We do not realize that our entire worldview passes through the prism of human society. The difference between the animate level and our, human level lies precisely in the fact that we build an environment.
We used to live in herds, just like
animals. But then we started organizing special relationships among us,
arranging people according to a hierarchy, and distributing functions.
Our development thereby took on a social character even though it still
unfolded egoistically, naturally, instinctively, by nature’s command. Yet we were becoming human.
We cannot even imagine what it would be
like to live completely alone, without any memories of human society. In
this situation a person would live by himself, on the level of an
animal.
From this it is clear that we do not perceive reality the way it is, but through the environment. Society has raised
me, endowed me with habits and models dictating how to look at what is
happening, how to evaluate things, and how to accept everything that I
see. My mind
and feelings are programmed according to the value system that society
has conditioned me to have over the course of the first 20 years of my
life. I do not see the world the way it is, but the picture imposed on
me by society.
Likewise, in the spiritual society we have to give a person our view of the world, funneled through the prism of love, the aspiration to bestow to others instead of personal benefit. Bestowal has to acquire the greatest importance in every person’s eyes.
At the same time a person’s worldview will
still be built on the program “installed” in him by society. This is
natural because it is the only way he can look at the world. A person by
himself is just “an observation point,” whereas the analysis and
understanding come from the norms of society, which tells him: This is
important and this is not, this means one thing and that means something
different. It’s as if we build a matrix in front of a person through
which he sees the upper Light. Otherwise it would be impossible to see it.
On the other hand, right now we observe the upper Light through the matrix of human society. This is our world.
Thus, we have to become maximally included in the group, using the materials of Baal HaSulam and Rabash.
That is how we build a new vision of the world inside of us. This is
seen very clearly when looking at beginners. They come to the lesson or
lecture as if they were coming from another world, but gradually they
adopt a slightly different direction, a different perspective, and
different values. Gradually we come closer to them and they change their
point of view, the “polarization” of their picture of perception. In
the same world, a different form of being comes through before them.
Then the lecture ends, the connection with
me becomes severed, and everything disappears. Next time they return
defocused again, with a distorted “resolution.” At every lecture it takes time to focus them anew, to bring the details that diffuse in their eyes back into one.
I am unable to do this all of the time. You
have to focus on your own by uniting so that every mutual action will
constantly keep you in the spiritual focus. It has to become focused a
bit more and then a bit more, as if you are adjusting the resolution on
binoculars by turning two lenses so they would come together on the
spiritual goal. When you achieve this, you will immediately reveal the spiritual world.
Everything is determined by the love between friends. This is the “focus” that enables us to see the Creator.
The friends bring together my feelings and mind in one direction,
toward love for the neighbor, and then demand that I look only at them
and that I think only about how to help them. I constantly concentrate
on this and by means of the group I focus my attention into the thinnest
line. That is how I reveal the Creator.
From the 5th lesson at the WE! Convention 4/1/11, Purpose of the Group
From the 5th lesson at the WE! Convention 4/1/11, Purpose of the Group
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