance. We are able to solve this problem.
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From a Virtual Lesson 8/26/12

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Question: Why do the masses need to work in the group when we can just give them a book where everything is explained?

Answer: Where will people create the Kli, vessel, where they will begin to experience higher energy? They need practice!

Even if they have nothing to do with Kabbalah, they still need to feel that unity has a special power by which they can change the world, transform everything around them, and see everything deeper. With the help of this force, the property of bestowal, they begin to see as if with X-ray vision into history, into matter. They rise above time, space, and motion to the next dimension. If they do not practice with each other and only read it while lying on a couch, then nothing will change. Reading is good for training, to “warm up,” but not for realization.

Question: Should physical meetings be mandatory?

Answer: Yes, it has been practiced by Kabbalists from time immemorial because contact between people, here, in person is required; you have to implement this.

The Creator is not manifested in one person; He will manifest Himself only in the contact between people. Therefore in addition to you, there must be at least one more person. But it is difficult to work with two people. A group of ten is ideal.
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From a Virtual Lesson 8/26/12

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