We are understanding our common human oneness more and more at the same time as we are feeling it less and less. Why? What can we do about it?
This is the 1st of a 4-part article "All as One: A New Level of Confidence and Power"
What’s the connection between a Danish fisherman and an Indian princess, a Brazilian soccer player and a Canadian police officer, a South African business executive and a Portuguese singer, and a Welsh stockbroker and a Malaysian artist? Is there a connection between them?
The Human(ity) Body
Imagine for a moment that one person is a single cell in a human body. We cannot understand the body as a system when we look at just one cell. We cannot see how it works, what rules it follows, what systems of relationships are between the cells and the different organs.
Cells survive, exist, develop and actualize their inner programming only when they act together, unified in a common effort for the whole body. They can survive and sustain themselves only when they nullify themselves to each other and recognize the needs of other cells. This is what happens in every living body. Biologists write about it a lot these days. They describe it as “nature’s intelligence.”
Can we also look at humanity like this, as one body where human beings are cells and organs that interweave, act together, and mutually complement one another?
Natural intelligence, mutuality…it all sounds good, but when we look at ourselves, at humanity, something seems faulty, like we’re lacking something.
Why does nature look so harmonious and complete, especially in places where humans haven’t interfered? In nature, everything accepts its role, interweaving into one beautiful and whole picture while we, in our relationships, seem to be a long way from such perfection.
Crisis
Humanity is in crisis. Despite our scientific and technological achievements, we look like babies in the presence of nature’s catastrophes. We make futile attempts to achieve peace and a better state for ourselves and the world, and instead face nuclear threats, fight wars and slaughter each other.
Not only globally and ecologically, but also on a personal level, the human crisis expresses itself as a growing sensation of emptiness. The most popular disease in the world today is depression, and in order to escape feeling bad, we’re taking drugs (as extreme ones as we need to exit the reality without them)—and if that doesn’t work, we can always kill ourselves (as statistics show we are doing a lot more of today than ever before).
Sound harsh? Now, if someone has cancer, they will only see a doctor if there’s something about that cancer that’s making them recognize it—a bad feeling. And then, when they see the doctor, first of all, they want to know what’s wrong—“Doctor, why do I feel pain?” Only after they know what’s wrong can they start thinking about how to fix it. And as doctors say, the disease’s correct diagnosis is half the cure, while its denial and severity pose a direct threat to life.
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Part 2: What's Wrong? Discovering the Cause of the Crisis
Part 3: Opposition Between Me and Nature and Humanity's Common Ground
Part 4: The Emerging Need for Oneness and Purpose and the Wisdom of Kabbalah
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- Kabbalah.info - concepts discussed in this article are based on the fundamental principles of Kabbalah as taught at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute: www.kabbalah.info
