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External Barriers And Spiritual Communication

507.03Question: A wide variety of people are trained in integral education courses. They may include a professor, a locksmith, or a millionaire. Everyone is used to a certain form of communication. For one person, some jokes can cause complete disgust, for another it is normal. What are we supposed to do in this situation?

Answer: I don’t see this as a particular problem since we are dealing with an area of communication that none of them are currently in, even because of their past activities and interests. So it doesn’t matter what sort of people will be in the group.

There are, of course, certain stages of development that help intellectually developed people quickly grasp what the science of Kabbalah says. But, in general, it doesn’t matter. If we are talking about the spiritual development of a person and the spiritual connection of people, then absolutely different people can take part in this.

Question: In other words, such external barriers as language, traditions, even, perhaps, the form of clothing, cannot interfere with communication?

Answer: No. This is completely out of the question.

Question: And if untidily dressed people who do not observe hygiene come to the courses, is it worth making a direct remark to the person? And who should do it?

Answer: The moderator. He should warn people to come in clean clothes even after work. It doesn’t matter if it’s a doctor or a worker from the workshop, a chemist or a mechanic from the garage. All of them should come to classes in such a way that others feel comfortable with them.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/14/20

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959Question: Is virtual connection enough to develop an individual as a person?

Answer: In the future, virtual communication will be of a different quality. It will only be the basis for the development of sensory, internal connections that cannot be transmitted through verbal or physical communication.

It just seems to us that we are somehow in contact with each other. We need to establish contact with our hearts and thoughts rather than physically when we are opposite to one other and thus perceive and are impressed by each other.

Question: What new sensory organs would you recommend developing for better communication through virtual connection?

Answer: I would advise people to learn to live only in thoughts so that we would all try to be connected together in one thought called the “thought of creation.” In this thought, we would understand each other, merge with each other, and reach a connection with the thought that governs the entire universe, the entire creation, and in which we must all be included.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/7/20

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A Sign Of Perceiving Information

560Question: There are critical moments in life after which the amount of information that is left in our memory drops sharply. It is assumed that during the first minutes after information is perceived about 25% of it is forgotten, after a couple of hours about 50% is forgotten, and after a day 75% of the information is lost.

A teacher’s goal is to diminish this loss. Is it enough if everyone in the group sums up one or two sentences or writes down a short summary of the conclusions? Will that somehow help preserve the information in our memory?

Answer: No, the information will remain only if there is a constant use for it. If not, nothing will remain.

Comment: Many students say that during the lessons they understand everything, but they leave the lesson totally empty.

My Response: That’s great!

Question: What’s so good about it? A person sits for three hours, listens to a lecture, and the moment he leaves, nothing is left in his memory.

Answer: It means that the information has actually entered him, and is now inside him.

Question: Will I be able to retrieve this information and use it when I need it?

Answer: If you could remember all the information that you have absorbed during your lifetime, you would not be able to think, to decide, to discover anything. You would have no voids in your emotions and in your mind in order to work with the information objectively. Your memory would be like a computer, full of data.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 7/24/20

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What Will Motivate People To Work Together?

600.01Question: Economists today point to employee motivation as one of the biggest challenges. Workplace conditions, bonuses, and salary increases no longer work. The basis of motivation has changed recently, especially in the era of coronavirus. What advice can you give people who cannot find motivation in themselves?

Answer: I think we will soon come to such a state when people will start howling in anguish like wolves at the moon. Then they will understand that they need the most serious motivation, strength, and ability to get out of their absolute hopeless state. They will start looking for someone who can give them this motivation, and they will come to us.

Question: Research shows that a boss who has the skills to listen to a subordinate is 13 times more likely to motivate an employee to stay in their workplace than a salary is. Do you think this has a future? After all, for many, the pay is the only reason to work.

Answer: No. We will reach such a state when a person is satisfied with his material condition so much that he will not have the motivation to work like a slave. He will begin to look for only a creative component in his work. I think we’ll come to this soon.

Question: What, in your opinion, is the most effective way to motivate a work team?

Answer: Connection and the achievement of a special goal is precisely in unity, where huge layers of work on oneself and with others are being revealed. A person will begin to reveal such inner possibilities of his own and others that he will see what incredible events are taking place in and around him.

Question: So people doing collaborative work will get energy from the fact that they work well together?

Answer: Not only. If they are properly linked with each other, then they will find among themselves an emotional, spiritual, upper state that gives them a reward that they will not see in any profession. They will perceive everything directly from the desire for self-realization in a team.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 8/28/20

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Who Should Run The Virtual Community?

961.2Question: How do you think the virtual community should be managed and by whom?

Answer: It should be a special spiritual organ that will regulate all properties, all types and forms of our communication. It should be above everything else and represent a cohort of great Kabbalistic thinkers who could give commands to the world, and the world would understand that it is desirable to listen to them.

Question: What about those horizontal connections that we have today are no longer working?

Answer: Those laws that are being established today in connection between everyone are purely selfish, purely forceful laws.

Question: Could a virtual world government be created in the future?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/7/20

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 8/7/20

281.02Question: Do you like to meet new people?

Answer: More or less.

Question: What do you think is the most disgusting feeling?

Answer: The most disgusting feeling is when a person refuses to accept another person’s position.

Question: Why is gossip the force that destroys relations between people?

Answer: It is because people are made of pure egoism that is absolutely stiff.

Question: What are you proud of?

Answer: I have nothing to be proud of in particular, perhaps the fact that I can sometimes ascend above myself.

Question: Who are the people living today that you respect and why?

Answer: I respect all the people who are looking for the right way of life, what it comes down to, the goal it is leading us to, and for what purpose. It is as if a person pushes a heavy cart his whole life, trying to find a meaning.

Question: Do you respect your students?

Answer: Yes, I respect the attribute that nature has given them of wanting to attain the goal of life.

Question: Do you respect yourself?

Answer: Only what I was given by nature as an opportunity to develop.

Question: Do you display your emotions openly or do you restrain yourself?

Answer: Neither, I simply act the way I am.

Question: How do you protect yourself from the great respect that you receive from others?

Answer: I don’t feel it.

Question: Which feeling of the whole spectrum of emotions and feelings that you have prevents you from uniting?

Answer: Not feeling the greatness of the Creator on high levels. I really want to attain this feeling, but I don’t have it yet. This prevents me from advancing.

Question: What is the main attribute that helps you attain your goal in life?

Answer: Persistence in attaining the goal. Whatever happens I advance toward it.

Question: Shame is the most hated feeling for a person. Can you recommend how to control this feeling?

Answer: Accept it.

Question: How should one respond to the expression of love and respect from other people?

Answer: He should try to lower it by humility, since it prevents a person from advancing. A person does not need to be
too emotional about the good or evil around him, for him, or for his sake.

Question: What is friendship for you?

Answer: Friendship is a feeling of connecting to others in order to attain the goal of life.

Question: What are you willing to do for a friend?

Answer: To work with him toward attaining this goal.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 8/7/20

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Nature’s Reaction To Human Relationships

294.2Question: A norm becomes truly moral only when the requirement contained within it is realized by the person as an internal command to himself. Under what conditions does this happen?

Answer: In order for a person to reach such a level, he must be raised, shown that it works this way, and then from what actually exists around him, he will see that he cannot act otherwise. We must achieve this state.

Now, we are moving toward the realization that our interactions, whether good or evil, have tremendous impact on the whole of nature. It is not even necessary that our they are expressed in some kind of mechanical action since human thoughts also affect our states to a large extent.

Comment: Indeed, today, when we are in quarantine, we see how fragmented society is. There are the more selfish strata of society and the less so, the former observing the rules of quarantine and the latter not.

On the one hand, we understand that without mutual guarantee we will not be able to cope with the pandemic. On the other hand, nobody wants to give in. There is no general culture or general education.

My Response: Because we do not see an obvious interaction or an explicit reaction from nature to our bad relationships.

Comment: We do see! People are dying! This is already clearly visible.

My Response: But I do not see this in personal examples. I don’t see that if I scold someone then, the next day, I die, myself. Therefore, we must come to such a development that a person feels that his evil attitude toward another kills both himself and his opponent.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/9/20

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Social Networks As A Place To Express Emotions

962.8Question: If before a person was overwhelmed with some positive or negative emotions and could share them with several friends, today he or she can share them with millions of people. Does this opportunity develop us as people?

Answer: No, this is nonsense like what happens in kindergarten. What does a person share? What emotions do others get from him or her? How do they react to this? All of this is at a primitive level and does not mean anything. After all, what guides each of us is just everyday egoism.

Question: It is becoming increasingly difficult to express one’s thoughts and emotions verbally, especially for the younger generation. In addition, many are embarrassed by spelling illiteracy, so people use emoticons, likes, and other symbols. Do you think we are going back to cave times or is this some kind of development?

Answer: I think it’s a good thing. These are not cave times.

In cave times, there were no restrictions on the transmission of information except for technical ones. Today, there is a restriction on the transfer of information because the information itself simply does not exist; it is very flat. Therefore, it fits into emoticons without any problems.

The degradation is not due to the emoticons but by itself. Emoticons are the by-product of this degradation.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/7/20

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Moral Conventions And Laws Of Nature

125Question: Social norms can be divided into several types. There are ethical standards such as giving up your seat to the elderly on public transportation. There are legal regulations such as the prohibition of smoking in public places. There are religious norms regarding the fulfillment of some types of commandments. There are political norms pertaining to establishing certain laws. There are also aesthetic standards, etc.

You often say that love for one’s friend is a law of nature. What is the difference between moral conventions and laws of nature?

Answer: Moral conventions are the laws of human behavior at a given moment. If, in the past, harsh methods of communication were considered proper, even to the point of treating each other cruelly, later these norms changed and became softer, and then even more friendly and so on.

As egoism grew, man kept developing a code of moral norms in order to co-exist with each other more correctly. Thus, we arrived at our present state. In principle, this is the same egoism that governs us and dictates all the norms of our interconnection.

Question: So if norms keep changing throughout history, they cannot be attributed to the laws of nature? After all, if it is a law of nature, it should not change.

Answer: Over time, our egoism changes and we change along with it and establish new laws accordingly.

Question: Who determines whether love for one’s friend is a law or not?

Answer: We don’t define anything. We can only uncover this law of nature and reveal that it exists. In the measure that we recognize how universal it is, we begin to apply it in our lives.

Love of friends is nevertheless a law. It is above us. Therefore, the level of our development dictates how much we want to implement it.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/9/20

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Everything Stems From Egoism

959Question: There are two main principles of virtual communities.

First: free horizontal connection, everyone can communicate with everyone without an intermediary.

Second: an opportunity for everyone to find their own place, that is, to become a completely different person, not like in reality.

Do you think these principles will help a person in personal or spiritual development? After all, today we have the opportunity to communicate with everyone, and I can communicate with millions.

Answer: On the one hand, this certainly is a good thing. But the point is how we use it. You are talking about technical capabilities. But what do they contain? That is the problem.

Question: The Internet allows a person to act as if from a distance, without being physically present in society, and make some contacts, interactions, communication. Is this a manifestation of the growing egoism?

Answer: Everything stems from egoism, there is nothing else here. We must understand that we cannot escape from ourselves, from our nature. As soon as we start to correct it systematically, we will naturally come to a qualitatively new type of connection between us.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/7/20

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