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For a society to truly function as an organism, it needs to start feeling itself as a single whole. In such a state, a collective mind, sensation, needs, and a mutual perception of reality emerge. Society ceases to be a collection of separate individuals and becomes a unified organism that senses all levels of nature as interconnected and interdependent.
When we include this vast system of nature within ourselves, when we begins to feel it internally, we start to absorb its program. We no longer perceives reality in fragments, but as a single integral process. It is as if we feel ourselves originating billions of years ago and continuing billions of years into the future, because we become included in the immense organism of integral nature. Then, we begin to feel the myriad forces acting within it and understand how they influence us and how we, consciously and in a goal-oriented manner, can influence ourselves, our destiny, and our future. We become the only active element in nature, acting consciously above our instincts.
Such attainment is possible when we are integrally included in every level of nature. Then we rise to the highest level of nature, to what we call “the level of the Creator.” In truth, there is no separate Creator as an external entity. Nature itself is the Creator. Reaching such a level means attaining equivalence with nature’s integral law.
The reason society and an organism seem like different concepts today is because our society is broken, fragmented, and internally disconnected. It is like a severely ill body in which its systems are out of balance and no longer support one another. This is precisely the condition of modern society, which we are desperately trying to prevent from a complete collapse. However, when all systems exist in mutual support and balance, each for the sake of the whole and the whole for the sake of each, then society functions as an organism, just like the human body. In such a state, the distinction between “society” and “organism” completely disappears.
Interestingly, what we call primitive communities were, in many ways, integral societies. Their integration existed on an instinctive level, similar to the animal world. Nature held them together automatically through its general law. The difference between humans and animals is that egoism—the desire to enjoy ourselves at the expense of others—has developed in us. Above our animal nature, egoism grows and separates us. Today, precisely because of this egoism, we are required to unite on a higher level, consciously, above it, and together with it.
Animals hold an instinctive connection. Humans need to unite consciously. Egoism does not cancel integration; it elevates it to an entirely new level. When corrected, egoism becomes the means through which we achieve the highest and most complete form of unity.
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