Laszlo & Laitman on Critical Mass

Prof. Ervin Laszlo talks with Rav Michael Laitman, PhD about the need for a critical mass of people to affect positive global change.

VIDEO: Critical Mass !!! (5:13)

Rav Michael Laitman asks Prof. Ervin Laszlo's opinion on the following question: "Does it seem to you that awareness is really awakening in people and they are beginning to be aware of the catastrophe we are facing? Do they realize that we need to transform human nature? Or do they think that it is enough to repair the flaws we cause nature through technology?"

Laszlo continues to state that he isn't sure that people understand the depth of change that is required.

After further questioning, Laszlo continues to state that a critical mass of people who are working at changing thought is what will initially spark a global change.

Laszlo and Laitman continue by discussing education; that a new system of education is needed to be introduced to humanity to guide its progress to a more evolved level of awareness. Here is a transcript from the last part of this video, on education:

Rav Laitman: As far as I understand, we have to create a worldwide educational channel, and try to reach every single person so as to guide this step-by-step, gradual and phased progress. Actually, we need to present a new education to humanity. In your opinion, isn’t this basically the essence of our influence over the world that would bring it to correction? Isn’t this raising of awareness dependent upon explanation and education?

Prof. Ervin Laszlo: Yes, absolutely; education and information. Education should be based on relevant information, but very often it is not. The problems that we are facing—individual and above all, collectively—are not part of the standard curriculum in schools. They should be there already in grade schools, in high-schools; they are not even there in universities. We are now trying to create another university, an alternative university, called "The World University," where these kind of problems and solutions will be discussed. Education is the safest way, but it is also the slowest; it is relatively slow because it takes years for people to go through the system.

Information and informal education or adult education, if you like, is a much faster way. So I think here, using the internet, using all the modern telecommunication technologies to talk to people, to discuss it with them and to help them—not so much to educate them, but enter into a dialogue with them—so that we can learn from each other. We can enter, insert that elemental wisdom that you are inserting through the Kabbalah, and that I am trying to insert using the wisdom from the sciences. I think we have to insert that element and then begin a dialogue. And the dialogue will develop, will spread, because the ground is ripe; the times are mature. We know that change has to occur and therefore we must start the process.