Question: 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.
[304155]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Protection from Enemies” 8/22/13

Related Material:
The Internet In A Time Of Global Crisis
How To Overcome The Global Crisis
Economics Of The Future Society

Filed under: Crisis, Dissemination, Globalization - No Comments →

There 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.”
[304400]
From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/24/22, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Exile and Redemption”

Related Material:
Evolution Of Desires, Part 1
The Evolution Of Desires
My World Is A Collection Of Desires

Filed under: Crisis, Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Egoism, Globalization, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

The 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.
[303983]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Victory Is a Sign of Defeat” 8/2/13

Related Material:
Where Is the Way Out of the Impasse?
A Condition for Our Existence on Earth
The Reason for the Imbalance Is in Us, in People

Filed under: Crisis, Globalization - No Comments →

Question: 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.
[303519]
From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/23/22

Related Material:
Change The Apparatus Of Perception
Velocity And Acceleration
The Acceleration Of Time

Filed under: Crisis, Globalization, Perception - No Comments →

Our 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.
[303926]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Victory Is a Sign of Defeat” 8/2/13

Related Material:
The End of the Development of Egoistic Nature
On The Threshold Of A New Stage
The End Of The Development Of Egoism

Filed under: Crisis, Egoism, Globalization - No Comments →

In the News (CNBC): “Of the estimated 828 million people globally who were affected by hunger in 2021, around three-in-five (59%) were women, according to a report released earlier this month by humanitarian organization Care.

“That’s equivalent to 150 million more women facing food insecurity than men.

“And the gap is widening. …

“According to the U.N.‘s 2022 ‘The state of food security and nutrition in the world’ report, women have poorer food security than men in every region in the world. That disparity is especially pronounced in developing countries and specifically in the Global South. …

“‘Women are very heavily socialized to pull that burden on themselves. And everyone around them is socialized to assume that they will,’ Janoch said. …

“Indeed, even when both men and women are technically food insecure, women still tend to bear the bigger burden.

“In Somalia, for example, men reported eating smaller meals while women reported skipping meals altogether.”

Comment: In many places in the world “women eat last and eat least.” You keep giving the example of a woman and a child as an example of bestowal in our world.

Could you say a little about a woman in this perspective?

My Response: Responsibility. After all, a woman feels her family, her children, her husband, and all her surrounding space. For her, this is herself. Therefore the Torah says: “A woman is a house.”

Question: Are these not the greatest qualities for our world?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Why can we not give the reins of power and everything else to a woman?

Answer: No, she cannot do that. But when a man does everything for her sake, then it will be good because we have to create such conditions for a woman, with the help of which the world will actually be corrected.

Question: That is, will the world be corrected through a woman?

Answer: Yes. This is true.

Question: Why does a woman have all these qualities? Is it because she can give birth?

Answer: Because she can give birth. Because she feels nature through herself, through the heart, through the uterus. That is what is written in the Bible. Abraham was told straight away, “Listen to what Sarah tells you.” This is not simple.

Question: Can we see this as a piece of advice that you need to listen to what a woman tells you?

Answer: This was the Creator’s instruction to Abraham!

Comment: Is this mainly about the natural wisdom of a woman?

My Response: Yes, precisely about natural wisdom. Not an artificial one, like in a man.

Question: Do you perceive nature as female?

Answer: In general, yes. A man is made for correction to the extent that he can earn the quality of correction, the power of correction. A woman, however, on her own is already inside nature.

Question: Does it mean that if we listened to a woman, if we treated a woman correctly and worked for her, there would be no wars, suffering, or troubles?

Answer: In general, of course.

Question: Is it possible to lock everything on a woman?

Answer: It depends on how to turn it. But in general, yes. If we listened to a woman, then of course there would be more order in the world. This is clear to everyone.
[303814]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/22

Related Material:
A House Needs A Wise Woman
We Can Only Rely On Women
The Last Generation—The Time Of Women

Filed under: Crisis, Globalization, Man and Woman, News - No Comments →

Comment: There is a famine in Brazil. People lost their jobs during the pandemic and found themselves without means of subsistence. They call it the “hunger pandemic.” More than 100 million Brazilians will no longer have meat, dairy products, and vegetables on the table, that is, in very limited quantities.

Brazil is one of the largest exporters of products in the world, especially meat. How can a country remain the biggest exporter while over 100 million of your own people, almost 50% of the population, have nothing to put on the table?

My Response: It is very simple: this is how we created the world. It is not nature that does this. Nature provides us with everything we need. Yet, we turn it over as we like, divide it, mold it in such a way that on the one hand we throw food away and on the other hand, people starve.

Question: But this is not a good world. Let’s say I am the leader of the country, I am developing exports, and at the same time, my people are starving. How is this even possible? Why do you say that our world is like that?

Answer: It is egoistic. You have to correct egoism for this. If you do not correct it, we will always have situations like this. There will be small black and white periods. But mostly they will be dark, black.

Comment: I am well-fed and I feel that I need to develop the economy and revenue and I am not interested in what is next to me.

My Response: It is a big problem to put the country in order. To do this, it is necessary to educate people, raise literacy, and create special conditions for proper interaction between people. No one will do this.

Comment: This is my wrong view. Let’s say the country’s leaders should see that their people are starving and stop half of the exports.

My Response: And what will happen? If they stop exporting, there will be no money. If there is no money, they will not be able to produce weapons or something else. Everything is attached one to another. Then they will eat you.

The egoistic world cannot be in another form.

Question: Do you think that even further the egoistic world will show itself more as a monster?

Answer: In any case, it will find a solution, a way for egoism to celebrate. There will be a ball of egoism all over the Earth.

Question: What would you do as a leader of the country if you had such an opportunity? People are starving in your country and you export a great amount of everything. How would you regulate this?

Answer: In principle, this problem has no solution. It can only come down to one thing: educating the population so that it is prepared for a paradigm shift, that is, to change the value in life from egoistic to altruistic; moreover, change to a very serious altruistic system where schools, institutions, and relations between people, everything would be subordinated to altruistic social relations.

Question: Do you think that because of this there will be no famine in the country and so on?

Answer: Then there will be nothing like that. But this is a gradual, long-term transition system. Basically, this is, of course: awareness, development of consciousness, and development of states between people and social relations.

Question: Do you think that this leads to mutual guarantee and to the fact that no one can starve next to me, that there is no such thing at all?

Answer: This is a fantasy. I understand that this is a fantasy. But, on the other hand, we need any way to come closer to this. I understand that this sounds unreal today, but nature will force us nevertheless.
[303763]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/27/21

Related Material:
We Will Reach Love But Only Through Hunger
“Hunger Is a Rolling Snowball” (Medium)
Hunger Is Knocking At The Door

Filed under: Crisis, Economy, Globalization, News - No Comments →

The war between Ukraine and Russia resulted in a serious energy crisis in many European countries. Europe has already implemented energy saving like washing hands in cold water and taking shorter showers, but the main problem will be with heating in the winter.

How can it be that in the 21^st century, in 2022, in the most developed countries, in wealthy Western Europe people would suffer from cold? How did we get to this?

The fact is that Europeans have accustomed themselves to a warm and cozy life. They are not concerned with where the heat comes from. So now they are beginning to understand what a big problem this is because Europe is not the tropics, it has a cold climate.

They did not think about developing advanced technologies for energy carriers since they bought cheap gas from Russia. Energy is the basis of life. People have invented a lot of smart devices, but they all need energy. If there is no energy, it is a problem. Energy cannot be replaced, it is the basis of life.

There is an infinite source of energy in nature itself. It is in the air, but we humans do not know how to extract it from there. We are unable to exist on the same wavelength as the energy that exists all around us. There were interesting studies on such energy that Elon Musk conducted in order to use it for his Tesla electric car.

We can receive energy from nature directly, without any energy carriers, without converting it from one form to another. And humanity will be able to do this provided it moves in the direction of equality. Otherwise, we will not be able to discover this energy because nature runs according to the law of similarity of form.

We must be in similitude with each other and with nature so there would be no barriers between us and nature. This way, we will be able to receive energy from nature without limits. Nature can give us energy without limit if there are no restrictions and partitions between us.
[303732]
From KabTV’s “Insight” 10/2/22

Related Material:
Let’s Switch Off The Electricity
Green Energy Within Man
Focusing The Energy On Mutuality

Filed under: Crisis, Globalization - No Comments →

Comment: We know that empathy is the ability to feel the world of another as our own. We are literally capable of feeling someone else’s pain. Psychologists claim that if we experience empathic pain for a long time, we often become emotionally exhausted.

This happens to firefighters, those who work in emergency services, etc. They say through empathy we come to feel the pain of someone else. However, we also feel the pain of someone else through compassion, but in that case, we can handle it. That is because compassion comes with love. That’s the whole difference between the two.

My Response: Correct.

Comment: The official definition of empathy is the ability to identify with the emotions of another, but compassion is defined as sympathy for the suffering of another.

My Response: It is like stepping into the world of another and feeling his experience.

Question: How can we facilitate this within ourselves? As I understand if that feeling was fostered, we would live as though in a different world.

Answer: Yes, we would nurture it. I think that it is possible. We are just not involved in this process. Generally, people at the age of 13 – 14 can fully resonate with another person’s suffering. And they would then need to be further educated on it.

Comment: That, of course, would drastically change the world.

My Response: Of course, no doubt about it.

Question: So, is it possible to nurture compassion in a person?

Answer: The understanding of compassion for others can be taught so a person may understand how to handle it. So much so that through this compassion for another, he may share another’s suffering by taking it partially upon himself and in this way neutralize their suffering.

The fact that you neutralize it by engaging with him, sympathizing, and being compassionate, you gradually break up his suffering into a number of smaller parts and by doing so, bring him relief. Similarly, you can bring the whole world into balance and to an inner-state-of-being you can call blissfulness.

Question: So, shared compassion among all the people on earth will lead to a state of blissfulness in the world?

Answer: Yes. That’s exactly what we have to achieve in our connection. Otherwise, we have some very serious problems ahead of us. This is because the ego continues to grow and the upper light is revealed in relation to the ego even more. Meaning, we are going to feel greater pressure in relation to our ego such that if we don’t find a way to unite and share all of that among ourselves, we won’t be able to tolerate it.

Question: Is compassion essentially the basis of what you mention all the time: unity, connection, positive thoughts, and good connections?

Answer: Yes. Practically speaking, it’s not even compassion. It is the division of all the huge suffering, the opposites of a huge desire and a huge light that should fill this desire, and the absence of an intention “not for yourself” that allows you to fill the desire with light.

Question: So it can only be filled if my intention is for the sake of others?

Answer: Yes. This is why we need this balance here. All this can only be realized if we learn to be compassionate, to divide the difference between absolute fulfillment and absolute emptiness amongst every person.

Obviously, nobody will be worse off in this case. But if we want to divide it this way, the difference itself will disappear. That is the whole point of this remarkable quality of unification.

Question: And at this point, is it correct to say that the state of blissfulness will come?

Answer: Yes. Then this feeling of the contradiction, impossibility, and an inner cry turns into a quenching, into something beyond corporeal, into pleasure. At that point, there is no difference between great pain and great pleasure. There they connect.

Question: And what does the pain become in this case?

Answer: Pleasure, because you have balanced them out.

Question: That is very elevated.

Answer: That’s how it works at a higher level.

Question: Is the pain given to us to turn it into pleasure?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: And the greatest pain, as a result, turns out to be the greatest pleasure?

Answer: Yes. If you know how to balance these opposites, you get pleasure.
[303344]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/6/22

Related Material:
“How Do I Become More Compassionate And Empathetic?” (Quora)
What Gives Us the Possibility to Live
A Subtle Inclination Of A Sensitive Soul

Filed under: Children, Crisis, Education, Globalization, News - No Comments →

Question: America has built an image of the American Dream through propaganda. At some point it was revealed that their authorities were listening to their own citizens, which was followed by a lot of  scandals. This gives an example of how much you can build a system of brainwashing, but in the egoistic sphere.

Can it ever be the other way around that a person is told about the importance of opposite systems, of bestowal, which Kabbalists are trying to convey to the world? Is it possible to build such a system?

Answer: Of course, it is not only possible, but also necessary. This is a system of integral education.

But I think that this system will be built not from the top down, but rather from the bottom up when people receive information about us in an accessible and correct form suitable to them through the Internet and through television channels, in the form of series, engaging games, and so on. This will educate them. They will participate in workshops, groups, and roundtables.

Otherwise it is impossible to reach millions and even billions of people. First it will go to the people with the lowest income level, from the middle class and below, and then higher. We will have to do this.

Comment: But the Americans have built a system in which people have no choice. They are just brainwashing them.

My Response: It’s already falling. The people are changing. We are evolving; we are changing. Today we are reaching a level when this system is breaking down. Therefore problems arise. And at the same time, other systems of human society are failing: economic, political, social, cultural, and familial.

Therefore, the American propaganda of their way of life: “we,” “we,” “we”—stops working. A person from the inside has other demands that Hollywood will not satisfy.
[303271]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. American Brainwashing” 7/3/13

Related Material:
The End Of The American Dream – Death Of Democracy
The Empty American Dream
The Collapse Of The American Dream

Filed under: Crisis, Dissemination, Globalization - No Comments →