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What Is The Right Age To Start Studying Acting?
Dr. Anatoly Ulianov: When a person creates a certain new facet within himself, he discovers how multi-faceted he is. How many facets can there be in a person? And at what age can this be taught to a child?
Dr. Michael Laitman: This cannot be taught to very young children because the “herd feeling” is not expressed in them before the age of 3. Until age 3 their little individuality does not imagine that there is someone else outside of them, with other needs. At that age a child does not communicate and is aimed only at reception.
But between the ages of 3-6, children develop the rudimentary understanding of bestowal and interaction. Between ages 6-9, this understanding is strengthened and remains that way for the rest of their lives. During this delicate age, Nature offers us a unique opportunity to instill in a child the right attitude toward the environment.
Dr. Ulianov: Is it possible to teach this to a child through acting?
Dr. Laitman: This is what we are trying to do. We understand that this act has to be two-sided. And I want children to be taught the skill of acting in the framework of our educational association.
We have to show a child that it is possible to come out of himself and ascend above his own qualities. At first, children can tune out of their problems and worries in this way. And later we teach them a different role. A child is like an actor with his or her own inner world: First he learns the role that he has to play, and then he starts playing it. Why? A person creates his own inner image of the other person and studies how to interact with it correctly, learning to enter the reality of the other person.
To this end it is good to teach children the art of acting professionally. In our studies children are already playing these roles, trying to enter the characters of their friends. That way they start to understand each other better and become part of something common. The shared character of the whole group starts to live in every one of them.
Dr. Ulianov: Is it best for a child to act out the character of one of their friends specifically, or is it also possible to work with other images that are more removed from them?
Dr. Laitman: It’s necessary to work on all of the phenomena in the children’s field of vision.
The above points were taken from the book The Psychology of the Integral Society by Dr. Michael Laitman and Dr. Anatoly Ulianov. Also available as eBook (PDF, Kindle & ePub formats).
Collective Games With Egoism
Dr. Michael Laitman: Everything in the work of an actor is aimed at giving a person the ability to become included in others, to transcend his egoism. I play with my egoism in a way that I come out of it and enter an altruistic role, becoming it. In this role I feel other people, what they are truly like. I learn to connect with them. And all of this becomes possible thanks to me rising above myself.
One has to learn to play the roles of everyone, and then, as it is written, “Habit will become second nature.” Gradually, we will see how beneficial this is and will desire to be in this state, in the right communication.
Dr. Anatoly Ulianov: This exit from oneself is very clear to me. When it happens, the sensation is astounding. But what do you mean by “the right communication”?
Dr. Laitman: We have to discover our absolute connection. The laws of commutation in an integral system are very simple. Each of us has his own nature. And he has to create such a field of understanding around him that through it he will be able to connect with others. We all have to do it. To the extent that every person creates this shell around him, finding the widest contact with the people around him, he will become corrected and will operate properly.
The efficiency of every element in society is achieved when a person keeps only his basic, initial, fundamental quality, his “I.”
This initial quality we have is very small. All the other qualities in a person must be aimed only at enabling this “I” to connect with everyone else and work for the sake of others’ desires and qualities, for the purpose of building a connection with them. It’s like a mother goose that is surrounded by 15 goslings. She thinks and cares for each of them. The little geese walk in front of their mom, and she treads behind them. Each of them is in her field of vision, and she makes contact with all of them.
That is how a person should position himself in relation to the environment, understanding every person’s desires, aspirations, thoughts, and worries. He should help all of these people make their dreams come true. Like any well working mechanism, we can only operate when all of the parts are in total agreement.
The above points were taken from the book The Psychology of the Integral Society by Dr. Michael Laitman and Dr. Anatoly Ulianov. Also available as eBook (PDF, Kindle & ePub formats).
Learn Everything There Is To Know About Life – New Kabbalah Course
This coming week begins the new semester of the Free Kabbalah Course, an introductory course to the wisdom of Kabbalah!
Together with the whole new Sunday lessons curriculum, You & Society, the popular Kabbalah Fundamentals classes, which will give you the fundamental principles and basic concepts of the wisdom of Kabbalah, will take place live every Wednesday night.
The first introductory class will be held on Wednesday, April 4, and there will be 2 classes per week (every Wednesday and Sunday) over a 12 week period. All classes will be available for download, and the entire course with its accompanying materials is available free of charge.
Below is a sneak preview of what you will learn in the Kabbalah Fundamentals classes…
1. Introduction To Kabbalah
- What is (and is not) Kabbalah?
- What is Kabbalah’s purpose?
- Who is Kabbalah for?
- Why is Kabbalah growing in popularity?
2. Where Did You Come From? Where Are You Now? Where Are You Headed?
- The ultimate contradiction about having a Creator: If there is a Creator that’s all good and loving, then why is there so much suffering?
- The four methods humanity has used to deal with this contradiction.
- Kabbalah’s approach to this contradiction, explained in 3 states: 1) Where did you come from? 2) Where are you now? 3) Where are you headed?
- How to get from where you are now to where you are headed optimally, i.e. with understanding, enjoyment and consciousness, and without pain.
3. Who Are You? What Is Reality?
- How do you perceive reality?
- How do you know if what you perceive is real?
- What is at the source of your perception?
- What can you change your perception into, and how?
4. Where Do Your Thoughts & Desires Come From? How Can You Use Them Optimally?
- The Kabbalistic allegory about the host and the guest and how it relates to you.
- Three approaches to your thoughts & desires: 1) Unconsciously being under their control, 2) Suppressing them, 3) Rising above them.
- How can you make a change? By actions or by intentions?
5. What Is Time, Space & Motion?
- Why do you feel sometimes like time flies, and sometimes things take a long time?
- Where does your perception of space, distance and separation between yourself and others come from?
- Just because you move from place to place, is it really considered that you’re moving, or are you just staying still the whole time?
- How can you speed up time, discover a whole new space, and really start moving?
6. How To Make World Peace A Reality
- Humanity’s globalization and today’s global crisis explained by Kabbalah.
- How to use nature’s examples to model a perfect existence for humanity.
- Why have all attempts toward a peaceful existence among humanity failed? What was the missing element in all those attempts?
- How does Kabbalah provide what was missing in all past attempts to make a peaceful existence for humanity?
7. Do You Have Free Will? – Part 1
- Why do you want freedom in the first place, freedom from what?
- What is the formula that motivates every action you make, and every thought you think?
- How does society influence the choices you make?
- The four factors that determine everything happening to you, and everything in nature.
8. Do You Have Free Will? – Part 2
- What are the prerequisites for free will?
- How is the environment a factor in realizing free will?
- What do you need in your environment to realize free will?
- What is the effort that is key to realizing free will?
9. How To Discover The One Force Acting On You
- What is the one force constantly acting on you?
- Why is this force hidden from you?
- How can you attain perception and sensation of this force?
- Why is attaining this force beneficial to you and everything around you?
10. Creation & Evolution Explained: From Before The Big Bang To The Future, Final State Of Existence
- What happened before the Big Bang?
- What formula bases nature’s and humanity’s creation and evolution?
- What are the stages of nature’s and humanity’s evolution, according to this formula?
- Where is humanity headed from today onward, according to this formula?