Kabbalah: Understanding and resolution of the Global Crisis

Today, a casual conversation on the train, or perhaps a colleague or an acquaintance, tends to express our concern about the world in crisis. Our dialogue can begin with a discussion of the cost of transportation, the price of lunch, or lack of better jobs, but inevitably leads to concerns over: artificial preservatives, illnesses and diseases, a declining economy, natural disasters, and war global. Too often we end our conversation with words like "What is this world coming?

The Kabbalists tell us that every crisis we are living in this world have a single objective: to make us see that we are out of balance with the general force of nature, and that we must restore our balance with it. In fact, everything else in nature exists in perfect harmony, following the principle of love and reciprocity, and the only thing that creates the imbalance in our world is the human ego.

But the Kabbalah also explains that the ego is our innate attribute we can not just eradicate it, no matter how hard we try or how to do it. Therefore, to create that vital balance with nature, we must correct the only way we use this ego. This means developing a different intention in everything we do: an intention of love and bestowal, allowing us to create that balance with the overall strength-completely inclusive, of Nature.

Certainly, there have been a better time than ours to develop this intention and correcting our use of selfishness. In The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard presents alarming statistics on our levels of consumption in the United States, and the effect that these levels have on our lives. For example, only the U.S., which constitutes 5% of the global population, has used a third of the world's natural resources over the past thirty years, according to environmental groups. Moreover, being that 51% of the world's largest economies are composed of corporations, we are producing and promoting consumption as the highest value of human identity across the globe. But the question is: Does the world is becoming a happier, peaceful and safe?

The truth is no, and Kabbalah explains that the only reason we are not happier, is our human selfishness, which is the polar opposite of law "provision? governing reciprocal in nature. Therefore, to promote our intentions and selfish aims, only deepen the global crisis, thus prolonging our suffering.

Our experience shows that even when we develop methods to resolve the crisis, they turn out to be useless and the problems only get worse. This is because eventually we must understand that we can not make a positive change while we are under our present nature: human selfishness uncorrected.

No doubt we are coming to understand that our world is in crisis. But only when we are willing to adhere to the law granting of Nature, we can really begin to resolve the crisis. To do this, it is essential to our nature to learn how to use properly, and that is that Kabbalah is concerned.