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Who will hold me if I fall? Will someone offer a shoulder, support, and warmth?
Insecurity, a feeling of deficiency, is the engine that drives us.
If it were possible to calm us down by some miracle, to give the feeling that we would never lack anything, we would probably give up much of our running around from task to task, which only really serves to destroy our health.
Everybody suffers from insecurity, including the wealthy, the famous, and the powerful. We never achieve a feeling of security by being alone. Whatever we achieve and acquire in life will not grant us such a feeling. Why? It is because security is a feeling that depends on the quality of connection with everyone.
In ancient times, we lived in tribes, went out to hunt, and we all felt together. Later, the connection lessened, we moved to a village format. As the connection further declined, we shrank into the family circle. Today, we each mainly feel ourselves as individuals and alone.
Throughout this evolutionary process, we built tools to help us secure our basic needs. We acquired small houses for each family, plots of land, animals, and tools. Today, deliveries from the supermarket come straight to our apartment doors. We also have health insurance, national insurance, pension, and life insurance. Seemingly, we are all set, but in practice we have become completely dependent on state systems. Moreover, the state itself becomes increasingly dependent on what happens throughout humanity.
In this interconnected reality, if systems begin to collapse, then we encounter a major problem. For the individual, state, and human society in general, we no longer have vegetables in the yard, a goat or a cow, the state has no local industry for everything it needs, and humanity has no super air conditioner to manage the climate changes.
If suddenly there is a difficulty in the supply of electricity, gas, energy, food, water, medicine, and so on, then what will we do? Also, if an economic crisis crashes the value of money and we cannot buy anything with it, then what will we live on? In the case of a general collapse, if we each stay shut inside our apartments, close the windows, and eat the canned food we stocked up, in the end the hungry crowd will come to take everything we have.
Sooner or later we will be forced to build a comprehensive safety net that is based on heart-to-heart connection, consideration for everyone, and mutual support. With this picture in mind, where are we now in our present-day reality?
The world is becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent at an accelerated rate. Whether we want it or not, life is placing us all in the same boat. Also, the surrounding nature turns out to be a single closed system, and the destruction we caused it is boomeranging on us. These changes in the world require us to adapt ourselves to the integral reality that is revealing itself. The best way to do this is through a deep, daily, educational-cultural process throughout society, the goal of which is to develop an integral worldview in each and every person.
Take, for example, how to deal with the rising cost of living. It is a fact that prices keep going up. Instead of waiting for someone up above to solve the problem, we can organize ourselves from below. We can create a network of mutual guarantee in the building, the neighborhood, and the community, without money, and with a good will for support and completion.
For example, we can organize home repair services by someone among us who is a professional, classes for children and youth, instruction on various topics, cultural and artistic evenings, leisure and sports activities, weekend and holiday events, second-hand goods to give away, and much more.
At a more advanced level, we can set up a large dining hall of sorts with simple and tasty food, like in the kibbutzim. It can be fun and connection enriching to eat together with others, instead of sitting alone in a cold apartment. We can take on cleaning the street, for example, to save municipal budgets and redirect them to subsidize such social projects. Maybe now it seems a bit unrealistic, but in very hard times, there is no choice but to connect and find common solutions.
Most importantly, the media, social networks, educational and cultural institutions should encourage the spirit of connection, mutual support, respect those who contribute to society, and who help others wholeheartedly. Although this happens to a certain extent today, it is still within an egoistic paradigm where we ultimately still respect the stronger, smarter, and wealthier individual over the one who contributes more to society. We should thus infuse this spirit of connection with full force. If we do, the social value scale will change and it will drive us to develop in the required integral manner.
Also, since I am speaking here in Israel among the people of Israel, so if we turn inward for a moment, harmonious human connection lies in the roots of our nation, deep in the soul. Abraham the Patriarch discovered the unity of the universe and how humans can positively connect to enter into balance with it. From his discovery, he taught the principles of kindness and love among people. Our nation never had castes and classes like other nations. Our core values are “all of Israel are friends,” i.e., guarantors for one another, as it is written, “as one man with one heart.” In addition, the world’s attitude toward Israel is becoming very hostile, and even our “friends” will sell us out in a moment. What will help us in a time of trouble? It is only the power of connection. We will find our security only in drawing closer to one another, to feel ourselves as a single family.
It is written in our sources that we can be the vanguard of humanity in its progress to world correction, i.e., to the transformation of the increasingly destructive egoistic paradigm to an altruistic one, where we discover a harmonious and peaceful world through our newly-developed positive connections. Here, in our nation, it is possible to research and develop the necessary upgrade in human perception. The entire evolutionary process we have undergone as a human species forces us to advance already from a narrow perception of “me versus everyone” to a perception of “we are all as one,” i.e., to a state of perfect connection. When we crack this perceptual shift, we will let the universe’s unifying power flow to the world, and it will provide a whole new level of security to all. The hatred toward us will turn into affection when people will feel that from our people comes the method for a new life, for individuals and for society.
Gradually, the human spirit will rise and a reality will open before us that is beyond time, space, and motion. We will then discover what the great ones of the nation meant when they said that everything is one. We will feel this single universal force of love and bestowal dwell within our connections, which will proceed to illuminate throughout human consciousness on a global scale.
Based on episode 47 of “New Life” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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