Question: How do we affect water? Through what?

Answer: Through our thought! And our physical actions.

We treat bodies of water as a landfill into which we can dump everything. Look at what is happening to the oceans! They already have areas that are garbage dumps.

When the garbage settles to the depths, including plastics that never disappears and other waste, it lies  on the ocean floor, covers corals, and prevents fish from burrowing into the sand. In general, this is a terrible thing! What we have done is irreversible!

It can only be corrected through our inner attitude. When, at the human level, we begin treating each other with care and love, then we will call forth certain forces in nature, and all indestructible waste will disappear.

Today we have already crossed the point of bifurcation and are moving toward death, irrevocably so without any possibility of going back.

On the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, we have messed up everything. In the public area, we also, as they say, have reached the end. There is only a world war before us, nothing more.

If we can turn ourselves back, then, of course, we will change something. But if not, as Kabbalah says, here will be the place of our burial.

It makes no sense to create a family and give birth to children in such conditions.

Therefore, a person instinctively understands, “Why should I do this?” That is, people who do not have the Kabbalistic methodology but look at the world realistically, understand: “I live involuntarily. I would like to live normally, quietly, calmly, die in due time, and that is it. But why children?! Why give birth to them, and what to do with them?” This is how the gradual extinction of humanity occurs.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Great Mystery of Water” 8/20/11

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Question: Can the teacher himself make mistakes on the spiritual path?

Answer: He can, but certainly not at your level, only at his own level where he constantly makes mistakes and constantly corrects himself. Naturally! Absolutely correct!

You cannot take a single right step without tripping and checking: “Why did I fall? What is the matter? It should have been done like this! I will redo it now,” and you are doing it right.

The next step is the same. Any degree, any state begins with the revelation of an error in it.

According to the same principle, our earthly nature develops when the next degree negates the previous one, annuls it. This is the recognition of the previous degree as a mistake in relation to me but not in relation to the state when I was at the previous degree.
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KabTV’s “I Got A Call. How can You be Trusted?” 8/27/11

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Question: How can a person be  initially protected from mistakes on the spiritual path?

Answer: There is no way. He is like a child; until he bumps his head and breaks a couple of glasses, he will not succeed. This is how we live, only by recognizing our mistakes.

However, we can create such an environment that these mistakes will be minimal, and it will be possible to learn from them instantly. It depends on the environment. But it is impossible to protect against mistakes.

The child must fall, otherwise, he will not take care of himself. He must prick himself, hit himself; otherwise, he will not understand what this is. It is impossible to raise it in a closed capsule. Then he is a person unfit for life.

He must reach his destination. To do this, he needs to accumulate a certain amount of impressions in order to work with them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Harmful pity” 8/22/11

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Comment: We get new people in the world group all the time, some of them disappear somewhere, but there is always some kind of backbone that practically does not change.

My Response: I do not control it, it does not depend on me. I give what I give. A person listens. If it is close to a person’s soul and it has already developed to such a level that he can continue further, then he stays; if not, he leaves.

If he can annul himself a little in front of a group that has already been formed, he stays; if not, he spins in outer orbits, he comes once every couple of months for holidays or congresses, virtually participates in some kind of communication, and that is all. There are many of them; I do not count them.

I am not interested in quantity at all. In spirituality, the most important thing is quality. That is why I go forward all the time, dragging the others with me, pushing them; I see my main job in this. After all, what you put into others remains and does not die with the death of the human body. It goes further in the entire cycle of souls and brings all mankind closer to the goal. This is the most important work.

In addition, we do the same work at the level of the broad masses of the population; that is, we distribute  the science of Kabbalah in a more acceptable form for them. The Internet and social networks are ripe for this.

We see that more and more people agree with us, understand that this is necessary, and that in this way they are given a very serious opportunity to advance to the extent of their participation in the distribution of our materials in virtual networks. They will really be able to advance because they really participate in the unification of the world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Millions” 7/23/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why is there still antisemitism and what can we do to stop it?“

Antisemitism will not end until humanity develops to its final harmonious and peaceful state of balance with nature.

Why? It is because human egoistic nature, which makes us wish to enjoy at the expense of others, pits us up in opposition to nature, which is an altruistic force.

The desire to come into balance with nature is present in people only as a tiny point, and this desire lies dormant in most people underneath layers of egoistic desires. This tiny point of a desire is rooted in the altruistic force of nature. Thus, our egoistic nature hates this desire, without knowing why. That is the root of antisemitism, and it makes people come up with all kinds of reasons for hating Jews, that they steal, plunder, and lie, or that they have long noses, ears, horns, and so on.

Today, humanity needs upgraded explanations as to the reason and purpose for its existence, to understand the processes taking place at the level of its desires. The more we understand how nature works on us, and how we can optimally adjust our attitudes to the trajectory of development we find ourselves in, the more we will spare ourselves from all kinds of blows. Nonetheless, we can expect more suffering to befall humanity, which will also help us all wake us to a new kind of perception and sensation where we balance ourselves with nature’s altruistic force.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hatred of the Jews” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 14, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: You said that the Creator and I will be in the same connection as like talking to a person. How can such communication be imagined in the center of the ten where we unite? How does our interaction with this center with this connection happen?

Answer: If you connect with each other in the ten, then to this extent you can connect with the Creator and start a dialogue with Him. And then you have to identify what questions you have. Write them down, scrutinize them between yourselves, and with whatever you find necessary to appeal to the Creator, that is what you address Him with. These can be questions, wishes, all kinds of greetings. Only in short and from all together.

Question: And what I feel from the connection, and I turn from this connection to Him, does that count? Or do we need to formulate a question literally in the ten?

Answer: It is better if you formulate a question, discuss it, and only then ask it together.

Question: What does it mean that Kabbalists ask the Creator a question from the connection? What are they waiting for? Do they want to hear the answer, feel it, see it?

Answer: This is the rise of MAN, the rise of Hisaron, the rise of desire, the rise of what they lack, to get closer to the Creator.

The goal is to get closer to the Creator. Rapprochement can be in the equivalence of qualities. So, all the questions are about how similar our desires are to the desires of the Creator.

Question: Is this a request: “Help us to come to the similarity of You,” or “Tell me how to do it”?

Answer: All this. Only if this is your joint desire, which you have discussed with each other, formalized, and are now raising it together to the Creator, then it will definitely find a place for Him and invoke an answer.

Comment: You said earlier that there will be the same communication with the Creator as with a person.

My Response: Of course. It is even said: “So that the Creator is not a stranger to you.”

Question: How will we feel the connection with the Creator, His answer? What will it be expressed in?

Answer: Ask and start feeling in yourself, start looking in yourself: “In what thoughts, feelings can I sense the Creator? He sent it to me; He definitely sent me an answer right away. And where can I find it within me, in what code, in what language? How is this done?” It is like in computers. It is necessary to look for it: where is His answer?

You can have it in your thoughts, in your intentions, in your connections with your friends. Start digging, poking around.

Question: If He has already sent an answer, when did He send it?

Answer: He has no time, no problems. Usually, His answer is ready before you ask. Because your question also comes from Him, from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/21/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Comment: Suppose before going to bed a person is still quite alert and asks to be woken up at a specific time in the morning. But when he is being woken up in the morning, he simply cannot get up. Is there a similar state in the spiritual realm when a person cannot rise?

My Response: It is precisely this state that is very clearly manifested in the spiritual realm.

What does it mean to “go to sleep” from a spiritual point of view? You are immersed in the next level where you understand nothing. It is like a dark night for you. You have no orientation within it as if you are asleep. During such “night” states, which you work out very thoroughly inside yourself, you bring yourself to the morning.

How do you know that you will come in the morning and there will be a light that will illuminate everything from within (you will begin to think, feel, understand), and suddenly this state will begin to manifest itself as wakefulness, as awakening?

This happens because by leaving the previous state where you still had control over yourself yesterday during the day, you have already laid the foundation in advance to awaken again, but on the next level.

You connected yourself in advance with the general managing system and completely disconnected from the possibility of doing anything in this darkness.

How does a sleeping person know that he will wake up? Where does he have this internal alarm clock?

He kind of turns it on inside himself. We do not have this in our world. But in the spiritual world, we deliberately perform special actions as if forcing the surrounding nature to awaken us. That is how we work with the environment.

And then it turns out that it works in such a way that we wake up, meaning a person’s eyes open to that night state that is now turning into day. What was unclear, completely incomprehensible and entangled suddenly starts to manifest, unfold, be realized, and sensed. So, instead of night, day comes.

So, what is the problem then? The thing is that there is no night or day outside of me. But when I begin to feel new sensations, a new mind, new thoughts, new understanding, it means that what used to be perceived by me as night is now perceived as day.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Sleep” 8/13/11

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Question: Is it possible to acquire a spiritual mind through actions?

Answer: Of course! But only if we act purposefully.

What kind of purposeful action is in our world through which we can acquire a spiritual mind? Just one—to group together. This is what nature is offering us now. It offers a not very good method, but, in principle, this is its method. That is, there is pressure on our desires, and we have no choice but to obey.

Question: What is this submission?

Answer: It is in that we make unreasonable movements and just act for the connection between us.

Question: What are these unreasonable actions?

Answer: Unreasonable means those that I do not understand yet: Why they should be, how they work, and so on. But this is what children do and this is how they grow up.

Kabbalah calls us to do the same. It says we have no other choice. If we want to grow, if we want to understand where we are and why we are so unlucky, then we must act as nature shows us. Nature challenges us to connect with each other and become like it.

Therefore, Kabbalah calls: “Connect, be global and integral, like all of nature! See what it shows you. In your egoistic disparate connections, you cannot regulate anything, and you cannot control yourself and society.

Since nature has turned around and now shows you that it is one, you also must be one with it and with each other. As soon as you begin to act like this, you will immediately acquire the mind and realize that a completely different program is operating here.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mind is in action” 8/19/11

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