Question: Let’s say a person understands perfectly well that some medicine will help him, and he takes it. But at some point, he stops and says: “That is it, I do not want it anymore.” Like for example, drug addicts who know that they should be cured, and that they should endure certain suffering in order to get rid of drug addiction, but they cannot stop.

Answer: This is also a sign of insufficient suffering. At the end of this suffering, a new, lower level gradually unfolds in us where we are no longer able to use false pleasure.

Over time, withdrawal from drugs will come. People will not be able to use them because they will reach the final development of consciousness.

“I can no longer smoke, inject, or sniff. I cannot!”

“Why?”

“Because it is a lie!”

That is, just the understanding that it is a lie neutralizes the feeling of pleasure in them.

This is a natural, dialectical development of our multilayered desire, which consists of its root (zero) level and then the first, second, third, and fourth phases. When we reach the fourth phase of desire—that is it, the end! We can no longer use it.

We realize that it is opposite to some source, something we cannot violate, and that is it. We cannot use that desire anymore. We must rise above it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah and Drugs” 8/27/10

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Question: If a person falls sick and is embarrassed to ask the group for help because he believes that the group should not be involved in such matters, what does the person lose, and what does the group lose? Or is it just his personal problem?

Answer: He loses the opportunity for help, rapprochement, and connection with his friends. But why should he be embarrassed? Everything that happens is guided by the Creator according to His plan. And we are expected to act in alignment with this plan.

It is crucial not to perceive what happens as solely personal. What is personal here? We are just protein-based organisms interacting within our own slime. The most important thing for us is to elevate the soul above this. Why should we make something significant out of our insignificant material existence, something that supposedly needs to be preserved and cherished? It is the soul that we should value and aim to elevate as soon as possible.

Therefore, we should take advantage of every opportunity, whether someone feels bad or good, in any situation. If we can use all this for spiritual elevation, we should do so. Why should I value fleeting moments of my organic life? It turns out that I do not understand the purpose of life. What is it given for?

It is so that I unveil, create, shape, and expand the soul, receive the upper light within it, experience eternal existence, and remain in it while still existing within this transient organic form.

Suppose, I am given a car to travel from point A to point B, but along the way, I start fussing over it, tending to it, washing and cleaning it. Then it all ends there: I am turning a means into a goal.

Question: But does a person assist his group by reaching out to friends for help?

Answer: The point is that we are created as complex beings, largely unaware of our place and actions we should take. Therefore, in the plans that the Creator implements upon us, He considers our current level of development.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ask the Group” 6/15/10

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Comment: According to Dr. Robert Lustig, professor emeritus at University of California, San Francisco, happiness and pleasure are not really the same.

He asserts that pleasure is short-lived and visceral and happiness is long-lived and ethereal. Pleasure is taking, while happiness is giving. Pleasure is usually experienced alone, while happiness is usually social. 

My Response: Indeed pleasure is an animate state in which my body enjoys. Happiness, on the other hand, is eternal and complete. It requires stepping out of oneself and rising above oneself. It is connected with a higher purpose, eternity, and true achievement.

Can both be combined? Yes, if I elevate all my pleasures to the level of happiness. Then by rising above my body, I will bring all the best to others, and in this I will find true pleasure and true happiness for myself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/12/24

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Comment: Scientists surveyed over 1,300 people aged 21 and above. Those who had a clear understanding of the meaning of life were happier and healthier than those still searching for it. In other words, those looking for the meaning of life aren’t well.

My Response: The main thing is to find your natural point in which you are already living. Or it might even be in development, but you are within it, and are not floundering without knowing where.

Comment: But you keep saying that searching for the meaning of life is good.

My Response: I am not saying that a person doesn’t understand the meaning of life. One should determine what that meaning is and pursue it. Moving toward the meaning of life, where you understand and know how and what, gives you immense satisfaction, delight, and tranquility, along with great dissatisfaction and internal imbalance.

Comment: Ups and downs.

My Response: Yes! But you derive immense pleasure from all of it. You enjoy the process. It is a “storm petrel.”

Question: And if you experience descent and despair and you wonder if you have chosen the right path?

Answer: But that is better than being an inanimate element. Work in an office and stay at home watching football? Or not? It depends on each person’s values.

Question: So you believe in the studies you have experienced and tested yourself?

Answer: First of all, I do not believe anyone in the world. Because there is no one to believe. We see what is happening in the world. Therefore I trust only myself, my experiments, my universities.

Question: And they say that you find the meaning of life after long searches, adhering to your teacher, and proceeding? Through ups and downs.

Answer: Only in this way.

Comment: I remember you saying that you had such descents that you could not even get out of bed.

My Response: That is natural. But that is the path of searching. You cannot escape it.

Question: And do you call that a happy path?

Answer: Absolutely! Of course! “Exultation in battle,” in the fall.

Question: What would you wish for people embarking on the path of searching for the meaning of life?

Answer: I wish people would enjoy the metamorphoses happening within them. Everything that occurs, everything that boils inside—that is life! Don’t grow old prematurely. Try not to, at least internally.
I cannot climb mountains; I cannot fight the waves of a raging sea. No. But all of that exists inside me, and all of that gives the feeling of life.

Question: So you mean that a person stays young regardless of one’s age?

Answer: Of course!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/23/19

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Question: There is physical pain, torture, suffering, solitary confinement, and still a person gets out of prisons, out of these tortures, and can live up to the age of 120 as a healthy person. And then there is this mental stress, and that is it, life ends. What is it, why is it so?

Answer: Because our body is adapted to physical suffering, but it is not adapted to sensory and moral suffering. We can’t stand it.

Question: Why? After all, the body is healthy.

Answer: Because it is above our natural way of life, our body.

Question: So some higher function is disrupted, but the earthly function remains in order?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So I’m leaving with a healthy body, roughly speaking?

Answer: People existed in conditions that we cannot imagine.

Question: And then bam, that’s it. Is there some higher component in us?

Answer: Yes, life can be lived if you have a purpose; if you can raise this goal above suffering and limitations, then you can exist.

Question: So you’ve grabbed hold of this spirit and hold on, but your body can give up?

Answer: The body will not give up if you hold on to this power above life.

Question: So you connect it?

Answer: Sure, a person should see a goal ahead of him and what he is suffering for, in short.

Question: Will the body hold up then?

Answer: Yes. The problem with us in our lives is that we don’t see this goal today.

Question: Does this also apply to a simple goal? For example, centenarians live somewhere, they have some simple goal, they hold on to it, and the body holds together with them. Does this apply to a simple goal, not just a high one?

Answer: Yes, he has his sheep, goats or a dog.

Comment: The air, nature.

My Response: Yes and all that.

Question: And does he live?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: There are a lot of films about old women, old men who live to be 100 years old, living somewhere in a forest, in the mountains, who knows where. And how do you think they’re holding up? And they’re holding on. And somehow, they work that way.

Amazing! And there is no need for hospitals or doctors.

My Response: No, if she gets up and knows that she definitely needs to do different things, then all this overlaps.

Question: Even to feed yourself?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/24

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Comment: Dr. Yeshayahu Rubinstein, an Israeli scientist, claims that the helixes that make up our DNA are held together by a series of sulfur bonds that are in a pattern between base pairs of genetic material. The repeating pattern is 10, 5, 6, 5, which are the Hebrew letters (letters represent numbers in Hebrew) Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey, which is the name of God. From this, he asserts that God put His signature in our DNA.

Answer: The relationship between all possible properties of our DNA is manifested in a matrix called “The Name of the Creator.”

Dr. Rubinstein discovered a relationship determined in nature, which falls under Yod-Key-Vav-Key. This relationship is manifested in absolutely everything! Only sometimes we notice it, can reveal, research, and write down and sometimes not. But it is manifested everywhere because it is a general property of nature.

DNA is a human information record.

Question: Where is it located?

Answer: In our cells. Everything that we are is made up of protein structures that are built on the property of what is called “three lines” or a double helix and ladders that connect them together in Kabbalah.

This has been known from Kabbalah for 5,000 to 6,000 years. Maybe it was known before, but to whom?

Question: How can a person, in his physical growth, but also moral, mental, spiritual, and self-development, not break this spiral, but on the contrary, strengthen it? What does he need for this?

Answer: For this he needs to connect with the Creator. And then he will restore his broken connections.

That is why you need to reach a level where you can be in contact with the Creator, receive from Him that primordial force that will correct your DNA, your double helix, basically, restore the middle line between them.

Question: How does the realization that the Creator’s code is written in his structure help a person?

Answer: Of course! We all consist of these codes. All our cells, all organs consist of the relationships between various protein systems. The results of the Creator’s creation are recorded in them, how we were created by Him, “Him”  meaning, an upper force, a higher program.

Question: We know that sometimes the bridge breaks. Under what conditions does the presence of the Creator, His record, break?

Answer: It breaks when we do not observe any similarity to Him at all. By this we cause problems, illnesses, even death.

Question: What is His function within human DNA? What is the role of the Creator and how should we correspond to it?

Answer: Human DNA, as I have already said, consists of two parallel protein systems, between which there are connecting bridges, like steps of a ladder. This is in a very simplified form; there are a lot of all kinds of additions. They all come down to maintaining a balance between themselves that would correspond to their complete mutual, absolutely altruistic interaction. If this balance is achieved between them, then the correct signal is transmitted along these connecting steps, i.e., along small connecting devices (after all, protein systems are very complex) that balance the right and left lines.

Comment: How can a person become better?

Answer: Better? No problem! For this, he must want to become better. And in accordance with his desire, his spiral will change for the better. It will wind in the right direction, interact with other spirals, and will be in an absolutely optimal mode.

Question: How can a person establish contact, dialogue, as if checking the correctness of his actions with this system?

Answer: For this, he must be kind. Being kind means that he must put everyone above himself and exist in order to do good to others. Then his system will work correctly. It has such an internal style, meaning, mode, a mode of correct favor for oneself and for others.

Comment: Such a complex system!

Answer: It is not complicated. The principle of its operation is very simple.

Inside it is very complex, because it must be embodied in living matter, in animal matter, in biological matter. That is why it is difficult, because to translate the spiritual language, the language of feelings, bestowal, love, and connection into the language between practically non-living elements, proteins, requires a very large transformation.

It is necessary to make many different imprints on different levels of this system of mutually correct relations, until it descends to good interactions at the level of proteins. It is impossible to imagine!

Question: And how to take into account all these smallest details?

Answer: It is impossible. I remember asking myself the same question. And then I realized that at our deterministic level we cannot imagine, do, feel, create, build, connect, and assemble like a constructor.

The only thing we can do is to tune ourselves from the other side, from the side of goodness, love, interaction, rapprochement, and affection. And then these interactions will occur in us and will correspond to our hopes, our aspirations. We align our protein spirals with our aspirations.

Comment: That is, a person only needs to wish for something.

Answer: No, not just “you only need to wish for” and that’s it. This does not happen, it is not hocus-pocus. A person must work on himself, on his correct thoughts, desires, and good interactions with others, and then he will heal all his problems in the spirals with this.

Question: DNA is often called the building material of life since it contains the genetic code that is the basis of heredity.

That is, our heredity is to be absolutely, as you say, kind and act for the good of all. Why does man act in the opposite way? Where is this spiral broken?

Answer: No, it is not broken. We are specially created this way in order to consciously tune ourselves. We are created harmful, nasty, greedy, in short, selfish in everything, in order to tune ourselves correctly from this state and thus heal ourselves and others: ourselves, our offspring, the whole world around us.

Man is given the opportunity to correct himself, but for this he must work. For this he must meet a teacher and an appropriate group. He needs many conditions to begin to change himself so much that he could even correct his protein structure.

Question: Can we change our DNA?

Answer: What does “change” mean? Man can correct it. If he behaves correctly, all these errors are smoothed out.

When he functions correctly, they function correctly. He functions at the level of “Human,” interacts correctly with the personalities around it, and at the same time, all the spirals, proteins, etc. inside it also begin to interact correctly with each other. That is, from a higher level, from the mental, psychological, and even spiritual, he forces the lower structures to come into balance.

Question: What does it mean that a person acts correctly so that his system develops?

Answer: It means treating everyone with kindness. Moreover, this is when he attains the Creator. This is already the highest level. Then he becomes equal to the Creator by his nature, by his internal actions. From the outside, this may not be visible at all. And then his entire structure also gradually becomes absolutely corrected. Which is what I wish for all of you.

Question: Why does a person need this knowledge? Let’s say he knows that the code of altruism lives in him, and he can’t do anything about it.

Answer: There is this code of altruism in a person, which he must open; he needs to find the key to it and tune himself to it. He must do it. He will do it. Every person!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/8/24

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Comment: Scientists say we are close to editing genetics to create “designer babies.” Some scientists say genetically modified babies are highly desirable to protect people from diseases.

My Response: I know that any interference with nature has bad consequences. We try to get into everything possible that seems desirable, necessary, positive, or valuable to us, but in the end the opposite happens because nature does not tolerate such interference.

We must act according to its laws. There is only one way to change yourself for the better—by evoking the proper influence of nature, that is, the influence of the upper light. That is the only way.

Question: If a person suddenly decides he can change himself, if he can change his body, can he maybe change his soul?

Answer: The soul, he cannot, but the earthly qualities, he can.

Comment: A person does not just seek to change DNA; he wants to make the “future person” better than himself.

My Response: This is not the way to do it! If I, say, make my son or grandson particularly talented in music, naturally he will develop in this area, apply himself, and get pleasure from it. He may even bring others pleasure. But will it make him happy?

Happiness, the most critical indicator of our quality of life, does not depend on creative success. I am talking about creative success, but not everyone can be a great musician, artist, etc. We also need masons; we need everyone.

Question: So what do we need?

Answer: We need happiness, that is all. A person should feel happy. He can feel happy once he understands why, for what, and how he exists, the world he lives in, and how he constantly transforms it and improves himself and the world. This brings him true happiness.

Happiness is achieved when you do positive things for others and when others do positive things for you. The exchange of correctly directed influences on each other brings us a sense of happiness.

There is no greater happiness than feeling like a baby in your mother’s arms. What a blessing! We see this feeling is given to us by nature.

This is how we should feel about being in human society, humanity, and in life, not having to worry about anything, being in the hands of a society that gives us such a feeling. There is neither life nor death, and nothing else matters, only a feeling of mutual happiness. I bring pleasure to my “mother,” and my “mother” enjoys me.

Question: An idyll. How can we achieve it in this dirty, terrible world?

Answer: To do so, we must educate and bring people to such a state. Treat each other like a mother toward a baby, and at the same time make them feel how everyone treats them like a mother treats a baby.

It is all in our hands; we just need to change the egoistic nature of man a little.

A person’s desire is not a consequence of genetics, but a consequence of his spiritual development. Nothing will help here, only the science of Kabbalah. It will give a person the opportunity to influence themselves, change themselves, and become, on the one hand like a kindhearted baby in the arms of nature and society, and on the other hand, it will give one the opportunity to organize society so that everyone is treated like by a mother.

Humanity will come to this. We must surely change our attitude toward ourselves, nature, and others—toward everything.

Question: When we intrude genetically, we operate on a future person from the outside. How can you add the idea from the outside that you need to develop internally, to develop your soul?

Answer: We must explain it; we need to explain how to achieve happiness to people. This is our task.

This is a very important work that should be starting to manifest in our time. Humanity has a demand for this because it does not see a way to achieve happiness, which is a universally correct, normal state where people do not think about what will happen to them the next moment; they just live happily, treat each other correctly, and create an atmosphere they feel good in.

This is not easy; it is achieved by working on one’s egoism, moreover, systematically and universally. Why should we not do it? At least, the years of life one imagines he is living would be pleasant.

Later he would begin to see that by taking part in the lives of others in this way, he transforms his life and lifts it into other dimensions. That is, suddenly, his sense of life is not determined by his body, but by his connection with others. And to be connected to others gives him a sense of eternity.

If this does not depend on my body, I lose the whole order of time and our earthly events, my sense of the world, and my earthly life. I exist in a state with no beginning or end, one measured by different parameters with greater connection between us, greater sense of freedom, elevated above the ego, connection with all people, and attainment of a common force called “the Creator.”

Everything is in us; everything is before us. Let us build such a world instead of today’s problematic one.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/1/20

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Question: Sweden is known for its emphasis on work-life balance with generous vacation time, parental leave, and flexible working hours, which generally contribute to lower burn out rates compared to other countries.  Despite this, some studies indicate burn out is still a growing issue in Sweden and some research suggests that younger workers may be more susceptible. It seems the problem is that people cannot manage their time correctly.

Question: How can you fill your free time? A vacuum forms. How can a person fill it so he does not suffer?

Answer: With the meaning of life. The meaning of life is what you need to fill it with!

And it is nowhere to be found. The lack of meaning eventually begins to suffocate a person! He sees his whole life before him; after all, we keep developing. A person sees where it begins, how it continues, and where it ends. And now, instead of 50 to 60 years, life has become twice as long. Who needs this?

Question: What is the solution?

Answer: To reveal the true meaning of life given to us by nature. This is beyond our egoism, beyond our comprehension. To do this, you need to grow. To do this, we need to open our eyes and see a completely different nature, the system in which we exist, not our egoistic one.

Change the basis of mastering the universe and you will see where you really are and what kind of world you can discover for yourself. Press the button and change the whole world.

Question: Where is this button? Where can I find it?

Answer: In the human heart. Naturally! One must understand he needs to change himself and thus change the world.

Comment: In one of your programs, you said that the desire to search for the highest meaning of life cannot be bought. That is, you cannot find it and appropriate it.

My Response: Yes, it is impossible. If a person needs to discover the upper world, the meaning of life, then it is there, if not, then not. But judging by the current state of humanity, we see we are all headed there.

Today, many people are getting carried away, looking for and hoping to find at least another universe. Another universe! That is, I want to go beyond this ecumene, I want to see something else. If I depict this world to myself, and it is drawn in me, then I want to picture it differently. I want to draw it.

This is when the science of Kabbalah emerges and says: “Please, here are your brushes, here is a blank canvas for you—paint!” This is what people need to engage in.

Comment: It is a very optimistic picture. On one hand some entity destroys all the cardboard houses in a person as if dragging him into a new corridor. But a person, in the midst of this destruction, does not see this corridor. It is like there is some kind of partition.

My Response: This is our inner consent to reveal the insignificance of our understanding and the limitations of our feelings. It will pass. Life teaches us. I am a big optimist.

Question: Can you depict the new reality? You said, “Push a button in your heart, and you will reveal the new reality.” What will it look like?

Answer: “A button in the heart” means you need to push yourself and start perceiving the world around you and yourself differently. Then, you will see that you actually exist in another reality. This is truly a miracle, but it happens through you when you change yourself, reverse your values, and see another world—the opposite world.

Here we need to understand that our whole nature, our whole universe, and our whole world exist only in our imagination. And this imagination is currently egoistic. By changing it to an altruistic one, we will see a different world. This will be the upper world—the world of altruism, the world of love.

Question: Will it be the same world, but will we see it differently?

Answer: We do not see our world either. We see it in us, in our properties. If our properties change, we will see a new world.

We only need to change ourselves. This whole world around me, it does not exist. It is in our minds. Only in our minds! It is in the heart. Only in one’s heart.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/9/19

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Question: What is a doctor in a spiritual sense?

Answer: This is a very complex topic because an ordinary person entrusts a doctor with the most valuable thing they have. After all, a person does not live a spiritual life. What they possess is their ordinary life, their physical body. And when this physical body no longer obeys them, they hope it will obey the doctor. In this sense, the doctor becomes a supreme being to them.

A doctor feels this attitude from the person and accordingly the immense responsibility that comes with it. They cannot simply brush it off and move on. Meanwhile they may have dozens if not hundreds of patients. Day in and day out new patients are added while the old ones weigh on them, and so on. It is an enormous workload.

No one teaches doctors that they need to be like gods, nor is there any serious psychological support provided to them. Furthermore, we lack a clear medical code that defines how a doctor should interact with a patient, even though the patient imposes their perception of the doctor as a Healer with a capital “H.”

Today the relationship between patients and doctors is not like it was in ancient societies where people generally understood that they live and die and a doctor could help to some extent. Nowadays the doctor is placed on such a pedestal that your life is entirely in their hands, or so it seems. This is incredibly challenging. It is extremely difficult for a modern person to stand on such a pedestal.

Question: Why does a person not just change their profession? It would be easier to leave.

Answer: No, they cannot change. They cannot leave. Being a doctor is not just a profession. First of all, becoming a doctor takes 10 to 15 years. Second, it carries immense responsibility toward society, toward family, toward everyone. Third, it involves honor, respect, and the public’s attitude toward the doctor.

This is a calling you cannot simply walk away from. As a result, a doctor feels trapped in this role.
The entire field of medicine is in an unhealthy state. However, it is starting to realize this. Efforts are being made in some places to address these issues. Unfortunately, it is a very difficult path of awareness, purification, and improvement.

Question: How can we help doctors?

Answer: Doctors can only be helped if a spiritual minister is placed alongside them. It does not matter who, a psychologist for example, which is essentially the same thing. This person must be present and take on the psychological burden of the patient.

When a doctor, for instance, gives a patient an injection, the spiritual minister holds the patient’s hand. In this way, the person is cared for both spiritually and physically. They are supported. The essence of the person, their soul and body, is tended to by two specialists.

We cannot escape this necessity, because our souls are constantly evolving. They are becoming increasingly complex and delicate. As they develop into more intricate systems, they reveal more and more of their internal subsystems, which makes them harder to manage. Therefore even the simplest person today is not like those of the past.

Take someone who lived, say, 200 years ago, a writer, poet, or artist, and compare them to a modern individual. You will find that even a vagrant today has a more refined psychological state and greater sensitivity than an intellectual from two centuries ago.

That is why we have no choice but to take serious care of people today.

Question: Which is more challenging, the illness of the soul or the illness of the body?

Answer: An inner illness of the soul is far more difficult because it is the root of all illnesses—all of them! If a person has the right attitude toward the world, you could immerse them in icy water for an hour, and they would remain unharmed.

Question: And what is the right attitude toward the world?

Answer: The right attitude is being in harmony, not only with the physical world, but most importantly with one’s inner nature. They do not feel separate from it.

Question: How can this state be achieved?

Answer: There are various techniques, but not Eastern ones. Though Eastern practices achieve this somewhat, they are no longer effective for modern individuals because they primarily worked on a primitive level of connecting a person to nature and the surrounding world to create some unity between the inner world and nature.

The problem is that the inanimate, vegetative, and animal degrees of nature coexist within one another. But humans evolve at an extraordinary speed. As a result, they suddenly feel detached from nature, rise above it, and create artificial forms of existence. They step outside the boundaries of nature.

This separation occurred thousands of years ago. However, the most significant detachment happened around the Middle Ages and beyond over the last 300 to 400 years. This has led to psychological, physical, and other problems.

On one hand we compensate for this detachment through knowledge of our nature and attempt to address the issues mechanically. On the other hand we can no longer live harmoniously with nature like animals. We are no longer part of nature. We have risen above it. As a result, we try to dominate, suppress, and control it. But of course, nothing good comes of this.

Question: What is needed?

Answer: We need to understand how we can complement nature and how nature can complement us.

Question: We began this conversation by discussing how medical students increase the risk of suicide during their training. What “pill” can be given to help them grow stronger with this knowledge and counteract the threat?

Answer: A person must understand the world they live in. They must see the interconnectedness and wholeness of our world. They must view themselves as the highest integral part of this world, and complement it. They need to understand how their harmony, inner and outer, affects the world. Only then will everything fall into place with no problems for doctors and no societal grievances toward them.

Question: How can they consistently return to this understanding to draw strength from it?

Answer: Doctors must be taught not only about “pills,” so to speak. There is also a correction of the soul. There is no other way. The correction of the soul correction is essential.

A doctor is not just a doctor. We cannot separate a person’s inner part from their outer part and neglect the soul simply because no one knows what it is. We must see the person as a connected whole. Only then can we understand health.

Health is essentially the balance between all parts of a person. Today, what relates to the mind or psychology is the main problem that destabilizes people and must be balanced. We will reach this understanding. But how much more suffering and awareness will it take?

Doctors are already experiencing such states and will ultimately help us in this realization. They will come to understand that this is precisely what they lack, and that the patient is a whole being. Therefore hospitals, clinics, and life in general must include specialists who help balance the soul.

After all, medicine is about achieving balance within the human systems. Each system has a spiritual and a material part. Doctors learn to manage the material part, but the spiritual part must also be balanced.

By achieving this, we can alleviate much of the burden on the material side. Through inner balance and the right attitude toward oneself and the world, we can achieve equilibrium that impacts our material systems. In essence, this is what we call “disease” or “health”—our balance at all levels.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/14/20

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Comment: A new type of depression called “smiling depression” has been identified. It involves presenting a happy appearance and hiding depressive symptoms. This is becoming more and more widespread.

People are busy in life, they have a profession, children, family, hobbies, and at the same time they are in constant depression. Outwardly they smile and present a happy appearance, but inside they are in real turmoil.

My Response: It seems to me that it affects huge parts of humanity today—the masses.

We live in a world in which our egoism is constantly developing. And what suited and satisfied us 1,000 years ago, ceased to satisfy us 500 years ago. And today it does not satisfy us at all.

At the beginning of the 20^th century when a person had something to eat, something to wear, and a place to sleep, the average person was happy, but today this is not an indicator that person would be in a comfortable state. This happens because our egoism grows and demands much greater fulfillment from a person, even the one that a person himself does not know about.

I just feel bad and I am empty! Did I eat? I think I ate. Did I sleep? I slept. Do I have a place to sleep? Yes. Do I have something to eat? Yes. Something to wear? I have that too. I have a job and everything else. What do I lack? I myself do not know.

Question: And what does a person lack?

Answer: The feeling of fulfillment, the feeling of happiness. That is what is missing. I may have everything, but I feel empty.

“What do you lack? Tell me what it is. I will write it down, and I promise to provide you with this.”

“You cannot provide me with this. I have to fill myself with something. There is emptiness inside me that I cannot fill in any way—not by drinking, eating, or anything. You can tickle me, and I will not laugh. I do not have this fulfillment!”

Question: How can a person find it?

Answer: There is no way. There is a feeling of lack inside him, a feeling of inner emptiness that cannot be filled with anything in our world.

You can take him, like a child, on a carousel, on walks, on trips, spin some movies in front of him, whatever, he will remain the same. He will watch some of it, it will distract him a little, but he will still feel that this is just an escape from emptiness. That is, there is emptiness, and he rises above it a little, but does not leave it.

Question: The famous Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor Frankl wrote that the cornerstone of good mental health is a purpose in life. Is finding the meaning of life necessary?

Answer: In our time, yes. In the past, the meaning of life was just to survive.

I lived in Lithuania at one time. People who lived there before the Soviet regime told me how everything had been arranged.

In the morning you went somewhere to work. Work, as a rule, was not permanent, because it is a small country. If you were lucky, you got work, you got paid for the day, you came home, you had something to eat—for yourself, for your family, and so on. And so it was for ordinary people who were not rich. This is how people lived. That is, if a person earned some money that day and he had something to feed himself and his family, he was happy.

50 years have passed. Can such a way of life be considered successful for a modern person today—that in the morning he does not know where he will earn money, and in the evening he does not know how he will feed himself and his family? No, a person needs a lot of things.

His egoism has become much wider and much deeper. He needs to know how much he is earning, when he receives his salary, what he will buy with it, where he will go on vacation to have fun, where his children will study, what his pension will be, and in general, really everything!

Question: So now he must take care of this by himself?

Answer: His needs have grown so much, and he cannot do anything about it; it is his inner egoism that has developed so much, not that he is spoiled that he cannot be happy today from receiving some minimal portion of the necessary fulfillment.

He does not even know what kind of fulfillment, even if he has everything. After all, this depression affects practically all ranks of society.

Question: Where is the way out of this labyrinth of life?

Answer: I do not know. But I remember that I was like that in my generation, and it was hard for me. Throughout my childhood and youth, I was in such a semi-depressive state until I found my serious occupation—Kabbalah.

I did not know how to fill myself and why I existed. All that was somehow far-fetched, that I had to bear this burden of life by all means. Why?! What for?! This is the most terrible thing! That is, when you get up in the morning and ask yourself: “Why did I get up? Why did I wake up?”

And these states are constant in people who are spiritually elevated or must be spiritually elevated, even in a Kabbalist, because new demands appear in them, which they realize and rise up the spiritual steps in the attainment of the upper one.

But when this emptiness that requires filling is revealed in you, and you do not yet know what kind of filling, then you are in a state that, in general, is defined as depression, although it is not depression.

For Kabbalists, this is not depression; they love these states because they know in advance that they will fill them, that in this emptiness they will attain the feeling of the upper world.

We are in a new generation, when modern people manifest this emptiness, these demands, and these huge desires. But in our world we cannot find any filling for them. They must receive this filling from the next level.

Question: We are not talking about clinical depression, which is a mental illness. What is the recipe for happiness or a way out of this smiling depression, or just low spirits?

Answer: One fire drives out another. There is no other way. We must necessarily find a filling for this internal demand of emptiness. And it is in the meaning of life.

People, in principle, ask this. But even if they do not ask, this question exists in them. This is a question that gnaws at them, and they are afraid to ask it. A person is afraid to admit to himself that he does not know what he lives for, and this is precisely what does not give him the energy to live.

Question: Why is he afraid?

Answer: Because there is no answer. And to find yourself in front of emptiness.

Comment: It is scary.

My Response: It is not that it is scary; it practically destroys me as a rational being who exists rationally and knows why he exists. If I tell myself that I do not know why I exist, then I am, in principle, nothing. And that makes me feel even worse. Because of this I will just lie down and not get up.

Question: So what is the meaning of life for a person?

Answer: The meaning of life is to reveal our spiritual root in which we exist eternally and plunge into our earthly world temporarily in order to rise even higher with its help. That is, you need to see this entire system and participate in it.

Then a person begins to work on himself spiritually. He reveals the upper world, the control system, the system of the universe, and sees what he must do in order to feel himself realizing a huge plan every minute!

Question: What does a person gain by revealing this world?

Answer: He reveals, and he sees with all his senses, with all his fiber, absorbs the entire universe, feels himself directly a part of it, and interacts with it. He affects the world, and the world affects him.

And then his great game begins, like a child with his toys. It captivates him. Of course, it is not easy and not right away but, in principle, if he already begins to understand that this is destined for him, this is already a great development.

The most important thing is to feel yourself in front of the door, to come close to it, and then it will open.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/12/19

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