Question: Why have we not been able to create a time machine and move into the future so far? And no one got to us from there either, by the way. Could this mean that we have no future at all? How can we understand this?

Answer: I think that time does not exist, and all this is our purely subjective feelings. We must understand that regarding these feelings we have freedom of choice. It is up to us to choose the system of coordinates.

Question: Since you claim that time does not exist, does that mean that humanity cannot create a time machine?

Answer: It depends on which one. If you fly at a speed close to the speed of light, then, of course, you will change your attitude toward those who are not at this speed.

Question: Will it ever be possible to actually put your protein body into a time machine and fly into the period of dinosaurs or forward into the future?

Answer: No, because it has nothing to do with you. How would you move to a state in which you were playing with dinosaurs?

Comment: Suppose, some electrodes were connected to me.

My Response: But this can be done at any time, in any state.

In principle, the past exists in the same way as our current state, and we just need to move into it. And what does our current state mean? This is how we imagine it. That is, you want to say that you wish to imagine yourself in a completely different dimension.

Question: No, I just want to get into some kind of apparatus and fly away to 20 or 100 years ago, like they show in movies. Why is it not possible?

Answer: It cannot be, because it cannot be. 😀

Comment: So, until we create such a machine, this probably cannot happen.

My Response: Not that it has not been created, it cannot be created. You can travel anywhere in time if you switch your brain.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/25/22

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“One does not die with half one’s desire in one’s hand.” “He who has one hundred wants two hundred” (Baal HaSulam, “Wholeness in Life“).

Question: How can we understand this?

Answer: “He who has one hundred wants two hundred” means that we can never be fulfilled with what we have; we will always lack something. Even if we are lucky in filling our egoism with what we desire, our egoism will immediately give us a new task so that we get twice as much.

After having received twice as much, our egoism immediately puts the desire to get four times more before us. And so on. We are like a dog chasing its tail and trying to grab it all the time, but in vain.

Comment: Suppose I look at a rich person, and it seems to me that if I had at least 10% of what he has, I would be satisfied.

My Response: But the rich man is not happy. And you, after attaining what he has, would also be dissatisfied.

The essence of this is that our gains increase our egoistic desire. And so, one who wants a hundred and gets it, wants two hundred, and when he gets two hundred, he wants four hundred. And so on.

Comment: In principle, this is not so bad; there is something to strive for.

My Response: But at the same time you never have peace. Peace is the root of the Creator. On one hand, we want to be at peace, but our desire for pleasure does not provide it for us.

Comment: And it is still not bad. After all, when a person strives for something, he lives on future pleasures.

My Response: If this is within some kind of restrictive framework that gives him the opportunity to work, earn money, travel, have a good leisure time, and so on, then this is good because it fits into the general life of a man. But still, he is in constant anxiety.

After all, if he cannot always achieve what he wants, it causes him suffering.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/18/22

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It is impossible for the will to receive to appear in any essence, except in four phases, which are the four letters of HaVaYaH (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Inner Observation, Chapter 6).

Question: Why did the Creator create the desire to receive—creation—not at once but precisely through four phases of development?

Answer: The fact is that the Creator wanted the creation to be able to somehow generate itself, control itself, react to external influences, and even learn from previous or future generations.

It is impossible to create a creation in one go because in order to continue to develop it must be changing in its foundation. So from generation to generation it will constantly grow

If it were to be in a static state, it could be created with a single action. But this is a gradual process because creation must evolve all the time.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 8/14/22

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Comment: In everyday life, a person studies for 20 years while a Kabbalist studies all his life.

My Response: Learning is an endless process of absorption, absorbing the material and realizing it. This is an eternal process.

There is not much difference between the science of Kabbalah and all other sciences; it is just that Kabbalah recounts where everything comes from, which is something that other sciences explain partially based on what they have accumulated.

Question: When teaching people Kabbalah, how can one make it beneficial for a person to delve into the material all the time, to search all the time?

Answer: He must feel that Kabbalah speaks about his world, about a force that, as if, through a shell, a sphere, governs all of humanity, the entire universe, and him. It takes him from one state to another, induces thoughts and feelings in him like he is in a very interesting dream called “this world,” “this life.”

It is only necessary to present him the material in an interesting way, intrigue him, and show that he can wake up. He can see himself and everyone else sleeping from the outside because it only seems to them that they were born, live, and die. It is necessary to show that this is happening inside a person, in this dream of his, but in fact he should wake up to a completely different state.

It will happen. I am sure, I am an optimist.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. As Much as Required” 6/13/14

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Preparation to the Lesson

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Donkey Driver,” Item 115

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 50

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How does human nature work?“

Human nature is the desire to receive, also called “desire to enjoy,” and it functions by receiving what is beneficial to itself and rejecting what is harmful. Everything in our lives is built upon this calculation where we first try to distance ourselves from harm, and then seek how to draw ourselves closer to what is beneficial.

Human nature also includes a multilayering of systems that work simultaneously on still, vegetative, animate and human levels. One of those systems is our bodily one, which operates involuntarily. If our bodies are healthy, then they know what is good for them and draw that goodness to themselves. After the bodily system, there is the emotional system, which also functions relatively according to instinct. From the emotional system, we move to the mind, and from the mind to the intellect, and so on. That is, we have systems over systems that concurrently work on receiving what is beneficial and rejecting what is harmful.

Such is human nature and the essence of our lives. Our every desire, thought and action operates according to the calculation, “How can we receive what is most beneficial to us and reject what is harmful?”

Based on the video “How Human Nature Works” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Nitzah Mazoz. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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For this reason, any expanding light consists of four phases in the impression on the vessel (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 6, Item 24).

Question: Where did the four phases come from if there were only two discernments in the light?

Answer: Yes, but we always receive four from two discernments. The second one comes out from the first, then this second, which wants to be like the previous one, makes a third one from itself, and the third, which wishes to implement this change, becomes the fourth one. This is where it ends.

This is HaVaYaH, the four-letter name of the Creator Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey. This is the way He is manifested. And only the very last stage is considered creation.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/1/23

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Question: When spouses are just starting to live together, according to biological processes, hormones support their relationship for the first three years. It is believed that after three years, hormones stop working, and a cooling occurs between a man and a woman, nothing holds them further. Does it come from nature?

Answer: Probably. In past centuries, it may have been different, but nowadays they say that it is, especially on the part of a man.

Maybe from the woman’s side, I do not know. Usually a woman gets used to a man. I don’t think she wants to change everything so much. Today, it is also a little different for women, but still not in the same way as for men.

Question: It’s not a fact that someone wants to change something, it’s just a question that there is no longer a physical factor that holds them back. How can spouses overcome this and continue to live normally?

Answer: Now is a special time—the time of correcting selfishness. And if the spouses are not engaged in its correction, they will not be able to coexist together.

There will be more and more divorces until there are no families left at all. People will converge for a day or two, for a year or two, and disperse. Children will be born not clear from whom and where. The world will come to this because a person will not be able to cope with selfishness if he does not begin to correct it.

And for the sake of correction, you will live with one woman because you will feel that you are kindred spirits with her and it is with her that you can correct yourself. And then all physical problems or cooling will be invisible because in your physical union with her you will feel spiritual unity, and then there will be no problems.

The world is coming to this. And now we are living in a transitional period when there is no such marriage as before, but there is also no new state of marriage as it should be.

But a person will be like that. He will live only in order to improve spiritually, to rise, to feel a higher state, but in no case to remain in this world and this life. Otherwise, there is no point. Otherwise, people will commit suicide, use drugs, and terrible things will happen in the world.

Comment: In principle, such a connection should ideally be.

My Response: No, not at all ideally. A person will feel spiritual needs above the base, earthly ones because in his eyes it will not be worth spending his life on them. We will survive this state.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Preserve Love” 12/19/13

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The three developmental stages of the Jewish people are symbolically called the forefathers—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or the right, middle and left lines. Sometime after leaving Babylon, this society needed additional development, which can only happen when greater egoism is revealed, is corrected, and it is risen above even more.

In the past, Abraham pondered how the absolute quality of love and bestowal could be reached. Later, he revealed this problem and found the solution: there needs to be a constant growth of egoism above which his group, this small nation, will keep rising.

Therefore, the next stage of development required an increase in egoism within this group and the revelation of its second stage (the first was revealed in Babylon), over which they needed to rise.

But it is not that simple. At first, egoism grows and everyone takes it well, falls into it, and begins to work with it. That is, all kinds of selfish motives dominate, influence, and subdue people. They try to rise above them by adhering to the same methodology, the ideology of Abraham, to unite and care for each other rather than for themselves, as much as possible.

The Torah (Bible) mentions this struggle, about the nation going through the Egyptian states, how they fought among themselves and together against their ego, against the Pharaoh, the new level of egoism that continually broke out between them.

Abraham’s group was in Egypt for 210 years. This is a conditional measurement of units of time, just like the four stages of direct light at the foundation for the four-letter name of the Creator, that is, a formula in which there are always four components of successively developing stages.

Therefore, the egoism that manifested in them consisted of four stages, and the time of the Egyptian exile it was called 400 years. In fact, it lasted 210 years (conventional units), and the remaining exiles fell to 190 years.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. History of the Jewish People” 5/4/14

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