In the News (The Telegraph): “The European Central Bank is becoming dangerously over-extended and the whole euro project is unworkable in its current form, the founding architect of the monetary union has warned.

“‘One day, the house of cards will collapse,’ said Professor Otmar Issing, the ECB’s first chief economist and a towering figure in the construction of the single currency.

“Prof Issing said the euro has been betrayed by politics, lamenting that the experiment went wrong from the beginning and has since degenerated into a fiscal free-for-all that once again masks the festering pathologies.

“‘Realistically, it will be a case of muddling through, struggling from one crisis to the next. It is difficult to forecast how long this will continue for, but it cannot go on endlessly,’ he told the journal Central Banking in a remarkable deconstruction of the project.”

My Comment: The entire model our society is based on is disappearing. There has been no real growth for several years. There is hidden unemployment and hidden debt. There is a revolution and global reorganization, the elimination of traditional political parties, but nobody understands the reasons for what is happening.

The cessation of growth signifies the collapse of egoistic development, which spawned from the ape to the human and has brought us to its logical end. The human developed more than his ego, but before its death, the egoistic development factor will flare up and obligate us to fight and kill, requiring new victims. World Wars III and IV lie ahead.

We think that it is a restoration of the role of states, but it is apparent that this is a temporary trend. The move to a global humanity, not a global market and a worldwide bank, but namely a global society, will take place through back and forth motions, like a cat swaying, before it pounces.

After all, the old institutions must be replaced with the new—institutions of an altruistic society. And for that, first of all, man himself must change. So the crisis is not aimed at political or economic institutions, but at the whole of society and each of us.

The leaders of the European Union believed they understood the trend toward unity on a political and economic level, but our natural development is compelling us toward unity on the deepest level, on the level of our egoistic relationships with each other.

We should stop crying about the lack of financial growth; it will never happen!
We need to stop thinking that globalization will increase general wellbeing. We must realize that we are developing not as a result of politicians’ decisions but through the power of nature and its laws; we need to implement them!
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Comment: In his writings, Baal HaSulam wrote about a fourth world war. Is there a potential for two additional world wars in the program of nature?

Answer: Human development occurs through four stages of development. So if we are talking about global upheavals, it must also go through the same four levels of the developmental system because egoism also develops according to what is called the four phases of Ohr Yashar (Direct Light).

Global upheavals, and in particular world wars, develop through four phases unless we cancel them through preliminary actions, by connecting among us in spite of our egoistic tendencies and egoistic aspirations in thinking only about ourselves.

We must understand that even in this way we are in full mutual cooperation, in full association with each other, even if we don’t want to be. Today the world is proving to us how much we are connected, but we are connected through a harmful and evil force, an egoistic force. So we must hurry to correct it.

Understandably, the potential exists for all the bad phases of our development when nature is whipping us and determining all of our states.

But at the same time, there is a possibility of developing more rapidly than nature compels. This is possible only when we long for unity, not because nature is spurring us to advance through suffering, but when we do so voluntarily. This is the desirable way because we develop rapidly and in a good way, avoiding suffering such as third and fourth world wars.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/10/16

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In the News (The Telegraph): “A Frenchman claims his employer gave him so little to do that he suffered from ‘bore out’ and is now demanding €360,000 (£283,000) in compensation.

“The term ‘burn out’, when employees collapse due to stress and overwork, is well-known but Frédéric Desnard, 44, from Paris, has accused his ex-employer, a prestigious perfumes company, of subjecting him to something far worse: being bored stiff. …

“‘I went into depression, …’ he told AFP. … He was fired in 2014 after seven months’ sick leave.”

My Comment: The world is entering into a period of final degeneration. It turns out the owner has to take care of the employee’s spirits and not burden him with work such that boredom will not cause his depression. This is simply crazy. What kind of claims can be made of an employer? Which laws and agreements say that employees must be 100% occupied with work? Perhaps, on the contrary, the employer should pay less according to the amount of work.

The fact is that in today’s world, especially in Europe, there are laws that can be manipulated, as wrote Lenin, ”The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them.”

This is modern democracy. Egoism grows into such a miasmic state, that it isn’t necessary to speak about reasonable rights and claims.

If a person feels uncomfortable and dissatisfied to a certain degree, he has the right to turn it against the state, the employer, against anyone. The main thing is that he has enough money for a lawyer.

Comment: It is amazing that the plaintiff has no complaints about himself even though he received pay for idleness.

My Comment: Egoism, our only main characteristic, always enables us to defend ourselves. We see how humanity avoids any attempt to do something with its egoism.

Comment: This is proof that it is not so easy to spread the wisdom of Kabbalah in the world.

My Comment: Of course. At least I don’t see any world conferences dedicated to uprooting or correcting egoism.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/4/16

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In the News: (Fondsk): “Unconditional basic income, or bank-oligarchic dictatorship abbreviated AML ( ‘unconditional basic income’) is now in vogue among those who study and describe the emerging trends in social policy. AML can be defined as a guaranteed monetary income for every citizen, the receipt of which is not dependent on any preconditions. The only condition is that the person belongs to a particular state jurisdiction. At the same time, the amount of money received by a citizen, must provide him at least a minimum standard of living. In other words, the AML is to release a person from being a ‘slave’, depending on work as the source of his existence. …

“If we sum up the expectations ascribed to AML, they can be summarized as follows:

• Poverty reduction and mitigation of social and property polarization;
• Mitigation of the possible negative consequences of scientific and technological progress, which in the coming decades can dramatically reduce the needs of the economy for labor and significantly increase the scale of unemployment;
• Reducing the ‘slave’ according to a person to work as a source of its existence, and at the same time creating conditions that could help a person to devote himself to his favorite occupation;
• Reducing the burden on the state, which has to deal with the distribution of social assistance today. …

“Therefore, skeptics say that the AML system can trigger an increase in poverty. From the introduction of AML only those who are at the bottom will benefit . There will be a leveling effect of poverty at a total absolute and relative increase in the number of poor in the society.

“Other skeptics emphasize that economic growth would slow down or even recession begins. People prefer an idle life, reserve of army labor will be reduced and may even result in a shortage of workers. And to overcome this deficit will require higher wages in the economy. Simply put, the economic development will be complicated for the reason that the money from production will be reallocated in the sphere of consumption, violating the established proportions of the economy.

“There is another large group of skeptics who fear that the introduction of AML will stimulate immigration of large masses of people to the countries with the AML system. …

“The elimination of social programs and a sharp reduction of the state apparatus and officials who serve, would provide the lion’s share of the money needed for AML payments. …

“I will assume that the interest of Western society in programs of ‘unconditional basic income’ (AML), are warmed by the global oligarchy. This is part of the overall project of transition to a new world order. The model of capitalism today, for many reasons, has exhausted itself, and the world oligarchy … is launching its global ‘restructuring’. Namely: to build a new slave system, clean up the planet of the ‘surplus’ population and form of a ‘new man.’ …

“AML – is a continuation of the course of the global elite toward human decomposition. First, the owners of money cultivated greed and the desire to consume, and now the cult of idleness. Man is easily definitively transformed into an animal. AML is intended to speed up the process….

“In addition, AML is a means for the final dismantling of the state. … People are left alone with the giant corporations, which are gradually replacing the state. In fact, AML – is not absolute income. It is very dependent on the will and the decisions of the owners of money, which is enough to hold their Kabbalistic manipulations with the money, so they became worthless.”

My Comment: Where did they get “Kabbalistic manipulations”? From a global conspiracy?

The fears will become true if the unconditional income would be given without implementing it hand-in-hand with integral education, warns the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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In the News (YourNewsWire.com): “Wakingtimes reports:
The world’s people are held in perpetual bondage to the fiat currency money masters who have saddled us with absolutely insurmountable debt obligations which are mathematically impossible to repay. At present, the CIA estimates the total global debt to be nearing $90 trillion. …

“The gross world product, the nominal value of planetary human endeavor per year, was recently estimated at $78 trillion, meaning nearly an entire year of the productivity of every man, woman and child on planet earth, some 7.4 billion people, is owed to someone, but who exactly no one really knows for sure. How is this possible? …

“After years of investigative research into the trillions of dollars missing from the U.S. government, former Wall Street banker and former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, Catherine Austin Fitts has come to the conclusion that global debt may very well be owned by off-planet entities who operate planet earth as a real estate investment.

“‘Is earth an open or closed economy? I went to business school, I worked on Wall Street for eleven years, you know I’ve been involved in the economy my whole life and the whole time I was invited to assume that earth was a closed economy. So, if we issued debt, then other humans owned that debt. If we issued stock, other humans owned that stock. But if you look at all the economic experiences I’ve had over my whole life, in government, businesses, everything else, what I will tell you is, you know, if you ask me to describe the economic model on planet earth, I would say, “well planet earth is a real estate investment trust because we’re paying a dividend some place every year, and I don’t know where it’s going. It’s going into that question mark, on the planetary balance sheet.”’

“While she admits that she herself does not have the answer to this rather serious question, the fact that each year a major portion of the world’s productivity evaporates into thin air, with no accountability whatsoever, does indeed beg this question to be asked by any serious economist. Even the government accounting agencies responsible for tracking and recording our expenditures can do nothing to answer the question. The money simply vanishes, the debt grows exponentially, and no one can explain who exactly the beneficiary is.

“‘Let me bring it down to some of the important questions you have to ask if you ask the question, “is this an open or closed economy.” I got great statistics on who would issue debt, but for the life of me I couldn’t get great statistics on who owned it. I don’t know who owns it. I know they control. And they control through the debt because that’s how you control a company in invisible ways, by controlling through the debt. Who owns the debt?…” ~ Catherine Austin Fitts”

My Comment: This global world product is swallowed by global egoism! Moreover, our planet is not a closed system because egoism is universal, yet we haven’t cancelled it and replaced it with altruism. Egoism will continue to swallow our efforts without giving us any answers about income or debt. If we add the efficiency of our efforts and sufferings, etc., the collateral damage, it becomes clear that there isn’t a less productive enterprise than life in an egoistic mode.
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Comment: More and more European youth do not to work and prefer receiving social benefits. This is particularly widespread in Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, and Ireland. It was customarily thought that the economic crisis would displace inefficient people and the young would go forward, begin to study, develop a career, and take their place. But the youth actually prefer to sit on welfare.

My Comment: The reason for this is not that people are lazy. They have no incentive and so they become lazy. Everything depends on whether or not there is something that lights up a person’s egoism. Money and a career no longer provide a person with an incentive, they don’t pull him forward. This is no longer the candy he would run toward, like a child.

Question: So what does a person do when he sits receiving public welfare?

Answer: Nothing, he sits from morning to evening on Facebook, his whole life. We see what is happening there. And what will happen when this is over?! It is frightening to even think about!

It is only possible to imagine what kind of deep cry from billions of people will break out from total darkness. They won’t have anything to fulfill themselves!

I would not want to live during this period. A person moves through a state where he is unable to hear; he must realize and feel that he no longer grasps anything. He is imprisoned within himself. There are stars, but they don’t release the light, and here nothing enters. One has no desire. One is so extinguished that he doesn’t even absorb sounds from the outside.

Our future could become so dark.

I hope that before this happens, people will begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah and will understand that the meaning of life is truly discovered within it. I hope that I am preparing the ground for this because this is the remedy.

What is important is that humanity move toward us. They have nowhere to turn. They will come and stand by our gate and shout: “Give!”
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 9/5/16

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Comment: An immense amount of capital has accumulated that is actually outside the world economy; it exclusively performs the role of accumulation of wealth.  Experts have suggested using this wealth to establish a colony on Mars. They say: “Why invest where we are? Why not implement this someplace else, like on Mars, and make it a huge global project that will require substantial human resources.”

My Comment: That is, they are saying: “We have nowhere to go on Earth, we’ve messed up everything here so it’s better not to continue. Let’s take on Mars. Let’s make a big project of a few trillion dollars, and invest all the dead capital in it.”

For what? It doesn’t matter. We will be in business. The only problem is—why?

I fundamentally disagree with this approach, which shows that people don’t know what humanity should be engaged with. Humanity must engage in self-correction, in self-transcendence.

We are on the level of the animal world. The next level we must ascend to is the level of the Adam (Man) from the word “Domeh” (similar), similar to the general higher integral force. We need to bring humanity to a state of general unity where all of us together will be one single system called Adam, and then we will begin to feel the next level of existence, the next step.

Now we are in the framework of the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature, and in this sense we are animals. We have only the beginnings of the next level to which we must ascend, the level of Adam. We can reach this level only if we connect between us into one integral system and transform to become like the general nature of the world.

If we do this, we will begin to feel the next level, and then we will see the world in an absolutely different state: eternal, perfect, and not limited by the framework of our bodies. It will gradually disappear from our sensation, and we will feel that we exist only within the connection between us, which is called the soul. This is the state we must reach.

Question: Would you specifically invest all the sums of “dead” capital in this?

Answer: Absolutely everything! I would do everything so that humanity would provide itself with only what is most necessary and all other efforts would be directed to connection between us because that is how we begin to ascend to the next level called Adam.

Then, we would have no need to turn to planets like Mars. It won’t give us anything. We do not find life anywhere in the universe, not even primitive life. Therefore, there is nothing to rush to somewhere billions of light-years away; it would do nothing for humanity.

Qualifying for the next level, above the speed of light will not happen through the construction of physical engines because matter cannot move beyond the speed of light. We can move above it if we acquire the characteristic of bestowal, because it is built on the departure from ourselves; it operates with anti-matter, with the characteristic of bestowal instead of reception.

And then we will truly go not only beyond the solar system and space, but beyond the boundaries of the universe, to the next level of existence. There are completely different conditions, completely other levels there, and that is where we must develop.

By going out to the next level, we become detached from our bodies; it ceases to exist for us. We dwell in the power of bestowal only, in the connection between us—this is the future of humanity. And this is not fiction because such a condition was described thousands of years ago in the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Why do we need some kind of Mars? We can travel beyond time, above the speed of light, instantly at any point in space, adding all kinds of space, and opening up new worlds. Let’s begin this journey!
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 9/7/16

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Question: From the point of view of Kabbalah, what kind of a place does Europe hold in the general development of humanity?

Answer: Europe holds a central place in the development of humanity after Israel. This is because Europe is a “Babylonian” gathering that is today becoming the most significant appearance of the Tower of Babel. The Europeans want to solve the problem exactly the way it was done in the past by Nimrod, the king of Babylon. But Abraham opposed this and said that there was no benefit to it. So Nimrod drove him out and he went with his disciples to the territory of the present land of Israel.

The founders of the European Union wanted to distribute more money to all the Europeans and thought that everything would be okay, but the Europeans are already different and the immigrants who have moved to live in the nations of Europe are also different. They are not interested in material fulfillments but in ideological or even spiritual fulfillments.

The immigrants want Europe to become Muslim, painting itself in green. If we look at the map of Europe, then everything has a color: A red flag here, a yellow one there, a blue one there, and so forth, whereas the immigrants want everything to be inundated and washed with the color green and they will gradually “impose” their desire. In principle, the clash between Islam and Christianity will lead them to unite and go against Israel.

Question: They will unite to compel Israel to do its work?

Answer: This is the internal program that is inherent in the program of creation, which they themselves don’t know. They really will unite to force Israel to do its work.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 9/19/16

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Question:  Despite all the material abundance that modern technologies provide us with, people are not happier than in the past. Quite to the contrary.

Depression and stress are becoming increasingly widespread; many people are losing any direction in life, do not want to have children or work for the material acquisitions their parents valued so much. The future of humanity is becoming unclear and foggy. Where does the program of development lead us?

Answer: Today’s state is wonderful as humanity is starting to realize that its development, driven by the growth of egoism and the forces of the egoistic mind, heart, thought, and desire, is ending. Throughout history, egoism pushed us ahead and forced us to develop many types of sciences and various technologies: from a simple stick and wheel to the most ingenious and sophisticated devices.

We reached outer space and descended into the depths of the ocean, invented powerful computers, created exquisite paintings, music, and other works of art, and built towers almost a kilometer high. We can easily sail or fly around the globe.

A man can board a plane and fly from one continent to another with ease. It seems that with such unlimited possibilities we should be able to create a wonderful life on this earth. Modern technological development allows us to work only a couple of hours a day or even less to provide ourselves with all necessities.

At the same time, we can see that nature pushed us toward this development and forced us to invent the means of destruction, all kinds of weapons. All inventions eventually are turning against us. It is obvious even in music, painting, ballet, and sport, which has been transformed from a game, pleasure, and beauty into quarrels and rivalry.

Instead of elevating, religions stir up hatred of each other, stultify, and separate us. All “achievements” of humanity, from material to seemingly most spiritual ones, are not directed at man’s benefit.

That’s because our foundation is egoistic, evil. Despite our advanced mind, feelings, and talents that allow us to develop many useful things, ultimately, we turn everything into the detriment of the other. That is how our nature manifests itself, and for this reason it is called the “evil inclination.”

Therefore, eventually we become disillusioned with our development and see that the crisis widens and deepens. On the other hand, this state shows us how badly we need change. However, we can’t tame our nature. Any innovation in the state or social order or in the family ultimately appears to be much worse than everything there was before.

As a result, we despair and throw our hands into the air, refusing to do anything. We do not want to get married and bear children. Governments understand that they are not able to govern their countries and just pretend that they do. Everybody pulls to his side, according to his vision, and the results are obvious.

It means that we have reached the recognition of the evil of human nature. In this case, it is better to sit and do nothing, at least you won’t make it worse. That is why humanity instinctively started to get disappointed and slowed down its development. It is especially felt in economics and international trade.

Many young people have no aspiration to have more than what they have and prefer to live with their parents, not burdening themselves with family and obligations. They do not want to work and are ready to live on a small allowance; they do not develop, and are not interested in history, culture, or art, seeing no meaning in all this.

It is already obvious that such things do not bring fulfillment; on the contrary, all new inventions bring even stronger recognition of their evil.

The modern generation is disappointed, not knowing how to solve this problem. For the time being, it is very skeptical and does not want to listen to any advice. They have already despaired of all previous development, but the pain from their own inactivity is not sufficient yet. Gradually the soil gets cultivated, into which the seeds of a new development offered by the wisdom of Kabbalah will be sowed.
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From a TV Program “A New Life,” No. 767, 9/6/2016

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In the News (WI-FI): “All the world’s store of oil is overflowing; their reserves exceed three billion barrels. At the same time, OPEC has not yet made a decision on a possible term limitation of fuel production, said OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo on Tuesday, September 27^th, reports TASS. …

“Venezuelan Energy Minister Eulogio del Pino said that the production may be limited to the level of August, it will remove an extra million barrels of oil per day from the market. …

“Earlier, the Venezuelan Minister announced a possible drop in oil prices below $20 a barrel if the representatives of the oil-producing countries fail to agree on joint action in the market.”

My Comment: Soon the entire oil industry will disappear. A new type of energy will free people from concerns about the production of energy of any kind. This would bring immense changes in the alignment of forces in the world. But it leads to the fact that only the joint solution of all problems of the world as a family, will give mankind the right decision.
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