Question: This WhatsApp quote went viral: “When TV entered my home, I forgot how to read books. When the car pulled up to my doorstep, I forgot how to walk. When I picked up my mobile phone, I forgot how to write letters. When the computer came to my house, I stopped valuing time. When the air conditioner came to my house, I stopped looking for a cool breeze under the trees. In dealing with banks and credit cards, I forgot the value of money. With the smell of perfume, I forgot the scent of fresh flowers. By always running, I forgot how to stop. And finally, when I got WhatsApp, I forgot how to talk and communicate with real people.”

Please tell me why all progress leads to this. After all, these are meant to achieve something different—to help a person out and make our life easier.

Answer: Progress doesn’t do anything by itself. It opens opportunities for us. But when we start using it, we use it egotistically for ourselves. And this is the result.

Comment: So you’re saying this technological progress could have been used differently?

Answer: It could not have been used differently. Our egoism would not have allowed us to do anything differently. Nothing! That is, reason is given to us in order to develop this technological progress, but then it all gets stolen by our egoism.

Question: Is this too done by the ego? This is some kind of a completely closed circle.

Answer: This is called “the recognition of evil.” We are led to the fact that these opportunities will grow and become endless. Eventually we will become their slaves.

Question: Is that why we like what was written? A lot is found on the Internet that makes us say “Indeed, this is true.” Do we like this quote because we understand that this is true, that this is how it is, that our lives have in fact been damaged?

Answer: Of course. This is a train that cannot be stopped. This is what we are faced with.

Question: Are we damaging ourselves?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there a way to turn it around?

Answer: There is no way. Our egoistic nature will not allow it, will not permit it.

Question: So what is your conclusion? Should we stop technological progress, or do something about it?

Answer: We have to balance it with internal moral progress. Then everything will be fine.

Question: So should we be given weapons only to the extent we can use them?

Answer: To the extent we can use them for the good of everyone.

Question: Then one last vital question: why are we given weapons if we are unable to use them for the benefit of all?

Answer: To realize the evil of our nature and demand the opposite force, the good force. Then everything will be corrected.

Question: So you are saying that we will be given weapons of destruction, the most terrible and vile. Will we keep getting them and will we not be stopped until we stop ourselves?

Answer: Right.

Comment: This doesn’t sound too optimistic.

Answer: Everything is ahead of us.

Question: I see. But the Creator, the upper force, can He not say: “Enough! I cannot give you these toys anymore. You use them for self-destruction.”?

Answer: Then why did He even start giving them?!

Let us learn how to live correctly before it’s too late. Otherwise, our learning will take place in very unpleasant states.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/30/23

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Humanity is in a huge deception because it does not want to explore nature. It does not want to scientifically explore itself and the world around it and only trust that.

If our desire and our perseverance went further into nature, it would bring us to the level of Kabbalists and would open all the worlds.

And how did the Kabbalists comprehend them? Only based on his desire to know the world as it really is: “I want to reveal everything! Is there a Creator? Reveal it! Is there a Higher World? Reveal it! Angels, beasts, devils, ghouls, reveal them!

I want to see everything, find out! Everything down to the smallest laws! I want to consist of everything, to absorb the whole universe, all the worlds!”

If we were not limited by our selfish desires, petty weaknesses, and religions, then we would all be on a completely different interplanetary, interstellar level! We would not be connected with this earth, with this world at all. It would all be somewhere in our lowest feelings and perceptions. We would be completely outside of all these restrictions!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Evolution of Discoveries” 10/31/11

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Question: How do we set our heart in order so it can unite with others? What helps us to tune in correctly?

Answer: Open your heart and do not close it to your friends in the group. Try to do it.

We are now on the eve of the congress. Try to prepare your heart to be open to other friends you will meet in person or virtually during the congress.

In this case, in your common connection, you will feel that even silence can be very powerful. After all, when you come closer together and connect, there is a contact of the hearts. We need nothing more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”

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Question: People cry in joy. People cry in grief. What is crying?

Answer: Crying is a small state when my desires, what are called Kelim (vessels), cannot accommodate the impression I get. It causes an eruption of excessive stress that I cannot handle inside in the form of tears.

Question: To understand what it is, one has to know Kabbalah. Do you hope people will reach a stage where they will listen to your explanations and clearly understand what it is about?

Answer: Of course! Undoubtedly! We will communicate with each other not verbally, but on an internal level, and we will fully feel each other, integrate into each other with our hearts, minds, feelings, and thoughts—absolutely everything!

It seems to us that our bodies limit us. In fact, we are tied up in one common web, in one common network, but we cannot reveal it in any way.

Now it is revealed to us as a crisis. “Crisis” in Greek means the birth of something new, not anything negative. This is the next degree of connection between us.

But we are not ready to be at this level of connection yet, so we do not know what to do. We want to stay on the prior egoistic level, the way it used to be. Nevertheless, we need to reach the next level of our unity, where we are connected not by words, but hearts and minds.

Then our bodies, our world will gradually disappear from our senses. Their importance will disappear, they will simply fade away, and we will remain plugged only into this single network between us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Transmitting Information Through the Senses” 10/31/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What does wholeness mean?“

We can understand and appreciate wholeness when we sense the upper force of love, bestowal and connection enter our lives, because only that force is truly whole.

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, that upper force is called “the Creator” and also “Nature,” i.e., the Creator and Nature are treated synonymously as the force of love and bestowal that has the ability to change us so that we experience wholeness by attaining the same trajectory in our intention as the upper force.

That is why the purpose of studying Kabbalah, in the beginning, is to attain the sensation of the upper force. Beforehand, we cannot understand what wholeness is, and the upper force chooses to reveal itself to us precisely in our most incomplete qualities.

Based on chapter 11 of “The Kabbalah Experience” by Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: I stopped being an example for my ten. It was important for me to awaken the hearts of my friends, but my selfishness has dragged me very deep inside and nothing helps. How can I get out of this state?

Answer: You must set an example for everyone about how to get out of this state. And no matter how you feel, you just need to open yourself up and connect with everyone. That is all.

Previously, the Creator gave you strength; you were a beginner. But now you have become wiser, you have all sorts of reasoning, and therefore you must appeal to the Creator.

You need a connection with your friends so that you can help each other achieve a state where you all demand intervention from the Creator.

Question: What should we ask and demand from the Creator during our common prayer?

Answer: You must ask for only one thing: to rise above your egoistic heart to the request for mutual unification. After all, each of us is just a small particle.

If we unite, then we will have the power to demand, ask, and convince the Creator so that He will raise us spiritually so we will not remain broken, separated, and worthless.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: Why are there so many allergies now? What is an allergy?

Answer: An allergy is unresponsiveness, a negative reaction to something.

What does it mean: “I’m allergic to you”? That is, I do not tolerate you, I have a negative reaction to you, I have unpleasant feelings while being in contact with you. This is an allergy. Today, it is manifested in absolutely everything. The fact is that we have poisoned everything that gets into us: air, water, and food.

After all, a person is a factory for processing what goes inside him. And all we take in are poisons, the type our body cannot process.

These are not natural poisons like eating spoiled fish, meat, fruits, or vegetables. You made such modified products yourself; you polluted the water and air yourself, which cause unnatural reactions in our body. Therefore, the body simply rebels, it does not know how to cope with it.

Allergies manifest themselves in us in almost everything. It is the basis of all disease, all our problems at the sensory, mental, and at any level, because we have been viciously poisoning ourselves for at least 100 years.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Allergy Treatment” 10/28/11

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Comment: You once said that the Star of David has nothing to do with Judaism.

My Response: The Star of David is not found in any of the ancient Jewish symbols. Scientists say it is found in the East among the Hindus.

This symbol is called the Star of David because his army used to make shields in this way. Two triangles superimposed on each other protected the shoulders and head of the warriors, and the central part served as a double protection.

For us as well, these two triangles add up to a Kabbalistic system. But, in general, we have neither historical nor Kabbalistic facts that the Star of David is a star. Even in Hebrew, it is called Magen David (shield of David). That is, it is not a star, not a symbol, but a shield with which the soldiers defended themselves.

All 40 years of his reign, King David fought and wrote psalms. He was at the same time a statesman, a judge, and a commander, so he had to be at the highest moral level. To this day, his psalms are used by people all around the world. This is the most widely read book.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Star of David” 10/1/11

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