Question: What influences your opinion at certain periods of time? Students? Events? What makes you start saying certain things?

Answer: My opinion about the world, about its governance, about the system of governance does not change.

When this entire huge system, the upper world, and then our world change in their interaction, then I can also say something new and perhaps even relevant about our world and its interaction with the upper world.

In principle, this system is absolutely clearly built for me. I see it, I feel it, I understand it. If there are any changes in it, then we can talk about them.

If there were no serious changes in our world under the influence of the upper world, if today the corporeal world was not awakened from above to its balance with the spiritual world (because it is precisely the lack of balance that we experience as a general, global, integral crisis), then I would not talk about anything. I would study the wisdom of Kabbalah as a theory, without any connection with our world, which will be embodied in our world who knows when.

I studied it this way in the 80s and 90s and did not believe at all that I could live to see all this being clearly embodied. And suddenly, it started.

Kabbalah appeared in an explicit form. I see how all this is spinning in the world in accordance with the upper governance. And I see it clearly!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who Influences Laitman?” 8/20/11

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There are people in our world who understand that they can be confused by anything, but the main thing for them is to attain the upper world. I could be confused too. I remember the states I was in. From all sides I was told this and that.

But some upper precognition or simply my nature itself directed me in one direction. I knew exactly what I needed: I must really attain the universe, find its physical and mathematical apparatus, and reveal the formulas by which everything operates. That is what I found.

All this is clearly written in Kabbalah. You begin to understand the whole system of cause-and-effect development that you follow and attain. You attain it clearly in nature by forces, not by mysticism.

For adherents to other spiritual practices, this is completely unimportant. The main thing for them is to feel that they are flying. Well, fly! Most importantly, this is cheating, selling all kinds of fetishes to people.

At one time, Abraham broke the figurines of the gods that he was selling. This is when he really became a Kabbalist. But they still sell idols to this day. This is the basis of the delusion of humanity. How is it possible to agree with this?

But they, not understanding even this, come to me and say: “Let us connect.” That is, they do not even feel the difference. Do you understand the darkness people exist in?
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists do not Exist!” 8/20/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What movies would you like to see made?“

I have not seen a movie like it before. It would be one that leads its viewers to serious inner changes.

We would enter the movie as people who think solely about ourselves, who have no single thought about others. Or if we could think about others, then it would be only in order to get something from them. That is how we are by nature.

From such a state, we would need to start understanding that finding happiness in others is of primary importance. In order to undergo such a transformation, we need to change human nature.

What does it mean to feel our happiness in others? It means that when others feel good, we also feel good.

How could such a state be possible? On the contrary, we currently feel good when we are better off than others. Naturally, one way or another, we try to lower others so that they become lower than us. We thus need to reach the opposite: that we instead elevate others above ourselves.

If there were a movie that directs its viewers in such a way, then I would be all for it.

But it would be a flop. No one would get excited about it.

Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” on May 18, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Comment: A dream is in fact a hallucination, and for a certain period of time it is very realistic.

My Response: I believe that it is not worth talking about this topic because a person who is not engaged in Kabbalah will not receive any correct information from it. How can you talk to a blind person about what vision means? He would not understand anyway. He does not have any initial adequate sensations.

Our study is based on the fact that you give an example and show that you act by a certain analogy. And if a person has no analogy, if there is no rudiment of this feeling, then there is nothing to talk about with him.

For example, put a cat next to you and start reading War and Peace to it. What will happen? You can keep reading for a thousand years! This type of creature is not capable of perceiving what belongs to the human level.

Comment: But there are different categories of people. We speak as if dismissing straight away all those who do not understand.

My Response: We dismiss everyone, including beginner Kabbalists until they begin to attain the spiritual world, it is also unrealistic for them.

For the first few years of the study, a person is engaged only in preparing for the feeling of spirituality.

And when he has a spiritual feeling, then he will be able to contrast it to the world, speak, and see what is happening in souls and what is happening in bodies.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Hallucinations in a Dream” 8/20/11

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Question: Do you see the same picture of the world that I see?

Answer: No. I see the world in a completely different way—completely interconnected. In this rigid structure, there is a clear connection between me, you, and everyone else, like tubes that connect us together into one single system. Like balls and tubes between them, this is how I see the world.

In the meantime, each of us an egoist, closes himself from others. Thus, the system cannot do anything; there is no circulation in it. The circulatory, nervous, and lymphatic systems stop; life in the body stops.

Before, we could do whatever we wanted. Nature itself supported us from within because we existed in the development of our egoism. Now, we have reached the peak of development, we have become isolated among ourselves, and that is it. Now if you do not want to be properly connected with others, you will not be able to exist.

This is how I see the system, and very realistically. I see in it everything that humanity does and how anti-systemic it is.

Question: It turns out that you suffer the most from this?

Answer: On one hand, yes. On the other hand, I see that humanity will come to this anyway, even through great suffering. In what way, good or evil, I do not know, but it will come.

Therefore, if I have at least some opportunity to show something, to give some source without any connection with me, I do it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who is to Blame for the Pogroms?” 8/13/11

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Comment: There are people in our groups who have some positions in the world, but they do not want to reveal themselves because there is a certain image that they do not want to put on themselves.

Sometimes I am ashamed of what they do.

My Response: I am absolutely not ashamed because there is so much nonsense in the world, so much trash, so much garbage. From politicians, people of culture, science, art—what isn’t there? Everyone does stupid things.

If our people, due to misunderstanding, that is, without receiving proper training, begin to do something on social networks before they receive clear instructions, then I am not ashamed. These are growing pains. I am not ashamed of them.

They are like kids who get their diapers dirty. So what? This is a child, such is his age, he is not capable of anything else. He tries to do something well, but it turns out the way it turns out.

It is like when a child takes something delicious out of his mouth and brings it to you. He wants to share it with you, but he cannot do it any other way. Of course, you do not like it, you are not on that level. But it is better than when an adult sneaks up on you from behind with a baton.

Therefore, I am not ashamed of them at all. Of course, they should act differently, but these are growing pains and it will pass.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Millions” 7/23/11

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At present, the preparation of all mankind for the final correction of all religions is taking place. Islam is the right line, Christianity is the left line, and Judaism is the middle line.

In accordance with this, they make up their calendars. Islam has a lunar calendar, Christianity has a solar calendar, and the Jews have a generalized one: both lunar and solar.

Therefore, everyone has a problem with calendars, except the Jews. The Jewish calendar was created several thousand years ago with no amendments since then! Absolutely! There are no leap year additions, new time, old time, nothing!

It is based on the movements of the moon and the sun and is calculated to the nearest second. There were such great Kabbalists as Yehuda Ha-Nasi who compiled this calendar even before the collapse of the Temple. We have been using it since then.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kosher Pork?” 7/16/11

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Question: You say that intelligence comes from actions. How important are actions?

Answer: How can you do without actions? On the basis of what would you gain intelligence?

I keep performing actions like a child who does not understand anything. After all, you cannot jump to the mind right away.

There is a desire called “heart.” And there is a brain, a mind that develops only to the extent of desires in order to serve, fulfill, and acquire them. It coordinates the movements and directs me so I fulfill myself. This is our egoism that acts in this way.

That is, when I want to fulfill any of my desires (food, sex, family, power, fame, knowledge, and so on), then the mind turns on. But if there are no desires, then the mind does not turn on; it is as if it does not exist.

It is only a servant of desires. Therefore, the more a person is beaten, the smarter he becomes because he is looking for a solution of how to make sure he is not beaten.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mind is in Action” 8/19/11

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