From the News (Newsweek): “What does it take to communicate? If you’re on a crowded train platform, shouting to your friend 20 yards away, it might take simplification. Imagine trying to say ‘unequivocally.’ It probably wouldn’t work out. Any words with lots of consonants and complicated syllables would likely get garbled, swallowed up by the noise around you, blocked by the throng of bodies and kiosks and other objects in your way. So you keep it simple. A plain, old ‘yeah’ is probably going to reach her ears better.

“Now imagine extrapolating these constraints of acoustics to the whole human population, roaming the entire earth. Picture societies developing in myriad ecological habitats. At the same time, they’re evolving their own distinct languages. As it turns out, the characteristics of languages have a lot to do with the environment—specifically the climate and topography—they emerged in, according to new research… .

“People from cultures that originated in hot, tree-covered regions now tend to speak languages with fewer consonants and simpler syllables in part because, according to the researchers, both hot air and vegetation make transmission of higher frequency sounds (like those made with consonants) less reliable. According to Ian Maddieson, a linguist at the University of New Mexico and the study’s primary researcher, this is a major reason that languages spoken by people in tropical areas use many more vowels and simpler syllable structures than their counterparts in more open, colder places. Vowels transmit at lower frequencies, and simpler syllable structures are less likely to be garbled by having trees in their way.

“Rough terrain, like mountains and cliffs, have a similar effect on language as vegetation. People in these regions also speak with simpler syllables and more vowels. Wind and rain appear to play roles in shaping human languages in different areas as well, Maddieson says. All these ecological factors account for about a quarter of the variation in how consonant-dominant a language turns out to be.

“…They found that the average annual precipitation, average annual temperature, vegetation density and ‘rugosity’ (or mountainousness) of a region, as well as its elevation, all correlated to characteristics of that region’s language. The particular acoustics of environments, they concluded, account for a lot of how differences in human languages developed.

“Maddieson says these findings suggest that the acoustic adaptation hypothesis, which has mostly been applied to describe birds, can be applied to humans too. Since the 1970s, researchers have observed that birdsong appears to depend heavily on the ecological habitat each particular species calls home. ‘The highest notes and the range of notes are lower in forested kinds of environments compared to open environments in birdsong,’ Maddieson says. Birds evolved their communication, then, according to acoustic factors similar to the ones Maddieson’s team studied in relation to humans. But unlike birds, humans are one species, which Maddieson says makes this use of the hypothesis particularly compelling.

“’Now, within a single species of bird, they’re finding that the birds that live in cities with a background noise of cars, etcetera, are singing in higher pitch notes than birds that live in rural areas,’ he says. ‘The birds are adapting to the traffic noise. This is really more what we’re talking about with humans. The same species adapting to their environment.’

“Could humans who live in urban areas, then, be currently morphing their rural-born language to better suit those conditions?

“’Over time, I would expect that to evolve. But we haven’t been living probably long enough yet in noisy urban environments yet,’ Maddieson says. ‘But come back in a few more years, and you might see that, yes.’”

My Comment: All of nature is mutually connected in one single system where everything is aligned according to general rules of mutual connection. The goal of nature is to bring all of the parts within it to mutual and full cooperation in which the single force of nature is revealed and everything is filled with the characteristic of unity, the Creator. The main law of nature is balance and harmony; therefore, the full influence of all the characteristics and all the parts of nature on everything is inevitable. This is the law of the integral, linked world.
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Question: After the events in Paris, a real hysteria started in Europe. Two Air France flights headed from the United States to Paris were diverted  because of terrorism threats, fears of terrorist bombing caused the canceling of a soccer match between Germany and Holland, which the Chancellor of Germany was to attend.

In Paris, ceaseless gunfire exchanges occurred, Russia bombed Syria, and Brussels was paralyzed from fear of terrorist attacks in the city center. Will it continue this way?

Answer: Nothing will change! The world is moving forward according to the system to increasing convergence. If the convergence is organized correctly with good mutual cooperation between people, then it will be good.

It needs to be accompanied by positive participation with the system of unity and connection, not through our egosim which causes clashes between us.

We only need to learn how to bring people closer so that they will rise above their egoism without fighting among themselves because that won’t help! The previous generation fought, this generation fights, and the next generation will fight!

Question: What solution would you suggest to resolve this conflict?

Answer: In my rosiest dreams, I would like to see the UN, the G8, G20, and other organizations and forums force Israel to unite and, in this way, attract the entire world after it to a complete unification!

Nothing else is needed. There is no need to blame the Jews for being the reason for what is bad in the world, but there is a need to force them to unite so that they will become the reason for the entire world to unite.

Even if the nation of Israel would just begin to listen to us a little, then the entire world would immediately feel relief, and the terrorists would stop killing! That is the answer to your question. I see the general system, and that is the way it is structured.

You want everything to change for the better, then put the force of good into it. It will come only through connection and unity between the Jews!
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 11/18/15

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From the News (fondsk.ru/news): “Since Lenin gave as one of the hallmarks of the contemporary stage of the development of capitalism, the dominance of capital export over the export of goods, a hundred years have passed. All this time the trend continued. The export of capital was carried out from the developed capitalist countries to the periphery of world capitalism. At the beginning of the twentieth century – in the colonies and semi-colonies, in the past decade – from the area of ​​the ‘golden billion’ in the so-called developing countries, which are adjacent to the ‘economies in transition’ or the former socialist.

“The export of capital to the ‘periphery’ can solve the problem of the relative over-accumulation in economically developed countries and maintain a satisfactory rate of return. A country’s ‘golden billion,’ obtained by the export of capital investment income (dividends and interest), turned into a rentier state.

“The first wave of economic and financial globalization (the ‘internationalization of economic life’) swept the world in the early twentieth century. It was an unprecedented build-up of the export of capital from a small group of … states (the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, USA, Holland, and two or three other countries) to the colonies, semi-colonies and dependent countries, including Russia.

“The second wave of economic and financial globalization …  started in the 80-90s of the twentieth century. … Today the second globalization has ended, and the pressure ‘in the pot’ of world capitalism is growing rapidly. The important feature of this – at first the slow down and then the stoppage of the movement of capital out of the zone of the ‘golden billion’ to the periphery, and even a reversal of capital flow in the opposite direction. …

“The globalization process has been completed. Capital has mastered the entire planet. There is a leveling of profitability and investments. Against the background of the growing over-investment of capital in the world, this yield tends to zero. Interest rates in some countries of the ‘golden billion’ fell to zero and even went to negative. Something similar already took place in the early twentieth century. … the resulting explosion, … received the name of the Great War …”

My Comment: For what happened in the first half of the 20^th century not to recur, there is only one way out, to halt the mutual capitalistic relationships, replace them with mutual spiritual relationships and ascend to the next level of development, and what will remain will be only the supply of material necessities and maximum spiritual growth.
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In the News (IlGiornale.it): “Mini bombs and radioactive cesium. The innovative weapons of jihadists are the new nightmare of Western intelligence agencies.

“This scenario, revealed by the Associated Press investigation suggested a sale to Isis of smuggled radioactive material to make bombs for the use of the Caliphate of Al Baghdadi. It would be Saudi engineer Al Asiri, the man, who provides the lethal technologies to ISIS.

“In fact, if these weapons ended up in the hands of Islamic terrorists in large quantities, there would be no limit to the terrorist threat. And because the jihadists are people without any moral conscious, and because the explosives hidden in this mini bombs can be hidden, even in printer cartridges, in briefs, luggage, and even transplanted surgically in the body of a selected bomber selected …But not only, even in flash drives that only by inserting into a computer could trigger a bomb capable of killing many more people than regular bombs. …”The alarm about the micro bombs caused Americans and British to introduce body scanners at all airports at risk.”

My Comment: Nothing can limit terrorism; millions are invested in it. When we oppose it on the national level, we try to get closer to its beginning, not in order to discover the terrorist act itself, but to discover it even when it is being planned in its earliest stages, in the ideological and practical stage. And if we want to go back even further, to the beginning, we realize that it is possible to reign it in only if we rise to a higher level of development. This means that through connection with the general system of all nature, as its central part, we can balance the system of forces and bring them to a balanced state that will completely negate the creation of higher negative forces.

This is when we already understand that nature is forcing us through threats to rise to the level of the higher anti-egoistic forces of connection.
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Question: What is the root of racism?

Answer: All the positive and negative motivations, characteristics, and qualities of individuals and society are based on our egoism. The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about how to change egoism and transform it into a characteristic of bestowal and love so instead of taking things in and absorbing it, the ego will engage in giving and bestowal.

The perception of creation as a positive and desirable movement from us towards others reveals a paradigm of completely different sensations in us. When in a person everything is directed towards himself, when he doesn’t feel, he checks himself: is this good or bad for me? It means that he automatically chooses: He accepts what is good for his ego; he throws to the side what is bad for his ego. And when there is no harm or benefit for the ego, it doesn’t enter into our senses; we don’t feel it at all. This is the way we perceive our world.

And when a person changes himself, turns in the opposite direction, meaning towards the good of others, he begins to perceive that part of creation that surrounds him that he previously could not feel because he perceived everything through his egoistic impulses.

Now he begins to feel everything in the light of altruism, and this is an absolutely different method of perception. Instead of sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching, five new senses are created now, which are called: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut. With them he perceives what is called the upper world, but not within the receptive characteristics as in our world, rather within the characteristics of bestowal.

The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about this; it is a wisdom about the correct perception of creation. However, our world doesn’t disappear from us; we see it; we exist normally within it, but the main thing is that we are involved with the development of our perception of the other part of creation that was previously closed to us.

So the wisdom of Kabbalah is wisdom about discovering the world. When we begin to feel the two worlds, we can even decide in a more or less logical manner where we are, why we exist, how we should behave, and so forth. This is what we must reach.

And in the meantime, our egoistic perception filters and classifies what is good for us, and everything that is good for others doesn’t interest us. As a general rule, we automatically choose what is useful and pleasant for us and we reject everything else; we don’t perceive it at all.

Racism is a state in which a person’s senses are not directed only towards having things be good for himself, but also that he enjoys it when things are bad for others. This is a problem of humanity. To this day we see how people relate to each other. We constantly develop according to an evolutionary axis: the ego grows constantly and therefore each one doesn’t just work for his own benefit, but also works to harm others. We constantly compare ourselves to others: the worse it is for them, the better it is for us.

With animals this doesn’t exist. With them, jealousy, envy and hatred don’t exist as they do with humans. It is comparison of ourselves to others that produces all kinds of racism. It seems to me that either I am suffering because of others or they have more luck than I do and so forth. In addition, each one of us is interested in appearing better in the eyes of society. This is typical only of humans because in us there are both beastly and human parts. The beastly part requires food, sex, and family, and the human part demands wealth, respect, and knowledge. When we yearn to fill ourselves with the sources of these emotions, we gradually come to jealousy, envy, and hatred.

It follows that it is better for us when it is bad for others. That is how our ego was initially arranged. If it is not developed, then as with the animals, it is not so important. But if I am a developing person, this won’t give me rest because I measure my status in relation to all people, or at least judge according to my neighbors. And the grass is always greener with the neighbor.

As a result, on the one hand, we are moving to a state of mutual hostility and hatred, on the other hand, the disclosure of our universal integrated independently of each other. And then we need the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to balance these two forces are mutually exclusive.

This leads to racism. In addition, a no less important factor in the eruption of racism are issues of nationalism or races; after all, we are not alike, we are different. dissimilar. As a result, on the one hand, we are moving to a state of mutual hostility and hatred; on the other hand, to the disclosure of our overall integral dependence on each other. And here is where we require the wisdom of Kabbalah to balance the two mutual forces that mutually reject each other.
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From the Video Conference 6/7/15

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Question: Why do you think the European Union accepted the refugees so politely?

Answer: Europe fell into its own trap: a natural historical anti-Semitism pushed Europe into an alliance with the Arab world against Israel. The main thing—being against Israel. In addition, it allowed access to oil, markets, and security from Africa and the Middle East. Europe adopted the conditions for recognizing the PLO and the legitimacy of Jihad against Israel.

This made it possible to disguise its anti-Semitism through defending the just demands of the Arab peoples. So, out of their hatred towards the Jews, they got closer to the Arabs who have transformed Europe into the East.
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Opinion (Alexander Auzan, Professor Moscow State University): “The period of rapid growth has ended, and now has come the longest phase of difficulties associated with the failures of globalization. The economies of individual countries are closely related, dependent on the Federal Reserve, fluctuations in the yuan, but they do not have total control.

“Now, even theoretically, the example of the EU can prove that it is impossible. The EU carried out an incredibly difficult task of constructing a four-tier management system: municipalities, land, nation-states, and itself. The bureaucracy drains its efficiency and a fifth level is impossible. If the global government that Einstein dreamed about is unrealistic, what can be done? Divide into regional blocks. …

“There is another problem: if such an innovation center of the world, like the US, competes with the world’s industrial center, as China, what happens? All this seems as a fight between the lungs and kidneys in a human body. Therefore, we have a poor economic background, and that background may be a different crises.

“Military orders can really warm up the economy, but that is how the First World War began. …

“The division into friends and foes is easy to start, but it will be difficult to stop. What is happening in Ukraine may be the prelude to a major war, and thus the need to untie the knot, and it is important to understand that no military solution to the situation there. When unleashed, it turns out that the military way of solving economic problems is more costly to the parties than restoring the broken down national economy and burying the dead.”

My Comment: The low point of globalization is only an indication that there is no ordinary (egoistic) solution to the problem. We don’t see a solution of bringing egoistic blocks of nation and states closer into one whole in the frameworks of our sciences and our methods.

But there is no low point of globalization, it continues. The natural closeness of the nations continues. It is inevitable and independent of our desire or our ability to establish the right relations between us.

The crisis of Babylon is recurring: all of humanity is in a small space and it needs to start destroying itself and thus postpone the solutions of unity a little or we can begin to unite above our universal ego.

Such unity is possible only through the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is ready for implementation both theoretically and practically. We have to make every effort to show the world that we have this option before the next world war breaks out.
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Comment: Tonight in Israel they banned the Northern Faction of the Islamic Movement. Officials were arrested along with their money, communications, and computers. Everything that belongs to this movement was seized. The actions of Israel aroused a great storm in the Muslim world.

Answer: I believe that the nation took these means as a last resort. On the one hand, it is natural that the reaction of the Islamic movement would be stormy and unpleasant. But on the other hand, it seems clear that they had plans that had to be stopped immediately; otherwise a disaster would have been inevitable.

No other choice remained for the nation. According to the laws of the Torah, “”If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first” (Bamidbar Rabbah 21:4). So we must defend ourselves without paying attention to what the world will say! And in any case the world will still be enraged in sending warnings here and making all kinds of decisions. We don’t need to pay attention to this; that is all! All kinds of declarations and reactions shouldn’t come from us: neither good nor bad.  

The time has arrived for us to get involved because we are the ones who are the ones responsible for these adverse reactions, and the situation in the world is the result of our shortcomings, meaning the lack of connection between us.

We are the stopper that closes the passage of the good higher energy into our world. Therefore humanity only develops in evil, within the ego! The second wing, the positive second power, cannot be found; it isn’t being revealed in our world. It must be revealed; it must be taken out from concealment, and the ego must be balanced through it.

And only the Jews can do this through their connection and union. And then through our union, as if through a lens, the higher energy will transmit goodness to the world, balancing the evil forces, and the world will come to peace. This sums up the role of the Jews in the world, the cause of anti-Semitism, and the correction of the world.

Let us hope that we will correct the world specifically this way, and not the prohibition of various organizations. After all, we have the possibility of transforming them into something good! It depends only on us!
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 11/17/15

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In the News (The Washington Post): “’Mysterious “gash” forms on Wyoming ranch, unleashing fears of hidden volcanoes and earthquakes’

“When a pair of hunting guides noticed a crack in the ground in a remote ranch of central Wyoming last month, they didn’t think much of it.

“When they returned to the location in the Bighorn Mountains a few weeks later, they were shocked by what they found… .

“‘There it was, this huge slide or crack or whatever it is,’ Sy Gilliland, owner of SNS Outfitter & Guides, which offers guided elk, antelope, deer, moose and bear hunts, told KUSA. ‘I don’t really think anyone knows what happened out there, all of a sudden it was just there. I think the reason it’s so fascinating is it’s so big. And it doesn’t make any sense, where it happened it’s just like the ground opened up, and the size of it is just huge.’

“How huge?

“About 50 yards wide and the length of six football fields, SNS reported on its Facebook page. Two posts about the crack generated widespread curiosity and were shared nearly 10,000 times. …

“The gash’s size was impressive, but so was the speed at which it formed. Social media users speculated that the formation represented an impending volcanic eruption or an earthquake, but experts were quick to allay their fears.

“On its Facebook page last week, SNS provided an update about what might have caused the ground to split open:

Since so many people have commented and asked questions, we wanted to post an update with a little more information. An engineer from Riverton, WY came out to shed a little light on this giant crack in the earth. Apparently, a wet spring lubricated across a cap rock. Then, a small spring on either side caused the bottom to slide out. He estimated 15 to 20 million yards of movement. By range finder, an estimate is 750 yards long and about 50 yards wide.

“‘Amazing what Mother Nature can do and is still doing,’ one Facebook user commented. …”

My Comment: We cannot comprehend the amount of trouble that has been prepared for us, all of which is derived from the violation of spiritual balance that determines the natural balance – and all of this has been made by us.

The solution to this problem and all other problems is in the overall balancing of the natural system on its highest level, in human relationships, in implementing the Biblical law, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18), such that it brings us into balance with the system of nature.
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Opinion (about the book by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, “Xi Jinping – Political Management”): “Jinping presents quite an ethnic-national version of Marxism.

“The Chinese people are the inheritors of a unique civilization, fate prepared them to take a unique position in this world, a position that embodies human kindness. In the opinion of Jinping, China will become strong, democratic, and harmonious with a developed culture. Poverty, corruption, a polluted atmosphere and ethnic conflicts will not remain there”.

My Comment: I think that the Chinese dream seems idealistic, like its prototype—the American Dream. Jinping still sees China behind the Great Wall of China, where Chinese successes don’t depend upon the world situation. This is completely opposite to the trends in development in all of nature, and especially human society.

So all the elements of such a policy have no foundation. China needs to show itself as a good rallying point for all of humanity, and only then will it have a great future! It will leap over the Great Wall of China that is between it and all the nations of the world, showing an example for all peoples!
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