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Why do contagious diseases exist in the first place? Why do bacteria become resistant to medicine? Will we ever find something that cures all such problems at their root? The integral approach to education, which views the human being, society, and nature as a single whole, offers unique answers to such questions.
In principle, there is nothing harmful or evil in nature. Its forces are interconnected, complementary, and supportive of the development of life.
Life develops through balance between opposites. Therefore, when we see disease, it is an expression of imbalance.
The still, vegetative, animate, and human levels of nature make up a single integral system. Balance or imbalance in this system flows between these levels. The distinguishing factor between humans and animals is that humans are not managed instinctively by nature, but possess the ability to examine and decide independently. This freedom makes great progress possible, but it is also the root of all problems.
The more we develop, the more we are supposed to recognize the integral code within nature and consciously choose to align with it. That means developing an integral attitude toward everything around us, i.e., an attitude of consideration, mutuality, complementarity, support, and harmonious connection.
As long as we act in a non-integral way toward others, we radiate imbalance downward into nature’s lower levels. The greatest disruption of balance is on the human level, and therefore egoistic relations with one another destroy not only society but also the ecological environment and the systems of the human body. Egoistic relations, where we each seek self-benefit at the expense of others and nature, is where all negative phenomena stem from, including pain and disease.
This has always been true, but today, when the world has become so interconnected, it has gained far greater weight. When we are all in one boat, but everyone’s ego grows to such an extent that it prevents consideration of anyone or anything, we head toward a mutual drowning.
Nature, like a caring mother, wants to guide us to a good place, which is why various forces come from the system that intend to bring us back into line. We can gain an understanding of this systemic way of operating with the example of bacteria and viruses.
Bacteria and viruses are not simple particles but complex systems. They are life forms that operate according to their internal programming, and they have special interconnections. Nature is linked to them, to influence us under particular conditions of climate, seasons, and more. After we develop antibiotics, medicines, and vaccines, new mutations arise against which we have no solution.
A bacterium or a virus is a smart mechanism and a sophisticated system for sensing the environment. It constantly checks the conditions and improves itself. One could say it is smarter than us, because it obeys nature’s commands: to give us problems in order to make us rise higher, and to develop our mind and heart, our understanding and feeling, of what true balance is, between ourselves and with the whole environment.
However, we should ideally engage in qualitative development before blows arrive, not from wanting to escape suffering, but from research and the discovery that balance is the highest and best state.
In any case, people infect each other not only with diseases and viruses, but also with behaviors, habits, decisions, and attitudes toward one another. A network of connections binds us together with invisible threads, and myriad contagions proliferate continuously within it. Each of our minds and hearts—our thoughts, desires, and aspirations—also dwell in this network. We constantly transmit signals and waves of many kinds into it.
Indeed, the power of will and the power of thought are forces of unimaginable strength. If a person generates waves of egoistic desires around themselves, they thereby inject a “virus” into the network. When people wish to dominate others, to exploit them for personal benefit, they emit harmful waves into the network. These frequencies pass to others, infecting them with selfish tendencies. There is an endless multiplication process here. We all live inside this vortex, and so it happens that modern humanity is a network full of “hatred waves.”
Accordingly, we generate the very negative forces that boomerang to strike us. This is very important to understand because the coin has another side. If we want to uproot diseases from their causal point, we will need to engage in a broad educational and cultural process, throughout society as a whole. Its purpose should be the alignment of us people with nature’s general direction of development, i.e., to create integral connection and balance among everyone.
The more we internalize that in nature we are all connected like organs in a single body, and the more the desire to benefit others as ourselves awakens, then the more this desire will also radiate outward around us like waves spreading in every direction. However, these will be “good viruses.” They will also be contagious, but they will be healthy contagions, which cause more and more people to lovingly open their hearts to one another.
Gradually, together we will rise to a height from which we can project balance onto all of nature’s systems, and thereby uproot all diseases and problems from their root. We will unite among ourselves and with all of creation, discover the wonderful unity of nature, and learn from it how to balance between the positive and negative forces, or in other words, how to create a harmonious and complete life out of opposites. I wish us all success in this blessed pursuit.
Based on “New Life 81 – Contagious Diseases, Viruses, Bacteria” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman, Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.