The ramifications of the perception of unity and the ramifications of the perception of separation
By zevi770 · March 31, 2013
People perceive either a unified world or a separated world!
The unified perception, say the Jewish community (when people are brought up in a unified Jewish environment and perhaps even a nation such as America when people are brought up in a unified place in America, which cherishes individuality and finds abuse reprehensible) creates a friendship paradigm – where you are seen as my friend, hence I love you, hence you love me; and in this way the Chassidim of the Tzemach Tzeddek, app 1,000,000 who came to America in the early 1900s introduced this notion within secular Americans, for example, Bob Dylan and many others in the arts and culture, unbeknown to them, extended this friendship paradigm to millions if not hundreds of millions of gentiles!!!
On the other hand, people who grow up, say in Arab, Germanic and certainly native cultures where their society is a dog eat dog world, they grow up with the separation paradigm – they see each person as a competitive factor!