In the News (Big Think): “In 1973, a computer program was developed at MIT to model global sustainability. Instead, it predicted that by 2040 our civilization would end. … But what the computer envisioned in the 1970s has by and large been coming true. Could the machine be right?

“The prediction, which recently reappeared in Australian media, was made by a program dubbed World One. It was originally … commissioned by the Club of Rome to model how well the world could sustain its growth. …

“The model’s calculations took into account trends in pollution levels, population growth, the amount of natural resources and the overall quality of life on Earth. The model’s predictions for the worsening quality of life and the dwindling natural resources have so far been unnervingly on target.

Question: If the collapse of civilization in the form in which we know it is predicted, then in what form will civilization exist?

Answer: Let them broadcast what the computer indicated for the next 20 years. And we will see to what extent it is right or not. I have not heard or read anything about this computer. I want to see what it has written and what came true, not some retellings of it.

Question: Even if these are stories and fairy tales, please tell me your feelings, “What kind of civilization would there be if there was no one like today?” In general, such a civilization is most likely not needed.

Answer: No. It is needed only to realize the wrongness of its path.

Question: What kind of civilization will there be in the future? Not in 2040 or 2050, but in general, what kind of civilization are we going to have?

Answer: Civilization will be built on universal love, interconnection, and mutual assistance. It is concrete. But this is after realizing the evil of our civilization.

Question: And how will we be aware of it? Via blows?

Answer: Here is our problem. Either we realize it in a good way or in an evil way,  with a stick to happiness or awareness of the correct path.

Question: I am interested in your opinion of how will we realize this and see what is happening?

Answer: I think with a stick. So far, it is improbable that humanity has realized anything at all. There needs to be the recognition of the evil of their nature by every person. And then he will do something with himself and not others.

Question: For us to do something with ourselves, strong blows will be needed?

Answer: I hope not, but in general everything is leading to that.

Question: And how does this vector unfold? We have said more than once that we live in criticism of others, in capturing others. And how does the vector unfold?

Answer: The common vector should lead us to realize that we are enemies to each other and in this we are enemies to ourselves.

Question: So, this is not my enemy, but my enemy is inside me. Is this the main thing we should come to?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then we come to the future through love, as you say?

Answer: Yes. Then we come to the future through love and to the victory of good over evil.

Question: And when love, kindness, and a kind attitude prevail, what will people do?

Answer: People will give up all unnecessary work and will go fishing, to the beach, to the sea, take care of children, walk in the park with flowers in their hair, listen to birds singing, and record birds singing. That is what life will be like. Everyone will bow to each other.

In general, this is an idiotic vision of the future.

Question: What do you think is real? When love…

Answer: A person cannot exist without a struggle. And the struggle for what? For the harvest? For territories? Where does a person feel that he is doing something, creating?

Question: But what happens if love rules the world? Where is the struggle, what is the struggle?

Answer: The struggle will be in being able to show love more and more. It will be very difficult. This is the hardest part.

Question: So there are dramas and everything else?

Answer: Of course.

Question: But with joy, with love?

Answer: It will still be with dramas. Without this, a person cannot exist.

Question: But is it still that we are moving toward love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So such a goal will be set, and a person will go toward it. What do you mean by the word “love” now when you say it?

Answer: When I value another above myself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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The multifaceted development of egoism has led to the fact that it simultaneously kills the feeling of the family in us, the relationship between children and parents, our nature, arts, science, and the whole culture in general.

It does not only work in the economy. It works in everything! As a result, the ego destroys our family, public, state, political, and social structure. But we still have to act. There is more than one factor at work here. Our whole life is built on egoism, and we have to change all this.

We are so egoistic that we do not care about anything, not the fact that families are falling apart or about the terrible social atmosphere; it does not matter to us. When it comes to our pocket, to the economy, then we believe the crisis has come. Yet we are used to the fact that before that “I treated everyone like a dog and everyone else treated me the same way. It is okay, everything is fine.”

This indicates how much the crisis and our development in general has led us to such a low state: I do not care, I retire at home, I do not need a wife, I do not need children, I can order everything for myself, easily serve myself and that is all; I do not give a damn for everyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, How to Make a Revolution” 2/4/12

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Question: When a person turns away from the spiritual path and tries to settle down in life, does the system leave him alone or after some time does it begin to push him with blows?

Answer: Why should he be left alone? Why does he exist in this world?! To get comfortable, like an animal?!

Once upon a time in bourgeois times it was so. Today there is no such thing and it cannot be because all of humanity is moving forward with great speed, and nature will not leave anyone alone. It will push us, pull us by the ears, and slap us on the cheeks—in general, bother us.

How can it be that at such a pace of development that is observed today, we would be left alone?!

Question: Does this mean, as it is said, that there are no former students and they are all connected in some way?

Answer: Yes. But it depends on the speed at which they develop.

A person who comes to study Kabbalah for the first few years does not understand where he is at all because this is his first adaptation to Kabbalah, to feeling, to space, and to the fact that the world is arranged completely differently because everything in me and everything through me, depends on me.

It is very difficult. Therefore, there is no seniority here. A person can sit here for five or even 10 years and be completely unaware of what we are studying. There are some like that.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, There Are No Former Students” 1/28/12

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Preparation to the Lesson

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “Heaven and Earth,” Item 154

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Following the Creator in the Desert”

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Can love exist without hate?“

On what basis would love arise if there were no hatred? What kind of love could there be if there were no rejection? What would love manifest upon?

Every one of our qualities and feelings of life, ourselves and others are born above something, and since the ego—the desire to enjoy at the expense of others and nature—is our nature, our main quality, then love gets born above it.

In other words, the ego is our main quality, and love is its main opposite quality.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Transform Hate into Love?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on February 11, 2012.

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Question: What is light?

Answer: Light is the only force in nature that exists, governs, fills, and animates everything. And the rest of the many forces that we see around us are derived from the light.

Question: How does a person feel the light?

Answer: As all good things.

Question: It turns out that there is light that manifests itself as a law of nature, as a certain force, and there is light that we just feel.

And how do we feel the light manifesting as a force of nature?

Answer: As a great pleasure, fulfillment. The light is felt in such a way that you want to get closer to it or bring it closer to you.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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The Kabbalistic methodology is very simple and direct. It says that we should do all the actions described in the Torah in the heart.

People, however, distorted it in a way that they turned it outward: if you perform these actions physically in front of everyone, then you are doing a great job.

Comment: But if I do not understand how to unite our hearts, then from this hopeless state I do it externally by building a temple and sacrificing a lamb.

My Response: Of course, this is the simplest thing.

In fact, you must find this animal in you, uncover it, make sure that it is your egoism, kill it, slaughter it, skin it, burn some pieces, and eat some. You have to understand how to do this.

Question: Is there a method that can explain this to me?

Answer: Of course! It is the method of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/8/23

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Question: There is a movie called In Time in which people live to be 25 years old and after that they must earn their years of life and time is the currency. They have millionaires who earned millions of years of living. And there are people who need to buy or steal enough hours to make it through the day.

Do you agree with such a plan of the Creator for a lifetime? Or could you suggest some other option?

Answer: I think that we need to replace time with a different dimension that we measure ourselves against—whether we are old, young, growing, and so on. All of it is relative and depends on how and what line of measurement a person chooses.

Therefore, I would not say that we need to measure time with a chronometer. It is measured by a person’s deeper attitude to himself, to the world, to creation, and not by the clock, when some mechanism beats tick-tock, tick-tock and I measure myself by it.

Question: As a Kabbalist, how would you propose to relate to time?

Answer: With absolute calm. I am only interested in what I manage to do with myself during the time that is running out.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/25/22

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Question: According to statistics, many of us have more than what is necessary, but still are unhappy because we fear losing our jobs. We live by the principle that we must hold a job to earn money. How can we change this consciousness? At the expense of what can it be changed?

Answer: Neither people nor economists understand how to properly organize the economy.

Now all kinds of theories are emerging on how to build an economy in a non-developing technological society. All we need is to optimize a few sectors.

Let’s say we develop the agricultural sector, and even then, to an extent, manage it so as not to eat anything artificial. In the same way, we would improve only the devices and appliances we need, for example, consumer electronics. What else do we need? What for?!

We need to conduct a thorough revision of what we have achieved, and in a conscious and obligatory manner begin to remove everything unnecessary. Otherwise we will not survive; we will exhaust our reserves. Let’s say I am the owner of the Earth. The globe is my vegetable garden and whatever is in the earth or in the air is not self–renewing.

In the near future this will be quite realistically understood by people. They are not able to limit themselves. Egoism will drive us into a corner. Our nature is made in a way that will force us to think about self-restraint. Such a need will arise.

Look, suddenly millions of unemployed people are on the street and businesses are closing. Why? What for? There are hundreds of theories. What now? They are closing down because we have passed all stages of development; we have reached overproduction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, How to Make a Revolution” 2/10/12

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