Question: One day a disciple came to his teacher and said to him: “Teacher, I want full realization and perfect attainment of the truth.” “Wait,” says the teacher, “It will take some time, and this will certainly happen to you.” “No,” said the student, “I want it to happen now, right now!”

The student followed after the teacher.  The teacher took the student to the river, grabbed his head, plunged it into the water, and held it until he began to choke. Then he released the disciple who cried out: “What are you doing?! Another moment and I would have died!” The teacher replied. “Now you understand to whom the truth is revealed.”

The question is: Is it really to this extent?

Answer: Of course. The upper truth is revealed only to those who cannot live without it, who agree to do anything for the sake of its attainment.

Question: How do we come to such a demand?

Answer: This is only at the will of the Creator.

Comment: Because there are a lot of things around us.

My Response: No, no, everything around you does not matter at all. But it is possible to come to the meaning of life, to reveal it, to feel it only if a person understands that there is no other way. That is, it should be above life and death.

Question: Does a person bring himself to such an extreme state or is he brought to it?

Answer: No, this is the soul. This is a soul that seeks to free itself, to free itself from the shackles of this life.

Question: Does it mean that these are special souls, and we do not know when this will happen within us?

Answer: Yes, but gradually an increasing number of souls are approaching this state.

Question: Is this what we call a cry, a prayer?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does a gift come from above?

Answer: Everything is a gift. Absolutely everything is a gift from the Creator.

Question: Are my efforts to come to this point a gift?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will it not come to a normal head otherwise?

Answer: Never to anyone, and in no way. It only comes from the Creator and only to those whom He designates for it.

Question: Tell me, please, is the revelation of the truth the end or the beginning of the work?

Answer: Revelation of the truth is the beginning.

Question: Will there again be getting to the fact that it is impossible to breathe, and revelation again?

Answer: But it will be different.

Question: Then the last question is: What is the truth?

Answer: Attainment of the Creator, attainment of the entire universe through the Creator. This is the attainment of the perfection of the Creator’s actions.

Question: Is this what we have to attain?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does everyone have to attain this one way or another, sooner or later?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will everyone be taken through this state when I cannot breathe until I attain?

Answer: Not to such an extent. There are special souls who have to go through this in such a large volume on their own. And there are those who follow them, in their footsteps, en masse.
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Comment: There is a small parable about three brothers who saw Happiness sitting in a pit. One came and asked Happiness for money, and he received it. Another asked for a beautiful wife and received one too.

The third bent over the pit. “What do you need?”, Happiness asked.

The man asked, “What do you need?”

“Brother, get me out of here,” Happiness requested.

The brother extended his hand, pulled Happiness out of the pit, turned around, and walked away. And Happiness followed him.

What should a person do to make it follow him? What did he do anyway?

My Response: He did not demand anything. On the contrary, he did a good deed; he provided a service to Happiness.

Question: Is this the condition under which happiness follows you?

Answer: I do not know.

Question: Can’t we generalize that we shouldn’t demand anything, etc.?

Answer: No.

Question: When you ask for happiness, like in this parable, you receive some segment—money or a wife. Later, everything can change. You can get divorced, go bankrupt, and so on. But when you want to give it to the other, is this the secret?

Answer: I cannot imagine how you can give happiness to people, transfer happiness, or take away happiness. I think it does not depend on the person.

Question: What does it depend on?

Answer: I think it depends on fate.

Question: Does it mean that you will behave according to what is given to you? You either give away happiness or demand it for yourself.

Answer: Yes, and the main thing is to agree with it.

Question: Is this the main question?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, can I change?

Answer: Practically, I cannot change. Perhaps the Creator can do this sometimes, at our earnest request. But I personally cannot change anything.

Question: But can I come to a state where I do not like myself the way I am? I don’t say “hate.” I don’t like myself when I demand happiness only for myself. Can I come to this state?

Answer: It is not easy to come to this, but it is possible.

Question: Can this be the starting point when I ask to be given the opportunity to somehow give happiness?

Answer: For what? Are you going to give people happiness? Are you taking on such a mission?

Comment: I see. Instead of happiness, I will give something else: unhappiness.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Your question: “For what?” If I answer egoistically: “In order for happiness to come to me, I understand that I need to give it away.” Is such a formula possible?

Answer: No, it is egoistic anyway.

Question: Is it still called “Give me happiness”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It turns out to be such a dead end. How can a person get out of it?

Answer: There is no way. As the Creator predicts and decides, so it will be.

Question: Is it necessary to seek happiness after all or not? Or is it also in the hands of the Creator?

Answer: I do not think happiness can be found. You need to make happiness. That is, you need to put yourself in a state where you know exactly how to force it to reveal itself. Then you will see it.

Question: Then a very important question is: what do you mean by the word “happiness”?

Answer: By happiness, I mean the feeling of a person that his life was a success. It was a success.

Question: Does he have this feeling toward the end of his life, or does he have this feeling during his life: “I am living the right life, my life has been a success”?

Answer: No, I think it is already closer to the end.

Question: And during life, is there work going on all the time? Does it turn out that our life, in your opinion, is constant work?

Answer: Yes. It is when a person is looking for ways to rebuild his life again and again so that it brings the happiness that he imagines, let’s say, to make people happy, to make relatives happy, everything that he can imagine.

Question: But now you are still directing the vector “from me”—to make others happy. Do I in this way find the meaning of life for myself? Do I through this come to the conclusion that I am happy in this case?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this constant work?

Answer: It is constant work, and it cannot stop. A person should clearly understand how to do this.

Comment: But along the way he should be disappointed, get up again, and so on, and so on.

My Response: I do not know whether he should be disappointed. He just should imagine his path. And then “The road surrenders to the one who walks it.”

Comment: That is, if happiness is following you, it does not mean that you are happy; you have to work all the time to make others happy. And this is not easy, as we understand it.

My Response: It does not matter that it is not easy. What is easy in life? There is nothing easy.

Question: But is this the path? Is precisely this the path?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When you say “the path of light” and “the path of darkness,” what do you mean by it?

Answer: The path of light is when you bring light to people. And the path of darkness is when you cannot do it.

Question: I cannot or I will not?

Answer: I think that you cannot and you do not want to is the same thing.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me (Isaac Newton).

Question: What do you think of that?

Answer: That is normal. Precisely because he explored and felt the world, he calls himself a child.

Question: Because he saw what the world is like?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And he says that he just found a few pebbles, that he was lucky. He doesn’t get proud of the fact that he is like that. He says: “All this was given to me.” Where has all this gone today? Nowadays scientists do not think like that.

Answer: Today it is no longer possible to investigate the world using such methods of internal contemplation. And this is exactly what he used. Today they use technical and technological methods.

That is why there are no more Newtons. The last Newton was in the form of, I would say, Lev Landau. There was no one after him.

Question: Then what is your definition of a scientist?

Answer: A scientist is one who wants to understand the meaning of the existence of our world. It does not matter what he is: biologist, technologist, who, or what. If he seeks to understand the nature of the existence of our world, then he is a true scientist.

Question: Basically, over time, does it turn out that the Newtons have been exterminated?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why were they brought down? Why did it all come to this current state?

Answer: Nobody likes scientists. Nobody. Not a single scientist could rise as much as he was supposed to by nature. Science is in conflict with government—any government! That is why no one respects them.

Different kinds of seminars and academies are organized for them. This is true. And shut up! Make an atomic bomb for us, space flight, all sorts of rockets, planes, guns—and stay silent.

Question: What do you think if we took Newton from that time and transferred him here—as he is, without the influence of anyone else—how would he respond to these instructions to make a nuclear bomb, a hydrogen bomb, or to create weapons? Would he go for it or not?

Answer: I think he would not. Each scientist, in accordance with the depth of his attainment, simultaneously feels the height of science and cannot connect it with those egoistic, mercantile demands that the government offers him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/25/23

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Andrey writes:

Michael, there is a certain formula: We will never receive what we want until we are grateful for what we have. How do we give thanks for troubles, pain, and suffering? This is what I have now.

Comment:  There are a lot of letters like his.

My Response: Yes, but we must understand that, in general, all of this goes into our piggy bank. The suffering itself and what we are going through, even if we cannot be grateful for it, is still considered a positive for us.

Question: Is it possible to live with this and think that it is necessary to go through these sufferings? This is what I get, and I have to go through it. Is such annulment before the sufferings taken into account?

Answer: The fact is that it depends on the person. It depends on me whether I suffer or not, how many cases, surgeries, and health problems I have endured in my life. But this is life.

Question: Can we say that life is a chain of suffering that one feels or does not feel, but it is still a chain of suffering?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: If you look at the history of humanity, it is a continuous chain of suffering. You say that somehow it all falls into a general piggy bank somewhere. What do I receive from it? This is Andrey’s and everyone else’s question.

Answer: What do you get out of it? What if you do not get anything? Have you suffered in vain?

Comment: That is right! Then there really is suffering. I have to get something out of this; I have to. Someone is told: “You will have a happy life in the next world.” Someone else is told: “Never mind, you will be purified through this.”

My Response: Is it worth making such a calculation? Personally, I try not to do this so that I do not have requests and complaints to the Creator regarding what I will get from this: “Well, now let us make a calculation of how much You owe me.”

Comment: “I was suffering; now You pay me.”

My Response: Yes, there is no such thing.

Comment: Very often, when a person looks back, he says that what I went through was right, or it was not in vain. This calculation that we make afterward, does it turn out to be correct? That all the suffering I went through was not in vain.

My Response: Yes. I do not think that we are coming to a state where we still condemn the Creator.

Question: Even though it sounds here and there, do you still think that we justify Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How does He do everything so interestingly? He takes a person through great suffering, and then the person says: “I did not go through them in vain.” How does He show it to us?

Answer: The fact is that everyone suffers, any part of nature: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and even more so humans.

Absolutely everyone suffers! Even the pleasure they experience just covers up a little bit of the previous suffering.

Question: Is it correct to say that I want to go through this life full of suffering, but to suffer as little as possible? Is this the correct formula?

Answer: You can say that too, although you do not have to say it; it does not matter. But according to your nature, you cannot desire suffering.

Question: But is it somehow embedded in my path? You say: “The root of my soul…” Do I one way or another have to go through them?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If I live with the fact that I have to go through them, does it make my life easier? Is that right?

Answer: Yes.
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Question: A student asked: “Teacher, how can I learn to forgive?” The teacher replied: “Learn not to be offended.”

Do you still need to learn to forgive or learn not to be offended?

Answer: Do not be offended.

Question: Why? Can you explain it to me?

Answer: We need to understand other people and agree with them in advance that offense is all a pure product of our egoism.

Question: If I learn to forgive, then do I learn to forgive him? And if I learn not to be offended, is it me who learns not to be offended? Is there work with my “I” here?

Answer: Yes, sure.

Question: What do I do with it if I am not offended even though I have been very offended?

Answer: I believe that this is in the order of human nature; therefore, I do not feel justified in rising up against it.

Question: Is it human nature to offend? If I have been offended, I must say, “This is human nature”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: At the same time, should I say this is my nature, too?

Answer: In general, yes, but it is not necessary.

Question: Is it possible not to be offended when you, your “I,” are crushed and spoiled?

Answer: It comes with age that you begin to feel and understand that this is human nature, there is no point in being offended. We are talking beyond 70 years of age. And before that, you are still a child.
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Question: from Anya:

You often say that you need to be happy. How can we be happy about what is happening today? There is no joy today. Today you are afraid of tomorrow. There’s so much grief around today, how can I be happy? How to be happy?

My Response: A person should strive to comprehend the meaning of life and see that the meaning of life is for life itself to be revealing to you:  what it is for, why it is, and where it leads through animal death, in general, where it leads us and where it pulls us. A person should strive for this revelation.

Question: In principle, do we understand that from birth to “coffin” is a segment of my life?

Answer: This is a period of life that, in general, does not count as life, because you are following some clear instinctive instructions of nature here. You act in accordance with the order to survive, get comfortable, suffer less, and so on.

Question: And so, I have to jump out of this state?

Answer: Yes. You have to jump out of this state in order to feel the meaning of existence.

Question: Where is the joy here?

Answer: The joy here is in comprehending the whole universe. Joy is in understanding the meaning.

Question: Anya asks: “How can you be happy today when all this is happening?”

Answer: When you understand what all this is for and how much every movement of inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature, everything is aimed at revealing the mystery of life.

Question: Is it possible to link what is happening around, suffering and horrors, to this chain, the disclosure of the mystery of life?

Answer: Of course, that is what all this is for.

Question: And when it hurts?

Answer: When it hurts, then it is all the more necessary to understand that all this leads us eventually to a sense of inner meaning.

Question: And does this lead to joy?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what happens to the pain?

Answer: The pain disappears. If we know exactly what for, why, and for what, we become included in it, then there is no pain, and everything becomes meaningful.

Question: Breakdowns happen here; what do I lose again and find again in this movement?

Answer: They happen so often that you think that is how it should be.

Question: So, I’m going to lose and find, lose and find, this meaning of life?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And it’s still considered that I’m getting stronger and getting closer?

Answer: You are getting stronger all the time and moving forward.

Question: Is there no other way to move toward this?

Answer: No, immersion in the meaning of life is the comprehension of the Creator.
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Question: The sage spoke a simple phrase, “A person must acquire both knowledge and wisdom.” And when asked what the difference was, he replied: “Knowledge is achieved by reading books, and wisdom is achieved by reading the book that you yourself are.”

What kind of book am I?

Answer: Life, the book of life, experience.

Question: Is this me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does it mean to read this book?

Answer: Do not forget, remember, understand how you live.

Question: So was this book written in myself?

Answer: It is written in you by your life. But only you can be imbued with it and understand it if you leaf through it.

Question: On one hand, it says “reading.” You just said, “It is being written.” What does it mean to write this book in myself?

Answer: Writing is my writing it myself. Every day, every minute, at every moment, I solve some problems or tasks set for me and take them into action. And here I just need to understand how all this happens, which decision is correct, and which is not.

Question: If this is a book that must be read, what is the correct solution?

Answer: I must think through what I am doing, what I need, why and how, make a decision, and act.

Question: How can one make the right decision?

Answer: I must make the right decisions as if each were the last, final decision, and I will not be given an opportunity to redo.

Comment: So you do not give any room for error at all. You seem to say: “This is your decision and that is it.”

My Response: How will you correct these errors? There is no error correction. Now I have made a decision and that is it.

Question: What is this book written with?

Answer: The book of life is written with doubts and blood.

Question: Does blood mean suffering?

Answer: Of course.

Question: So this whole book, it is scary to say, is in blood, that is, in my suffering, in what I went through, and what humanity went through? That is my book.

Answer: Yes, we have been living this way for thousands of years.

Question: Is this the correct scripture? Is that how it was supposed to be written?

Answer: Yes, there is no other way.

Comment: That is, I do not regret anything, nothing that happened, all the suffering that happened, including the most terrible. It turns out that all this was necessary to write a book.

My Response: Yes.

Question: What are the last lines in it? What does this book lead to?

Answer: It encourages us to open our eyes even wider and look at the world clearly. And we would see that it is only we who paint a picture of this world and ourselves in it. In reality there is nothing else.

Question: Except what?

Answer: Except that we determine all this.

Question: Do we determine the existence of this world? Just the way it is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is it really like?

Answer: There is no world.

Question: What is it there?

Answer: Whatever you define is what it is.

Question: But do I exist?

Answer: Whatever you define.

Question: That is, I determine that this is such a world, and I determine that it is me in it? And that’s all?

Answer: That is it!

Question: What is there?

Answer: There is nothing except your impression of how you draw it.

Question: Let us say that I come to this, although it is not easy to understand. I come to this, so what? And that is where this book takes me?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: They say that after all we are led to happiness.

My Response: What happiness?! Is someone telling you about sky-high happiness? About the fact that there will be some kind of happiness at the end of days?

Question: What do they lead to then? I want to believe…

Answer: Toward that you get to know the world in which you found yourself in.

Question: And is this how I am led by these sufferings and blows, just to get acquainted with this world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But they beat me for some reason. Not just for me to get to know the world. Is there something I should gain from all this?

Answer: You do not gain anything from this except a place in the cemetery. Nothing else.

Comment: I still want to hear something from you about some kind of plan.

My Response: You do not need anything! Thoughts like yours, they only drag a person into all sorts of impossible dreams, thoughts, and so on.

Question: Do you say, “We need to calm down”?

Answer: Of course.

Question: If possible, let us summarize. I read this book of life, write it, live my book of life in order to come to the point of…?

Answer: Do not ask for anything.

Question: Can we stop here?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So I ask all the time, and it works. And you say: “I must come to the point that I am not asking for anything”?

Answer: Nothing! So this is the world, this is life, and I exist in it in order to calm down.

Question: Can we say that by this I accept everything that comes to me? Is this the result of this book?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do I just accept everything?

Answer: Everything.

Question: I still want to add. Is all this good? Is it something good? Or do you not want to answer this?

Answer: I do not want to tell you what does not exist. A person is very scared, and therefore he still hopes that he will get something good from this hard life at the end.

Question: Do you say: “All the good is that you accept everything”? Is this the result of my life and this book?

Answer: Yes, the result of your life is to understand the real nature in which there is a clear law. And if you fulfill it, then you fulfill it; if not, then no. And to this extent you agree.

Question: What law is this?

Answer: This is the law “to each according to his work on himself.”
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Shulya asks:

Hello, dear Michael Laitman. I live in Israel. And like all Israelis, my life was filled with the news. I listened to the news in the car, the news at home, the news at work, and discussed them. And suddenly on October 7, this horror that happened, this shock that we all received! And I can’t listen to the news anymore! I listen to them and I’m stressed. Commentators, different opinions, tragic stories, criticism…

I started to settle for short news clips, just to keep up to date. And it turned out that most of the time that was occupied by the news was freed up. My question is: what kind of content should I fill myself with?

Question: This is really a question on all Israelis’ minds. They live on news.

Answer: Read fairy tales. Yes, fairy tales, not some kind of scientific literature. It can be a little bit fantastic. And even better, if you are able to read fairy tales.

Comment: Fairy tales are suitable for any age.

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why fairy tales?

Answer: Because we are living a lie anyway. We live in the unknown. So it is better to read what creates a good state of mind in you. You don’t work as some kind of minister or leader that you need to be clearly in a state of responsibility and objectivity. So keep yourself occupied with something more pleasant.

Comment: So this is advice for a person who is not directly engaged in carrying out the work necessary to govern the country, but an average citizen.

My Response: From what you will experience, you will not cause harm to anyone. And you won’t manipulate anything.

Comment: But a person simply cannot do without these short news clips; after all, our children are there, and there is a war.

Answer: It is necessary. We need to be aware and supportive.

Question: This is our prayer, that we only listen for a short bit?

Answer: Yes, but don’t cook in it all the time.

Question: So with the additional free time, is this how to live, as in a fairy tale?

Answer: Maybe not to do that. There are people who are doing something else. But the fact is that your experiences do not give anything, and on the contrary, maybe they give more negative results than good ones.

Question: Like if it leads to fear, anxiety?

Answer: Yes, there is no need for that!
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Question: I have studied many websites that speak about how to be happy or lucky, how to become rich or have many friends, or how to find yourself. But lately, they all have a common theme. They all claim that you need to learn how to give, and everything will happen. You will have friends, money, peace, and happiness, pretty much everything.

What is this trend suddenly manifesting in this way?

Answer: This is a correct observation of the human psyche. If a person is so attuned to bestowing and coming closer to others, he feels better and easier. He feels good.

Question: You keep saying that these are the laws of the spiritual worlds. Is this some kind of wave?

Answer: It is a wave. You are causing a positive wave. And it brings you what you really lack.

Question: What about the fact that now it manifests more and more?

Answer: Times are getting much tougher.

Question: In tough times, do we need to learn how to bestow?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there some kind of illumination coming from above?

Answer: This is the law of the world. That is, the world lacks the qualities of bestowal, love, care, and connection. Those who cultivate this in themselves feel it.

Comment: There is one more thing: they recommend doing it selflessly.

My Response: Naturally. Otherwise, what kind of bestowal is it?

Question: Is it possible?

Answer: It is possible to the extent an ordinary person understands selflessness. If a person wants things to be good in the world, naturally, he assumes that it will be good for him, either in this world or in the future world, no matter what he thinks, but it really makes him feel good.

Question: So let him assume that it will make him feel good?

Answer: Yes.

Question: I see. Then, let us move on to the spiritual worlds. What is pure selfless bestowal?

Answer: It is without any intention for your own sake.

Question: And for whom, for what?

Answer: For the sake of humanity, for the sake of everyone, or for the sake of the Creator.

Question: Is there not even a grain of me there?

Answer: As much as a person can take this into account.

Question: Let us say an absolute, full bestowal.

Answer: Then this is really the greatest action!

Question: Is it when I am not there at all? Am I just a bestowing one and that is it? Is it possible to purify yourself to such an extent?

Answer: Yes, before death.

Question: What death are you talking about now?

Answer: About the death of a person.

Question: Even just the death of a body?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this when luck, success in work, and money are not waiting for you ahead?

Answer: Yes, when you do not expect anything anymore, then you can expect that if you give everything here, you will get a little there!

Question: But do you still hope to get it there?

Answer: Yes. Subconsciously, a person always thinks so.

Comment: When, for example, a clinical death occurs and a person returns and says: “Such cleanliness, such peace, such open spaces there! I am flying!” Is it because a person cuts himself off from egoism?

My Response: Of course. He gets rid of egoism a little bit, and he feels good.

Question: And during his lifetime, what about during his lifetime?

Answer: Do the same in your lifetime.

Question: So, can I try it?

Answer: Of course. Cut yourself off from egoism so that you are not striving to receive anything; you are ready to accept everything that you have, everything that the Creator gives you every second, and that is it; you are happy.
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Question: Two students looked at a waving flag. One said: “The flag is moving.” The other replied: “No, it is the wind moving making the flag move.” Their teacher came and said: “You are both wrong. It is a thought that moves in your head.”

Why does everyone have their own perception of reality?

Answer: The perception of reality is different for everyone because we are all brought up on different foundations and ideals.

Comment: But I see the table, I see this flag.

My Response: But he sees it differently, and the third person sees something else. So everyone sees according to how they are brought up.

Question: So we cannot agree on the fact that the flag is moving? We can’t agree on this together?

Answer: No.

Question: Someone will object? He will say: “Is it the wind”? And another will say: “A thought.”

Are we supposed to agree at all? We say we should come to the same point of view. We keep saying: “The decision made together is the right one.”

Answer: But as I understand it, they cannot make a decision together.

Question: They cannot. How do we make a decision together?

Answer: There is no way. They will abandon it and leave. Later, they will be gathered together again from above, directed, and pushed.

Question: How did the Sanhedrin make their decisions 2,000 years ago? There was a Sanhedrin in Judea, a governing body. How did they make a single decision with so many people?

Answer: There were a lot of discussions and opinions. Still, they were all not simple people and they understood there were those among them closer to the upper force, to the Creator, or to nature, who understood and knew more. And they more or less yielded to them.

Question: So, we need to annul before the loftier people?

Answer: There can be no tricks or contrivances here, only whoever is more elevated is right.

Question: But how does anyone determine they are more elevated? Again, we are faced with the perception of reality. How does each one feel?

Answer: In our reality, this is impossible.

Comment: So you are bringing us to the realization that it is impossible to make a common decision.

Answer: Of course not. Whoever is in charge of the army, or the law enforcement agencies, or anything else is right. This world is doomed.

Comment: It feels like the blind are walking not knowing where they are going. I would still like to give the world a chance.

My Response: To give it a chance is not up to us. We can see that. Giving a chance is only up to the upper world.

Question: Should we come to the conclusion we are governed from above? Should everyone understand we do not lead but are led?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If we come to this understanding, to this annulment before the upper force that controls everything, then what?

Answer: Then we will look for the wisest among us and follow him. This is called a chain of blind who are following the sighted.

Comment: This is not easy for the world.

My Response: Then it has a lot more to learn.

Question: But there is only one conclusion that it must come only to this?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Okay, we can understand the wind. The flag moving is also clear. How does thought control or move, say, objects?

Answer: Wherever I direct my thoughts is where I am. All my forces are headed there too. Thought is first.

Question: Does thought come first? That is what we forget all the time. We think: “This is me going,” but is it a thought that sent me there? And who directs thoughts? Is it this upper force?

Why can’t it direct our thoughts now to the seeing, to the fact that we can only get out if we grab onto the sighted?

Answer: Because we have not matured yet.

Question: So we are yet to mature?

Answer: Yes. When my teacher died, I clearly realized we are not mature yet. But we have to advance.

Question: Why did it happen at that particular time? You said: “That was the exact point.”

Answer: Because the world has become an orphan.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/4/23

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