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What is the overall trajectory of evolution? Where is it leading us? In a fragile age where one blow in one part of the world can quickly spread like wildfire worldwide, how can we optimally adapt ourselves to today’s world without waiting for a great collapse?
If we examine what we have gone through over the generations, we see that humanity is becoming like one body. The world is becoming more and more connected, and what happens in one place affects everyone. Mutual dependence is increasing rapidly, and every wave that comes washes over everyone. Every wave takes a bit more of what occurred previously, as if cleaning us of all that is unnecessary, layer by layer. From our side, we feel it as definite loss, but that might not be the same picture if we could view it from the perspective of nature itself and how it evolves us. It could be that these are birth contractions of a new reality, the beginning of the next stage in our evolution as a humanity.
The human species is part of nature, and in the system of nature there is strict lawfulness. Nothing is accidental, everything is cause and effect. The still, vegetative, and animate levels are instinctively operated by nature, and together they create a closed integral system. Each takes what it needs to exist and provides something unique to the wondrous fabric of life. Connection between opposites, complementarity, and harmony is how the melody of creation is formed. This is the secret of life and creativity.
What distinguishes humans from other creatures is the fact that nature left us room for conscious development, examination, and choice. Accordingly, we have built a great civilization for ourselves with culture, education, art, science, technology, commerce, and the economy. If it were possible to jump back in time and describe to someone who lived one or two thousand years ago, the conditions in which we now exist, it would be interesting to see the reaction.
On the face of it, we have all the possibilities to build heaven on earth. However, for some reason, our lives head in exactly the opposite direction. It is as if there is some evil force ruining everything that we do as a humanity. For example, so many new technologies we invent are put to negative use, to increase control, exploitation, and deception over people. It is as if there is a curse on us humans, whereby everything we touch turns into something horrible.
International relations are bad, relations between factions in society are awful, and economic gaps steadily grow. In personal relationships too, we find ourselves encountering more and more difficulties. The family unit is collapsing, communication with children is faulty, and romantic relationships seem to last for much shorter time periods. We are increasingly losing patience, tolerance, and the ability to see anyone besides ourselves. We are living in the era of the great ego, which is taking over us and the world.
It thus turns out that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent, but the ego’s intensification does not let us get along with anyone. These two directions of development are naturally opposed: the nature of the connected world and the nature of the enhanced ego. This is the root of every problem.
In order to survive in tomorrow’s world, we will have to learn to function as a single integral mechanism. In the end, we will all feel equal and connected, and we will receive from society what we need in order to exist and give from our uniqueness to everyone. The only question is what we will go through on the way there. Will it be global-scale blows that make it clear that we are all in the same boat, or will we preemptively grasp the trend of integral development and walk toward it ourselves?
From the big picture laid out here, we can derive a course of action for mutually coping with the economic distress already evident. Instead of everyone being buried under their own troubles, alone, we can establish a social network of mutual guarantee. This can be in a building, neighborhood, city, community, and eventually as a concept for an entire country.
What will the mutual guarantee network include? There can be endless ideas. The basis for everything is activities that create positive human connection, one that is deep and warm, and the integral educational method has an organized methodology for developing such a network. When we feel connected, we can launch cooperative initiatives, without payment of course. For example, this could include the organization of second-hand product giveaways, classes for children and adults, professional training, group shopping at reduced prices, leisure and sports activities, trips and picnics, and cultural and art events, among several other activities.
The closer we come to one another, the more we will begin to feel that a special force flows between us. A force that lifts us above all the grayness, murkiness, pressures, and tensions, and which brings health, strength, vitality, and joy. It is a force that gives a feeling that we are in a good environment, surrounded by people who wish for our best, within a circle of mutual guarantee and love.
In such a social framework, there will no longer be a need to constantly defend ourselves, to live closed off in our bunkers. We can then open up and breathe easily. Even if there is no money to travel abroad every couple of months, we will find an even more enjoyable alternative locally. Also, even if suddenly the economy shrinks, taxes rise, and the job market becomes drastically reduced, whatever life brings us, we will sit together, connect heart to heart, and find mutual solutions for the reality that surfaces.
With such an integral approach, which leaves no one outside the picture, we will discover that today’s hardships are actually birth contractions. A new interconnected and interdependent world is at the doorstep, and it can be simply wonderful if we learn how to adapt our attitudes, relations, and connections to it.
Based on “New Life” episode 53 with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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