Entries in the 'Crisis' Category

A Special Force of Unity

032.01There is a special force in our unity. When we unite above self from the state “me” to “we,” we reveal a new force in nature; it is called the “wisdom of the crowd.” The integrality is the one who gives it to us.

Even more, this force is above all other forces. We can correct all problems of our world with its help in our life, health, family relations, and security, and can calm down people and nations, and correct the ecology.

This force exists in nature; there is nothing supernatural about it. It is above our ordinary, egoistic nature, but generally speaking it is not supernatural. We approach it realistically.

Let’s begin to connect with one another, help one another to rise, and we will sense how it hovers above us. If we begin to act this way, we will suddenly see that we can correct everything.

In today’s world there is a huge number of “ticking bombs.” What is happening with oil in the Atlantic? What is happening inside the ocean with pollution? What is happening in the atmosphere around us? We live while sitting on “ticking bombs” not knowing when they will explode.

Let’s begin to gradually balance it all out, calm down, and decrease this pace and this tension. We do not have any other choice. After all, it is possible to balance it. See how simple it is. When we connect with one another, we reveal the force that is above us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Making Good Use of Others” 9/3/13

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Upload of the Spiritual Programs

294.2In the program placed into a person by the Creator, there is a huge part called “mistakes of the past,” meaning the area of sensory, social, personal, and family successes and failures. Can you imagine what is uploaded into a person?! It is world that a child does not have, an enormous part of the universe in which an adult exists.

It is impossible to give a person such an injection that he immediately, like in a science fiction movie, “Oh-oh-oh!” and that’s it, he is already in the upper world. It does not exist.

He needs to get through it all, store it in himself, make an upgrade, and reload everything. He must live through all these states, feel the opposites, try to do it himself without the Creator or with the Creator, with a certain environment or without them, stumble, get up, and so on. At every step, at every given one. And out of these billions of steps, an opportunity is created in a person—only an opportunity!—to start feeling another state, another universe.

He enters into this feeling gradually; a feeling is revealed that did not exist before! It exists here and in another dimension. And now this dimension is being revealed! In order for it to begin to open up, I need to create in myself huge internal reserves, opportunities, sensations, accumulations of all kinds of thoughts and feelings.

In such a way I begin to enter into a perception of new connections, a new world. I see it in a completely different way. I see its opposite side, where it is controlled from, and how it all works. My world becomes small, I am entering into the management system, and it is becoming important. And this whole world and all these animate, small, instinctive interactions of ours just lose their importance.

My animalistic body remains in connection with the others, temporarily, for the time being, in order to contact the others through it and help them also enter into this new universe, into this dimension. And as soon as we all break away from this field, on which we graze like small animals, and enter with our sensations into a new state, into a new dimension, the material world simply disappears.

It does not exist even now, like everything else, because it exists only in our consciousness, which rises completely to the next level. And along with the area of new human relationships, our animate, vegetative, and inanimate sensations also rise, meaning our whole world.

But it is impossible to do it at once, like some kind of injection and a person is already in the next dimension. The program needs to enter into us gradually and be adapted by us. We must accept it, feel it, unite with it, and feel as we are it as one whole.

This requires consecutive, voluntary implantation into this program because it is against our egoistic nature. This is what our work consists of.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. See What Doesn’t Exist” 8/30/13

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The Advantage of Integral Education

269There are a large number of unnecessary professions in the world. A person should be freed from them; otherwise, he will completely pollute the earth. He should be taking through integral education.

It is estimated that 75% of working people are engaged in completely unnecessary work. It would be much better if more than 90% of the world’s population stopped doing anything at all, and would simply sit and consume. Both people and the environment would be better off.

So the method of integral education is urgently needed to put the economy in order, to make it normal, economical, and to free people for what is really necessary.

Our conformity to nature, which can be achieved by integral education, will bring all of nature and us into order, meaning into harmony, and all the problems that we see in the world today and call a crisis will actually become the birth of a new humanity. In principle, the real meaning of the word “crisis” is birth, and not something negative that we understand by this term.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Invest a Part of Yourself” 8/24/13

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Iranians Are Conquering Fear

547.01Comment: Protests continue in Iran. It seemed like it would end very quickly that they would be crushed because the government has strong control, mainly through fear and intimidation. But suddenly the protests are continuing, which began after the morality police killed a 22-year-old girl. People went to the streets. They show footage of women taking off their hijabs and cutting off their hair.

It seemed that only fear worked, that man was a slave to fear. And suddenly, there’s a state of rising above it.

My Response: I understand. The fact is that Iran is a special country, spiritually developed, not religiously. An ancient, I would even say, respected country, which is one of the cradles of civilization.

Question: The Persians?

Answer: Yes. If they awaken correctly, this country will be very strong and prosperous.

Comment: It is interesting that you say this about our, one might say, bitter enemies.

My Response: It doesn’t matter. The enemy can also be respected.

I once visited a fugitive Sufi in England. There are many such people there. So you can’t discount all this.

Comment: How highly he spoke of love!

My Response: Yes. It lives in Iranians.

Question: Do we need to establish some kind of relationship with them after all?

Answer: It depends on them. I think we would certainly agree to it, but their party is too religious. In general, there are no qualms between us on either side. Absolutely.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/29/22

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Are We Facing the Fate of Sodom and Gomorrah?

631.1Changed apartments—moved from Sodom to Gomorrah (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec).

My Response: Still there is a difference. There is Sodom and there is Gomorrah.

Comment: But still, both cities were destroyed.

My Response: It does not matter. They were destroyed, but in different ways.

Question: Where should I really move to if I want to escape from Sodom, from the desire to live for myself?

Answer: Only inside yourself. Break through your egoism, and there is the Creator inside you.

Question: Then there will be a way out, we escape from Sodom to the Creator? Is that what He wants?

Answer: This is the only way to attain and reveal Him.

Question: When the Creator says: “I will destroy Sodom and Gomorrah,” what does that mean?

Answer: It means those forces that prevent us from revealing Him.

Comment: The Creator seems to say: “You have to reveal Me. But you resist, so I must destroy.”

My Response: Yes. These are two disgusting qualities that specifically prevent and very much hinder the revelation of the Creator. They are not egoistic in general, but they confuse us along the way and there is nothing we can do. These are qualities within a person.

Question: Why are these qualities not egoistic?

Answer: Let’s say a prohibition to steal or prohibition to take from the other.

Question: Are these the laws of Sodom?

Answer: Yes. It turns out that not only can you not give to the other, but you have no right to receive from the other. You cannot help and accept help. You have to live independently, on your own, very precisely and correctly.

Comment: “Mine is mine, yours is yours.”

My Response: If we all lived in the world today according to such laws, the world would be different.

Question: Then why does the Creator want to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?

Answer: Because it does not lead to correction, to coming closer to each other, to mutual support, mutual adhesion, and to revelation of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/27/21

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The World Is Not a Bottomless Pot

293Question: You speak quite openly about many things. Are you not afraid of some kind of pressure by law enforcement agencies?

Answer: No, on the contrary, the more people know me, the more open I am. The more I tell everyone and everywhere how to move forward and how I understand the universe, its movement, and its purpose, the more difficult it is to get close to me, to grab hold of me; I am like a naked person who is very difficult to grab.

After all, I am not talking either about myself or about them, but about nature, about the world, and about the society we live in. There is nothing to hide here, time has changed!

If earlier I claimed that a crisis was coming and everyone laughed at me, then later, when it hit them on the head, they stopped laughing.

I said that everything was coming to an end because we exist on a planet whose territory is limited. We cannot always to develop in the form of consume and consume; we have already scraped out everything from the “pot”! What comes next? Nobody wants to think.

Such a thought has never occurred to mankind, and now suddenly… Why do people become wiser? Due to the fact that they themselves see the bottom that they have reached. We got so deep to the bottom that today necessities are already a problem. And now there will be a problem to scrape energy and materials for the necessities for mankind!

I used to say and keep saying that it is necessary to do something with the unemployed masses in advance; you will not find employment for them anywhere. Do you think that you can destroy them with drugs, family disintegration and so on? You will not be able to do this. It is a very long process, and nothing will come of it because you are going against nature.

You are going against nature, not against society that you supposedly can somehow destroy. It will not work!

But people do not hear. However, this does not mean that I should be silent.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Protection from Enemies” 8/22/13

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Revolution of Desires

537There is no escape; after all the twists of history that may still happen, we will all the same come to the decision that we must rise above human egoistic nature and come to bestowal (Lishma). And only this goal stands before us—unlike the material ideal of getting rich and becoming the king of the world.

It is impossible to pursue two goals at once. The desire should always be big and unique. It is either a spiritual ideal, the desire to get closer and unite with the Creator, or a material ideal, to master all the riches of the world.

Although, there have been many Kabbalists in history who were rich people, this was not their goal; it was just the way life turned out. And at the same time, there were Kabbalists who lived in poverty.

All people who have existed throughout history are divided into these two groups: those striving for the spiritual and those striving for the material. And although we all come out of the material world, out of the desire to receive, life gradually teaches us that we need to move on to spiritual development.

Nowadays we are experiencing a genuine revolution although we may not feel it yet. People are beginning to turn from material desires for food, sex, family, wealth, honor, and knowledge toward a new direction, to spiritual values. Of course, this does not happen to everyone at once but little by little, step by step, it is capturing new layers of the world’s population. Gradually, this change is taking place in the entire common desire of mankind.

According to the program of creation, the whole world must achieve Lishma, the intention to bestow, like the Creator. As it is said: “Everyone will know Me from small to great, for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/24/22, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Exile and Redemption”

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Salvation Is in Connection

285.02The world will be receiving blows all the time until it finds the solution. Either we will start listening to the method of integral connection or we will receive all kinds of blows, personal, public, wars, etc., until we understand what needs to be heard. To hear that the only opportunity to live differently lies in connection.

For humanity, there is nothing else left to do: either live in competition with each other in constant struggle or in connection. We know that during cataclysms or wars, a person instinctively strives for it. Therefore, we will be taught with the help of all sorts of troubles.

Then we will begin to understand that we need to move toward connection in order to escape from suffering. But it will be a purely egoistic movement forward and nothing else. This is very far from a true exit from egoism.

Knowing the nature of a person, we gradually, consistently reveal to him the stages of his development. There is not any trick in this. There is love and kindness, and, based on love, we always treat a person according to the conditions that he must go through.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Victory Is a Sign of Defeat” 8/2/13

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Why Is there Acceleration?

292Question: The pace of change in the world is noted as a problem for businesses, world leaders, and the general population alike. Many are not able to adapt to it and simply cannot keep up with the changing world.

Why is there this acceleration? Why are we being pushed harder and harder?

Answer: It is to give us a sense of life and movement. If there were a constant speed, we simply would not notice this movement and the fact that something is happening. We only feel changes in states.

Question: What if people feel that there is a change, an acceleration, can they somehow assess it, influence it, or check it?

Answer: They will try to understand the nature of the matter and toward where it’s heading. If we are moving from point A to point B, then let’s see what lies ahead.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/23/22

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The End of Egoistic Development

115.06Our world has come to its egoistic end today. We have revealed that all of it is a closed system. Once we thought that we could do everything: produce, achieve, expand, and conquer. Suddenly, it turns out that we are alone in the universe, we have nowhere to fly.

The Earth is a closed, very limited system. Humanity is limited in its consumption and there is nowhere else for it to develop. There is not much to accumulate because it is not going anywhere anyway and everything is pretty small and enclosed.

Here, we are faced with the end—the final egoistic development we are in now. The next stage is, that from the increasing pressure that we will experience and from the crisis of the end of egoistic development, we must reach the next level.

The next level is completely different—the level of nature opposite to us, the level of bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Victory Is a Sign of Defeat” 8/2/13

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