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The Secret Solution to Every Problem in Your Life

Who Else Knows HowWidespread the Current

Crisis Is?

The world is feeling the effects of aseemingly unsolvable global crisis,affecting all levels of human activity.Since 2008 tens of millions of peoplethroughout the world have lost their jobs,their savings, their homes, but mostimportantly—their hopes for the future.

Our health, it seems, is not morewholesome than our wealth. Modernmedicine, the pride and joy of Westerncivilization, is grappling with resurfacingdiseases previously believed to beextinct. According to a report publishedby the Global Health Council,

“Diseases once believed to be under control have re-emerged as major global threats. The emergence of drug-resistant strains of bacteria, viruses and other parasites poses new challenges in controlling infectious diseases. Co-infection with multiple diseases creates obstacles to preventing and treating infections.”

Earth, too, is not as hospitable as before. Books such as James Lovelock’s The Revenge of Gaia, Ervin Laszlo’s TheChaos Point, and films such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth are just three examples of a cavalcade of alarmingreports on Earth’s deteriorating climate.

As global warming melts the ice caps in the poles, sea levels rise. This has already caused dramatic shifts and tragicevents. A report by Stephan Faris in Scientific American lists some of the places already affected by climate change.

In March, 2009, Peter Popham, a writer for The Independent, provided another angle to the climate predicament:“Global warming is dissolving the Alpine glaciers so rapidly that Italy and Switzerland have decided they must re-drawtheir national borders to take account of the new realities.”

A more tragic result of climate change is hunger, caused by extended droughts in some areas and constant flooding inothers. According to the World Food Program, nearly a billion (1,000,000,000) people worldwide are constantlyhungry. Worse yet, in excess of nine million (9,000,000) people die every year from hunger and related causes, morethan half of whom are children. This means that today, in the most technologically advanced era in the history ofhumankind, a child dies every six seconds due to lack of food and water.

In our homes, problems abound, as well. The New York Times announced that according to a census released by theAmerican Community Survey, divorce rates have risen to the point that today there are more unmarried couples inAmerica than married ones. It is the first time in history that single-parent families are the norm, and double-parentones are the exception.

Many scientists, politicians, NGOs, and UN related organizations warn that humanity is facing a risk of unprecedented

catastrophes on a global scale. Anything from mutated avian flu through nuclear war, to a massive earthquake couldwipe out millions and drive billions into destitution.

What Everybody Ought to Know about Interdependence

Yet, crises have been occurring throughout history. Our era is not the first in which humanity has been at risk. TheBlack Death pandemic of the 14th century and the two World Wars easily outweigh the peril that our current plightpresents. Nevertheless, what distinguishes the current crisis from those previous is the tension characterizing thecurrent state of humanity. Our society has gone to the extreme in two directions that seem to conflict with one another—globalization and the interdependence it entails on the one hand, and increasing alienation and personal, social,and political narcissism on the other. And that is a recipe for a disaster such as the world has never seen, whether inthe financial sector or beyond.

Today, globalization concerns far more than financial interdependence. We have become globally interconnected inevery realm of life: the computers and TVs we use to entertain ourselves come (primarily but not exclusively) fromChina, Taiwan, and Korea. The cars we drive are assembled (again, primarily) in Japan, Europe, and the U.S., buttheir parts are made in numerous other countries. The clothes we wear often arrive from India and China, while thefood in our refrigerators comes from all over the world.

On March 8, 2009, Wachovia Corp. economist, Mark Vitner, gave a rather palpable description of the world’sglobalized situation when he described the interconnectedness of the credit markets on MSNBC: “It’s like trying tounscramble scrambled eggs. It just can’t be done that easily. I don’t know if it can be done at all.”

But the problem with globalization is not only that it makes us interconnected; it also makes us interdependent, andinstead of using these interconnections to thrive, we become engaged in a constant tug of war. What would happen tothe oil-rich countries if the world suddenly shifted to wind and solar energy? What would happen to America if Chinastopped buying dollars? What would happen to China, Japan, India, and Korea if Americans had no dollars with whichto buy Asian-produced goods? And if Western tourists ceased to travel, what would become of the hundreds ofmillions of people all over the world who provide for their families, thanks to Westerners’ hedonism?

Learn about Egoism Like a Psychologist

Yet, interdependence is only a part of today’s complicated picture. While we have been growing increasingly global,we have also become increasingly self-centered, or as psychologists Jean M. Twenge and Keith Campbell describe it,“increasingly narcissistic.” In their insightful book, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement , Twengeand Campbell talk about what they refer to as “The relentless rise of narcissism in our culture,” and the problems itcauses. They explain that “The United States is currently suffering from an epidemic of narcissism. …narcissisticpersonality traits rose just as fast as obesity.” Worse yet, they continue, “The rise in narcissism is accelerating, withscores rising faster in the 2000s than in previous decades. By 2006, 1 out of 4 college students agreed with themajority of the items on a standard measure of narcissistic traits. Today, as singer Little Jackie put it, many people feelthat ‘Yes siree, the whole world should revolve around me.’” In Webster’s Dictionary, narcissism is defined as“egoism,” and this, blatantly speaking, means that we have become unbearably selfish.

Thus, our problem is twofold: on the one hand, we are interdependent; on the other hand, we are becomingincreasingly narcissistic and alienated. We are trying to lead two ways of life that simply do not meet: interdependenceand alienation. Perhaps this is why we spend countless hours chatting with “virtual friends” in online social networks,but are often cold and heartless toward our kin at home. If we were simply interdependent, we would unite, supporteach other, and be happy. Alternatively, if we were simply selfish, we would part and live by ourselves. But if we are

both interdependent and selfish, neither way works!

And this, in essence, is the root of the crisis: our interdependence requires us to work together, but our selfishnesscauses us to deceive and to exploit one another. As a result, the systems of cooperation that we work so hard to buildbreak down, leading to continuing crises.

Here Is a Method that Is Helping People Solve Every Problem in Their Lives

Hence, the task facing humanity is twofold:

1) to shed light on the cause of our interdependence, on one hand, and our self-centeredness, on the other hand; and

2) to briefly outline a feasible modus operandi for combining these seemingly conflicting traits to our advantage.

To address the first goal, we will look into what the science of Kabbalah teaches about the structure of Nature, andparticularly, of human nature. To address the second goal, we will combine the ideas of the great 20th centuryKabbalist, Yehuda Ashlag, as well as other great Kabbalists, with suggestions from contemporary scientists andscholars from other disciplines.

The wisdom of Kabbalah offers a viable solution to the current global problems, and through the concepts thatKabbalah offers we can save ourselves, as well as the Big Blue Marble that we live in.

“The Secret Solution to Every Problem in Your Life” is based on the book, SelfInterest vs. Altruism in the Global Era: How Society Can Turn Self Interests into MutualBenefit by Dr. Michael Laitman.

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