Question: What do the limitations of our perception, our consciousness, and attainment depend on? What is preventing us from beginning to attain the upper world now?

Answer: Only narcissism prevents us from attaining the upper world, because the higher dimension is built on bestowal and love. And the physical world is built on reception and hatred.

Question: Why? After all, I don’t hate anyone. There are those I love, those I like.

Answer: I love them because they satisfy me egoistically because my main, natural desire is to have pleasure. And whatever I don’t receive pleasure from, I hate.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: From the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah, what dies and what is left after the death of the body?

Answer: Nothing dies and nothing remains. Everything happens only in our consciousness, within which we live. There is nothing that will actually disappear, be born, and develop.

Only desire exists, and when we talk about the world of the still, vegetative, and animate, about people in our world, these are all our inner desires that portray such a reality for us.

I am compelled to repeat this so that people will gradually get used to the idea that our world doesn’t exist. It is only portrayed within us, as is the entire universe.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/6/16

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From “The Crisis and Its Solution” (Arosa Forum 2006)

How does humanity realize the need to become similar to nature? They will come to it from hopelessness and from the realization of egoism as evil! One can advance toward the realization of evil by choosing the path of suffering or the short path of correction.

However, the path of suffering is not the path; this is just an amount of time that is needed for the realization of all the horrible consequences of one’s stubbornness and egoism.

Nevertheless, one can choose a short and easy path of correction: if a person receives knowledge about the world’s structure, causality, and purpose, he accelerates his realization of evil and does not need to realize egoism as evil under the influence of sufferings.

Humanity is gradually advancing to the understanding that it is necessary to adhere to the middle line. Today, it is clearly evident from the clashes that occur between the left and the right in human society. An example of this is the United States after the recent elections. In Europe, too, will soon begin a ruthless struggle between the ultra-right (Nazi) parties and the ultra-left liberals.

We won’t reach peace this way because each one wants to defeat the other. Both don’t understand that there must be a middle line between them that is based on their connection and common goal. The world doesn’t have this method yet, and therefore, it will lead either to war or to continuous struggle.

The struggle won’t end until both sides realize that throughout the general structure of creation, there have to be the right and the left sides and the middle line between them. And it is necessary to know how to build it.

Until this happens, they will continue to fight with each other. This struggle between the right and the left resembles the period of formation of the planet Earth. At first, the forces of fire were winning and everything was burning, then the forces of cooling were winning, and the glaciation began.

So the periods of warming and cooling alternated every thirty million years until the Earth finally stabilized and reached the middle line, or the middle state.

Today, we still live on the volcano because inside the Earth, everything is burning, there is tremendous energy. Yet, we live on the thin layer of the Earth’s crust that covers all of it from above. The same thing happens everywhere; any life appears as a result of the interaction between these two opposite forces.

Therefore, we need the recognition of evil and its correction through balancing it with the good forces. However, the good and evil must be balanced and equal, and must complete each other because this is the only way to reach the middle line. After all, only in the middle line is it possible to advance from one degree to another, from the beginning to the end of the spiritual path.

In essence, the difference between all the degrees is in the greater and greater revelation of our egoism, the desire to enjoy, which obliges us to build the right line against it in order to reach the middle line.

The long way is when we learn from our own mistakes, without the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah and without knowing how to build the middle line and how to organize society in advance so we would learn, as in the laboratory, how to create a correct mutual connection between all.

If we try to do so, we can take a short, perfect, comfortable, and kind path with the wise leader ahead. If we don’t, we face a path of great sufferings. Baal HaSulam said that we’ve entered the era of Mashiach.

Now we discover that humanity is seeking its path and doesn’t know where to advance further. These are the clear signs of the era of the Mashiach (the Messiah) that will become more and more clear.
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Question: The crisis of 2008 showed that people don’t learn from weak blows. Could a global ecological catastrophe or even a nuclear winter already be embedded in the program of nature? And if they can’t be avoided anyway, is it best not to think about them?

Answer: If we are facing some kind of terrible catastrophe—biological, ecological, financial, climate problems or a nuclear war—it doesn’t relieve us from the need to act in order to avoid the blow. We cannot just wait calmly until it happens.

We have no right to think so, because we understand that it doesn’t end there. In his short-sightedness, a person thinks, “Well, if I die, then I’ll die.” But it isn’t as simple as that. We can’t die and disappear because we are in an eternal process inside the cycles of life, living and being born again and again.

All these births and deaths are, in effect, the renewal of our small animal desire to enjoy that gradually grows and develops, taking on new forms.

This circle can end only when we begin to build our soul from two opposite forces, egoism on the one hand, the negative force, and nature on the other hand, the positive force that we need to acquire and add to our egoism.

Midway between these two forces, we will be able to advance, and we must do it with understanding and awareness. There is a way of natural development—the path of suffering by which nature urges us forward.

There is also a way of hastening time (Achishena), to which we must move. After all, we need to rise to the degree of a man (Adam), meaning similar (Dome) to the upper force of nature, the Creator, who understands, feels, and realizes according to His desire and free choice the entire purpose of creation.

Therefore, we won’t be able to just bury our heads in the sand and say, “Well, in the worst case, we will die, but for now we’ll just live and have fun.” This is a childish approach to live, not suitable for an adult.
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New Life 829 – Religions And The Development Of Man
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

What does the return to religion today indicate? How did Abraham discover the upper force? What was the impact of this revelation on humanity and why did popular religion emerge?

There is a trend of returning to religion today as a result of the growing egoism. People are looking for meaning of life. Religion tells us that there is a force that manages us above nature, that we should believe in it and obey its commandments. We don’t need to “believe” in order to reveal the Creator; we need to work and to acquire the attribute of love of others.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 829 – Religions And The Development Of Man,” 2/14/17

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Question from Facebook: What is prayer?

Answer: Prayer is an appeal to the upper force of nature to correct one’s egoistic inclination.

This is the only thing that the upper force accepts as the right request, a desire, a sense of deficiency, that attracts a positive force, correcting this deficiency.

Question: And what about the millennia of prayers humanity raised in the course of history?

Answer: They cannot be considered prayers because only a request to correct one’s egoism and to replace it with universal love for everyone is called a prayer.

If you do not ask for this, you don’t appeal to anyone. The upper force responds only to this request because the property of love and bestowal is all that it contains. Whoever asks this force for the property of love and bestowal gets it to the extent that they have a true desire. Whoever doesn’t ask, doesn’t receive it. You can cry as much as you want about everything else, it’s “a voice crying out in the desert.”

Question: Then what is the purpose of the purposefully composed prayer books that people recite prayers from?

Answer: By reading these prayers, a person raises his desire not toward correction, but toward all sorts of personal benefits: money, health, and so on. None of this works.

Question: What should I ask for in order for it to be a true prayer?

Answer: You should ask only for a supra-egoistic property: bestowal and love of others. Everything else is a waste of time.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/3/17

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Question from Facebook: How do you deal with anti-Semites?

Answer: Anti-Semites are people who instinctively feel that there is a source of their good or bad existence within the Jews. Feeling their dependence on Jews, and at the same time suffering in this life, they hate the Jews.

We need to explain to them the real reason for their hatred and work together on correction; otherwise, we will not accomplish anything. It is impossible to annihilate the Jews because they must carry out their mission.

Even if an additional world war breaks out in which half of the Jews and half of the rest of the world are killed, in any case, we will ultimately reach the same common denominator.

It is necessary to explain this to everyone and to try to explain this to the Jews themselves, because they are the true opponents of the correction of mankind.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/1/17

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Maybe antisemitism doesn’t really exist?

In Nazi Germany Association of German National Jews supported Hitler. History is repeating itself: American Jews are voting against Israel

Jews against AIPAC2017 are against Israel’s existence, eager to renounce their Jewishness. This is the hatred that has destroyed the Temple

Since falling from love to hatred, we’ve hated Kabbalah & the unity that it teaches for 2,000 years now–this is the root of our suffering.

Naturally, the man exhibiting anti-Semitism threatening Jewish organizations is Jewish: by rejecting “love of others” we hate ourselves.

Jews will never be accepted in any society, because society will always feel their oppositeness due to their bestowal origins.

Egoistic #relationships in humanity have been determining all our history, but cannot continue developing anymore and must be corrected.

Let’s not fear robots taking people’s jobs. Humanity’s job is to reveal the Upper World in a corrected connection (love) among all people.

Kabbalah: it’s not man who must be corrected, but his connection to others. That is the quality of “human,” while the others are “animal.”

The growing ego causes a fractured society of 90% poor and 10% rich. This is fraught with war. Correcting the ego is becoming a necessity.

Jews are a people created by uniting different Babylonian groups. If lacking connection, hatred arises among them, and they oppose Israel.

Jews-turned-anti-Semites reject not only their heritage, but primarily their task to bring the method of connection for the entire world.
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From Twitter, 3/29/17

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