Question: Why is it that when we talk about the integral network, about integral cooperation, it fades somehow, evades our human consciousness?

Answer: The concept of “integral network” isn’t grasped by a person because it’s opposed to his ego. It’s very difficult for him to invest personal efforts in integral work. How can he exit his ego and begin to think about others? Actually, it’s impossible.

It’s only when problems come to him that are above his egoism: fears, worries, and threats, and then he thinks about the benefits of society. For example, this is what happens at the time of war since the benefit and good of the society and of man become one thing. And even more than that; the benefit of the society is the determining factor, and it’s as if a person is a secondary part included in society itself.

How is it possible that a person will be included within the society as one complete whole without any threats or shocks? For this, public pressure is needed, opinion, a social orientation. But if we leave a person alone without any social pressure, then he won’t be able to do it, since this is his nature.

And that is the level of a real united integral society. This is the same level that is found above the present society.
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From KabTV’s “The Wisdom of the Crowd” 5/14/13

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Question: When people rise to the integral level, does their personal view remain, or do “shared eyes” appear for them, so to speak?

Answer: When a person rises to an integral level, his expanded personal comprehension remains with him, but in an integral manner. That is, he begins to see how he can be useful to this society in general and for each of its members individually.

Today, each of us sees how we can get something from our surroundings, take more for ourselves, grab, and so forth. This is a pretty narrow working track: In what way can I fulfill myself even if I don’t need it? It is because I don’t want something to be left for others. I take it from them, and not because this is something that I need for myself.

Integral relationships open a person, expanding him so much that his need becomes unlimited. That is, if I have seven billion little children and I want to give them all fulfillment, I have something with which to be involved and all of this activity brings me a feeling of happiness. In a case like this, we really reach the next level of existence, which is a level of virtually unlimited fulfillment.
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From KabTV’s  “Wisdom of Crowds” 5/14/13

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Question: Where did angels, Satan, and the rest of the pure and impure forces appear, and what is their status?  When did they appear, on which day of creation?

Answer: In nature no strange forces appear, just the one and only force called the “Creator.”  You can call this force whatever you want.  It always reveals itself in a way that is identical to your ego, which is constantly changing.  So hold onto its identical behavior in regard to yourself as something that is absolutely good, as the discovery of all kinds of both positive and negative influences that you discover both inside you and outside of you.
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Question: Why is it that the majority of people fail to notice that their desires are seriously changing?

Answer: Because there is nothing to replace them with. They are failing to see the crisis because the mass media presents information in a way that benefits those who pay and organize it. This must make it easier for someone to stay in power.

The problem is that there is no other solution. If you were to turn to the same government or mass media and ask: “And what do you propose?” They have nothing to offer, and because we do not have anything else, we continue to “smile at a bad performance.” We have no other option. But on the inside, we are all shaking because we do not know what will come next. People just want to live a peaceful, pleasant day. And those in power feel the same way.

This is why I always explain that people are the ones who need to change whenever I talk to people. Mankind has reached a completely different level of development; we need to stop breaking nature, making it suit us. Instead, we need to break ourselves to correspond to nature, and this is a completely new stage.

People often react to this the following way: “So what can we do? We cannot change people. No one will listen to us. You are proposing a fantasy, plans that can never become real. So let things stay the way they are, and we will see what happens later. What can we do, life will…”

All hands are raised when faced with problems that change people because people need to become integral beings and their lifestyle needs to become united with the full understanding that they depend on one another. This is the only way for them to come to harmony with nature and begin to receive good forces from it.
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From KabTV’s “Through Time” 3/17/13

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Question: What does the next integral stage of man’s development require of us since it will happen whether we want it or not?

Answer: It requires a reasonable approach. For the first time in the history of mankind, we will be able to control our destiny if we understand that we need to change.

We need to build a new, completely interconnected society which will be like nature itself. Once we enter this level, we will acquire and distribute all the things that we need for our corporeal existence according to individual needs. And this will satisfy us, and we will dedicate all our strength and time to working on unity because we will discover our new degree in it.

This way we begin to discover a completely new existence on the level of forces, thoughts, in the virtual world. And our corporeal world will remain a physical world where our bodies will continue to exist, but our spirit will simultaneously exist in a parallel, higher world where we find a new, absolute, and eternal existence in the communication between us.

Question: Will unity be the source of pleasure for future mankind?

Answer: Yes, unity will be the source of pleasure. This is a completely different kind of fulfillment because when we connect between us, we create a common desire so big that it receives a powerful energy that exists in the Universe.

We enter a level beyond time and space; we go to a completely different field that quantum physics talks about. We must enter this field with our new, common, integral feelings and mind. Nature is leading us towards this; it is the existence in this field that is called “man.”

It is possible to reach this state consciously either by accelerating our development and directing it down the path of good or through resistance, which is what we have been doing until now. This is why even though we are still going towards the very same state, currently we advance through suffering.
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From KabTV’s “Through Time” 3/17/13

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Question: After we have split up into groups of ten, we seem to be starting a new process. After many years of working together with the friends I have already built up quite a few inner “charges” both positive and negative….

Answer: All this has nothing to do with the real concept of a group. In a real group there is a mutual commitment since it is one. We are all in the same boat, and you have to work out the relations between you. It isn’t just an obligation, but it’s simply impossible to manage without it.

Today, you are just friends. You choose those you feel more comfortable with, but you have an obligation with regard to the real group framework. If you don’t, then it’s not a group or a group of ten yet.

We feel the group by our commitment; it’s as if I worry about a baby who needs endless caretaking. It isn’t about feeling pleasant but about the commitment that I have since I am committed to my friends. We have to develop these two aspects since otherwise everything is lost; there is no other way.

It’s a real wonder; we were shattered and each of us was given a spark that allows him to connect to other people, to connect artificially, to try to connect on the corporeal level. Without the corporeal reality all our sparks would be scattered infinitely distant from one another and we would never be able to get close to one another. But we live in corporeal bodies that enable us to be in mutual bestowal and receiving between us. The protein corporeal bodies help us establish ties and connect, although the sparks are still infinitely far from one another.

Our current ego belongs to the bodies and not to the sparks, since it isn’t the real evil inclination yet. But if we start getting closer to one another even a little despite the rejection that our bodies feel, we begin to evoke the Light that brings our sparks together.

So you should understand what a relief, what great help it is along our spiritual path. With the help of such a lowly, coarse system we can begin to connect the sparks. The Light that Reforms influences them, and in the meantime we go through the current phase which is the longest and the most difficult of all the phases. We will get through the other levels much faster, but this level is the coarsest, since here everything is done with the help of the bodies. It’s the preparation for the direct work with the Light and the desires, a wonderful stage, the Creator’s greatest benevolence. Although I hate the friend, I still connect to him; it’s an opportunity that is in contrast to nature. Nature operates according to honesty and the truth, while here there is a mechanism that is based on a lie.

So you have to yearn and to expect the moment that you will be pleased to see your friends like your own children and even more than that. Yes, yes, you will feel that the friend is more precious to you than your own baby.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Mutual Guarantee”

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Question: Israel is constantly under the threat of a military confrontation or war. Hundreds of missiles with conventional and nonconventional warheads are aimed at us. Not long ago I participated in a drill practicing an emergency situation. People may be complacent regarding what is happening, but the situation is actually very worrisome. How can we tell people about the external threat and about our message and the urgent need for internal changes?

Answer: This threat is actually hovering over us all the time. So first of all you have to be sure that the inner work is the key to all the problems. In addition to that, you have to bring this about in your connection with the friends. You have to connect and to unite with them and to fulfill the necessary actions in order to connect and bring the Creator contentment.

We have to tie these things together: If we brought the Creator contentment, we wouldn’t be facing the threats and the problems we are speaking of now. This is what we have to do: to discuss this, to “chew” it well and to finally “swallow” it and understand it. Then we will put together the general picture and see that first we need to correct ourselves internally. If we correct ourselves, we will correct the world.

As for the missiles, our nation has been in similar situations in the past. But now we have a chance to be saved from all the troubles and save the nation and the whole world. We have to examine this opportunity as a purposeful opportunity: when we act not in order to save the bodies but for the Creator’s sake. We have to raise ourselves to the level of this state, of this perception. Otherwise, we will not attain bestowal and will not be able to fulfill anything in the right direction.

It’s wrong to complain and to cry about the threats not knowing where to run to escape them. We mustn’t confuse the cause and the effect. It’s because the real cause is to reach adhesion, and this is what we have to attain. The means to attain that is to reach bestowal, which we can attain only by rising above our ego. In order to draw and to obligate people to do so we find ourselves in this situation.

We mustn’t stick our heads in the sand since by that we forget about the whole thing. There is no point sitting together and crying over this situation, it won’t help. Another response is required here, a different approach.

The whole point is how we accept these problems. They are not coincidental. So why do they happen? Instead of being overwhelmed by animal fear, we have to connect everything to the cause of all the results, to the Creator, to “There is none else besides Him.” Only we can do that; only we can turn everything around.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/21/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Mutual Guarantee”

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Question: In integral learning, what is the qualitative transition when instead of the sum of all the opinions, something new suddenly appears above them?

Answer: This is a natural and fundamental law of nature. When people connect, not merely adding one to the other, but uniting together as a single force, then the next level of integral development appears in them.

The same thing happens in every system. When we assemble it, when we connect it from its various parts, then these parts begin to act cooperatively and reveal their connection. That is, the system reveals a completely different characteristic.

It follows that technically simple actions of people during discussions around a roundtable suddenly reach a new level because with this, they are summoning the power of natural development on themselves through their desire to go to the next level.

Question: Do they need to be ready for this from the start?

Answer: No, they simply will feel this, discovering within themselves the miracle of growth all the time. The child is growing all the time. If they were to leave him without games or society, he would not grow. He would remain an ape.
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From KabTV’s  “Wisdom of Crowds ” 5/14/13

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Question: What does it mean to work on myself in order to love the friends?

Answer: You need to imagine that the friend is an important person, nice and special. Otherwise, why should you love him? First, you must find a reason. What can be a reason to love the other if you hate him? To be honest, it isn’t even indifference, but actual hate.

You can check the following: Imagine that your friend has won a million dollars in the lottery. The very next day, you feel differently about him. You will envy him and hate him even more. Isn’t that so? What does it mean that you hate him? It means that you prefer that he didn’t win, and that is already enough. It is very simple to check this since you would think differently about your son.

So, can we work in order to love the friend if you hate everyone in the world except yourself? Now, you wake up to a sublime goal called “the Creator,” and you want to attain it. It makes no difference that you don’t know who the Creator is. You yearn for higher knowledge and power in order to climb up to the summit that is more sublime than this entire life. It is just an egoistic desire.

However, in order to rise to the summit, you must fulfill a condition: to love the one you hate. The Creator gradually explains to you that you cannot love Him because if he is revealed a little, you will hate Him since your nature is opposite to His. This contrast will evoke repulsion and hate in you.

So, in order to avoid such bad relations with the Creator, you have to learn to improve yourself in a different state for the time being. You are given this world: the still, the vegetative, the animate nature, and people, so try to get along with them.

The Creator tells you that He will help you the more you try to love the other above the hate you feel. Now, you disrespect everyone: “Let them burn to ashes,” but the Creator has made you feel that on purpose. The moment you want to ascend above your hate, He will help you so that you will manage to do so. Just try and He will help you. Thus, together, you will switch your previous nature to another nature. The second nature will not annul the first, but you will make yourself an attire, a form just like the Creator, and will become like Him.

You will be able to get to know the Creator. Then, you will be able to embrace, to connect, and to merge into one body. This is why He has created the environment that you hate, and the moment you try to love it, He will make your efforts successful. If you manage to reach the slightest achievement, not even love but at least cause less damage to others, meaning you neutralize your ego, He will be revealed. It’s because then you will not harm Him either, and you will be able to get closer and to connect.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/13, Writings of Rabash

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Question: You have said that while reading The Book of Zohar, we have to let the book operate on us. How should we do that?

Answer: It is through simply reading and reading, hoping that it will influence me. It isn’t the book that I read, but a text that was written by Kabbalists who are beyond the Machsom (barrier) and not just beyond the Machsom, but in GAR (the three upper Sefirot) of the world of Atzilut.

I connect to them through these letters. My desire to receive, my mind and my heart somehow establish a connection with their heart and mind. Their heart and mind are already in adhesion with the Creator.

Thus, with the help of the book, I connect to the upper force. Now, everything depends on what I want from it. I may want to make money in the stock market thanks to its special quality, or to improve my health, or to get some other benefit so that I will feel good. If I want that “my actions be like the deeds of the forefathers,” this is actually the desirable intention.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/13, The Zohar

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