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Broadly speaking, communication is life’s essence. The world began with a certain particle of energy that generated two opposing particles, and from then on all evolution has taken place through connection, various forms of connection, and degrees of opposition and distance between the connected elements. However, all of that is communication.
In the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels, as the intensity of opposites increases, so does the strength of connection required for life to develop, and a new mode of connection gives rise to the next form of life.
One year after the next, we discover just how interconnected all parts of nature are, how high the level of integration is among all its elements. On Earth, for example, the oceans, atmosphere, heat in the planet, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and winds comprise a single ecological system that strives for balance between opposites. Balance requires opposing forces, but ones that are connected. This balance expresses itself in the creation of more and more forms of connection, within increasingly complex systems.
The foundation of all communication is that a given element feels a need to fulfill itself and goes beyond its own boundaries to seek fulfillment. Every connection it forms is based on the calculation: “What’s in it for me?” This is true at the level of atoms and galaxies, as well as in human relationships. Romantic relationships, family ties, and business connections are all formed according to the same calculation: “Is it worthwhile for me?”
However, today we approach a state where this communication program no longer works at the level of human awareness and perception.
We are increasingly discovering that we have no control over what is happening. All forms of human connection we have built throughout history are on the verge of a collapse. These include commerce, industry, economy, finance, international relations, our relationship with the environment, as well as education, culture, and media, and even the basic unit of existence, the family.
It is not that people are not trying to communicate, but somehow it just no longer works. For example, couples decide to marry, and within a short period of time they discover that there is no hope. At work, in society, within countries, and globally, agreements do not hold, and alliances do not last. The ability to commit to others has become increasingly difficult, and this makes it difficult to plan for the future and places us in a dangerous situation.
At this juncture, evolution compels us to move forward and to seek a new system of connection that is fundamentally different in nature. What kind of system of connection can this be? Not a one-sided connection, as it has been until now, in the format of “let’s see how I can be fulfilled by you, and what I need to give in return,” but a communication that is fundamentally two-way and complementary.
What does that mean? I stop seeing the other as opposite to me. Instead, I take into account their desires and needs alongside my own, and examine how we can exist in a complementary connection.
Communication at this level requires incorporating the other within ourselves, to accept them as they are, without any interference from our ego, as if we ourselves do not exist. Another way to view this is that we step out of ourselves, move into living in the other, and act from within them, through their qualities. Yet another way to describe it is that we connect to such an extent that no difference remains between us.
This represents a progression to a different level of values. Each person no longer exists for themselves, but we exist for life itself, for the communication between us. We stop thinking about what we feel and want, and begin to think about the formation of a new level of life, as if we are partners who together give birth to a third entity.
The common entity we create is a new form of life, in which we feel the single force of nature, the same force that originally created two opposing forces. This is how we complete the full circle, and through complete communication between us, we consciously return to the starting point from which everything was created.
In this developmental process, the concepts of time, motion, and space disappear, as do the notions of “us” and “someone outside of us.” All distinctions of our current, earthly perception of reality fade away, and we advance to a world of information, emotion, mind and heart in a pure form, without physical matter. This is also called the world of thoughts and desires. It is the next evolutionary stage that humanity must reach, and today’s myriad technological developments are merely a preparation for that.
Therefore, we should not despair when we see a communication breakdown today. It points to the need for us to rise to an optimal, complementary form of communication. I wish us all success on this path.
Based on “New Life 126 – The Essence of Communication, Part 1” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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