Question: Do you ever have the feeling that we don’t have time to manage to do something?

Answer: The feeling that “we don’t have time” isn’t relevant for me. I am already an elderly person who knows how much time I have left. I simply want to see a clearly assembled organization that is connected to the masses and to the Creator, and begins to work seriously. This is an organization called the “State of Israel.”

In this case, the State of Israel is not a geographic concept. It consists of different interconnected functional blocks, part of which operate in order to sustain themselves both physically and spiritually.

The part that is connected to the Creator is the Kohanim (Cohens – priests). The part that provides the ideological basis is the Levites. The part that provides the material basis is the people. And together they all tied to connect with all the outside world, and they have many connections with the masses, with all countries, and with all of humanity. This is how it all works.

If I could at least see a prototype of such an organization, I might not be in such a hurry anymore. And although it’s already looming, it is not enough; there is no clear contact with the general public; there is still no contact with the Creator,

The contact with the lower and the contact with the upper are mutually dependent and we are in the middle. The more we manage to approach the general public successfully, the more will need the Creator correctly, and will thus receive help from Above.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/19/13

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Question: Is it possible to develop an integral model of the economy?

Answer: In order to develop a model of an integral economy, people need “corrected intelligence,”  thoughts that will have an altruistic direction. He must stand on another level of his inner development. To the degree that people will be re-educated in a conscious manner, to that degree ideas of the right changes for all social relationships will appear in them: economic, political, and others. Therefore, whatever models that will be created now will absolutely not be useful for the integral society.

It is not necessary to establish anything in advance. This was the mistake of the Soviet government that decided to compel everyone to be altruistic through starvation, oppression, and the KGB, and not education.

Question: But wasn’t this the mistake of Marx and Engels?

Answer: No! Marx wrote correctly! After him opportunists appeared who reinterpreted his writings. Whereas Marx wrote that first it was obligatory to re-educate people and only to the degree of their education could they create a correct communistic society.

Historically, how did all models evolve? First someone planned them and after that they were created? No! Humanity developed naturally and permanently transformed its social, political, economic, commercial, and other connections.

It’s the same here, it is impossible to plan and establish something in advance. A person can never describe the next step ahead, because he is not yet in it. And even if he is in it, so what can he explain to those people who are on the previous level? They cannot build what is characteristic of the next level.

First they themselves must rise to it in their understanding, awareness, and feeling and decide which changes are imperative for that given moment in time. They will gather together and say: “Now we need to change this and now that.” And gradually they will be changed.

This is evolution and it must be revealed from within. We only hasten the process so that evolution will not advance rigidly as it did for thousands of years, when the powers of nature pushed us from behind with a stick towards happiness. We want to yearn and advance forward ourselves.

But all in all, the angles of transformation will be derived only from a conscious need; otherwise, this will be the same KGB, oppression, and dictatorship.

Suppose that we were to create a method for changing society now. And then what? We would obligate everyone to put it into practice? But this would be the same oppression, dictatorship, and violence. This is no longer education or upbringing. Therefore, we call our method Integral Education and Information for the public. It cannot come from above!

There is no reason to turn to historians, philosophers, and the like. In what way can they help us? Would this be through today’s usual exercises that don’t work anymore? From them only examples from the past can be taken, but they don’t know anything about the future.
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From Kab TV’s “An Integral World” 11/27/13

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Question: What will happen to us if human life is gradually devalued?

Answer: The value of human life has nothing to do with the number of people on earth but with our attitude towards each person. Unfortunately, we don’t feel any loss when someone dies. We don’t even value our own life as we should, since we don’t see any meaning in it. In the past life and death were respected. People used to mourn the deceased. After all people valued life.

Today, when we can provide everyone with a relatively healthy affluent life, with good education, can help people stand on their own two feet and to become vital and value life, the desire to live disappears. If we could speak frankly to all the people in the world, they would say that they live against their own will. Of course, it’s scary to think that one might go to sleep and not wake up, but if they were offered to end their life that way, painlessly, they would agree. Many people in the world feel that their life is meaningless and don’t want to experience and to feel what they feel as living. This means that the meaning of life is in need of re-evaluation.

Today many people who are depressed and take antidepressants gradually move on to taking drugs that are becoming legal so that they can be in a good mood. When a person is “high” he doesn’t become a burden on society and society doesn’t have to worry about his death. With drugs, you kill him in a nice civilized way.

This is the best, simplest, and cheapest solution for the elite. They have already won against the giant cigarette manufacturers and the legalization of drugs has already been taken to the next level.

Comment: But this is not a correction.

Answer: The authorities have no other means to correct people, and why would they do that?! It isn’t their goal. They don’t see the future. They will realize the need for correction only when they have no choice. Another solution may be a war that would “cleanse” the earth and leave only one billion people and a clean environment. This is clearly an ideal solution for them and they would undoubtedly agree to that since the most important thing for them is to rule in a normal organized world. There is no point ruling and managing this madness.

However, the problem is that today, when a global connection is revealed in the world, it’s impossible to predict anything and they discover that they are gradually losing control. They cannot understand that nature is managing us and that it is bestowal and absolute love. Nature reveals its oppositeness in order to draw us to it and to help us reject the egoistic nature we are in now. The elite don’t understand this, since they don’t understand the reasons for the current crisis.

The decision makers believe that the current crisis is a result of over production and don’t understand that it’s caused by the descent of the upper force into our world as it gets closer to us. This force is absolute goodness and absolute love, and so it is revealed in our egoistic desires as a force that is opposite from us. Eventually the need for a change has to be evoked in them, but they can understand this by the upper force only through us, and for the time being they don’t hear us.

The upper force that gradually descends into our world forces us to see that there is one leadership, one goal, and one way to advance in this world. But many don’t ask themselves yet: “What is this goal? Where is it leading us? How?” It’s clear that there is one force, one idea that comes from Above, but the process itself and its purpose isn’t clear yet.

I believe that it will happen soon. We should hurry and explain these things to the public. It’s more important than showing them what we can correct, so we are mainly busy with this issue now because the most important thing is to disseminate!
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From Kab TV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/19/13

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The evolution of man throughout the history of his development is attempts to find pleasure in our lives, fulfillment, preferably eternal and absolute. But in the end, we always reach a “dead end” because the pleasure is momentary, transient, and imperfect.

When a person begins to understand that, then he is ready for us to talk to him. Otherwise it is useless, he won’t listen to us.

Question: But the people who study Kabbalah and are familiar with its principles go through this path quite quickly. When you see the system, then you don’t have to run after the pleasures of the moment.

Answer: The people who come to the wisdom of Kabbalah have not yet solved many of their problems. It seems to them that they can solve the problems with the help of this wisdom, and then afterward are disappointed, leave, and then return in the next reincarnation, or if time allows, they return in this lifetime.

Question: But this wisdom greatly shortens the way.

Answer: No! Knowledge will never help against sensations. You can tell a person anything you want, but he will, in any case, do what he wants and not what he knows.

We were created from the desire to receive. Our brain is designed only to show us where it is possible to receive these desires the most quickly. We are like dogs searching where the pleasures are according to the sense of smell. Our desires lead us, thus there is no possibility to shorten the path.

5,000 years ago, in all Kabbalistic books, it was said that at the end of the 20^th century humanity would begin to be discouraged from its egoistic development and then the discovery of the wisdom of Kabbalah would be possible. And until then, it was forbidden for the Kabbalists to talk about it, and everyone thought that it was some kind of signs, mysticism, fortune telling, magic, and miracles. Only in our days is the science of Kabbalah being discovered. Many still don’t want to understand that because they haven’t yet escaped the old ideas about it.

Until our times we had to go by the path of suffering and disappointments within egoistic development. But from our days onward when we have reached the point of complete disappointment, it is possible to advance forward. And here we have a choice: Either to continue by way of suffering, or to prefer the way of the wisdom of Kabbalah. But to go by the way of Kabbalah means to begin immediately to rise to the next, upper level. This means to create a second level, parallel to the lower level.
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From KabTV’s “Talks with Michael Laitman,” 9/27/13

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We must constantly be concerned with the unity that is attained, the “raspberry ball.” For a moment, we are able to hold our own, looking for ways to change, to renew our unity. But this is possible only for a brief moment that is enough in order to understand that we must have an external factor here. This external factor is the entirety of humanity. If we want to keep the raspberry ball, our connection with the Creator, we must extend outside to the external world.

There is a story that the Baal Shem Tov got this answer from Above to the question, “When will the Messiah come?”: “When your teaching spreads outward.” In other words, our entire mission is to hold our connection with the Creator and we require outsiders, not in order to hold and keep the raspberry ball, our unity, but we need this raspberry ball and ourselves in order to serve all people. That is, we don’t use the outer community in order to hold onto the raspberry ball; rather, we hold onto the raspberry ball and ourselves in order to serve the people.

These are very important observations. The words seem simple, understandable, and quite close, yet in fact, this is not so simple. That is how we gradually begin to see the integrality, the global interface, the connections, the unity, the Arvut (mutual guarantee) that dwells in all of nature.

We discover that all of the levels of the physical world: the nature of the still, vegetative, and animate, which we didn’t take into account before, are in fact included in one indivisible whole. The entire universe, the entire perceived reality, our entire inner world, and our contact with the Creator are connected in one system. That is how we reach an understanding of the integral world.

In this fourth stage of the path, we are beginning to clarify and determine how much we need the general public, that without it we cannot satisfy the Creator, and how much the Creator doesn’t want us but specifically that outer circle of the general public, all of humanity. That is how we attain our function and our mission. We must disappear; this is the role of the “kingdom of priests”; we don’t exist on our own; rather, we serve the general public, all of humanity, and the Creator. And in this we see our exalted role. We have no part in this or in that; rather, we only connect between them like a conduit. And this is good, for with this we truly can be closest to the nature of the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/14, Lesson on the Topic: “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: It seems to me that the mechanics of mutual cooperation of the Creator with the creature (the desire with the pleasure), which we learn about in the wisdom of Kabbalah, is impossible to use in our lives because it’s impossible to translate it into an understandable language; it’s impossible to use it….

Answer: It is possible to use it but only in partnership with the higher power; otherwise, you cannot use it. You cannot use it in another form: on one level, in an egoistic manner, or on two levels, egoistics altruism. Rather the second level must create Light in you which you summon according to a unique method called the wisdom of Kabbalah.

The essence of Integral Education is to show all people who are not involved with the wisdom of Kabbalah that through their correct connection in alliance with us, under our guidance, they will create conditions so that the Upper Light will create favorable conditions in them. And nothing more is necessary! After all, you see they only want their lives to be  comfortably organized. Food, sex, family, money, respect, and knowledge; this is the sum of their desires from start to finish, but in the framework of material life. This we cannot promise them.

All of their desires will be fulfilled 100% on condition that they will be connected in the right way under our direction. For from the first practical lesson, really from the first minute of our work with them, they begin to feel that there is a unique key here. We don’t deceive them; we don’t promise anything beyond the clouds; it is purely a practical method.

Therefore the wisdom of Kabbalah is ready for use. But to understand how to use it practically is possible only under the leadership of Kabbalists, because otherwise you cannot create on the one plane, in which most of the masses of humanity exist, the conditions for two parallel planes, two levels.
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From Kab TV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 9/27/13

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Question: The only way to create mutual cooperation between the upper world and our superficial world is the right connection according to the integral method. Together with this, do we need to explain to people how the world is constructed and how to cooperate with each other?

Answer: The integral method is very simple because it’s a practical method. Through participation in workshops, people begin to feel changes taking place within them, yet they don’t understand why. So we explain to them that it happens as a result of this, that we awaken the general characteristic of nature. Nature is one and unique. Its unique power manages everything and therefore our method is called “Integral.” When we attract this unique power to us, it is revealed in us and accordingly we feel completely different properties, new movements within and between us.

When we explain the integral method, we relate it to cosmology, evolution, the structure of the human spirit and body, and so forth. Each one who finishes the course receives a general picture about creation, human evolution, and human history and where it has reached today. The person begins to understand that this is a natural process that was predetermined. For nothing exists by chance in nature and the condition today is not accidental.

In order to pass from the present state to the next state, there are two ways: unconscious evolution, which is called the “path of suffering,” or conscious development, which is called the “path of Light,” the higher unifying Kli. When we explain this to people, then the changes that are happening in the world according to that picture, that formula we present to them begin to be understandable to them. They see that this is truly happening this way in the world. Moreover, all of this is based and relies upon natural, scientific laws.

After the minimal course, let’s say ten lessons, a clear picture of the world is created in the person, something that  politicians, psychologists, sociologists, or anyone has. This picture is required for him to become a wise person, Homo sapiens, perceiving the system of management. Before him open great and wondrous possibilities for his development that ultimately help him to open his eyes and use this world to rise to the level of the only directing power, the power of the Creator. Therefore his life takes on meaning.
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From Kab TV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 9/27/13

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The moment we attain the first point of unity and the first point of adherence, then already in the next moment we feel our powerlessness and despair. Indeed, it appears that we are a just a drop of semen.

This entire raspberry ball, our cherished goal, our lofty dream, is in fact only one specific point. This means that we have brought this entire world to one initial point, to the first level of the spiritual ladder.

So what else do we do with this one small point? We need to grow it, but with what, because we have already done everything that was possible in the connection between us. And now the next stage is presented before us, the fourth stage of advancement within which all of humanity is gradually included, circle after circle.

We have now reached the state of a “nation of priests.” Each one of us has already played his part as a “first priest” (Cohen) for the friends; that is, a “priest” symbolizes that he has nothing of his own and has no thought of himself. For his entire inheritance is the Creator. The priests have no inheritance and no property, but only work in the Holy Temple. This Holy Temple is the level of Bina, meaning everything is for the sake of bestowal.

That is how we begin to understand the significance of the rest of humanity. Up until now, perhaps we thought that besides the group we don’t need anything. But now we begin to understand that if we don’t join and include within us all of their external deficiencies, then we won’t have anything with which to turn to the Creator. As it’s written: “For you are the smallest of all nations”; in other words, we have no more deficiencies. And therefore it says “smallest,” for this refers to the quality and not the quantity. Our desires are very small.

It follows that we need to increase the significance of the goal relative to all of humanity, to begin working with the public. For this we must study the history of mankind: clarify why we have gone through this entire way. Understand that the goal of creation includes within it each and every person and even the nature of the still, vegetative, and the animate. But the moment that we correct the relationships between people, with this we also correct the entire world of the still, vegetative, and the animate, the whole environment, and the climate. We only need to begin to work with humanity correctly.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/14, Lesson on the Topic: “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: I have doubts about collective decision-making. It is impossible to sit in a circle for hours and discuss every question. Maybe after a discussion like this one person will still make a decision? Otherwise, this will take too much time.

Answer: I think that people mostly will be engaged in discussions only in circles like these, and regarding work, it could be that they will work for an hour per day and perhaps not at all. All of their time, they will be looking for solutions about how to be like the Creator. In that, they will see that this is their main occupation, and they will get pleasure from this. In the meantime, we don’t understand how something like this is possible, but this is how it will be!

This will be the center of their life. Besides eating and the necessary care for the physical body, all the rest of a person’s business will be dedicated to this: 24 hours per day in thought and 15 hours in action. The person will be involved constantly in creating a tighter and tighter connection with others, more internal and emotional, physically or virtually, until we begin to discover that the physical body doesn’t exist at all, and this entire world will begin to be seen as imaginary.

Every decision will be accepted collectively. This is natural. From where can someone know better than others? Even now, it works like this. In large societies, hundreds of people participate in management and critical decision-making. How can one make a decision if what yesterday seemed to you as completely correct, today is simply ridiculous and vice-versa?

A person is not ready to do anything alone. If he wants to be like the Creator, how can he continue to work alone? This is no model that makes it possible to set yourself up in the right way. Therefore, today, we have no other option. The times of the talented people, the prominent politicians, the economists, the leaders have passed. The manager of today is not at all higher in any way than the others and is not ready to make the right decision. Everything is in decline. After all, we started a new development and it must be collective, integral!

So, we advise all the managers in all kinds of societies to organize and assemble groups for making decisions. This is already happening now because people intuitively feel that a decision like this is more reliable. It’s only that now they gather and argue, and each one promotes his opinion. However, gradually, they will discover from their personal experience that in this way it is impossible to reach a decision. Apparently, theoretically, everything is all right! However, in practical life, this is not okay. It doesn’t yield good results.

So, then they will listen to our advice and accept that the group must clarify issues, not through argument between them, but through self-nullification of everyone toward the center of the group to clarify the opinion from above. The Creator must be present in this, which will give them a perfected solution. Our decisions and solutions are already called integral.

For a discussion like this, there must be ten people. Therefore, in government, there are all kinds of committees; there is the assembly. Even from egoistic self-benefit, people understand that it is no longer possible to hand over the entire government to one person as to kings in the past. There must be connection, either egoistically at least or spiritually.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/2/14, Lesson on the Topic: “9 Steps”

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Question: Should people who want to study the integral method be in touch with Kabbalists, with the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: The integral education is merely an introduction to the wisdom of Kabbalah, just like arithmetic with regard to mathematics. It is essential in order to explain to beginners what our method is about and its place in our world, what questions can be solved here, and so forth. This is a serious study!

People cannot do anything by themselves. They cannot focus themselves independently so that they will feel the integral connection between them, which will raise them above the ego. They must learn that. The connection will appear by drawing the upper force.

So, for a long time, people will need a leader who is on a higher level. This is how it will spread, according to the natural hierarchy. There is no other way! Nature will force them to deal with it in any case.

The integral method also can be rooted freely in every social class. It can be suitable for housewives, for school children, for factory workers, for pensioners, for everyone.

Let’s hope that we will be able to solve the problem of humanity even if it may seem paradoxical that such a small group solves such a great global problem.

Humanity always has experienced such turning points under the leadership of one leader or a small group: in ancient times, during the Renaissance, and so on.

A sharp turn usually is made when the right state is ripe, and all the needs and the problems have been clarified, and it is impossible to go on as before anymore. Then, one unique solution suddenly comes up, usually from a small group of people or even from one person. Let’s hope that things will go smoothly.
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From Kab TV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 9/27/13

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