New Life 664 – 2015: World Review
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

What are the reasons for the upsurge in acts of terrorism in the world? Where has the sense of belonging gone that kept us going so far, and how can we use the connections between us to build a safer world?

In 2015, terrorism intensified in the world. Weapons became available and easy to obtain while the tolerance level continued to diminish. Industry moved from heavier manufacturing to new, easier technologies, releasing masses of the unemployed into the labor market; idleness is pushing toward terrorism.

I predict that, in 2016, terrorism will strike international trade and tourism. People will be afraid to leave their houses. The world is run by power groups. The wave of immigrants that recently inundated Europe is only beginning; their will be more from Asia, China, Japan, and Africa. The strong decline in the value of oil is causing Russia as well as the Gulf states to lose their power. People are losing connection to their countries and nationalities and thus weaken countries.

Soon the world population will reach eight billion, with seven billion becoming superfluous. Society will need to employ them somehow, supply them with their vital needs, and educate them so that they will not become wild and destroy the planet. Although there are reports that water has been discovered on Mars, we cannot live anywhere other than planet Earth.

There is no escape for us. We will be forced to understand that all of us are connected to each other and we have to correct our nature.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 664 – 2015: World Review,” 12/22/15

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New Life 663 – 2015: Summary And Lessons Learned
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

A decline in the state of the world began in 2015: climate change, humanity not knowing what to hold on to anymore in order to prevent the outbreak of world war, borders have broken down between countries have disappeared, Europe is becoming Muslim, individuals are miserable, hurt, and fearful, and young people are ending their lives using drugs since they have nothing to enjoy. From an evolutionary perspective, the ego has grown and doesn’t let us enjoy things we enjoyed before such as studying, work, the family, etc. It doesn’t allow us to live the way we used to do. A person doesn’t want to belong to a nation or anything anymore, but wants to simply live as comfortably as he can, and that’s it.

Let’s hope that in 2016 we will manage to digest all of the changes we have undergone and learn from them that our ego has developed to a level that is endangering our very existence, and only if we learn to control it will we be able to survive.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 663 – 2015: Summary And Lessons Learned,” 12/22/15

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Question: Should we accept social inequality as a reality? For example, in India, some accept the fact that they are born to a certain caste that will never be higher. Or should we aspire to wealth and wisdom?

Answer: If a person is smarter or richer, it will not make him equal to others. With such an attitude toward life, we would go only downhill, and indeed the world will now begin to slide sharply downward.

We actually have almost completed the era of capitalist development, and therefore will not be able to use natural resources properly to continue our egoistic development. Everything we have built will crumble before our eyes.

Question: But there are not enough resources in our developed world to feed the poor and hungry.

Answer: Who lacks resources? There is a surplus of goods in our world, and it all depends on the right connection between us. Is there a global shortage of cars? Do you know how many new cars come off the assembly lines and are stored in warehouses because there is no one to sell them to. Do you know how much oil there is in the world?

Resource distribution depends only on the connection between people.  Yearning for wealth will lead to nothing, and will only further divide us. We need to teach people how to connect properly, and then they will be able to establish a more equal society.

The problem is that society needs a production system that needs to be capitalist while according to the connection between people, it must be socialist.

The Kabbalah can lead people to this. Only in this will we be able to develop properly so that we will all be happy.
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Comment: Renowned British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has been warning that progress is liable to lead the human species to its end. He suggests establishing colonies in space where people could live.

Answer: Scientists today realize they have reached an impasse. They have no solutions to offer for the problems that humanity is facing, and they are continuing to develop technology that will take us off the Earth, to the stars, into the depths of nature, and nothing more.

In the past, we thought science would redeem us from all problems and that the development of technology, culture, education, and information would make it possible for humanity to be elevated above everything, but we are beginning to understand that this is not what will bring us happiness.

Today science is beginning to show us that everything depends on the man, on our development, not on our intellectual development because we use our intellect egoistically, for our personal benefit, for the enslavement of others, and are annihilating our own achievements. Fifty years ago we couldn’t imagine that we would reach this situation.

In the 60s of the 20^th century, space flight began; the American dream appeared—everyone would have a house, a car, work, social benefits, etc. What is happening today? The middle class is being destroyed; in fact, it no longer exists; students in families with average incomes are forced to work part-time to pay for their education.

The ego has developed such that one percent of the world population holds and controls most of the wealth while the remaining 99 percent, the lower classes, are left without the ability to develop, existing only on the crumbs necessary for survival while serving the needs of the upper percentile.

Question: In your opinion, will scientists succeed in breaking through to a new way of thinking in the future?

Answer: The future doesn’t depend on the scientists but on a change in a person’s psychological perception of the person. Today humanity doesn’t have the power to implement this change because the world is managed only according to egoistic inclinations.

This is evident on all the levels of development in nature: the animate, the vegetative, and even the inanimate, and all the more so the human who is helped by science and technology to egoistically manage all of them only for his own benefit.

Question: The eternal question arises: What can be done?

Answer: This is not an eternal question. It stands before us only today because it is rises from the depths of despair of a tired, disappointed humanity that lacks the ability to do anything. And the answer is in Kabbalah, and we are obliged to bring it to every person. This is our task.

Help us in this! I am sure that we will succeed in this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/20/16

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Question: Will Europe be able to cope with the influx of immigrants? How will it be able to do this?

Answer: No, for Europe, there is no chance of uniting, even when faced by the threat of annihilation. They don’t have a common goal or a common system of universal education. To bring Europe to unification, it is necessary to educate the population. And they have only engaged in unifying the banks. What sense is there in that?

Question: Does this mean that economic union is not enough for them?

Answer: This is not union, but a hidden where America seems to stand on the sidelines while Germany puts pressure on everyone and harvests the yield.

The European nations were placed in such a framework without the option of refusing entry into the European Union. If Greece had not joined the union, they would have been trampled economically. That is, it was not a voluntary connection, not for a common goal.

I used to live in the Baltic region and I am very familiar with that area. They are in shock and disbelief over what Europe did to them after they entered the Common Market. They were forbidden to produce dairy products and had to slaughter their cows. Can you imagine what this prohibition meant for the Baltic region? They don’t have anything to sell and nothing  to make a living from.

They same was done to Portugal through banning fishing and to Greece in regulating olive growing. That is, the EU does what is convenient for the top, destroying the traditional industries of many European nations.

Question: But wasn’t there some kind of cultural exchange between them?

Answer: There is no cultural exchange. There is no common language training, etc. This is not union, but coercion. Therefore, in the absence of joint action, the Union decays.

Question: Does this mean that, in 2016, the black and white flag of Islam will rise over Europe even higher than in the year 2015?

Answer: This is without a doubt. The ideology of Islam will continue to seep into there, and millions of Europeans will accept Islam.

Question: But there are more powerful nations, like the UK, for example.

Answer: The British and the Poles will cope with this. But it is unlikely that the rest of the peoples will,  including the Russians.

Question: But Putin has not ruled out using nuclear weapons against ISIS.

Answer: There is no concrete power against ISIS because it is an ideology. It is not a physical force or an army so it is impossible to defeat it just like that.

Question: How will these changes influence the attitude of Europe toward the Jews living there and to Israel?

Answer: It will be for the worse. The fact is that all the problems that appear in the world are still interpreted by all mankind as ostensibly emanating from the Jews. And indeed it is.

Question: So, what will happen to Israel? Could a refugee situation similar to what is happening in Europe occur here?

Answer: This really depends on the Jews living here, on the union between them and how much they can overcome the economic, political, physical, and military barriers on the way to this.

Question: We have fences with a height of four meters.

Answer: Everything depends only on the union of the people. This is the true barrier. If there is no union, fences will not help.
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From the Webinar on zahav.ru 1/13/16

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Comment: American Bran Ferren over four years built a “mansion on wheels” for several million dollars. He claims that it can save a person from the apocalypse.

He is convinced that the apocalypse is approaching and he built the “mansion” for his four-year-old daughter. On the basis of a Mercedes, he built a gigantic vehicle that can travel on any terrain.

In fact, humanity is engaged in preparation for Judgment Day, and entire forums exist that are involved with the end of the world. But they don’t try to understand how it might be possible to stop or avoid this situation; instead, they are searching for methods of how to exist in it.

Answer: Where does this inventor intend to travel? Where would things be better if there is an apocalypse? This person has a very strong survival instinct. He is like an animal that is concerned first and foremost about its survival. He doesn’t understand that nothing will happen to him anymore because it will not be him.

Question: Will an apocalypse happen?

Answer: No, it doesn’t have to happen. According to the program of nature, humanity must rise to the next level of development, which is existence outside of bodies.

There are three levels in nature: still, vegetative, and animate. We belong to the animate nature, and the next level is called Adam (Man). Adam doesn’t exist in our physical world but in the field of forces. The physical world will disappear and we will exist only in a world of forces.

In this world we exist with our mind and feelings, but are connected to each other in a single system. This system is constantly developing. Just as we develop in this world, so we will develop in the next world in 125 levels that are characterized by coming closer to each other until we unite into a single whole, one single integral humanity. We must complete this development.

On the next level of existence, time doesn’t exist, so it is impossible to speak about the time it takes to attain this development according to our usual form of measurement.

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains this. It describes how to rise through the 125 levels and what will happen to us.

Question: Does the wisdom of Kabbalah say unequivocally that there won’t be an apocalypse and that all of humanity will rise to another level?

Answer: As they say, there will be peace, but before that the struggle for peace, which will not leave a single stone unturned.

So before us is another problem; can we move to the next level through goodness and our own desire, by understanding that it is imperative and preferable to attain this with little blood, or we will have to go through these levels under the influence of the great and merciless forces of nature?

The wisdom of Kabbalah describes how it is possible to move to the next stage easily and in song. Good luck to us in this!
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/19/16

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Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah relate to the inequality in Israeli society? For example, one person works very hard and does not earn much, and another does nothing and earns a lot; he lives very well.

Answer: Very simply, we need to know the system by which the world and our society is spinning, and our society, the Jewish people, need to know even more so. Otherwise it seems that all of this is happening chaotically while there is a very strict order here. It is not the people who determine it.

Human society operates according to precise and clear laws of nature that are similar to the laws of physics in the world. It is simply necessary to know them.
We don’t know them and so we cannot manage society, and even if we find out about some of these processes, we use them egoistically.

Nature is pushing us toward a single integral system. We are discovering this on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate,; and even beginning on the human level, it is being revealed in our world more and more. This means our world is truly becoming a small global village.

Question: Social networks are very helpful for this integration. Could it be that this is what we have been waiting for and they will move humanity to the next level of development?

Answer: Certainly not. Of course this is a blessing in disguise. There is no evil without good. We are shortening the time of our maturation by means of this.

Today, social networks are working to ensure that we quickly realize how much we are unfit for anything as far as we are, how egoistic we are, how we cannot be in the correct connection, and how hatred repels from each other. Social networks are gradually revealing this, and in principle, must lead us to the conclusion that in this way we are approaching extinction. Society cannot exist like this.

If we reach this awareness more rapidly, before deteriorating into all out war, it will be good. The possibility of a nuclear world war exists as long as we don’t understand that we urgently need to do something about ourselves.
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Question: In what way can the wisdom of Kabbalah help the citizens of Russia who are worried about their workplace because of the crisis in the nation and live in fear because of an anticipated war?

Answer: I am not afraid of war and I don’t think its threat will be realized soon. Although the ISIS organization is undermining the security of Israel, Europe, and Russia and is causing tension in everyone, we don’t need to fear it and try to fight against it directly; rather, we must understand where it comes from. It is a certain level of human development: egoism, which has grown to such dimensions that it wants to conquer the world and enslave it.

Therefore, it is up to us to set an ideological force against it, not a military force. But in the meantime, humanity doesn’t understand this, and ideological power is not  in the area of the military and the nation.

So today, for the first time in two thousand years, the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed and declares that it has a solution to this problem, which is found on the ideological plane, not on the military plane, because the terrorist organizations are specifically winning through ideology.

The terrorist organizations attract people to them due to their consolidation around an idea with particular principles, and this is what makes them attractive and inspiring to young people.

We still don’t know how much support they have in all the western nations, in North America, and in Australia. Many of them come from good families. This is happening because humanity has ended its former paradigm and cannot continue existing according to its former small egoism.

Comment: The impression is created that humanity is bored with the cultured world so they want to try something new.

Answer: The cultured world in our day doesn’t provide fulfillment to people. People don’t want to marry, don’t want to have children, and don’t want anything at all. And this is a problem. They simply exist due to the power of inertia because they cannot die.

Many consume drugs, suffer from depression, and so forth. Why? Because they don’t have an answer for the meaning of life. Imagined wellbeing summed up by work, family, and raising children doesn’t provide a person with anything anymore. What can you give them? What can you feed them? 

Therefore, the young are going to ISIS.  And they are stronger than anyone. They are not afraid of anything because they would rather die than exist without meaning.

The wisdom of Kabbalah opposes them with the idea of good connection and unity, which raises us all up to the next level of development, and does not engage in mutual destruction. This is idea is not built on egoism and mutual hatred, but on good and cohesion.

Question: If all of us were to follow your advice and the ideas of the wisdom of Kabbalah, how rapidly could we defeat terrorism in the Middle East?

Answer: I am sure that within a few months we would see amazing changes in the world. We do we have to lose? We are talking about the need for people simply to get closer to each other.

This direction is justified economically, politically, and socially and is linked to the general trend of nature, which mutually connects us to each other and makes all of humanity a single small global village. We are not going against anyone’s principles here.

Comment: If everyone were to come closer and unite into small groups and everything were to sort itself out, it follows that the nations would no longer need political leadership.

Answer: The world will reach not having borders between nations. When people will begin to approach each other, they will see for themselves that there is no difference between them and there won’t be any need for borders.

Without preparing the population for this, without educating it in the spirit of mutual connection, nothing will succeed. For example, Europe created a common market instead of unity between people; indeed, there is a common bank, but where is the unity? The alliance between leaders is made for their own profit and not for unity and balance. Europe is not united by a common ideology and common education.

Question: If we defeat ISIS and the borders between nations fall, will all of humanity live happily?

Answer: It is impossible to defeat ISIS without counterbalancing it through the good force, the power of Light. The ideology of this organization is very strong and is controlled by a force that is not balanced by the good force.

We grant it the right to exist and breathe life into it as long as we don’t counterbalance it through closeness and connection between people. If we begin to implement the ideology of goodness of unity, they will come to us themselves and will work in partnership with us for unity and good.

It is up to us to thank them for those forces that are compelling us to unite. After all, that is why they were created. It is nature showing us who we are through the negative force that we ourselves created through our inaction.

But I am sure that we can counterbalance this negative force with the method of correction of Kabbalah. It laid the groundwork for the principle, “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) around 3,500 years ago. This is the primary law of nature. And we will reach it together. Preferably this will be done as quickly as possible and with little bloodshed.
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From “The Echo of Moscow” Radio Program 11/25/15

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Comment: Israeli health minister Jacob Litzman announced that in six months doctors in Israel will be able to give prescriptions for marijuana without the authorization of the health ministry. Today only 36 doctors are allowed to do so, but when the law is passed people will be able to get marijuana with a prescription in regular pharmacies.

It is interesting to note that people in Russia are prosecuted for drug offenses.

Answer: It is a matter of months before the same thing happens in Russia.

The whole world is going in this direction.

A couple of years ago when the campaign against cigarette smoking began, I warned that by banning cigarettes governments will encourage the use of drugs. You give a person a piece of bread, a glass of water, and a cigarette and he is happy. With stupefied eyes he will watch TV, football, soap operas, etc.

A person needs to be satisfied so that he won’t rebel, won’t make noise, and won’t object to the government and the state. Politicians realize this and fulfill such small requests and “take care” of people, throwing them crumbs just so long as they are quiet and let the government take control.

Question: Do you believe that the authorization of drugs is so that mankind will be obedient?

Answer: Of course, this will continue until the number of the world population gradually decreases from seven billion to let’s say one billion. When people don’t want to have families, and marriage becomes meaningless, humanity will shrink within one generation by at least half, and within two generations by four or five times. So I think that by 2050 there will only be two billion people left in the world.

Question: And the reason for that will be the legalization of drugs?

Answer: No. The reason for everything that happens is egoism. Once it reaches the limit of its growth, it begins to devour itself. It is just like children in very rich families where everything is allowed and so they go wild not knowing what to do. The ego is the same. It exceeds itself and becomes a monster that devours its own tail. It has no rationality.

Question: Does that mean that a person fills himself in order to forget? Is this why he needs drugs?

Answer: Of course, there is nothing he can do about it. The only answer is to educate people.

By educating them we insert the positive force into the world, the energy that balances the negative force, and between these two forces we can exist in a rational, correct, and clear manner.

We have a lot to exist for—for the revelation of the next level of our evolution: the universe, Ein Sof (Infinity), the world of the souls, the world of wholeness and eternity. We want to attain all that now and in a realistic manner, and if we don’t attain it, we simply take drugs since in its better to feel nirvana. What do we have in this world? I open my eyes and what do I see? A world that I want to withdraw from, to forget?

See how many people are in a state of detachment today when they are forced to use antidepressants. There is so much depression. It even happens to kids and pets, not mention adults.

Indeed a person finds no point in existing in this world, especially when he is no longer keen to work, to explore space, to achieve things in life, to discover something new, nothing. When we lose interest in sex and food we will have nothing left but to disconnect through chemical nothingness.

Question: Are you for or against the drug law?

Answer: I am neither for nor against it. Everyone is managed by our general egoism. Both the legislators and the drug dealers, everyone operates as the ego forces them to. So if we don’t bring the positive force that balances the negative egoistic force into our world, we will perish.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/21/16

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Comment: Turkey is demanding an additional allocation of around three billion dollars from the European Union in exchange for stopping the flow of immigrants into Europe.

Answer: It is unreasonable for the government of Turkey to agree to stop the stream of immigrants otherwise Turkey would become like Europe.

Question: Do you suppose that the government of Turkey will take the money and still release the refugees?

Answer: The Turks will have no choice but to apologize and allow the refugees to pass since immense masses of refugees are gathering in Turkey who are breaking through and penetrating into Europe through every breach in the border, and there are many. It is not clear why Turkey would be willing to take upon such pressure and risk in exchange for only three billion dollars; after all, taking care of the refugees requires a much more.

Comment: It seems that there is no way out of the situation. What is your prediction in connection with this?

Answer: I have a very clear prediction for humanity. The journey of the immigrants from the depths of the Muslim world into the depths of European civilization is a historic process the like of which has never existed in any of the previous conquests and migrations of people in all times.

A new era is beginning in the history of humanity. Humanity is undergoing very serious changes, like the final contractions before birth, like a fetus whose time comes to be born and begins to squirm, to strike with its legs and hands at the uterus of its mother, and finally turns with its head below to be born into the atmosphere of the world. That is also how humanity, all the old paradigms, reasons, theories, methods, and cultures as a whole will be overturned. And then humanity will be reborn on the next level of development. This birth is approaching; we are beginning to enter into the prenatal stage. Ahead of us are very serious and yet very interesting times.

Question: What is supposed to be born?

Answer: It is a new humanity, a united world, people who are connected together, who understand that they belong to a single body, to a single system, to a single soul, which is called “Adam.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 1/19/16

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