The workshop is a tool for quickly changing a person’s consciousness, his attitude to life, his values, his adaptation to new and various opinions that previously seemed opposite to his, and so on.

The workshop is a very effective form because if you tune in to it correctly, it makes you bow before others, listen to their opinion without denying it, absorb it into yourself, and offer your opinion—and they will treat you the same way.

This is a completely new structure of relationships between people. If they understand this and they are drawn into it precisely on such conditions, then great opportunities for remaking a person are revealed here. That is, you need to place him into some kind of machine, so to speak, to blend him in and make him a little different, not as stagnant and petrified as he used to be in the way the system, society, and so on made him, but completely different.

Take all his components and completely blend them: be yourself, be simpler, and that is it. Don’t immediately get into a confrontation with others, object to them, or thrust in your opinion. Of course, all this ruins us.

Identifying opinions and analysis does not necessarily happen through conflict. This happens through integration. So much for the opposition of two worlds. This is the new world, a completely different system of relationships. The relationships of people of the old egoistic world are built on conflict.

That is why they say in television studios: “We will not have any program if there are no exposures. What would be interesting about it? Where are all these screams and tears? Where is the swearing and smearing of the other?” This is what this hard egoistic world is built on.

However, we are talking about something completely different: to rise to the next step, to rise higher. Of course, the producers and directors do not understand this. But you can offer to show them that it is possible. People will join in with all their hearts.

For them it will be a rest from the ugly and vile world, which moreover has an end. Then the producers will have a completely different program that is not available anywhere else in the world.

Comment: The principle of American shows is based on the fact that they invite people to the studio, they tell a certain story, and they pit the guests against each other. They attack each other and everyone rejoices.

My Response: This is why we have come to such a crisis. If they want to show something radically new on television, then let them make their own program, which would be the opposite of their program. Let them show that they are doing this in the process of discussion, in the process of people being in a common circle.

Perhaps each of them is drawn to the past, to collision with each other, and the others hold him back and say: “No, we will try to act differently.”

Let them show the fight between the past and the new world on themselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Television of the Future” 8/19/13

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The world will be receiving blows all the time until it finds the solution. Either we will start listening to the method of integral connection or we will receive all kinds of blows, personal, public, wars, etc., until we understand what needs to be heard. To hear that the only opportunity to live differently lies in connection.

For humanity, there is nothing else left to do: either live in competition with each other in constant struggle or in connection. We know that during cataclysms or wars, a person instinctively strives for it. Therefore, we will be taught with the help of all sorts of troubles.

Then we will begin to understand that we need to move toward connection in order to escape from suffering. But it will be a purely egoistic movement forward and nothing else. This is very far from a true exit from egoism.

Knowing the nature of a person, we gradually, consistently reveal to him the stages of his development. There is not any trick in this. There is love and kindness, and, based on love, we always treat a person according to the conditions that he must go through.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Victory Is a Sign of Defeat” 8/2/13

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Question: The pace of change in the world is noted as a problem for businesses, world leaders, and the general population alike. Many are not able to adapt to it and simply cannot keep up with the changing world.

Why is there this acceleration? Why are we being pushed harder and harder?

Answer: It is to give us a sense of life and movement. If there were a constant speed, we simply would not notice this movement and the fact that something is happening. We only feel changes in states.

Question: What if people feel that there is a change, an acceleration, can they somehow assess it, influence it, or check it?

Answer: They will try to understand the nature of the matter and toward where it’s heading. If we are moving from point A to point B, then let’s see what lies ahead.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/23/22

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How do I teach my children to embrace failure?“

Suppose we encounter failure. Michael’s group played against Oren’s group, and we lost. We then sit and talk about it, understanding that we were weak and we lost, without crying about it. We might feel some pain or cry internally, but we try to understand why we lost. It is quite complicated and it takes time.

At first, there might be shouting, yelling and blaming, but later on, we reach a state where we lost, and now what? Do we throw it away or do we continue? In such a juncture, we need to learn and absorb examples from those who have succeeded and dealt with failure, and there are several movies and books on such a topic. Those who reach success have undergone major crises, become disappointed, faced exploitation and whatnot.

We then decide that we now want to learn from our failure, and seek how we can overcome such a state. At this point, we learn what was wrong, what we should correct, how to correct ourselves, and how to study our opponent. And if we discuss such a phenomenon in terms of our inner traits, then we each learn about our egoistic nature that is ultimately behind all failure and loss, and in so doing, we prepare ourselves for our next battle.

Based on the video “How to Teach a Group of Children to Deal With Failure” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Prior to the restriction there was He is One and His Name One, and the mind cannot attain Him (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, Item 5).

Desire is created by the light opposite to it and is filled with it. We practically cannot understand this state. It is called the world of infinity.

It is written, “He is One and His Name One.” He is the Light, and His name is the state of desire. Initially, they were one; there was no difference between them.

Question: Why is it written that “the mind cannot attain Him”? Then why write about it if the mind does not attain?

Answer: Because there are other opportunities to bring this state closer to oneself and somehow evaluate it, realize it, measure it, and feel it. But not in the mind.

Our mind is a very limited tool because it is a desire. We must rise to a state where we become above our desire, where together with desire we will have intentions with which we can change desires to become similar to the light.

Then, by comparing the desire and the light of the Creator once we come to equivalence, we will be able to evaluate, feel, and even measure their coincidence.

Question: It is said: The mind is a consequence of desire. If the desire is egoistic, then the mind obviously serves it. Do you say that there also is an opportunity to rise above desire and there we will have some new mind?

Answer: Yes. It is called “faith above reason.” The quality that we acquire is the quality of bestowal. Within it we can feel the quality of the Creator by rising above ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Question: It is very difficult for a person to predict any changes in himself and in the world even if he makes an effort. And as for society, this picture is generally blurred. Why are changes and their consequences unpredictable and hidden from us?

Answer: They are not hidden. We simply do not see the whole picture of the world. But if we wanted to, we would see it with all its changes and even influence them by ourselves.

Question: In principle is it possible for a person to feel the whole picture of the world, know the laws by which it operates, perform actions, and see how everything is changing?

Answer: Yes. This must be learned. It is possible.

Question: Generally, can there be life without a change? Does such a state exist in nature?

Answer: No. Then it would not be life and not even death. Death is one of the states of life. Perpetual motion.

Question: Can there be reverse movement?

Answer: In any direction.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/23/22

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Our world has come to its egoistic end today. We have revealed that all of it is a closed system. Once we thought that we could do everything: produce, achieve, expand, and conquer. Suddenly, it turns out that we are alone in the universe, we have nowhere to fly.

The Earth is a closed, very limited system. Humanity is limited in its consumption and there is nowhere else for it to develop. There is not much to accumulate because it is not going anywhere anyway and everything is pretty small and enclosed.

Here, we are faced with the end—the final egoistic development we are in now. The next stage is, that from the increasing pressure that we will experience and from the crisis of the end of egoistic development, we must reach the next level.

The next level is completely different—the level of nature opposite to us, the level of bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Victory Is a Sign of Defeat” 8/2/13

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Comment: A person can try to justify the Creator to a certain extent until he reaches a critical point.

My Response: At each stage there is this critical point, and then it is gone. All people and all objects become absolutely equal for you because through them you connect with the Creator and feel only His presence in everything. At the same time, all people become equally close to you, like parts of your body.

Question: But what if you look at the example of a mother who seems to be able to justify everything, and then when something dangerous occurs with her child, her animalistic protection program turns on?

Answer: This meanwhile is still an egoistic state, incomplete bestowal and incomplete correction. It is obvious that we are at such stages.

And at the end of correction there will be nothing that you will not sacrifice from yourself because nothing will remain of you. Everything is yours. The whole still, vegetative, animate, and human system, everything that you can only feel is your soul.

There is nothing here that is not your closest parts, and you treat them with a feeling of deep, absolute love. In them you are contacting the Creator. There will be absolutely no stages—”all of a sudden,” “I,” or “something happens”—indeed you rise above all this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. It is Impossible to Justify the Creator” 8/7/13

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