Question: Is there no artificial coercion in the system of integral upbringing and education, unlike what exists in the modern educational system?
Answer: In the system of integral upbringing, there can be no coercion, only the awareness of necessity. The goal that stands before us is completely undesirable to us; our egoism is absolutely against it, but we have no escape. Gradually permeated with this necessity, we suddenly begin to find merits within it: “Let us think, what do we attain through this? Let us assume that it is possible. Perhaps it is utopian, but let us play a fairy tale.”
We begin to explore what actually happens in this case. Is a person fulfilled through it? After all, we want only to attain fulfillment. In what, with what, and how? To what extent does a person become satiated by all of his needs, all of his desires? How many desires in our present state can we satisfy?
Comment: Not many, about twenty.
My Response: Correct. And even then, we immediately and instantly begin to feel a new emptiness, and once more we must run after their fulfillment, rush toward some new sources. But what is integral fulfillment, or what does it imply?
Here we begin to reveal an entirely new form of existence when I, by including myself in others, in connection with others, begin to gain the ability to be filled, to be satiated, to constantly experience literally a sensory and creative “orgasm.” It exists within me and grows continuously.
This is a tremendous shock. And it is constant; it does not tire or repel you. You are no longer drawn to try something else: “Now I would like something a bit spicy…,” because both qualities are present together: the egoism and the attainment of connection above it.
Thus, we begin to reveal a completely new level of sensation of life: sensory and cognitive. We penetrate a new layer of nature and start to become acquainted with the single force that governs all of nature. If God exists (as people usually say), then we practically become equivalent to God. The sensation of time disappears—past, present, and future.
I rise above the flow of all existence. By integrating with others, it forms an eternal, perfect picture within me that constantly changes, shimmering with all its metamorphoses. And at the same time, I continuously enter into ever-greater attainment, satiation, pleasure, cognition, and revelation.
I suddenly reach a state in which my body seems to distance itself from me. It becomes secondary, and the sensation of it disappears to such an extent that even if it dies, I do not feel it. By mastering the entire system, by including myself in it, I do not feel how my animal part dies.
Just as on our current animal level when cutting nails or hair of the vegetative level, we feel no loss or pain, so here, having risen to the next level, Human (Adam), I feel no loss from the death of the animal body. I do not even feel that it happens, to such an extent do I detach from it and adapt to the new level.
If all this is gradually revealed to the listeners, they see that nature is not simply pushing us through all these crises to be born on a new level, but is leading us toward something special. And then they develop serious motivations.
Moreover, this justifies their present state in the world, without work, because by attaining the next, higher level, you thereby provide this world with everything necessary, with harmony as a result of which every grain of sand suddenly gives you an enormous amount of energy, literally according to Einstein’s formula.
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From KabTV’s “The 13th Conversation on Integral Education,” 12/18/11
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