{"id":16180,"date":"2026-01-22T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=16180"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:54:12","slug":"we-are-evolved-animals-the-psychology-of-the-integral-society","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/we-are-evolved-animals-the-psychology-of-the-integral-society\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Evolved Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2013 How can a soccer match be built so there is a feeling of unity afterwards?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Friendship is seriously missing in today\u2019s sports. Many people talk about friendship, but competition is an expression of egoism. I am egoistically trying to achieve the maximum result, but by the rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If only we would see the inner, moral, and spiritual tension of a person who wishes to compete in order to attain a connection with others! I can reach this state by competing with you at throwing a javelin, for example. It is precisely competition in this world that gives a person the kind of connection with other people, that allows him to rise above to create a place of mutual unification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 The result is mutual?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 It\u2019s mutual in every way! It affects the entire system of human relations. On the inside we will remain individualists and egoists who hate each other, and this feeling will be expressed in us more and more strongly, but above it we will have to discern our common superstructure of love. When these two levels become expressed in their full might, they will give us the sensation of the entire depth of the eternal, perfect nature, making us equal to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you imagine how these great achievements will change man? On the one hand, there is hatred, repulsion, and separation from others; and in sports the aspiration is to win no matter what. On the other hand, there is love, at the same time, total dependence and friendship, as if you are competing with your beloved child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You would happily lose to him on purpose. But here you don\u2019t do that. Here you have to act on both of these levels without pretending; you have to do it for real. As a psychologist, can you imagine such discernments?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 No, it\u2019s pretty hard for me to imagine it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 What a psychologically complex concept! One has to come out of oneself, this is what has to happen in a person. That is how he will enter the next level, ascend into a different system, a different dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three levels in Nature: still, vegetative, and animate. We are evolved animals. But when we unite on this level and begin to rise above ourselves, we enter the \u201chuman\u201d level, which we didn\u2019t know before. This is the level of common harmony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 The enormous potential of this action is clear. I just don\u2019t understand how this unification is supposed to happen. How can we do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Through gradual upbringing. There is no other way. This is the challenge that Nature has placed before us. This is exactly why we are entering the inclusive crisis today. It has to teach us how to rise above ourselves while maintaining today\u2019s level in everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything that is currently done on earth will remain. We don\u2019t have to break anything. Of course, we will eliminate the harmful production. But our task is to raise ourselves above this world, above the physical actions through self-education, self-attainment, and the right upbringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 One of the definitions of love is to receive pleasure from whatever gives the other person pleasure\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 In spite of my hatred for him! This hatred is not eliminated. Otherwise the tension would be removed from the love and you would have to quarrel to feel the love more intensely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 In this team of 22 players, during the break after 10 minutes of playing I have to think about how much pleasure my friend from the other team experienced?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Not only that. You have to aspire to unite on the level of opposite physical actions and goals, as well as on the level of the inner actions and the goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 In thought?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Yes, in thought. 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