Tag: society
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Cyberactivism: 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 changes by a range of means. Although nonelite…
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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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Correct Use of the Ego – Kabbalah and New Life Wisdom
CORRECT USE OF THE EGO“Kabbalah and Humanity“ @ www.kabbalah.info Throughout history, humanity has tried numerous ways to annul the ego or artificially reduce it in order to reach equality, love, and social justice. Revolutions and social changes have come and gone, but all have failed because balance can only be acquired by correctly combining the full power of…
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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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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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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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The 72 Names of God #14 – Farewell to Arms
AYIN-BET (The 72 Names of God) ~Reflections #14. MEM BET HEY – Guardian angel, Mebahel – Angel of Liberty // FAREWELL TO ARMS Solutions for peace are never political, philosophical, or militaristic. Violence, even when justified, is merely fighting darkness with more darkness. Solutions must be founded upon spiritual Light and the human soul. INSIGHT…
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“Glocalized” Utopia, Community-Building, and the Limits of Imagination
Introduction: Thinking Out a “Glocalized” Utopia Can communitarians still dream? This article examines what happens when intentional communities break from lingering associations with socialism in favor of supposedly more savvy or self-conscious forms of utopianism. In an effort to rehabilitate utopianism and reorient it away from defining it as static and subject to the paradox…
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Rav Ashlag – On World Peace
“THE CONDITION OF LIFE IN THE LAST GENERATION“|-Rav Yehuda Ashlag (1933) – “On World Peace“ First, everyone must thoroughly understand and explain to his surroundings that the well-being of society, which is the well-being of the state and the well-being of the world, are completely interdependent. As long as the laws of society are not…
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2020’s Pandemic and Beyond – A Lesson on Structural Violence
Structural violence is an anthropological term that refers to the often-hidden ways that structures of inequality, such as poverty, racism, and discrimination, negatively impact the lives and well-being of affected populations. It is perpetuated by institutions and social structures that prevent individuals or populations from meeting their basic needs. There may not be any person…
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Benefits of the Mutual Guarantee for Society
THE BENEFITS OF MUTUAL GUARANTEE The new world dictates that we adopt the approach of mutual guarantee. At first glance, mutual guarantee may seem like a naïve notion, impractical in real life. However, implementing the mutual guarantee approach has very real implications in society and in the economy. We will note here three of the…
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Heavenly Economics: The Freedom Society
Isaiah 55:1-2 Listen! Whoever is thirsty, come to the water! Whoever has no money can come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk. You don’t have to pay; it’s free! Why do you spend money on what cannot nourish you and your wages on what does not satisfy you? Listen carefully to me: “Eat…
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The Egalitarian Dimension of Human Rights – Equality
‘A remarkable feature of the robust and nuanced contemporary philosophical literature on egalitarianism is its lack of engagement with the theory and practice of human rights. This disconnect is puzzling because the modern human rights movement is arguably the most salient and powerful manifestation of a commitment to equality in our time. Perhaps philosophers writing…
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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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Where do we go from here?
What we perceive through our will, our memory, and our five senses is called “this world.” Because our will and our memory are only our own, we are as limited as individual cells. To feel the entire reality, the higher realm of information, we must connect to the desires of others—those who are seemingly outside…