What Is the Root Cause of Cancer? Why Are So Many People Nowadays Affected by It?

What is the root of cancer? How do relationships between people influence it? Will we ever be able to eliminate it from the world? The integral approach to education, which views the human being, society, and nature as one whole, holds a unique perspective on this phenomenon.

Cancer has developed in parallel with human development. From around the 16th century, humanity began to feel itself connected within one system. A desire arose to discover continents, develop technology, science, and culture, i.e., everything that belongs to modern life. At the same time, cancer also spread.

As generations passed, life expectancy increased, giving cancer more time to develop in the human body. Living conditions, both external and internal, also became such that they encourage cancer. As a result, the number of patients today is enormous. It is considered a difficult disease and people avoid mentioning its name.

The foundation of cancer is cells that change their normal function, and instead of acting in harmony and mutuality with other cells in the body, they become hostile toward them. A cancerous cell begins a process of uncontrolled self-division and loses its original form and function as part of a tissue. This creates a cluster of cells called a tumor. These cells exploit their environment for their own benefit, in a process that destroys the tissue where the tumor is located and, eventually, the rest of the tissues and systems of the body.

Where does this come from? What is the deepest root of this phenomenon? Cancer ultimately stems from a negative connection between human beings. It is a copy of the unbalanced relationships within society.

On one hand, life increasingly closes us into one integral system. On the other hand, each person’s ego increasingly grows, preventing any consideration for others. Since all of nature is a closed mechanism in which all parts are connected—the still, vegetative, animate, and human—negative human connections, between individuals, groups, and nations, radiate distortions downward into the lower levels of nature, including into those very cells. It begins with lack of a positive human connection, and then moves into hatred, a desire to dominate, to destroy, and to eliminate.

Until we address the source of the problem—human relationships—cancer will continue to develop and become more severe. All efforts we invest in curing it will not bring great success. Even if it seems that in some ways we succeed, other forms of suffering and pain will come instead.

This is no personal matter that can be solved individually, but a global one. From nature’s perspective, we are all connected in one network, and when it is filled with negative relations, diseases arise in its various parts. Why does cancer fall upon one person and not another? We cannot see deeply into the general network of connection, and therefore we do not know. In any case, healing must be collective.

When we decide together to embark on a perceptual, cultural, and educational revolution aimed at building consideration, connection, and mutual complementarity, then society will be able to heal itself and its members of all disease. It is important to know that true healing is only from the root, while everything else is nothing more than temporary relief.

So where do we begin? With a diagnosis, i.e., with understanding the root cause of all disease. Human egoism is opposed to all of nature, which functions as an integral system of balance and complementarity. There is no creature in nature that wishes to harm, to cause evil, and to take pleasure in doing so. When it becomes clear that we need a remedy for narrow human egoism, we will find that there is an orderly and proven method in order to do so. It is taught by the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is surfacing more and more in our times for this very purpose.

Kabbalistic sources explain that in humanity’s corrected state, human society functions like a healthy body, as a single whole, or as it is written, “as one man with one heart.” Such an integral connection between us will elevate us to a new level of existence. We will begin to sense nature’s hidden systems, i.e., systems that govern our lives and everything we see in our world, which will help us integrate into the harmony of all creation. Together we will rise to a higher dimension of existence, beyond the limitations of time, space, and motion.

In practice, all diseases and problems we experience today have come to push us toward recognizing the evil in our current state and to lead us out into a new eternal and perfect world, a world of love.

Based on “New Life 79 – Cancer” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman, Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.