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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In the News (from NewScientist): “The financial crisis of 2007-2008 was a perfect storm of greed and stupidity – and raging hormones may have been at its root. As neuroscientist John Coates argues in The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, hormones such as testosterone affect bankers’ behaviour in ways that mean that financial boom and bust is almost unavoidable.

“Turning to neuroscience after years as a trader with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, Coates has run experiments on the trading floor, documenting how traders’ testosterone levels soar in winning times. Testosterone boosts aggression and self-confidence, aiding males in violent competition. But it also tempts traders and banking executives ‘puffed up with self-importance’ to take ridiculous risks. Boom turns to bust.

Then it is time for hormonal hangover, as testosterone’s cousin, cortisol, fills bankers with anxiety and a sense of imminent danger. After a crisis, Coates suggests, the financial industry becomes a ‘clinical population’ of the psychologically battered, who shun even safe trades.

“If Coates is right – and the evidence he presents is compelling – then the financial crises that so frequently plague capitalism find their roots in human biology, which amplifies both the euphoria of bubbles and the depression of their aftermath. What follows is a simple conclusion – less testosterone would make for stabler markets.

“Time to castrate the bankers? The idea would probably receive widespread support, but Coates suggests another way – encourage more women and older men, and fewer young males, into the financial industry.”

My Comment: The basis for the development of all parts of nature is its purpose: to bring all its components into balance. This striving for balance causes our evolution, and that is why our development is inevitable.

It is possible to change its nature only through realizing the character of our development and its purpose; in this case, we find the force that develops us and understand how we can influence it and not try to interfere in the direction of development (for example, to reverse rivers), but only to join the movement consciously, to experience it as the path of the Light, pleasant and necessary, but not as the path of suffering, bitter and meaningless.
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Baal HaSulam, “Messiah’s Shofar“: And the dissemination of the wisdom in the masses is called “a Shofar.” Like the Shofar (horn) whose voice travels a great distance, the echo of the wisdom will spread all over the world, so even the nations will hear and acknowledge that there is Godly wisdom in Israel.

The whole world should understand that the People of Israel know how to contact the upper force inherent in nature that can unite us, help get us out of the current situation, and help us rise above the crisis. This is called “the dissemination of the wisdom throughout the world.”

In the meantime we don’t speak about this because the masses aren’t interested in it. When we work with the general population we try to explain and tell them how to connect without mentioning the wisdom of Kabbalah, but through other means. We present the method to children and to grownups by showing them different ways to connect based on actual problems and facts, and try to convince people that connection and unity are really the solution to the problems.

But this is only the first part of the way since we don’t present them with the whole truth. The process should be gradual so that the truth won’t turn into unripe fruit, so that the wisdom of Kabbalah will not be revealed before they feel a need for it.

Thanks to our dissemination efforts, people will begin to understand that we have a special method that they don’t have—a method that provides the power to unite and to solve their problems. They will understand beyond any doubt that we can organize work so that it will lead to the desired results and that they won’t fall into a “bottomless pit,” as with all other attempts in our world.

People will understand that there is something new and special here, and they will want to find out what it is. Then they will be ready for the wisdom of Kabbalah. We are not concealing our study, but only when they want to join the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to attain the upper force, will we be able to reveal it to the whole world.

Today we are already bringing the masses closer to us, so that in the future when they want to advance, they will discover and learn more and more. The Creator’s desire is to be revealed in every person according to his being part of the general system.
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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 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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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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