In the News (inosmi.ru): “According to many Western researchers, the lack of revolutionary technological innovation – is one of the main causes of the current long-term stagnation in the world economy. Over the past 25 years, after the start of the digital revolution (Internet and mobile), we have not made significant technological breakthroughs that have fundamentally affected the economy. …

“The scale of the impact of the three scientific and technological revolutions on the quality of life turned out to be incommensurable: with the first revolution (the creation of the steam engine and the loom in the late 18th – early 19th century), the second (electricity and the internal combustion engine in the late 19th – early 20th centuries) the quality of life changed radically. At the same time, a third, or Digital Revolution (since the 70s of the 20th century), although it has made life more interesting, it did not lead to an increase in real wealth in the West. …

“The Digital Revolution has significantly improved the quality of life worldwide. Human communication, flow of information, services and entertainment – all this is hardly reflected in a ‘rough’ concept as GDP, which operates on purely material ones. The question remains in maintaining the balance between the real and virtual economies.

Indeed, this balance in recent decades has been broken: investors prefer not to work in the real and the financial sector, where they inflate virtual bubbles and do not produce anything. People go into the virtual world and lose their sense of reality, have become Internet dependent and countries print virtual money and build up huge debts.

However, this world is material, and there are still many unresolved financial problems, we can not forget that more than half the population the world has no access to basic benefits of modern civilization, for they have not come and the 2nd stage of the scientific and technological revolution. … Challenges remain: hunger, water shortages, pollution, overpopulation. All this will require a breakthrough innovation in the real economy, for the survival of humanity depends on it.”

My Comment: The last and final innovation will not be a change in the physical world but a change in the person through the Upper Light, as it is written, “I created the evil inclination (the human ego), I created the Torah as a spice for it” (Kiddushin 30b) (Torah = Ohr Makif [Surrounding Light] to fix it).
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In the News (Mother Nature Network): “Trees go to ‘sleep’ at night, new study shows

“Researchers using lasers to monitor birch trees reveal physical changes that are akin to slumber. …

“That’s the fascinating conclusion drawn by a team of scientists from Austria, Finland and Hungary who wanted to know if trees followed day/night cycles similar to those observed in small plants. Using laser scanners pointed at two birch trees, the scientists recorded physical changes indicative of a nighttime slumber, with the tips of the birch branches drooping by as much as 4 inches towards the end of the night.”

(BBC): “Plants Talk to Each Other Using an Internet of Fungus,” “Hidden under your feet is an information superhighway that allows plants to communicate and help each other out. It’s made of fungi. …

“The more we learn about these underground networks, the more our ideas about plants have to change. They aren’t just sitting there quietly growing. By linking to the fungal network they can help out their neighbours by sharing nutrients and information – or sabotage unwelcome plants by spreading toxic chemicals through the network. This ‘wood wide web’, it turns out, even has its own version of cybercrime. …

“Around 90% of land plants are in mutually-beneficial relationships with fungi. The 19th-century German biologist Albert Bernard Frank coined the word ‘mycorrhiza’ to describe these partnerships, in which the fungus colonises the roots of the plant.

“In mycorrhizal associations, plants provide fungi with food in the form of carbohydrates. In exchange, the fungi help the plants suck up water, and provide nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen, via their mycelia. Since the 1960s, it has been clear that mycorrhizae help individual plants to grow. …

“In 2010, Ren Sen Zeng of South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou found that when plants are attached by harmful fungi, they release chemical signals into the mycelia that warn their neighbours. …

“‘We suggest that tomato plants can ‘eavesdrop’ on defense responses and increase their disease resistance against potential pathogen,’ Zeng and his colleagues wrote. So not only do the mycorrhizae allow plants to share food, they help them defend themselves. …

“In 2013 David Johnson of the University of Aberdeen and his colleagues showed that broad beans also use fungal networks to pick up on impending threats – in this case, hungry aphids.”

The poet Samuel Coleridge, wrote,  “Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it’s own, & that we are all one Life.”—Letter to William Sotheby (10 September 1802).

Can science come to this conclusion?

Answer: Science can achieve anything that is possible. It is proving that everything is mutually connected. If we want to live correctly, we should be connected to each other with good connections! But where are the people who want to implement this?

Question: Is it possible to get over ourselves and become interconnected in life, like the plants, if we receive guidance from scientific evidence?

Answer: I have never seen this anywhere.  All that is stated in the research of the correct behavior is not perceived by humanity! Scientists love to talk about nice things, but who among us lives to learn about it? Humanity doesn’t even learn about itself.

Look there was a war here, and there is so much suffering! The possibility of another war has not been negated. This indicates that suffering has taught us nothing! Egoism is the basis of nature, and everything that comes to it from the outside cannot penetrate into it.

So, there is no salvation on the level of our world. It will continue like this until a group of people appear in humanity who will bring a higher energy from above, an awareness, an understanding, the corrective Light because only the Light can unite us. Otherwise, humanity will annihilate itself gradually. Even if part of it remains, it will not have learned anything. Only the upper force will save us!

Question: In what way is this group that is studying the wisdom of Kabbalah different from a group of scientists?

Answer: Scientists have no control over humanity, but this group has the power to bring the positive force to our world that will balance the egoism. Then, in the balance between egoism and this second force called altruism, in the middle line, the world will begin to evolve consciously, with understanding and mutual cooperation, and will rise upward to completely new, higher levels of existence.

This will be an absolutely different world in which we will not exist in our present form any longer. Rather, we will be reborn as different creatures since our inner structure will be changed, and the external form will be changed accordingly.

Question: Who decides that the time has arrived for this?

Answer: Those people who are involved with this question say that the time has already arrived, and they are trying to do this. We hope that they will have done enough before the next war.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/29/16

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The writing on a pillar in an ancient synagogue in the city of Phang Kei says: “the religion (of China) was founded and designed by Abraham and its laws did not have a visual image.”

“We have been taught Abraham’s religion since his time by sages from the West Indies. The Chinese people are very educated thanks to the great wisdom they received about Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.”
W.Ch. White. Chinese Jews. 1966, Univ. of Toronto Press. P. 146, 138.
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Comment: A group of scientists at Britain’s Sanger Institute , which is one of the leading centers in the field of genetics, published the results of a large scale study. After a detailed study of the unique genetic structure of thousands of Europeans, they assert that at least half of the people in Western Europe come from a common ancestor who lived about four thousand years ago.

My Comment: Genetically this is possible, of course. After all, humanity grows very fast. A hundred years ago the world population was three billion people and today it is more than seven billion. If we make an approximation backward, quite possibly wild tribes wandered across Europe.

A few centuries ago Germany consisted of a few wild tribes, while today it is the most developed state in Europe. Everything happens very fast. Therefore, modern man is not very different from his barbaric ancestor. It is practically the same man who hasn’t changed at all internally.

Comment: One way or another, scientific research is basically a search for what unites Europe.

My Comment: It doesn’t matter. History tells us that the worst conflicts were actually between brothers. It is doubtful whether a person who digs into his past will be able to see the future.

He should relate to it but only in order to correct his nature. He has to totally transform his personality. But this requires a totally different system and the upper force that can perform the change.

In other words, we need a manual according to which we will be able to summon the force that corrects us, that changes each of us into a human being, Adam (Man)! A human being, and not a two legged animal.

Question: Will humanity aspire for the image called Adam?

Answer: It will aspire to it only if it undergoes great sufferings.

Question: Will humanity look for Adam as the first step toward its spiritual development?

Answer: No, it will not look for that. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah is for. If humanity wants to listen, the wisdom of Kabbalah tells us that there was one man among all those who walk on their two hind legs, those who are called Homo sapiens, who was our special forefather.

Any of us who begin to work on themselves and try to create the soul inside themselves, begin to feel that they are the descendent of Adam, but only him. Thus after thousands of years all those who attain a soul feel that they are the descendants of Adam. Today such souls are alight like small stars all over the world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/17/16

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Question: All people basically understand that sharing the similar opinions is the key to a successful society, to mutual understanding, and to peace. So why are your remarks so sarcastic and contradictory to the common knowledge? Is this what the attitude of the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world should be?

Answer: Appeasement does not lead to anything good. On the contrary, on the level of debates and expressing opinions, there should not be conciliation and it is actually the clarification of contradictions and differences that is the basis for finding and attaining the one right decision.

Identifying the differences is the basis for any thought and understanding of different phenomenon. Debates have always been the scientist’s’ tool. The ability to sort out and to classify large amounts of data is the basis of any field of science. This means that on the theoretical level the aspiration to smooth any differences is detrimental.
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Does the study of Kabbalah improve my life?

Question: How can the study of Kabbalah improve my life? Does it give any special advantages that I cannot get through other sciences?

Answer: Kabbalah cannot give any advantages in everyday life if a person cares only about his material well-being and nothing else. After all, above all, Kabbalah opens horizons for us and explains the purpose for our life.

The people who come to the Kabbalah study are the ones who ask, “What is the meaning of my life and why do we suffer?” Humanity begins seriously thinking about the purpose of its existence and all its pains as it wants to know why we pay so dearly for the years of our lives.

It turns out that today there are many people who are ready to study the wisdom of Kabbalah and reveal the secret of life and so Kabbalah is opened.

Question: Does the study of Kabbalah change something within me?

Answer: A person who studies Kabbalah changes his attitude toward life, his whole life paradigm. He begins to see the world with different eyes, understanding that the world is just a projection of his own properties. While he changes his inner properties, he changes the world that is seemingly outside of him.

After all, the world is only a print of our properties. The wisdom of Kabbalah helps us correct ourselves from within when we turn from egoists who reject and hate everyone into altruists who love and bestow. And in this way we find ourselves in the world of absolute goodness.

Look at all the problems in today’s world and how much it needs this method of good connection and unity between people: religious, secular – all as one nation.

When I see all the sufferings in the world, I feel empathy for the people and see how much they all need the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 2/28/16

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Question: According to Wikipedia, the wisdom of Kabbalah is defined as an esoteric religious study in Judaism that emerged in the 12^th century and spread in the 16^th century. How should we understand that?

Answer: There is no way you can understand that, because these are assumptions people make and nothing more.

Comment: But people rely on Wikipedia as a source of information.

Answer: There is nothing we can do about it. That’s the way it should be so that a person will break through the thorns to the stars.

Such myths are meant especially so that when a person goes through them, like through the wilderness, he will grow stronger. He strains with the mind and feelings and then he can distinguish the truth, like separating the wheat from the chaff. A person begins to understand that it makes sense and is worthwhile, whereas the definition he has read are conjectures of people who don’t understand anything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/24/16

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In the News (International Business Times): “British physicist Stephen Hawking has said that there is no God and that computers will overtake humans within the next century. The 73 year old dismissed any notion that there is a God in an interview by stating that science is able to explain the origination of everything.

“When asked by Spanish newspaper El Pais if scientists should believe in God, Hawking responded: ‘I use the word, God, in an impersonal sense, like Einstein did, for the laws of nature.’ This question was followed by: ‘Do you think humans would one day abandon religion and God?’ to which he retorted: ‘The laws of science are sufficient to explain the origin of the universe. It is not necessary to invoke God.’

“…[He] went on to say that the future of the human race could be bleak. He said that if aliens come to Earth, they could take over our planet. Hawking: ‘Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach. To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.’

“On the subject of artificial intelligence (AI), he added: ‘Computers will overtake humans with AI at some point within the next 100 years. When that happens, we need to make sure the computers have goals aligned with ours.

“‘I think the survival of the human race will depend on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe, because there’s an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth. I therefore want to raise public awareness about the importance of space flight. I have learnt not to look too far ahead, but to concentrate on the present. I have so much more I want to do.’”

My Comment: The wisdom of Kabbalah could be very useful for all scientists; they wouldn’t need to suffer for generations asserting hypotheses and then refuting them. Instead they could just discover the nature of God.
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In the News (Tel Aviv University ): “Most of us think that friendship is a two-way street — but that’s true only half the time, according to research from Tel Aviv University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“Their new joint study says only half of your buddies would consider you their own friend. People have a very poor perception of friendship ties, and this limits their ability to influence their “friends,” according to the research, published in PLoS One on March 22, 2016. …

“‘It turns out that we’re very bad at judging who our friends are,’ says Dr. Erez Shmueli, who conducted the study with Dr. Laura Radaelli, both of TAU’s Department of Industrial Engineering, in collaboration with Prof. Alex Pentland and Abdullah Almatouq of MIT. ‘And our difficulty determining the reciprocity of friendship significantly limits our ability to engage in cooperative arrangements. We learned that we can’t rely on our instincts or intuition. There must be an objective way to measure these relationships and quantify their impact.’

“The researchers conducted extensive social experiments and analyzed the data from other studies to determine the percentage of reciprocal friendships and their impact on human behavior. The team also examined six friendship surveys from some 600 students in Israel, Europe and the United States to assess friendship levels and expectations of reciprocity.

“They then developed an algorithm that examines several objective features of a perceived friendship (that is, the number of common friends or the total number of friends) and is able to distinguish between the two different kinds of friendship: unidirectional or reciprocal.

‘” Dr. Shmueli says. ‘If you think someone is your friend, you expect him to feel the same way. But in fact that’s not the case — only 50 percent of those polled matched up in the bidirectional friendship category.’

“Why is this important? According to Dr. Shmueli, influence is the name of the game.

“’Reciprocal relationships are important because of social influence,’ says Dr. Shmueli, who utilized the ‘FunFit’ social experiment in the course of the research. ‘In this experiment that analyzes different incentives for exercising, we found that friendship pressure far outweighed money in terms of motivation. We found, not surprisingly, that those pressured by reciprocal friends exercised more and enjoyed greater progress than those with unilateral friendship ties.’”

My Comment: Indeed, we only see ourselves reflected in our environment. Therefore, we need to fix this some how.. On the one hand, we see an incorrect and absolutely false world. On the other hand, we don’t want to correct the incorrect mutual relationships between us, even though it is possible to correct them.

Question: At what point would there be correct assessment of reciprocal friendship?

Answer: This would be when all of us begin to work for closeness between us, without any connection to what is happening between us. This would be when our goal becomes connection between us in the center of the circle in order to attain the next level of development, to rise to the next level of nature, of creation, of formation. Then, we would no longer have any problems.

Question: This is very difficult for people.

Answer: No, we can do this as a “guided tour” on a spiritual roller coaster, and this will be a joy. This is wild spiritual fun. I recommend this to you!

Question: Even the researchers concluded that friendship is a stronger motivation than money. So, the most useful method for attaining results in every area is to perform work together with friends.

Answer: This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about. It is up to us to work together for the sake of unity. Then, we would have everything, including money, undoubtedly! This is because the upper force that manages everything in our world, including the regulation of all of our commercial problems, only comes down to a place where unity exists.

Question: Does this mean that everything I have will be enough for me?

Answer: Even more than that.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/11/16

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Is Kabbalah connected to religion?

Question: Is Kabbalah connected to religion?

Answer: In his article, “The Essence of Religion and Its Purpose,” Baal HaSulam writes that “religion” is the attainment of the Creator, the upper force, which acts in the entire universe. This definition fits only the wisdom of Kabbalah because it is the only method engaged in the revelation of the Creator to the creations.

Kabbalah is the only true religion. All other faiths and “religions,” as it is customary to call them, are really not a religion.

Question: How is the wisdom of Kabbalah connected to these religions?

Answer: There is no connection between religions and Kabbalah. They all originated after Kabbalah was concealed, that is, after the destruction of the Second Temple. Before the destruction of the Temple, the entire nation of Israel existed in spiritual attainment, with a sensation of the upper force. However, later on, they fell from their spiritual level, from the love for others to unfounded hatred. This is called the exit into exile from the attainment of the Creator, the upper force.

Because they were in brotherly love, they attained the upper force, while unfounded hatred concealed the upper force from them. This is why this state is called exile or destruction. In order to continue living in the conditions of concealment, the Kabbalists created a substitute. They replaced the wisdom of Kabbalah with Judaism, which later gave origin to Christianity and after that, to Islam.
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From Israeli Radio Program 103 FM, 2/28/16

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