Question: From a letter. “Here are some lines from a bushmen folk song:

“The Way We Die”
song of the Southern Bushmen

The day we die
the wind comes down
to take away
our footprints.

The wind makes dust
to cover up
the marks we left
while walking.

for otherwise
the thing would seem
as if we were
still living.

Therefore the wind
is he who comes
to blow away
our footprints.

“Why does European civilization want so much to leave behind some kind of corporeal trace: things, cities, works of art, and books? Why is it important for us to be remembered? Why are we so afraid to disappear without a trace? But people who live in harmony with nature are not afraid. On the contrary, they say: ‘Our footprints should disappear.’

“Why does it happen like this? We really want to leave our monuments.”

Answer: Egoism! It is our egoism! It forces us to take care of ourselves, the immortal ones.

Question: Don’t we die after death?

Answer: Yes. If I could put up such a monument, a column, that would stand forever, I would not be afraid to die. That is, I continue to live through it. Everyone will see and know it, and they will not be able to destroy it even if they want to. The monument will be such that it will be eternal. And on it, on the pedestal, I will stand proudly!

Question: Don’t we even think that I will not be there, but a monument will be there? I will be there, right?

Answer: Yes, it means that I will be there. For a person, this is everything!

What else, my body? It is clear to me what will happen to it. However, to be depicted in stone like this, eternal, respected, and wise, this is anything but simple.

Question: Does it mean that egoism is indestructible? Both before death and after death. Is it something unimaginable?

Answer: Egoism is higher than death, it is a force of nature. It is against the Creator. There is the force of the Creator and egoism is against Him.

Question: So what chance do we have to become such “Bushmen”?

Answer: We alter our egoism, we change it.

Question: From what to what? From this eternal one?

Answer: Yes, we give it eternity. Do you want eternity? Be my guest. Do you want perfection? Not a problem. Fame? Anything you want. But to do that, you have to change.

Question: What should I turn into?

Answer: From the rejection of the other to the love of others. It is this process that a person must go through. Moreover, he, by himself, needs to understand it, go through it, and finish it.

Comment: But there are sparks of this understanding at the moment a person passes away. He understands that “I will not take this with me.” There are many different stories.

My Response: It is all literature. After all, a person remains with the idea that my actions will remain after me. Instead, he has to come to the idea that nothing is important to me, just to leave everything to others.

Comment: So, am I leaving so that everything remains to others? I do not need anything anymore. No monuments, nothing.

My Response: Nothing.

Comment: There was such a movie, it was called All Remains to People.

My Response: I wanted to say that too.

Comment: It was a socialist, communist movie. I even remember that Cherkasov was playing there.

My Response: Yes, Cherkasov. Such a noble man. In fact, ideally, the person should pass away like that.

Comment: As we know, this did not disappear together with communist ideas.

My Response: It is clear that it will not disappear because egoists were at the head of these ideas.

Question: And if we put a Kabbalistic meaning into it, what would it look like?

Answer: It would look like Kabbalah.

Question: What am I doing with this egoist in me?

Answer: I am converting him into an altruist.

Question: Why did it not work out there, but it will work out here?

Answer: First, we have already become disillusioned with all the previous “isms” and other theories. That is first. Secondly, we understand that otherwise we will not be able to exist.

We must understand that only in the correct connection between us, which will become the basic law of society, is our future.

Question: Where in this is the upper force that you talk about all the time?

Answer: It is in the fact that we create it ourselves by trying to connect. If it is not there, this upper force, then we have not made it.

Question: So we failed, and we have to try again and again?

Answer: Absolutely!

Question: Until when?

Answer: Until you make it!

Question: How will I understand that I made it?

Answer: When you see that this connection works between you and others.

Question: How does it work then?

Answer: You will look at the others and see that everyone wishes happiness to each other. I think we still need a long time to come to this.

Question: But are we going toward this?

Answer: This does not depend on us.

Question: So, will this happen one way or another?

Answer: This will happen, this does not depend on us, but we will have to see this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/29/23

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Previously in nature and society, we acted according to an egoistic, impulsive, and linear program, when everyone earned as much as they worked. That is how I chose my job, family, and everything else, and due to my natural abilities and efforts, I achieved something.

I know that there are objective conditions that exist around me, and everything else depends on me; certain conditions are placed before me, and the rest is up to me to move forward. That is how I went through life and saw that I accomplished this and that.

I had some savings, a house, family, children, friends, and some plans. I wanted vacations, retirement, medical insurance, and so on, just like any ordinary, normal, person desires. But today there is some incomprehensible situation, like in a Winnie the Pooh story : “Some kind of wrong bees.” Everything seems wrong, and I do not know how to act.

I can go to work, try to invest anywhere. And what? I am not getting an adequate response to my reasonable, obvious, serious, and straightforward efforts! I am not trying to deceive anyone; I work with my egoism, and I want to receive as much as I earn. It does not work! Perhaps there should be some kind of luck involved, but it does not smile at me. What’s the matter?!

It turns out that a completely different scheme is working now; I can succeed in my life only if I also think about the well-being of other people. How can that be?! What do other people have to do with it?! I am investing! Why are they in the picture?! Maybe they are lazy or are even my enemies.

They tell me: “It doesn’t matter whether you like it or not because today these are the conditions and this is the way society is! You have to take into account the welfare of everyone and not just brush it off: “Okay, let them be happy.” You must learn to strive to be integral with them in one system so that everyone would feel good, and so that when investing, you think about what you are investing in them, and that you truly feel you are working together with them.

Moreover, you have to share with everyone and they with you. You don’t just go out into the world, earn money, bring home your prey, and share a piece of mammoth in your cave with the family; No!

You have to think about whether everyone has brought their prey. And when you come home and sit with your family, you have to imagine that you are sitting with the whole world. Does the whole world have what you have? How would you share it with them?”

Do you understand what dreadful conditions nature sets for us?! This is the state of the world today, and that is why no one knows what to do.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mind in Action” 8/13/11

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Comment: In principle, you always talk about one formula that can correct humanity.

My Response: What if there is nothing else besides it?! What if there is nothing more than ten Sefirot? I am only talking about how to connect them correctly, discover the entire universe inside you, and finally understand that everything you see happening outside is an illusion.

I am talking about a single world inside of you, so you can see it by reversing your focus. When you change focus, you suddenly begin to understand that you saw just an internal reflection in front of you, nothing else. Suddenly your eyes open and you see a completely different world.

This is what we must come to! To a world in which there is no life and death, no physical movement. These are all our inner sensations that create such an illusory volume in us.

I want to gradually bring you to this understanding so as not to confuse you. After all, you can say: “So he is a mystic, not of this world; he is spinning in some of his dimensions.”

Therefore, I do not talk about many things. I am explaining at the same pace nature does, and today it obliges us to move forward. I am helping you understand the evolution that you are obliged to make today, either in a good way or in a bad way if you do not obey.

Question: If I am not close in my feelings to the topic you are talking about, what then?

Answer: Then “Daddy” will give you a good smack with his belt. You will feel a little pain, and you will start to listen to what Mr. Laitman told you. You will suddenly remember what Kabbalah says: “Maybe I can somehow soften these blows, or at least receive fewer of them.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You’re Repeating the Same Thing!” 8/13/11

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Comment: Let’s say ten people discuss an issue together, rise above their personal problems, and come up with a solution. They come up with it based on their egos, since they are not in attainment.

My Response: They concede to each other for the sake of a common solution; everyone restrains themselves. That is enough.

To the extent we gradually approach integration into nature, we will start receiving positive reactions from it.

Comment: Let’s say you have explained this to a person several times, but he says: “You have told me this so many times, but I want specific actions from you.”

My Response: Theses are the actions to follow. Let’s get together at a round table: “What complaints do you have? Why can’t we solve our problems? Why can’t we reach a state of solving everything together? Nature clearly shows us our integrality, our enclosure. If we do not find solutions between us this way, we will destroy ourselves.”

Basically, I have nothing more to explain. I can only say one thing, we will not solve any problems in the world if we do not solve them from the point of view of absolute, complete reciprocity!

The world is running out of fresh water. We have practically melted all the ice. Look at the disturbances we cause in nature: earthquakes, hurricanes, and everything else.

We don’t know how the economic crisis will end. It will never end because it is a copy of our inner state, our connections with each other. After all, the economy is an egoistic reflection of people’s dependence on each other.

Even within the family, with our children, we are simply in a terrible state in everything! See what is happening in all countries, how poorly people treat each other, how they pressure each other! We cannot solve a single problem by continuing to rely on our egoism that destroys us.

Question: What if ten Kabbalists gathered together?

Answer: What can they do? Instead of ten Kabbalists it should be the whole of humanity! It should be the mass media, the governments. There must be an awareness of this necessity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You Need a Decision” 7/9/11

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The gradual descent of the upper world into our world, its approach to us, gives a feeling of crisis in our world. The fact is that the upper network is an integral, balanced system, full of love, compassion, and mutual interaction. As it approaches the material world, it awakens forces that are completely foreign to it, like induction leads.

They are called the surrounding light, which acts at a distance like a magnet, like an inductor, that penetrates from the coil to a lower level. There is a colossus hanging over our world that is slowly descending to it, like in movies about the arrival of aliens.

Therefore, our world feels a crisis because we are in contradiction to what descends on us from above. This is a terrible condition!

If we do not become like the upper world, we will be almost completely destroyed! Only a small fraction of people will remain who, in the end, from the enormous suffering they have experienced, will realize the need to rise above their egoism to the platform that is descending to us and will reach balance with it.

Even if we want to get rid of these huge extraterrestrial forces, we still cannot. We can only become like them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Who influences Laitman?” 8/20/11

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Question: In the past, you and Rabash used to go to the sea every morning, and this habit has stayed with you until now. Is there any meaning to it, the water and sand? Why the sea specifically and not the forest?

Answer: The sea is the most beneficial thing there can be. However, in our time, it has become entirely different; it is either a lot of jellyfish or huge waves.

The rise of the ocean and seas globally has become quite noticeable. Where once there used to be a coastal strip about 100 to 150 meters wide, it has narrowed to 50 meters. All of this is compressed on a narrow coastal strip, which no longer allows walks or strolls.

Over the past years, the very essence of the sea has completely changed. Now, you do not feel the same sea as before. It has become unfriendly, menacing, and unloving to us, as if it is not part of nature close to us. These transformations form the entire Earth’s climate.

I feel and know the sea very well. I sense an unpleasant force within it toward humanity. Lately, unfortunately, it seems to convey negative thoughts.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Great Mystery of Water” 8/20/11

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For as many centuries as humanity has existed in the world, thousands and thousands of years, it has been mistaken. Read newspapers, magazines, go online—everyone is still waiting for some aliens from other planets.

Humanity is barbaric. In fact, it has not yet come down from the trees. As when we were monkeys, so we exist nowadays. We have not changed at all and have even become worse than them.

Monkeys have a certain hierarchy, a certain community, certain laws of behavior; they know how they live. And we have lost even those natural laws of behavior that they have; as a result we have acquired terrible, ugly laws dictated to us by our growing egoism.

Meaning, today we are ugly monkeys, nothing more. And everything we have done, we have done that way. Now we are beginning to enter a state where we will suffer terribly from this and will be disappointed.

And this, together with Kabbalah that explains to us the essence of what is happening, will lead us to correction.

If we read what Kabbalists have written, we will quickly understand what our problem is and try to fix it quickly and intelligently. And if not, then we will move “with a stick to happiness.”

Therefore, we cannot say that a person is now more or less mentally healthy. There is one conclusion: treat everyone as gently as possible, and everything will be fine.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Hallucinations in a Dream” 8/20/11

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Question: We see that the leaders of countries who gather at summits cannot agree among themselves and cannot reach any kind of decision. And if we take ten Kabbalists as an example, how would they conduct these discussions?

Answer: They would conduct discussions as if they were one family!

Gather 20 heads of state together and make them think about each other, about their common problem as one family. And we will see if they can even attune in this way. If not, then they are not capable of being leaders today; replace them with others.

You cannot harm someone in an integral system because by doing this you harm the entire system!

People must realize this! Nature will obligate us to realize this. That is why we cannot solve any problem. We do not even know the economy of the future! Our economy does not work today. There are already rudiments of such works that are based on an integral economy.

Question: In essence, does everything have to collapse in order to start working correctly?

Answer: On corporeal level, nothing should be destroyed. The egoistic network of connections that we created among ourselves must be destroyed. Gradually! Peacefully! By tuning into different relationships: within the family, within society, within the state, between states, continents, in the economy, in everything.

Everything should be completely different, not immediately, but in accordance with people’s ability to maintain this system, which is why the most important thing is the education of humanity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You Need a Decision” 7/9/11

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Question: In order to look adequate for the general mass of people, do you have to assume an image of an ordinary, regular person? Is there another nature within you?

Answer: The other nature that resides within me is an image parallel to me, which is in a state of love and connection with all human souls. There is no way to see it. You can imagine anything you want, each one to the extent of his development.

Comment: The spiritual is opposite to the material. If you are in spiritual attainment, then there are some things in you that can appear very strange to people.

My Response: It is possible. Quite right.

In an event that might seem frightening to ordinary people, I can see, on the contrary, the revelation of the next stage. For example, I greet the global crisis with great anticipation and great hope.

I want everyone to accept it correctly and adapt to it quickly. For me, this is truly a tremendous turning point for humanity; it is when it begins to change itself. It is the revelation of an already outgrown stage! Such an unknown state, uncertain time, marks the ascent to the next stage.

And the next stage is revealed to us as a global, integral, interconnected one; it obligates us to think about everyone together. It begins to show its new laws in the world. And we already see that our previous laws are no longer valid. It is necessary to adapt to some kind of next paradigm, and it is already beginning to manifest.

Kabbalah explains the methodology and practice of the new life that helps us ascend to the next state.

This state has never existed throughout billions of years of the existence of our universe and millions of years of human development.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman ((as They don’t Know Him)” 8/27/11

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Materialistic psychology, which has developed during the past 100 to 150 years, is the study of human egoism: how individual egoism interacts with everyone else, what connections, thoughts, tastes it has, and how it develops and satisfies itself.

Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychology, developed this system in practice, but today it does not work anymore because the system has become integral.

It requires us to exit ourselves and to not view the surrounding society with the selfish purpose of gain and fulfillment. After all, according to Freud, our main instinct is food and sex, “bread and circuses.”

Now the surrounding environment asks something different from us. “You will not receive fulfillment if you are not participating in bestowal in the way that you would be in balance with the surrounding environment” nature says to us. Thus, Freud’s approach does not work here anymore.

Kabbalah steps forward in place of Freud. It tells how to balance oneself with the surrounding environment in order to feel optimal and comfortable. In other words, Kabbalah is also psychology, but it is a psychology of the modern times, the psychology of connecting humanity into a single integral one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You’re repeating the same thing!” 8/13/11

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