Question: The German company Ectolife made a video presentation a project of an artificial uterus for carrying children. They showed a huge field of capsules, artificial uteruses, with fetuses inside them, very similar to the movie The Matrix.

In the video, they assert that the fetuses are provided with everything necessary, classical music for brain development, and the voice of parents to establish an emotional connection. The head of the project says: “We reproduce ideal conditions.” He says that parents will be able to see the entire growth of the child, and mothers can even feel how the child moves his legs and so on.

How do you feel about such an experiment?

Answer: I think this is pure fantasy. This is impossible.

Comment: The egg is fertilized in a test tube and implanted in the uterus.

My Response: Implanting into the uterus is another matter. But I think we are still very far from creating such conditions as in the uterus. We cannot imagine the influence of the mother’s body on the fetus.

Comment: It is possible probably. After all, technology can come to all these things.

My Response: I doubt it.

Question: Do you doubt it? What if they could? Will such children be able to appreciate their parents because there was no process of birth?

Answer: I cannot answer that. I doubt it would be children at all. These would be some kind of artificial formations.

Comment: You are saying that there will be as if no soul in them.

My Response: There would be no soul; there would be no connection with the mother’s body.

Question: And neither music nor the voices of parents would help?

Answer: No, as soon as we start making such serious attempts, we will see that it is practically impossible.

Question: What if, let us say, it would be possible, is the maternal instinct triggered in this case or not? Or should she feel it all, endure it, and carry it through herself?

Answer: I do not think it can exist if she did not carry a baby. If she did not carry it, then how could she even feel it as her own?

Question: Should the mother somehow feel all this during these nine months? The pains, and all these conditions?

Answer: Yes. I think that we still have a lot of discoveries in this matter, and as a result, we are not even getting close to it yet.

Question: Do we know whether we will get closer?

Answer: It seems to me that we will abandon this venture.

Comment: But there are some women who cannot give birth.

My Response: This is another matter; we need to help here. There are all kinds of methods for this. But even these methods must take place in a living organism, in a healthy, living organism.

Question: The last question: would it be some different organism, that is, will there be no soul in it? When you say “baby’s soul,” how is it formed?

Answer: Who can know that?!

Under the influence of the father, the mother, and the environment, and all those generations that they have passed. All this is not simple at all.

Everything that takes place inside the mother is being formed and transmitted to the future person.

Question: That is, during these nine months of gestation, do lives and different states pass there?

Answer: Yes, we feel it, in principle, in ourselves during our life—what exists within us and how much is in us from our ancestors.

Do you want to cut it all off somehow?

Question: Will it not work?

Answer: No.

Comment: You once said that we do not even know two percent of what is going on there.

My Response: Of course. In the nutrition of the embryo, no matter if the material one or not, the important thing is that he is connected to his mother.

Question: Do you think that the methods will remain the same natural ones and we will not defeat nature in this?

Answer: No. We do not even have to defeat it. We just need to learn from it and try to do everything possible to support it to give it the best conditions for the correct, ideal development of the fetus in the mother. In general, this is a science that has not yet begun.

Question: The great Kabbalist Baal HaSulam in the 10^th and 11^th parts of The Study of the Ten Sefirot describes birth and development. Gestation in seven and nine months, 40 days, etc., everything is described! What is the connection between all this?

Answer: Absolute connection.

Question: Is this the connection of spirituality with everything that happens inside the mother?

Answer: Of course. Physical connection is a consequence of spiritual connection, a consequence of spiritual development. There is no way to avoid all this.

Question: Does it mean that what is going on there, all this mystery is, in principle, revealed in the spiritual world?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: What if we could somehow get in there?

My Response: What for? When we are ready for this, we will slowly begin to understand this. If we had received this knowledge today, we would have started to do something out of it.

Question: So, is there a meaning in these words—the secret of conception, the secret of birth?

Answer: Yes of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/30/23

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The wisdom of Kabbalah explains those spheres in which we are not yet in our sensations. It tells us in advance what we should come to. The greater the force of bestowal and love for the other you acquire, the higher is the sphere to which you will rise, and you will feel more and more comfortable, eternal, infinite, and perfect.

Kabbalah explains how the system of the universe is arranged. In principle, it is arranged very simply, on the combination of only two forces—reception and bestowal. But since this system is not revealed to each one individually and I do not feel that I have some kind of force of bestowal or reception, I do not contact them and do not operate with them, so it is difficult for me.

For the individual this is purely speculative. But if you take psychology, it will also begin to explain such things to you. In principle it explains to you about you, but you do not discover it in yourself, and therefore everything seems very complicated to you.

Kabbalah is the closest science to us. It speaks about our soul. What could be closer? The human body is a temporary piece of flesh. You can transplant organs from one person to another and do whatever you want with it.

The soul, however, is mine constantly, forever. I identify with it. I am the soul and not the body. Everything in the body can be changed; everything can be replaced except the soul.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Head Over Heels Inside the Donkey!” 2/2/11

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The wisdom of Kabbalah tells us about the soul, about the closest and most innate thing for everyone. It explains what to do with this internal structure, how you can develop it, and begin to feel it. After all, your “I” is hidden somewhere very deep within you, and you do not feel it at all. You exist in your animalistic body, which lives for some period of time and dies.

Imagine that your dog, pig, or donkey lives next to you. And you are kind of inside them. Your thoughts are in this donkey, your desires are in it, your motives are in it, everything is in it, in this donkey that stands next to you. And you yourself do not exist. You are near it, but you do not exist. Absolutely everything that is in you is in him.

This is how we exist in our world, without even imagining that we have to get out of it, break away a little, and find ourselves existing separately from the donkey standing next to us. Let him stand, let him live, and let us give him the most necessary things. It needs nothing but water and a bag of grain. Give it good grain and it will be content with that.

Everything else is the soul. But we do not even touch it, we do not tear ourselves away from our donkey.

Question: Do I still somehow associate myself with this donkey?

Answer: All the time. You live in it. Apart from that, you do not have a single thought of “Who am I?” This is what you do not have—disconnection from the donkey! You are up to your ears in the donkey!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Head over heels inside the donkey!” 2/2/11

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Comment: In our world, we always identify a person through their appearance. I see someone and activate my inner perception of him. It turns out that identifying one by his physical appearance is, in fact, incorrect.

My Response: Of course. Until we begin to feel a higher level, a person for us represents the parameters we can feel, that is, his appearance along with his character and qualities. This is all corporeal. The next level is when we begin to feel his soul.

Question: Do you mean the feeling of his soul in the material world?

Answer: There is no soul in the material world. The material world is a dimension where everything is arranged according to the principle of receiving. While the soul is a quality of bestowal. Therefore, it cannot be felt in the material world.

Question: But you say when we gain spiritual perception, this world does not disappear. So while in this world, you can also perceive another world?

Answer: Yes, you feel another dimension. But they do not overlap because they work on different properties, like radio frequencies.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Organ Transplant” 1/9/11

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Question: How is the soul of a child formed?

Answer: Who can know that?!

Under the influence of the father, under the influence of the mother, and the environment, and all those generations that they have passed. It is all very difficult.

Everything is there inside the mother, formed and transmitted to the future person.

Question: Meaning, during these nine months of gestation, lives and states pass there?

Answer: Yes. And we feel it, in principle, on ourselves during our life—what is in us and how much is in us from our ancestors.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/30/23

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Question: What is the correct definition of a soul?

Answer: The soul is the part of you that you attain.

The soul is our root where we are in complete merger with the Creator, as two forces: our receiving and His giving. This upper state is revealed to us gradually, according to 125 degrees of attainment, which Kabbalah speaks about.

The term “Kabbalah” comes from the word “receive,” i.e., to attain this upper state. Therefore the gradual revelation of our root, this ascent along 125 degrees, is what we have to do.

We will attain the truth, the only eternally existing state, our root, in which we will merge completely with the Creator, the force that created us.

By reaching this state, we will come to full similarity, equality, and equivalence to the Creator Himself and become His absolute partners in the universe.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Soul” 1/9/11

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Question: What is death?

Answer: Death is when a person feels completely cut off from the eternal, upper, perfect existence. There are not many such people in the world.

The rest are considered simply non-existent. They feel neither life nor death, that is, neither life in the upper, eternal, and perfect space, nor death in disconnection from it.

In other words, life and death are felt only by those people who are already in contact with the next layer, with the next dimension.

Otherwise, we are at the animalistic level of existence like all animals. Let’s say you raise chickens or piglets, and when you need them, you slaughter them and eat them. That is how we are. Only we “eat” others, we are rarely eaten. Usually we die for other reasons.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Death” 1/26/11

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Question: What is life?

Answer: Material life is a form of existence of protein matter.

Spiritual life is a feeling of being filled with light, not just with light, because there are many different colors in the spiritual world. For example, the light of Chaya is the light of life, a very great light of receiving, feeling, filling with life–giving power, and knowledge. It is called life.

In the spiritual, our protein matter is not considered life at all because, in fact, it does not exist. In the spiritual world of bestowal, there is nothing that we feel with our five senses in the material world.

Everything that we are observing now is not in the spiritual world at all because it exists only in our imagination, in our egoistic desires.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Life” 1/2/11

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Comment: In corporeal life when one person meets another, they identify each other by their faces, the way they look, and not by their inner qualities.

My Response: This is because they feel only our world.

And I feel my teacher, who is no longer in this world, not by his beard and appearance; I feel the person.

Even in the corporeal world when you live with someone for a long time, you just start to feel him. He becomes for you some internal image, not external.

It is the same in spirituality. You feel the souls. I feel the inner energetic spiritual component of my teacher and not the physical body which has long decayed.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Organ transplantation” 2/3/11

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Question: There is a psychological attitude called “postponed or delayed life syndrome.” This is when a person perceives his life as a draft or a rehearsal before something big and meaningful, which will come later in the future, as if people are going to live forever.

There is an example of a senator who wakes up and suddenly prestige and political success no longer are important to him, despite the fact that he is a politician. He really wants to enjoy life: have breakfast with a friend, be in the company of his wife, and read a book or a magazine.

What happened? He was diagnosed with cancer. Is this really the only thing that can prompt a person to suddenly wake up and start living?

Answer: Of course! Undoubtedly! When he is certainly promised a close end, everything else just disappears from the horizon and loses its importance. Everything.

Question: Does everything that was the most important thing in life suddenly become vanity? Is this the kind of fear we should experience?

Answer: Of course! Precisely! It is like Woland said in The Master and Margarita. One cannot escape that.

Comment: Actually, this does not really say why the mind is given to us, to Homo sapiens (wise men).

My Response: It is only so that we realize that this is how we live. As soon as the end is clearly known to us, then everything other than the end can no longer interest us.

Question: Do we suddenly start looking for real values when we know the end is here?

Answer: But what can we find if the end is here?

Comment: This senator found some simple truth.

My Response: Go for a drink, have a meal with friends and with a woman, and so on. All this also happens after the reassessment of these events and values. Therefore everything loses its taste. There is nothing left here but to live every second that you have so that you feel less pain. That is all.

Question: And more enjoyment?

Answer: He just needs drugs and that is it. Switch off calmly, my friend.

Question: Then what do you call a true moment that was lived correctly, with dignity?

Answer: I am not in favor of living for just one moment at all. That is not my philosophy.

My philosophy is that life should consist of such moments constantly, from moment to moment, again and again. Then it will be possible to think that this cancer, or some other fatal disease, or the end in general, which everyone has by the way, are not important. And then a person will clearly understand what is given to him, why, for what, how he should live it, what to leave, and what to do with himself.

Question: What should we invest in these moments? Let’s say I agree with you: live every moment and prepare for the next moment.

Answer: Elevate yourself above your animalistic nature and as quickly and brightly as possible,  more effectively achieve the quality of bestowal and love, which does not relate to our world. And thus, as they say, prepare yourself for the future world. That is all. It will be a very effective use of this world, this life, for the sake of the future world and the future life.

Question: Do you think that when a person is given such a limit, called an “incurable disease” or something, it is done precisely for this?

Answer: Yes, for this! It is necessary to prepare people who will serve these so-called unfortunate. I do not consider them unfortunate. I believe that they have been given a great opportunity to correct themselves, change themselves, and raise themselves to the level of the next world.

Question: To the level of this love?

Answer: Yes. May they enter it with no problems.

Question: Does it turn out that those who remain in this world that burn it with the pleasures of this world are the unfortunate ones?

Answer: Yes. The others can already rise to this in advance! Suddenly they see there is no disease. Then the question is: Why did I do all this? 🙂 Someone deceived me so meanly.

Question: Yes. The doctors will say, “My dear, everything is fine with you.” Is this such a trick that the Creator does with a person? Are you really for such tricks?

Answer: I am in favor of deceiving a person so that he solves the correct equation with his life and death. And in order for him to change his life based on this decision.

Question: Does the word “deceived” not bother you?

Answer: No, of course not. This is an egoist! He should be deceived big time! We should trick egoism all our lives, the way it tricks us now. This is already a serious, borderline deception.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/4/22

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