New Life #93 – Understanding Mental Health
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Mental illness stems from a malfunction of human nature. We are all inside a huge “computer,” the system of nature. It is a network that closes us in all together as one soul and manages our thoughts and feelings. A malfunction in my internal program means that I cannot connect properly to the general network. As a result, humanity is in a state of distorted perception today. We don’t want to adapt to the network of connections being revealed between us and we don’t see the future. The wisdom of Kabbalah can teach us how to heal our soul and bring the world to a wonderful, healthy state.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #93 – Understanding Mental Health,” 10/28/12

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 11/9/18

Another devastating week of shootings in the U.S. Pittsburgh, Florida and now Thousand Oaks. How many more disgruntled people are out there that are slightly unbalanced, have access to weapons and are trained to use them?

America should recognize its problem is now much greater than gun control laws – it has become a culture that is desensitized to obscene levels of violence, with mass shootings becoming the daily reality.

U.S. authorities must form an overall strategy for healing their toxic, violent-breeding culture. We must understand the fundamental issue we are dealing with here once and for all. The human ego is growing and we must create a balancing force by changing the social climate and the way people relate to each other.

In the meantime, today we are sending our condolences to the families of the victims and the entire Thousand Oaks community.

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Question: What is freedom? Does it depend on where a person is in the world?

Answer: Freedom does not depend at all on which era or place in the world a person lives. The environment in which he lives is given to a person from above, from outside.

He does not choose the environment, which society to be born in, what kind of education to receive, or what values to adopt to live in accordance with.

Freedom can be interpreted according to one and only one condition: freedom from my egoistic nature. I cannot be free of anything else.

Freedom from my egoistic nature means that I do not live according to the laws of my egoism that my nature pushes me from within, but only in accordance with the human society, only for humanity’s benefit. In other words, freedom means that I rise above my egoistic nature for the good of all humanity.

I acquire my free life above my egoistic nature. Rising from the egoistic level of life to the altruistic one, I live and also feel the flow of the eternal nature. I also feel perfect, eternal, and free.

Of course, the implementation of these laws depend not our place of residence, nationality, or gender. It depends on a person himself and on the confrontation with his original nature.
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The Round Table of Independent Opinions, Berlin 9/9/06

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Question: It is written (Psalms 1): “…nor sit in the company of scorners.” A person who knows that “scorners” are his internal states now suddenly sees “scorners” in the ten. How should he work with this?

Answer: He should change himself through the group until they look perfect in his eyes. This is his work. Through the friends, he should see his soul, that is, all ten Sefirot.

Comment: You said that in more advanced states, we must sometimes on purpose awaken these “scornful” in ourselves.

My Comment: Not right away. First of all, we need to build the correct system, methodology, and then look within for reserves for fast passage. Then, we will need the negative force too.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 4/18/18

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 11/8/18

The South American immigrant convoy has reached Mexico and is debating whether to stay there or keep moving towards the U.S. border. President Trump, on the other hand, had already deployed 5,200 soldiers to the Mexican border to stop the “invasion.”

If you had to make the decisions about immigration, how would you deal with it?

Undoubtedly, much of the uniqueness of the United States comes from being established as a nation of immigrants, by pioneers who came from Europe and built the world superpower.” However, this is nostalgia. The world has changed and today’s immigrants come with different reasons and motivations.

It’s interesting to consider what would happen if the United States would initiate an open border policy welcoming everyone in. What would happen the next day? How would Americans deal with millions of people coming into their country?

My heart goes out to immigrants who flee their country because they are truly being persecuted or denied of basic human rights. Yet every country has its laws and they should be respected. If there are American families or individuals whose heart is aching for the immigrants, why not give them legal aid to help them welcome an immigrant or even a family of immigrants into their homes? This is what I would recommend President Trump do in the short term.

In the long run, however, I recommend a thorough integration program as part of the U.S. immigration policy. Such a program would be a precondition for immigration, and would train every immigrant to learn the language, to familiarize him/herself with the local culture, study the laws, the social norms and so forth. Before they begin with the program, immigrants would have to demonstrate a genuine desire to be absorbed into the society and contribute to it.

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Question: If all the events in a person’s life are not accidental, does every corporeal event have an upper cause, an upper root?

Answer: Every person has his own “angel,” i.e., the upper force that rules him in particular. In other words, each of us, via his point in the heart, the root of his soul, is placed inside the spiritual system.

In reality, there are no distances, there are no upper and lower worlds—they are one and the same system, only everything depends on how deeply we go into its sensation or are beyond its sensation.

If we delve into the feeling of this system called “soul” or “upper world,” then we actively penetrate it with our corrected desires and work in it.

If, by virtue of our uncorrected egoistic desires, we cannot work in this system, then we feel our world and, naturally, we have only the initial connection with the upper world, that is, the embryo of the future.

Only when we start correcting ourselves can we gradually be included in this system. In principle, however, we are all in a state where every person has the opportunity to start feeling themselves in the upper system.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/1/18

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Question: What is the order of actions that I must carry out to bring about the positive bestowal of the upper Light on me? Can this be done, for example, in a dream or when working or is it only during the time of study?

Answer: It is best during the study, but it is also possible at the time of carrying out other activities. This must be learned. The most certain correction is realized at the time of the study in a group.

Question: If I begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, will I be able to manage and determine the desires that will appear within me and those that will be shut down?

Answer: No. It depends on the root of your soul, and therefore, you cannot command it. And why would you? On the contrary, you will develop according to the appearance of the Light from above on your soul, on the sum of your desires.

Question: As a Kabbalist, do you manage yourself and summon the Ohr Makif (surrounding Light)? How do thoughts, desires, or people come to you?

Answer: I only express my readiness to advance and the Light does everything else.

Question: If the entire world is within me, who am I?

Answer: You are the repository of the entire world as you imagine it. After all, the created being is the entire world.

Question: If a person is approaching correction, is his general state positive, content, serene,  even elated?

Answer: Or the opposite. We are constantly moving in a start-stop motion, in very serious peaks: up and down, up and down. But in general, I am sure that we are all on the right track. You will soon discover this in practice. Everything will be okay.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/13/18

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 11/8/18

Thank you to my students in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the warm hospitality and sense of family that is rooted in you. It is heartwarming to meet our female and male students from every corner of the Earth who study the wisdom of Kabbalah, spread its method, and receive everyone with open arms. Together we embrace the whole world! — with Shimon Karmon, Michael Sanilevich, and Ilan Ben Zion.

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