Question: What happens at the moment when a person choses how to correctly convey information to others, meaning, he is not giving a canned speech, but speaks through his heart? Let us say when you are speaking you give out certain feelings through your words. What is happening at that moment?

Answer: At that moment I exist inside of my words, inside of these actions. At that moment I am connected with the upper rung. From there, the upper energy is passing through me to the one with whom I am speaking. The upper energy is working on that person to the degree that he wants to hear and agree with me. If not, the upper energy will not act upon him even if he listens.

Therefore, everything depends on the relationship between the people. There cannot be any coercion.

Remark: You are doing this consciously, but your student is simply speaking with someone and passing along the information. It is clear that he partly conveys himself.

My Comment: No, it doesn’t matter. The “himself” is to a very small degree, even if it carries a lot of nonsense. In general, he is connected to the group and to me and through this, with the upper rung.

Whatever he talks about it is still manifested more positively in his listeners. In this case he is simply a conduit even if he says something from himself. It doesn’t matter. He has nothing to say from himself.

He is speaking in plain words about something that he heard, and perhaps he still has no clear understanding what notion is instilled in these words. It still conducts our energy.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Conductor of Spiritual Energy” 4/12/14

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Question: Can egoism temporarily take over a person who is not in attainment?

Answer: Yes, it can take over specifically in order to lower a person. The person’s job is to turn that egoism back into an ascent. Twenty kilograms of egoism were added to an individual, and now he must correct it by twenty kilograms of bestowal and love.

Why else would he get such an addition?

Question: What if he plunged into the ego very deeply?

Answer: Do not worry. The upper degree works in the same way as we teach a child to walk: we step back from him and wait for him to take a step toward us. This is the way the upper system works. We do not go far from the child, and this is what is done to us as well, although it seems to the person that he has been completely abandoned.

Question: When a person feels superior to everyone else and neglects them, can he unite with anyone?

Answer: If a person feels superior to others, he cannot be in a spiritual state. This contradicts the qualities of the upper world.

If the upper light influences him, he feels inferior to others, indebted to them, and treats them like a father would treat his son because the son is the central figure and the father takes care of him, and all the attention of the father is directed to him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Egoism Uses Me” 1/28/12

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Question: You say that the whole development of the world unfolds in our egoistic desire. But if there is no time in spirituality, how did it happen here? In some short timeframe?

Answer: There is no time in spirituality. Development does not occur in parallel in two worlds: the spiritual and ours.

There is nothing at all in the spiritual world, not even the spiritual world itself. There is what you perceive. If perception occurs in egoistic desires, then you feel our world, and if in altruistic desires, for bestowal and love, the upper world.

There is neither our world nor the spiritual world at all. The upper world exists only relative to the perceiver if he perceives his similarity to the upper force, the upper light.

There is no Creator without creation. There is no time, there is no life if there is no one who would feel it as existing.

If the world is something that manifests itself in our sensations, then it exists only relative to us. It has no form outside of us.

We do not know the source of this force. The light descends on me. I can identify this source only to the extent that I am like the light. Then I can say that the source probably has the same quality.

It is impossible to understand. For that, you need to change yourself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Real History of the World” 1/21/12

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Does anyone desire what is bad?“

We should first understand what is desire and what is bad about our desires. What is bad about our desires is that they control us and our intellect.

Desire—or to be more precise, the desire to receive—is our entire essence, and it wants to be filled with pleasure all the time.

What pleasure does it want to be filled with? It does not care, as long as it gets satiated, and so killing and stealing, and the exploitation, manipulation and abuse of others, could easily be what gives it its fulfillment. Positive altruistic actions could also fill our desires, but that is usually not the case.

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, this desire that enjoys at the expense of others and nature is called the “evil inclination.” It is evil in that it cannot take others into consideration.

This desire constantly bosses us around, making us cater to its demands, unaware that it is not actually us. It is a desire that exists in us like a virus or a germ, and it controls us.

We relate to it as if it were us, but it is not us. It controls us from within to our detriment because it makes us follow its demands when we ourselves would wish to develop differently. Instead, it leads us into all kinds of negative situations. For instance, even at the level of our basic health, our bodies wish to simply be healthy yet due to our desire for pleasure, many of us fill our bodies with all kinds of drugs, chemicals, alcohol and smoke in the name of pleasure that our desire constantly directs us to. It does not ask our permission, but it dictates to us what we seemingly want.

Eventually, via the accumulation of life experiences as well as various indirect supporting systems in the environments we encounter, a siren goes off in our intellect: “Wait a minute! What your desire is leading you to is not at all to your benefit!” It discerns that simply following the dictates of our desires has led us to all kinds of suffering and blows. In other words, the intellect emerges in order to balance out the desire to receive’s demands.

The desire belongs more to the animate level within us, whereas the intellect belongs more to our human level. The intellect is cold. It tells us what is right and wrong, but then it becomes difficult to activate in order to control our desires.

We can understand the difficulty of controlling our desire with our intellect from our childhood where our parents told us to be good kids and to study, but we only wanted to play and mess around. Later in life, we can say that our parents were right, but it does not help us at the time when we could have benefited from following their advice.

How can we, throughout our lives, the moment we have detrimental desires, control them with the intellect and balance them out?

Instead of having to live our lives in ways where we run after desires that constantly surface—which we end up paying for and regretting—the wisdom of Kabbalah offers an alternative: a method of reaching an experience of life where we realize our desires beneficially: balancing them out with our intellect in ways that lead to our optimal state.

Based on the video “What Is Bad about Our Desires?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: How can one overcome fear?

Answer: We can overcome fear only through friendship, by coming closer to others. Otherwise, it will overcome us more and more.

Question: What should one do about panic attacks?

Answer: It is possible to deal with them only if we create small societies in which people will support each other. This is the only way we can get rid of fears, illnesses, insomnia, and absolutely everything that imposes the anxiety of life on us.

Question: A person experiences mood swings and is afraid of everything that happens in his life: “What will happen to me tomorrow?” What kind of society does he need that will help him cope with this?

Answer: He must create a society where everyone would understand the need for friendship, cooperation, mutual support, and security. Otherwise, he will have to learn this for a very long time.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Question: It is interesting that nothing happens in the present. At least for us. Everything we see, hear, feel, and think is a product of the past.

Since it takes time for the light to reach us, everything we see is in the past. Let us say it takes light eight minutes to get from the Sun to the Earth, so it turns out that we live in a picture where nothing is happening in the present, but everything has happened already. Do you agree with this statement?

Answer: Of course, it is a physical law of many minutes a ray of light travels from the Sun to the Earth.

Question: It is said that the light from the nearest star travels for four years to reach us. So what we see has actually already happened. If we talk about spiritual states, then all states are also predetermined and are revealed only in relation to us?

Answer: There is no speed in the spiritual world. Therefore, all situations and events that were, are, and will be, occur within us. All of them already exist, they are only revealed in relation to a person.

Question: For example, some kind of war, which should take place in a year, already exists in the making?

Answer: It exists and can happen. But whether it will happen depends also on our actions.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/25/22

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