What Is The Brain?

232.02Question: What is the human brain?

Answer: The human brain is nothing more than a memory device, a simple computer that is located essentially, not in our head, but in the surrounding space with which we are in contact.

Thus, in fact, there is nothing in our brain itself, just a modem, a mechanism for connecting to the common big brain.

Question: Who controls it?

Answer: Nature, the common mind. Man is a consequence of its control.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/1/20

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Guide For Round Tables, Part 18

528.03Can our states be programmed?

Question: Is it necessary to lead the participants through all stages in each round? Should a person go through one or several sensory states at each meeting?

Answer: Any state of a person consists of several states, even if we cannot differentiate them. Therefore, you should not strictly limit yourself in advance. Today we are talking only about this and nothing else. A person may not understand and become isolated if he is not given the opportunity to maneuver to determine where he is.

Question: Suppose, at the next meeting, I want a person to feel the evil of his egoistic nature. I arrange the meeting accordingly. We discuss this topic, read excerpts from original texts, and do special exercises. I want him to feel it.

It is quite possible that now he is in a different state or, on the contrary, feels a surge of emotions and cannot analyze his egoism. Can these states be programmed?

Answer: No, this is impossible. The human soul cannot be programmed, organized, described, or put into any framework.

Question: How do you do it? You teach, there are several thousand people in front of you, and each is in some state of their own. But you still have some kind of lesson plan.

Answer: I imagine a prefabricated image and work for it. It is very bad when I need to isolate some of its properties, for example, North Americans or Africans, or someone else based on some earthly or spiritual characteristics. It is best when it is one image.

Question: But I, as a moderator, must plan these meetings, select materials, and prepare people for the upcoming states?

Answer: Of course. Otherwise how are you going to conduct workshops and all unifying events? And then each individual will feel some of his own states.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 7/9/20

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Sleepiness Or Insomnia?

563Question: One of the diseases of humanity now is a problem with sleep, either insomnia or sleepiness. How do we deal with this?

Answer: I do not think we should treat this as a problem. Just go with the flow as much as you can, and gradually your body will find out how it needs to adapt to this state.

Here you just need to devote yourself to the correct, normal lifestyle, not too much exercise, not too much laziness. Then you will see that the amount of sleep you get is enough for you.

So what if you sleep for five hours? It’s all right; it means you do not need more sleep. And if necessary, the body will make adjustments.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/1/20

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Humbleness Of The Leader

963.6Remark: One of the most important qualities of biblical leaders was humbleness.

My Comment: This is inherent to all great people who perceive themselves not as something existing, but as existing for the sake of something. They live for the sake of the upper idea. Therefore, they do not perceive an individual as having value of its own.

A leader is humble because he understands that the leadership qualities are given to him by nature, and therefore does not attribute them to himself.

Not perceiving anything in the world to be higher than the idea, he sees himself as its conductor to the masses. And the masses can only be its implementers.
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From Kab TV’s “Management Skills” 6/11/20

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What Is The Point Of Self-Persuasion?

623Question: What is the point of self persuasion by a person’s artificial efforts that there is a good and well-focused power that manages everything? Isn’t this a corporeal psychological attitude?

Answer: If by this assertion I begin to feel that I am changing my philosophy of life, my attitude to what is happening, and all this changes me, you can call it whatever you like. The main point is that there are changes inside me, which lead to changes in my life, and that’s what matters.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/18/18

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 10/20/20

Preparation to the Lesson

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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love of God and the Love of Man”

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My Thoughts On Twitter 10/19/20

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With our thoughts we can influence the whole universe, all the worlds. And when our thoughts connect with each other, they reach the upper force, and we feel that we thereby activate all of nature, infinitely and boundlessly. We are obliged to reach this, we cannot hide from the purpose of creation.

Good thoughts can neutralize viruses and quell typhoons. Thought lies at the very foundation of the force field. It is written, “everything is resolved in thought.” From thought, it then descends to lower degrees until it reaches viruses, which are carriers of information.

We must correct our attitude to others, not wish bad upon anyone. This is not easy because when our nature is revealed, we see that we unconsciously look for ways to harm each other. We are like cockroaches that are swarming and looking for how to bite, kick, or even eat each other

The world to come is a world built on mutual bestowal, inside of which we reveal the Creator between us. Instead of living in a field of hatred, we will live in a field of love. This love is the Creator between us. Humanity rises to different degrees of existence. Therein lies the solution to problems.

The whole world must undergo integral education, on all degrees starting from kindergarten. We will see how nature will immediately start helping us. All illnesses will disappear because people will become so close to each other that the connections between them will begin to reveal another degree of existence, the world to come.

It’s possible to transform an egoistic attitude toward others to a good one by working in groups to draw the good force concealed in nature and to force it to be revealed. We demand for this force of goodness, good relationships, unity, to be revealed between us in the group.
From Twitter, 10/19/20

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Thank You All For The Feedback

631.1I am grateful to all those who criticize my articles for their responses. If my words hurt them, then we already have a connection. Although this connection is negative and we don’t understand each other yet, I recognize that everyone can have their own opinion. Let’s just find out the truth.

It is not important to win an argument by proving who is right and who is wrong. We want to find out what the truth really is, not from the point of view of everyone, but from the side of nature.

The truth is not something that seems right to a person because of his upbringing, one’s established worldview. It doesn’t matter what we think but where we exist and what might happen here. After all, we are in a dangerous situation in a country, in the world, on the whole globe, that is covered by a global pandemic.

Today all problems are common all around the globe. So let’s find out what they are rather than figuring out who is more right and who is less in terms of their subjective perceptions and past baggage.

Let’s go on, and instead of quarreling and recriminating, let’s stick to a simple reasonable principle, as neutral as possible without personal interference, but as scientists who value facts.

There are different opinions on the left and on the right, but if we keep a neutral, middle line, then this is the path leading to the truth. Let us be based only on the facts that occur in nature, not on what is presented to everyone, according to their mood, education, and so on.

Let’s rise above all human differences and look at the situation from above. And then we will probably see what we are facing, open up a new vision, and understand what new states we should strive for. The main thing is to reveal the truth.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/20, “Bereshit“

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Days And Years Of A Person’s Life

032.01It is written in Bereshit: “And there was evening and there was morning, one day.” The entire Torah is intended only for people who want to get closer to the Creator. They need to distinguish between “evening” and “morning,” and realize this is one day. If we do not pass these two states, evening and morning, then it means that we are not moving toward our correction.

It is worth counting how many ups and downs I had per day, what their result is, and how I feel about them. Am I completely disconnected from the Creator and from the work during my descent? Do I regret what happened and focus on the state itself or do I regret that the Creator disappeared and I remained an animal during the descent? This means that I still have a connection with the Creator but only from the reverse side.

You need to figure out the difference between day and night, darkness and light. These states are constantly changing in us and give us new sensations. It is worth accustoming oneself not to lose contact with the Creator even in the greatest darkness, remembering that darkness comes from Him on purpose, in order to form in us a feeling of separation from Him and our friends. This is what we call darkness.

And as soon as we feel darkness, that is, disconnection from the Creator, from spiritual life, we immediately strive to unite with the friends and with the Creator. It turns out that we have a very strong and sure means for a quick return to the state of day.

The more we go through such states, separation from the spiritual process, from the group, and from the Creator during the day, the more we take steps forward. After all, everything is measured according to the feeling of night, that is, disconnection from the spiritual, and day, connection with the spiritual.

The more we make such leaps forward, toward our unification, the more we will receive disconnection as a response in order to renew our connection again, which the Creator will again cut off.

All separations come from the Creator, and all connections come from our efforts and prayer to Him. So, we constantly do joint work with Him: “I am for my beloved, and my beloved is for me.” The Creator awakens the night, and we ask Him and awaken the day.

For us, the night is called the state of disconnection from the group, from the friends, from the common soul, and from the Creator who fills it. And the day is, on the contrary, the feeling of connection between us as one man, one Creator revealed between us.

Let’s count how many such days and nights we go through in one physical, geographical, earthly day. According to them, the years of man’s life are calculated.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/20, “Bereshit“

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