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We are at a turning point in our history because we have exhausted our egoistic paradigm and can no longer continue developing as we have until today.
What is the “egoistic paradigm”? It is that we developed according to the egoistic demands of our inborn nature, to receive for ourselves at the expense of others. Our egoistic desires have grown through stages of food, sex, family, money, honor, control and knowledge, and today we have satiated the fulfillments we can receive at those stages.
Since our egoistic demands cannot be fulfilled, we have entered a stage of crisis in egoistic human attitudes, behaviors and relations. We need to change human egoism, but how? It is by consciously becoming nature’s integral parts.
We are already parts of nature but we lack consciousness of such integrality. If we were conscious of our integrality with nature, we would then view ourselves as parts of an interconnected and interdependent whole with others and nature such that we would feel a mutual responsibility toward each other and the world. We would then cause no harm to each other. We would be filled with a whole new concern about how we could infuse others’ lives with goodness, happiness, confidence, support and encouragement.
One way or another, nature is evolving us to eventually recognize the fact that we are its integral parts, and to change ourselves to consciously integrate with each other and nature such that we discover the universe as an integral, closed, harmonious, peaceful and unified system. Doing so requires us rising above our egoism.
The wisdom of Kabbalah grants us access to a force that can elevate us above our egoism, transforming our egoistic attitudes to each other to altruistic ones, which will let us harmoniously connect into a single whole.
Those who feel egoism’s final stage today, i.e., those who feel that they can no longer find any significant lasting fulfillment by running after the satiation of food, sex, family, money, honor, control and knowledge, and who seek a higher “something else” that they still have yet to pinpoint—those are people who host the desire for spirituality. This is the desire that guides people eventually to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and to the readiness to undergo the aforementioned change: to rise above egoism and connect with others and nature in a new altruistic nature.
In addition to those who feel this seeker desire, which is called “the point in the heart” in Kabbalah, and which leads them to the study of Kabbalah and the inner work on themselves, there are also the people of Israel who will need to awaken sooner than the rest of humanity to the method of rising above human egoism. The people of Israel host the potential to connect through altruistic bonds due to their ancestry once having attained such elevation above the ego, discovering the positive altruistic force of nature in a common unification among each other.
While nature gradually evolves humanity to the shift from egoism to altruism, we who have been granted access to the wisdom that teaches about this change—how nature works on us and how we can respond to nature’s signals—have a chance to undergo this evolution faster, consciously and more delightfully than letting nature’s so-called “steamroller of evolution” plunge humanity into immense suffering in order for everyone to feel a need through great pain for the needed egoism-to-altruism change.
Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Everything Depends on Us” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on March 7, 2010. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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