Astronomy and astrology are sciences that reflect the inner forces of nature. I take these sciences seriously, even astrology, but only if it is real and not an amateur one. In ancient times, very smart people were engaged in it. Back then a person was closer to nature, he relied on it.

Today we have simply distanced ourselves from nature, we do not feel its inner forces, yet for our ancestors, these were very significant signs through which they felt various forces. After all, when you work with some material, you start to feel it.

Talk today with a scientist-astronomer who lives, as they say, among the stars.

He will tell you that they are thoughts, they are desires, they are some kind of internal actions, and each star has its own character. He will talk about them and about the entire universe as something alive, claiming: “The cosmos is just a brain!”

Question: Do astronomy and astrology have some kind of spiritual root?

Answer: Of course! They are a reflection of upper forces at our level.

We live in one single dimension. All the worlds are in it, but we feel only the smallest part of them, the vaguest manifestation of them, which we call our world. That is why Kabbalists call our world Olam HaMedume—the world that we imagine, because we feel it, being as if in an unconscious state, in oblivion.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Influence of Astrology on Life” 4/20/12

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In the News (Smithsonian Magazine): “Officials have moved one step closer to pardoning the nearly 4,000 people accused of witchcraft in Scotland between the 16th and 18th centuries …

“Witch hunts swept across much of Europe between roughly 1450 and 1750. Fear of the devil, social unrest and mass hysteria contributed to the frenzy of accusations and trials, which often arose from local disputes and typically targeted unmarried or widowed women, per the National Galleries of Scotland. …

“Scottish officials regularly used such torture methods as sleep deprivation, physical punishment and public humiliation to extract confessions.

Answer: There is no need for this, not in any way. Today this will only cause an even bigger surge in the search for witches.

Question: What is the correct attitude to all this?

Answer: It would be to open people’s eyes to what it was and to the fact that it cannot happen again, now. We had to go through all this.

Question: And the attitude to today’s witchcraft, twisting sticks, and so on, what should it be?

Answer: There is no right attitude to anything at all in the world! Not to religions, these wands, or spells, or the search for something with twigs. There are thousands of everything.

Question: What is the right attitude to this? Practically the world stands on these superstitions and rumors.

Answer: Yes, the world is always looking, seeking. Because the world is based on the fact that it knows nothing about itself. What is it for, why, where to? How are we managed? Who is in charge, what forces? Nobody knows.

Question: Is it poking back and forth because it is in the dark?

Answer: Yes, it is trying to find support, but there is none.

The world must reveal the purpose, the methodology, and the system of our existence. In fact, why are we? What is happening to us? How can we lift ourselves above this everyday philistinism? Still, to look at this world from above, somehow to orient yourself in it after all. Not to run after some superstitions and, in general, the antics of all sorts of crooks and witches.

Question: What exactly should it reveal?

Answer: The methodology of managing our world. Our world is governed by absolute goodness. We are in a quality opposite to this good. Therefore, we must somehow correct ourselves in order to see this good, to see this goal. And then we can transform our world correctly.

Question: What is good?

Answer: Good is the absolute mutual assistance of everyone to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/6/22

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Question: When studying Kabbalah, a person’s outlook changes. Maybe for someone it looks like pure psychology that a person adjusts himself to the influence of some force that changes him, but in fact he becomes completely different. Is that how his psychology works or, as you say, does the light change him?

Answer: It is the light! Only light!

Psychology works in our world when a person replaces one desire with another, one object of pleasure with another, and makes selfish calculations: what is better, what is worse, where will he be beaten less, where can he snatch more, and so on.

Thinking about how to get out of depression and rising above your mood, how to realize your inner natural data, how to behave with other people in order to make it better—these are purely egoistic tricks.

And light changes the very nature of man. Therefore, psychology cannot help here. It brings a person to this, helps him realize all his problems, and then he must work in a group, with light, in order to change himself.

Question: But how does it happen? What mechanism changes in a person? Where does that portion of light drip that either changes the soul or something else?

Answer: Light affects egoistic intentions that are built on the same principle as altruistic, spiritual ones, only in reverse order.

After all, before there was only a system of bestowal, and then its shattering created the opposite system—receiving. Both systems are opposite to each other, and a person must choose under which one to be influenced.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Bonded!” 3/31/12

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The Dead Sea represents the absence of life, because Malchut, unfortunately, is still dead and cannot do anything. But when we really reach the connection of Malchut and Bina, then the earth will be filled with the upper moisture.

Question: Will the sick have nowhere to be treated and have mud baths?

Answer: Why? The Qumran heights and everything that is around the Dead Sea have always existed, it is just that the sea was 10-15 meters higher. But still it was always salty.

It almost never had life, although there is life there. We simply do not distinguish it and do not see it. It is yet to be discovered.

The Dead Sea is in the desert. The desert is not just a place where, as it seems to us, there is nothing but sand and small dunes. The desert can have vegetation, wildlife, rocks, mountains, and springs.

Exactly such a desert surrounds the Dead Sea. Previously, there were tigers, lions, leopards, and now there are only a few of them left, but they still live there. In this desert there are springs of water and very interesting caves.

Thousands of years ago, for many years, the oppositionists of the Jerusalem authorities fled there. There, in the fortress of Mossad, the Jews hid from the Romans.

Many great Kabbalists who were looking for how the correction would continue after the destruction of the Temple lived in those places.

Perhaps this place is “dead” because it was least affected by the shattering, which was mainly concentrated in Jerusalem and passed over the rest of Israel.

Where there was no life, there can be practically no destruction. Therefore, although a special force is felt here, this force is dead.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalistic Geography” 10/10/10

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Question: What is the meaning of the period of our existence on Earth as if being in a dream?

Answer: This stage is similar to those periods that nature has gone through in the development of the Earth. It all began with periods of geological development when there were no plants or animals and only inanimate matter was developing. For millions of years, the Earth gradually exploded and cooled, exploded and cooled.

Baal HaSulam writes that such periods alternated every 30 million years, when the Earth ignited like a fireball and then cooled, and again ignited for 30 million years—lava and hot streams rose from below, the earth’s crust exploded again and cooled again.

This continued until the conditions for the development of life appeared. This stage lasted several billion years.

And then, for millions of years, vegetative life was born. Then for hundreds of thousands of years animal life, and then man.

Naturally, all these periods successively shortened, as they passed along the axis of the natural logarithm. From about the period of 2.67 such a reduction in time began to occur.

The same correspondence between the first (inanimate), the second (vegetative), the third (animate), and the fourth (human) development exists in any segment. If we take any of them, it will be similar to the general one, as in a holographic picture.

Now we are at the stage of only preliminary awareness of the evil of our nature. But we see to what extent time becomes more compressed, how it is being more and more compressed from year to year.

I think that over the next few years we will come close to the need for a singular transition—a leap in our understanding, awareness, sensation, and in the internal restructuring of each of us and all of us together, in the need to make an internal revolution and feel, see, and realize where we really are.

Then we will reveal a different world, which will be revealed to us as eternal, perfect, and infinite. After all, when a new vision of the world is revealed to you, everything is rebuilt in you.

Imagine that from this moment onward you begin to feel that you exist eternally, endlessly and to what extent your attitude toward yourself, toward the world, toward life, toward people, toward everything would change. We cannot not imagine it, but such a restructuring of consciousness will take place and change everyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Dream 400 Years Long” 4/7/12

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Spiritual movement means a new change of form. We should still explain the meaning of time and movement that we come across in almost every word in this wisdom.

Indeed, you should know that spiritual movement is not like tangible movement from place to place. Rather, it refers to a new form. We denominate every new form by the title “movement.” exactly like a corporeal being that some part departed from it and moves about from place to place. Hence, the new form is called “movement” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 9, Item 33).

We are talking about the force that determines the form of the existing world. It changes all the time, and therefore, the world is changing and so are we in this world. But it is almost impossible to explain how this happens since the very essence of the existing matter is changing, not physically but spiritually.

In spiritual matter, desires change as the basis of its existence. The meaning and the purpose of the matter is changing, and thus we feel only the consequence of this.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 2/12/23

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Question: There is an area in Kabbalah called Kabbalistic geography. What is it?

Answer: Kabbalistic geography is not only the geo-science of the Earth and the consequences that the upper forces cause on Earth. It includes the study of our world, our universe, as a mold from the next, upper world. After all, from that degree, forces descend into our world that determine all corporeal parts: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels and their interaction with each other.

Moreover, a huge number of forces are occupied by inanimate nature: an infinite number of stars, galaxies, planets, nebulae, and other celestial bodies. But, despite the quantity of these forces, their quality is scanty in comparison with the vegetative and animate nature that exists on Earth, and even more so with the level of “Human.”

That is, as more qualitative forces appear in our world from the spiritual world, their quantity in our world decreases accordingly, but their quality increases.

If we go further in this quantitative and qualitative influence and the similarity of the upper world to our world, then we can say that all the countries of the world, all the imprints on the surface of the Earth, are Kabbalistic geography, that is, they are the result of the influence of upper forces on our Earth, on its surface.

Everything that determines ecology, geography, topography on the Earth, and not only on it, but also underground to its center, everything that surrounds our Earth, all this is a consequence of these upper forces.

But the most interesting thing is that it relates to a person. Therefore, in Kabbalah, we study more about the connection between the Earth, its geography (climate and all kinds of geographical features) and those peoples who live on it, and from generation to generation moved by various means: either wars, or the discovery of lands, and so on.

As a result, the most interesting thing is, of course, the development of the people of Israel, since this ancient Babylonian group, practically a part of all humanity, carries the method of correcting it, raising it back to the upper level, from where all the forces that form our universe descend.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalistic Geography” 12/27/10

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Question: What is the difference between a lesson conducted by a Kabbalist and lessons by a rabbi or lectures of a professor?

Answer: A rabbi or a professor talk about our world. And the Kabbalist speaks about the next degree of man and how to ascend to it. That is the difference.

The Kabbalist brings revelation of the upper world to the world, and a professor and a rabbi simply bring knowledge.

Question: Based on what needs does a professor or a rabbi do this? What is their fuel?

Answer: Based on everything that governs a person: fame, power, knowledge, it doesn’t matter what.

Even that same professor (who is only interested in knowledge and wholeheartedly wants to pass it on to his students) has even more egoism because knowledge is higher than fame and power. Knowledge includes all previous degrees.

Therefore, it cannot be said that he has locked himself somewhere in a corner and does not need anything from the world. On the contrary, it is huge egoism.

And above this ego, there is egoism that arises in the Kabbalist, and he corrects it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference Between A Kabbalist And A Rabbi And A Scientist” 3/11/12

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Question: You say that there is nothing stronger than a thought connected with a desire. What do thought and desire mean separately?

Answer: This happens only with respect to us. We are constantly talking to each other on a level called psychology.

It does not give us the opportunity to clearly explore our desires as forces with information records that can be divided into ten Sefirot (emanations). We do not study them in three lines: in receiving, bestowing, and in the middle line between them, in balance as on a scale. All this is impossible to study at the level of psychology.

But from it, we slowly rise to the level that Kabbalah speaks of, to the level where these forces are weighed and their vector orientation of interaction with each other is correctly evaluated. From these forces, we can create an entire vector field, check it, analyze it, change it, and thus control ourselves and the rest of the world.

This is what Kabbalah allows us, but only in the right direction and by no means forcing others to do so, since you are entering a realm where you have clear limitations. As soon as you cross a certain threshold and you suddenly have the opportunity to do something wrong, everything immediately disappears.

In the spiritual world, there is a safeguard; it is impossible to harm the world more than on our small, insignificant, earthly level.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Power of Thought is the Manipulation of Consciousness.” 23/01/27

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Question: What does the information about the four phases of the expansion of the light in the form of letters give us?

Answer: This information gives us first knowledge that the entire Hebrew alphabet depicts to us the qualities of light and the qualities of darkness—the qualities of creation and the qualities of the Creator.

It is so created to explain to us how different we are from the Creator, and how we can depict our qualities relative to the Creator or the qualities of the Creator relative to us.

Practically all letters are like drawings, images, of the characteristics of the Creator on the background of the qualities or characteristics of creation.

Question: Can we say that a Kabbalist looks at these letters and sees instructions in them on how to receive the light and apply it on his desire?

Answer: Of course, yes.

Question: And the one who does not understand how to do it, how does he use this in life?

Answer: So, he does not understand, he looks at these letters as if they were the Chinese alphabet.

There are no letters actually in the Chinese language—only a great number of images, thousands of hieroglyphs. But they depict conformity between qualities.

It is the same in Hebrew. Although we have only 22 letters, they are enough to depict the relationship between the light and the Kli, creation and Creator. It is a very economical alphabet.

Question: Can an ordinary person use this in his life?

Answer: No. What can he use it for? He can write it down, he can read it. But without understanding the essence of the Creator and the essence of creation, he will not read it correctly.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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