From Chaos to Harmony

Posted by Mark Zimmerman Feb 8, 2007

This new book by Michael Laitman From Chaos to Harmony: The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah states the cause of all problems in our world as rooted in the incorrect use of human nature - egoism - which has grown throughout history to its overblown state in our era.

Laitman goes onto discuss that altruism is nature's law, and all levels of nature other than the human level - i.e. still, vegetative and animate - function altruistically. Laitman gives many examples from the latest scientific research into altruism in nature to support this claim.

Then he goes onto state how the solution to the world's problems is for humans to reach an altruistic level of relations with each other, and that this can only be achieved through altruistic education. "Education" is defined as leading by example.

The question is, how can we co-create an altruistic level of interrelations to serve as an example for our future generations?

The method of doing this, states Laitman, is by creating a society that places all its honor and respect on a person's contribution to society. In other words, only altruistic actions aimed at uniting humanity into one altruistically-functioning body will be honored, and all egoistic goals will be treated indifferently.

While this may seem completely impossible from the standpoint of where we place honor and respect in our current egoistic framework of relations, the more we promote that the cause of all problems is egoism, that all nature outside of our egoistic design functions altruistically and that altruism is nature's law, then the more we will come to realize that only by working to obey this law will there be a solution to the problems in the world.

In other words, we have to change our attitude to the world to an altruistic one, and in order to do so, we need to build our environment around us in such a way that it promotes altruism as something great and worthwhile for us to want to aspire to it. In the future, let us hope that we will go to perform altruistic acts in the same way as we go to buy a Coca-Cola today.

The book is available for free as a PDF at this link: http://www.kabbalahmedia.info/mekorot/eng_o_ml-sefer-from-chaos-to-harmony.pdf

The book is also available for US$4.95 at this link:

http://www.kabbalahbooks.info/product_info.php?products_id=198