Tag: social change
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Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) & Future Value Exchanges – EVONOMICS = Evolution + Economics
EVONOMICS Fungibility implies equal value between the asset. Fungibility is the ability of a good or asset to be readily interchanged for another of like kind. Non-fungible (NFTs) can be traded and exchanged for money, cryptocurrencies, or other NFTs—it all depends on the value the market and owners have placed on them. NFTs can represent […]
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A Society We should Prefer – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
KABBALISTIC INSIGHTS OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Every creative act in the world comes from the quality of bestowal upon one’s fellow person. Thus, we should restrict and reject thoughts that are for the self alone, and we ought to fill our minds only with thoughts of bestowal upon our fellow person. The Creator, or “Nature,” […]
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Peace-Building with a Whole Systems Approach for the End of Structural Violence – Sociology
If we are to teach peace, justice, and ecological sustainability, we not only need to teach it, but we must also enable others to hold such values and create them within themselves. A free and civil society is ‘civil’ precisely because of being non-violent and in that sense civilized and thus typified by peace, safety, […]
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Transformation and Transcendence for Wisdom: The Emergence and Sustainment of Wise Leaders and Organizations
Transformation is a possibility in the mind of every social revolutionary and the awakening of consciousness that gives meaning to life for many people. -McWhinney and Markos 2003: 22 Learning, change, and evolution have never been more needed than they are today. The problems confronting organizations, communities, and the planet are severe, complex, and have […]
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The Destiny of Humanity – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
The purpose of man on earth is to attain the next, supra-egoistic level of his existence. We see that egoism has led us to a dead end. How do you reach a new level? This is taught by the wisdom of Kabbalah, which says that we must rise above all beliefs, religions, and customs. But […]
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Integrality Moving Towards the Mutual Guarantee – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
A TRUE AND LASTING ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT DEPENDS ON CHANGING HUMAN RELATIONS —–There is interdependence among us in the global-integral world into which humanity has evolved. This is why the egoistic connections among us have stopped functioning. That gap between our egoism and our interconnectedness is the reason for the crisis. —–The laws of the global-integral […]
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Why is unity important to us and What is human development?
WHY IS UNITY IMPORTANT TO US? Unity is important because nature wants us to unite. By uniting, we enter into balance with nature and awaken a positive force dwelling in nature to surface among us. We then feel positive phenomena fill our lives: happiness, confidence, peace, and harmony. On the contrary, by making no motion […]
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Achieving Social Change by Bringing Peoples Together in a New and Wondrous Unity
Social movements by nature need people. Social movements also need people who will take on roles in spreading the message and sharing the issue’s purpose so others can also participate. As people engage their own close ties, we must recognize that for a movement to truly build and gain the attention of the public, we […]
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Reciprocal Altruism in a More Cooperative Economic Strategy
Reciprocal Altruism in a More Cooperative Economic Strategy In scholarly research material concerning the efficacy of economic and organizational strategies, it has been explained that learned behaviors may become more stable but may also remain flexible enough to change. This would especially be so, if environmental features are modified and teams then used “learned reinforcement […]
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The World Kabbalah Movement – Mutual Guarantee – The Force of Connection
If we constantly check ourselves for compliance with this law of mutual guarantee, we will not be mistaken and will advance to the goal of creation in the shortest possible way.
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Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom – The Influence of the Enironment on Man
Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom The Influence of the Environment on Man “All [of man’s] merit and spirit depends on the choice of the environment.”-Rav Ashlag, “The Freedom” “Only in the matter of the choice of environment is man’s reign over himself measured, and for this, he should receive either reward or punishment.”-Rav Ashlag, “The […]
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A Technodictatorship Rule Requires Consent of the Governed
The institutions of power in a democracy cannot rule without the consent of the governed, but those same institutions also often control the mechanisms by which the governed are “educated” (school, media, church, etc.). Through this framework, those who are in power (both the individuals and the groups) are able to create a sense of […]
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Rabbi Elijah on the Final War – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
Over two centuries ago, the great Kabbalist known as the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah, AKA the Genius of Vilna, Lithuania) said the final war on earth will last 12 minutes. That’s right, the famous Armageddon War, according to this 18th century Kabbalist will endure for a mere 12 minutes. He said: “A third of the […]
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Sociocultural Evolution in the Individual and Collective Agency
Sociocultural Evolution in the Individual and Collective Agency To understand sociocultural evolution, it seems necessary to consider the effects of psychological agents on their societies. And if such effects can push societies beyond prevailing sociocultural practices, means, and shared understandings, it must be the case that psychological reality, reflected in individual psychological agency, is not […]
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Create a World that Works for All
CREATE A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR ALL Our present world is one that seems to be working well for only a few. Income inequality and varying quality of life indexes is just about one of the only things that we all share. However, by shifting our consciousness, then our culture and institutions, we can create […]
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5 actions we need to continue to take – How to fight totalitarianism
5 actions we need to continue to take – How to fight totalitarianism: 1) Model freedom from groupthinkLive in a way that provides inspiration for others to follow:“The one who can emancipate himself from the grip of collective psychosis and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming […]
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Writ of Disconnection from Commercial Agency
It is written, “Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know yee not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoeuer, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.” -James 4:4 {1611 KJV Bible} It is also written, “And bee not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by […]
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Conditions for Free Choice – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
CONDITIONS FOR FREE CHOICE Ironically, true freedom of choice is possible only if the Creator is concealed. This is because if one option seems preferable, our egoism leaves us no choice but to go for it. In that case, even if we choose to give, it will be giving in order to receive, or egoistic […]
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Select excerpts from “The Freedom” by Rav Yehuda Ashlag
Full text of “The Freedom” is available inside the library @ kabbalah.info/ FOR SOCIAL LIFE, THE LAW, “TAKE AFTER THE COLLECTIVE” Now we have come to a clear understanding of the sentence concerning the freedom of the individual. Indeed, there is a question: “Where did the collective take the right to expropriate the freedom of […]
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Come Unity in a Worldwide Social Change Movement
Social movements by nature need people. Social movements also need people who will take on roles in spreading the message and sharing the issue’s purpose so others can also participate. As people engage their own close ties, we must recognize that for a movement to truly build and gain the attention of the public, we […]
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Occupational Reconstructions: Resources for Social Transformation in Challenging Times
“Occupational Reconstructions: Resources for Social Transformation in Challenging Times“-Frank, G., & Santos, V. (2020) We are living in challenging times. Whether in the Global South or Global North, an alarming sweep of nationalism, populism, authoritarianism and racism threatens the health, well being, rights and freedom of millions. The report Democracy in Retreat: Freedom in the […]
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Cyberactivism: Online Social Change Moves into the Mainstream
CYERACTIVISM: ONLINE SOCIAL CHANGE MOVES INTO THE MAINSTREAM Cyberactivism has become a cyberspace-based movement that strives to secure citizens’ interest by overcoming restrictions imposed on the transmission of information. Activism, itself, is a fixture of contemporary politics, both democratic and otherwise. At its core is the drive to enact or prevent political, cultural, and/or social […]
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Let There Be a Consensus – Utopian Ideals or dystopian chaos?
So, a distinction needs to be made between the dystopian and the Apocalyptic because these categories refer to different and even opposed futuristic scenarios. The end of the world or Apocalypse typically brings about the collapse of order; dystopia, on the other hand, envisions a sinister perfection of order. In the most basic political terms, dystopia is a nightmare of […]
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Peace Education – A Worldwide Social Change Movement
According to Mahatma Gandhi, there is no way to peace. Peace is the way. Peace education is defined as the pedagogical efforts to create a better world by teaching love, non-violence, compassion, and reverence for all life. Peace education is a holistic, participatory process that includes teaching for and about human rights, non-violent responses to […]
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Balance, Cooperation, Complete Repair, and Mutual Guarantee – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
Opening 69 of ‘138 Openings of Wisdom‘by Moshe Chaim Luzzatto “BALANCE. COOPERATION BETWEEN ALL THE LIGHTS BRINGS THE COMPLETE REPAIR.“ “The foundation of the repair lies in a balance such that all the lights must carry out their repairs taking each other into account, with just so many kinds of openness and so many kinds of […]
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NOW ACTIVATING: The Divine Plan for New Earth
PUBLIC Divine Plan for New Earth In the beginning, there was no physical monetary system, We the People were the Money.The time has come for Humanity to establish what is rightfully ours. This plan transitions Humanityfrom Debt to Comfort and beyond with unlimited Abundance. This plan is an outline for the new reality that of […]