Comment: A study was conducted to explore whether revenge in humans is induced by nature. They took 330 children between the ages of four and eight and played a game with them, built in two stages.

In the first stage, the researchers could give the child three stickers or keep them. The child should have thanked them and given them a gift in return. In the second stage, the task was to steal a sticker from another person. In response, one could punish or not punish the offender.

It turned out that children, even the youngest, were ready to strike when someone tried to steal their stickers. Children did not always want to reward others. Thus, the researchers concluded that people’s desire for revenge is more primal than their desire to be grateful.

My Response: This is natural. This is called “evsed mi karen” (loss from the fund).

Let us say I had a dollar in my pocket, and it disappeared somewhere. I would twist and turn, thinking, “Where could it have gone?” I would look for it as if I really needed it because I had it, it was mine, and now it is gone. That is why it is worth more than a dollar to me, worth maybe 20 dollars. This is how I feel about this loss.

Therefore if a person has harmed another, the latter considers this act worthy of tenfold retribution because this is how the magnitude of his friend’s negative attitude toward him is felt.

Question: Why does one not show gratitude?

Answer: Because I am sure that I am good, that I am the best in the world; that is what my mother told me. Therefore I am owed. To what they tell me, I reply, “Yes, I am pleased. Thank you; I will thank you too on occasion.” I turn around and walk away.

I think I got what I was supposed to get; as to what was stolen from me, it seems ten times more than it actually is! That is how I feel. If something positive comes my way, I value it ten times less than it is worth. But if something is taken away, I accept the loss as ten times worse. That is how we are built.

Therefore the fact that children want to take revenge on those who have done them even a little wrong, and moreover take pleasure in that revenge, I understand that very well. I was like that myself. I clearly remember these instances.

Question: What changed this approach in you, not to take revenge?

Answer: I began to realize that I share the same common desire with everyone; therefore I should not harm myself in this way, egoistically. We must try to always give in a little. It is better this way, more peaceful. It gives you some safety and surrounds you, at least, with more neutral people. So the main thing is to be careful not to harm another. In short, this is the conclusion.

And if you do harm, then of course, expect very serious reactions.

Comment: Researchers have an opinion similar to yours. They believe revenge is always a choice between the desire for revenge and the opportunity to forgive.

My Response: Who might have the opportunity to forgive? It just gets forgotten, or you cannot take good revenge because you are such a weakling, a loser, the other guy is stronger than you, etc. So there is nothing left for you to do.

Man is a selfish little animal. And if he can eat another, he does.

Question: Does revenge have any positive sides? Is revenge useful?

Answer: Then it is no longer revenge but education.

If you and I are playing chess or another game, and I am teaching you, then you feel that I am outplaying you with no intent to harm you; on the contrary, to give you some kind of pleasure, benefit, and so on. That is, it does not cause you to take revenge, but it still makes you feel awkward, and unhappy with the situation.

Imagine I am teaching and showing you how to play, but you still cannot. I am also smarter, wiser, and luckier than you; how unpleasant it is for you anyway.

Question: Yes, there is disappointment. So how can we move from taking revenge and supposedly restoring justice to motivating a person to move on rather than limiting ourselves to some parochial score-settling?

Answer: To do this, you need to make a very special calculation, meaning someone wanted to harm me, to see me poor, fallen, or damaged, and I must reach a state where he will be desperately jealous of me. Then I will revel in his seeing my position, which he is unable to do anything about it. That is how I want to get back at him.

On the other hand, I have to say, “I am grateful to him that he did this!” After all, I rose up thanks to him; I was doing it to cause him distress. But in the end, I did not!

That is, he somehow—without even suspecting, maybe without thinking—caused such forces in me that I rose higher, became more successful, intelligent, etc. I must tell him: “Thank you so much for doing this to me!”

The first person discovers that this is an educational process for him. Therefore he tells the second person, who wanted to harm him, “Thank you for doing that.”

Question: And what happens to the second person?

Answer: A double whammy. On the one hand, he sees that the former has succeeded, and moreover, he feels he is superior to him. He is seriously above him.

The conclusions are very simple. Add to this: “I did this and told you so that you could try to rise above yourself.” This is already a knockout. “There is thrill in battle!”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/4/19

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Question: Why am I given all this suffering?

Answer: This is given to me so that I can take a proper look at my life, make sure that I am not the source of my own suffering, understand how I can rise above the suffering, above  its cause, and thus free myself from it and look at suffering from above.

Question: And what will I see?

Answer: I will see that all my suffering is purely philosophical. Where suffering exists, there is always some kind of philosophy behind it where I refuse to accept suffering as something meant for me. But if I accept it, I can rise above it.

Question: Is the understanding that this is how I am being guided necessary?

Answer: That is what the Creator desires.

Question: Should this understanding be in both the heart and the mind?

Answer: I agree with Him and follow this path.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/24

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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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Question: Should we learn to feel the pain of others?

Answer: We should learn to feel the pain of others because by doing so we create a positive field of mutual connection around ourselves. It is necessary for existence.
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Comment: Researchers are sounding the alarm that they have assessed the shortage of women on a global scale.

My Response: It was always believed that there are more women than men. Are there
suddenly less now?

Question: Yes, the deficit of women is estimated to be 23 million. On the other hand, scientists believe that the imbalance in the world such as the threat of a nuclear attack and all conflicts in general, indicates the absence of women in decision-making teams even at the highest levels. What do women bring? What component do they bring to the negotiation process and communication?

Answer: From childhood we see girls play with toys, build a house, and cook food on small toy stoves while boys play war, compete, etc. Girls play with dolls, and boys chase and hit things. This is a natural outlet of inner energy both male and female.

Therefore, it is natural that allowing women to participate more in our organizations would be much safer for peace.

Question: Researchers say that due to men being more ambitious and inclined to win, they are more competitive at the core; they want to win, which leads to conflicts and extremes.

According to a survey of women in parliaments and high positions, researchers deny that women are so innocent compared to militant men. However, they say women bring rationality, creativity, and a spirit of collaboration.

Why is this happening? Where is the trigger when both are selfish?

Answer: Women are more egoistic. Therefore, they are prone to all kinds of connections and compromises because it is better than any war. They weigh everything that happens very soberly. They have a good reserve of sound selfishness to exercise self-control and think: “This needs to be handled that way. Or it will lead to tears.”

In a woman, egoism manifests in the form of dolls and in boys in war games. But both are egoism. Which one is preferable? Female. She tends to make things easier and achieve friendship and cooperation, which would not lead to terrible, irreversible processes.

In men, on the contrary, this selfish component is rigid. He does not think about what will happen tomorrow; he is ready to break everything today. But both are egoists!

If you ask me at the level of our world, it is preferable for women to lead the world and men to work for them, just like a child with his mother.

Question: What does Kabbalah say about this interaction?

Answer: Kabbalah does not talk about this because it does not deal with a man and a woman of our world when they are both selfish and corrupt. What can Kabbalah say about them? They need to be re-educated, and only then can we work with them.

Everyone should be who they are; they only need to correct themselves to the level, practically, of the Creator. And that is it! Nothing needs to be done differently.

I am not going to talk about who is better or worse. Everyone has to correct themselves to do good work for humanity. In this regard, they will all see how much they complement each other and how necessary they are to each other—both men and women.

Question: What about the gender imbalance?

Answer: There will be no imbalance then. But to achieve this, you need to remove all the egoistic components of both.

Question: How do we do this?

Answer: It is very easy to do this with the help of the method of correction and education. There is no other way. To do this, come to our courses.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/17/19

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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: Science has debunked the concept of death. According to science, a person’s life does not end with death. Some scientists say that consciousness persists even after death.

My Response: Where can this be proven, shown, understood, or felt?

Comment: They say the cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, emits waves for about 20 seconds after death.

My Response: So we live for another 20 seconds. Big deal!

Question: Why study the experience of death if all paths ultimately lead to nowhere?

Answer: It is very intriguing. What if I find something that tells me I am immortal? Then I would see my life in a completely different way!

Question: Is there a concept of death in Kabbalah?

Answer: No, in reality, there is no death. There is no time. How can there be death? There is only a transition between states, nothing more.

Question: How does a transition from one state to another occur in spirituality? Is it also cyclical, like life – death – life?

Answer: In spirituality there is no such thing as we see in our world! Living, biological matter has nothing to do with spirituality. It may live or die in our perception, but it is entirely unrelated to the spiritual. We do not sense spiritual matter, and it is not connected to the physical. Does the death or life of the physical body say anything about the spiritual?!

Question: Is there such a concept as a “spiritually dead person”? What does it mean?

Answer: A person is spiritually dead because there is no spirit in them. Spirit refers to the quality of bestowal to others, not the quality of receiving from others.

Our earthly life is about the desire to receive from everything around us, in every form—on the still, vegetative, animal, and human levels.

Spiritual life, on the other hand, is when we do not take from outside, but give from within, when we try to share, help, and radiate outward. This is called spiritual life. Change one life for the other and you will discover what immortality is.

Comment: Physicists say that a part of you will live on for a very long time. And that part is your energy. They say that according to the first law of thermodynamics, the energy that sustains life is preserved and cannot be destroyed. Beautiful, is it not?

My Response: Very beautiful, but it does not exist at all. This is because our world does not exist; it exists only in our imagination. Therefore, everything we perceive as bodies, our lives, birth, development, death, all this is only our imagination, within us, and nothing outside.

Everything we see around us, all this vast, solid existence, is only our imagination.

Question: Then what is a person?

Answer: A person, too, is the same. Within us is a kind of mechanism that we program in a specific way. It spins the images of our world in which we supposedly live. Just as you sleep and see a dream in which you seem to have experienced something, so, too, this life is like a dream.

And then you wake up: “Oh! Was it a dream or life?” No, it was so-called life, which is, in essence, a dream.

That is all there is. Our current life is simply a state from which we have not yet awakened.

Question: Then perhaps people in their quest to uncover the mystery of death are searching for real life?

Answer: That is exactly what they are doing. They just do not know how to find it. They are seeking new adventures within this dream.

Question: What, then, is true life?

Answer: To wake up. And you can only wake up when you start to rise above your egoism. This is what Kabbalah teaches—how to uncover the secret of life, how to wake up and truly live.

Question: What then is the secret of immortality, not of the physical body, but of the spiritual?

Answer: The physical body does not exist either. It exists only in our imagination, just like this entire world. That is why the world is called “Olam” from the word “ne’elam” (hidden), and the word “ha’alama” (concealment), a shadowy state. That is our current condition.

Question: How then can a person pass through these “holograms,” uncover this life, and achieve immortality?

Answer: To do this one must engage in the method of their own resurrection.

When a person begins to see life not in themselves, but in others, themselves in others, this is how they awaken.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/22/19

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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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There is a powerful exercise that is quite simple and I started using many years ago.

Whoever I have met on my way, be it man or insect, the first thought that I allow is: “I wish you happiness!”

But the most important thing is that this thought should really come first: “I wish you happiness.”

This thought will completely change what happens between you and this person. I say this from personal experience.

Sometimes it is very difficult when you meet an enemy, when you find yourself face to face with an unexpected, tough situation. But it is at this moment that you get the opportunity to create a different space around yourself. Before the negative emotion takes over you, you have time to transform it: “I wish you happiness.”

Try it and see how much everything in your life changes” (Richard Gere).

Question: Can this first thought “I wish you happiness” change the space between people?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why?

Answer: Because one person sets himself in a positive way toward another without expecting anything in return.

Comment: That is remarkable.

My Response: It is incredible, yes.

Question: If I practice this exercise and mechanically try to do it, can it change me?

Answer: Yes, from egoism to altruism, from being a cold person to being kind.

Question: Can a person change?

Answer: Yes, this is the desire of a person to change. If he does not let go of this desire and constantly imagines how he can change in every instance, it transforms him.

Question: And does it work?

Answer: That is why it works.

Question: Tell me, can this exercise really be applied when meeting an enemy you hate, when emotions are overwhelming? Can one manage to insert this thought?

Answer: This needs preparation. A person must understand how he should relate to the enemy.

Question: But how? After all, it is still an enemy.

Answer: Why is it an enemy? This requires significant preliminary work. If such work has truly been done, a person would not be able to harm another. I am absolutely sure of this because we must become different. We must make the world different. If it depends on us, on people, we must remake ourselves.

Question: And where is the Creator in what you are saying?

Answer: The Creator does not want to be among people.

Question: Among such people?

Answer: At all! He gave us nature, He gave us the foundation to change ourselves. Based on this, He will relate to us differently.

Question: So do we have this spark within us to change ourselves? This point of light?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Even in complete darkness?

Answer: We are the most sophisticated egoists.

Comment: And still, you say there is this spark of light inside.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Why does Richard Gere, and you as well, insist that this thought must be the first, before all others, that it must push its way through?

Answer: Yes, before it gets spoiled.

Question: So all other thoughts spoil it?

Answer: Yes, but this thought, if it is first, it is interesting to see how a person will respond to you.

Question: If you constantly practice this exercise, falling, getting up, succeeding or not succeeding, can it change a person’s perspective on the world? Could this world suddenly become bright?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But isn’t it dark? Or is it bright? What is it?

Answer: It’s neither. That is, we can make it bright.

Question: If I tell everyone, “I want you to be happy,” and suddenly it works, does the world change and become happy?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But who is happy? The world or me?

Answer: You are happy.

Question: I am happy? So, the whole thing is for me to change?

Answer: The world is just a reflection of our inner states.

Question: So what I have inside is what I see?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What spiritual principles are involved here? Human principles are clear, but what about spiritual ones?

Answer: The spiritual principle is very simple: If you wish happiness to another and act on it, you create wonderful relationships between yourself and them.

Question: And that is a spiritual principle?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can we say that in this way I also establish similar relations with the Creator?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And He with me?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/9/24

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