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The Middle East is like a powder keg, filled with conflicts between nations and within countries, alongside natural resources and ancient cultures. What needs to happen for the region to become a paradise on earth?
To be realistic, we must first deeply understand the overall evolutionary trajectory. Whether we like it or not, the human species is part of the system of nature, and it operates according to laws.
The study of nature and human evolution shows that people are gathered into a kind of integral system, becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent. Communication, trade, technological progress, and social development are processes that have led to this global interconnection. However, in our awareness, we still do not know how to handle it. Each of our ego’s grows, pride intensifies, and we quarrel endlessly like children in a playground. With today’s weapons, it is frightening to think what could happen.
The Middle East is a meeting point of religions, cultures, political systems, and diverse worldviews. It is a central hub of human civilization that must now solve a broader existential problem. We can continue acting according to self-serving interests, but it would be wiser to understand that our conflicts are not just between us. Rather, they are between all of us and the evolutionary demand to realize our growing interconnectedness and interdependence in a mutually complementary, harmonious, and peaceful manner.
This region has everything, and in the past it truly was the cradle of human civilization. Even today, the Middle East could become the richest and most advanced place on earth, which provides energy, agriculture, food, culture, education, technology, science, wisdom, recreation, and tourism. Instead, it becomes a place of destruction, a central source from which conflict spreads across the globe. So much money, resources, and intellect is focused on the development of weapons and the increasing of military strength. We live in constant defense, unending tension, and at a much lower standard of living than we could achieve.
Shiites, Sunnis, Christians, Jews, Druze, Bedouins, religious, secular, right-wing, and left-wing, countless groups exist here. Somehow, we must reach common ground, which is something that can unite us. Such a unifying factor can only be the law of development in nature, which stands above us all. If we try to follow the principle of any one group, it is clear that we will not succeed.
Reality has already shown that there is no stability in the region, and no one can feel secure. Even regimes that once seemed very powerful have suddenly collapsed. In every country, opposing forces can be identified, struggling against one another. Even if one side holds power today, tomorrow it may be overthrown. Ultimately, we will have to find a point of balance, a method for reconciling opposites, first within each country, and then between nations. The sooner we do this, the more suffering we will spare ourselves.
At their root, all religious worldviews are based on the principle of connection and love between people. Everything that came afterward is a distortion created by the ego. All religions speak of two forces in constant struggle, forces of good and evil. Whether called God and the serpent or by other names, the principle is the same. A person stands between these two forces and must find balance, the middle line.
In all the cultures that have lived here, wisdom has always been valued, and people learned from the wise about the laws of nature that should guide life. Even today, we should follow this path and establish a central communication and educational body for the Middle East. We would be wise to gather wise people who understand the direction of human evolution according to nature, and let such people define a general educational and cultural framework.
Together, they would develop content to be delivered through educational institutions, cultural frameworks, media, and social networks, i.e., every possible platform. Naturally, each country and sector would adapt it as needed, but all would follow the same direction: education toward harmonious and peaceful connection.
The overarching goal would be to develop a new kind of human being, one who is integral, balanced, and aligned with the general system of nature, and who contains two opposing forces, like plus and minus, and knows how to combine them to grow and develop without limit. From this inner balance, the new human will know how to connect harmoniously with others, building positive relationships above all differences and gaps. As it is written, “Love covers all crimes.”
If we truly invest our hearts in this, we will gradually begin to see people who are inclined toward mutual connection, people capable of connecting even with those who think differently. This will be reflected in personal relationships such as partnerships and families, in social relationships between different sectors, and eventually in international relations.
As this develops, we will enter into balance with nature as a whole, and as a result, we will experience its harmony, perfection, and wholeness.
Based on “New Life 135 – The Future of the Middle East According to the Integral Vision” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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