Question: Are all the obstacles we encounter in our minds or are they created by the Creator?

Answer: All the obstacles are created by the Creator to help us advance.

Question: Is the Creator among my friends in the true reality?

Answer: The Creator is between my friends, but not in the form I belong to now. When I truly exit myself and enter them, I will discover the Creator between them.

Question: What attributes does one need in order to attain the true reality?

Answer: Only the attributes of bestowal, an intention of bestowal.

Question: Is the illusion temporary and reality fixed and eternal?

Answer: The right and true reality is not only eternal, but it is beyond all boundaries, beyond the frameworks of time, motion, and space. It is simply the Upper Light.

Question: What is the human body and is it real and not imaginary?

Answer: A body refers to a desire. Real refers to a desire with an intention in order to bestow. Imaginary refers to a desire with an intention for your own sake.

Question: Will everyone see the same reality in the attribute of bestowal, in altruism?

Answer: Not only will they see the same reality, but they will also directly participate in it; they will be one unified soul.

Question: How do you relate to civilizations beyond our planet earth?

Answer: I don’t. There is no one out there. There is no life here or anywhere else, nowhere except in the upper world.

Question: Will a person who attains perfection see and perceive everything in the true reality? Will he see himself, his physical body, as a reflection in the mirror?

Answer: Even if he is totally free of the intention for his own sake, which means that he has attained the highest state of correction, the body will still exist in the same form it is, because the body exists on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature, whereas he is corrected internally on the human level. This is the reason that it is not reflected in the body in any way. Physically, even a great Kabbalist can be ill whereas the most primitive man can be healthy.

Question: Do we have to ascend above our ego or should we correct it?

Answer: The correction of the ego is to ascend above it. It is the same thing.

Question: If everything is the Creator, is everything that does not resemble the Creator an illusion?

Answer: No, it isn’t an illusion, but you may say that it is an illusion in our feeling.

Question: How can I determine that I am ready to perceive the Creator?

Answer: If you have a desire for it, you already have everything else. It is because we establish groups, classes, and publish a lot of information on the Internet. Everything is before you, everything is revealed.

I am really pleased that I have managed to lay such a foundation during my lifetime and I hope it will continue to develop. You have everything, including great help from the Creator; you have everything from Him. All you need is a desire and to be a bit more organized.

Question: Why has such important information about life and the perception of reality been concealed for thousands of years?

Answer: Because until now humanity has not reached the crisis that we are undergoing today. For thousands of years it was not fully ripe, whereas the current crisis shows us to what degree the ego is finite and has already exhausted itself.

Now it will only kill us. Humanity developed until about 50 to 60 years ago and now we are beginning to fold; now we are only killing ourselves, sinking into depression, drugs, divorce, unemployment, and wars. The ego has developed us to a certain point where we lived its development and now we have reached its final phase. Now we have to ascend to the next level.

The next level is the human “Adam” level stemming from the root “to resemble – Adamah” in Hebrew, which means to resemble the Creator. Here we have to develop on a totally different level.

Therefore, we have to begin to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah and to peacefully enter the next world.
[198918]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Comment: Recently you explained the subject of the proper perception of reality, more precisely of creation. But currently, I cannot perceive this.

Answer: We do not perceive information from the outside through our five senses, as it seems to us.

The senses through which we perceive our Ohr Pnimi (Inner Light) are organized within us according to the degree of equivalence and resemblance of our desires to the Light, to the Creator. To the degree that He is revealed in our system of resemblance to Him, which is called HaVaYaH, it becomes our spiritual senses.

To the degree that we improve and change them to bestowal, we begin to perceive the changing world, the Light that is closest to us.
[198692]
From Daily Kabbalah Lessons 12/12-13/16

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Question: Even the Talmud says that one judges according to his own flaws, that everyone judges according to his level of corruption, which means that even back then people understood that by changing their properties, they would be able to see the world.

Can we say that the connection with others was given to a person only so that he can check his attitude toward them since a person sees what is negative in others, and what is in him he always sees as positive? How can we use this principle in order to advance?

Answer: The external world exists only in a person’s perception, but he cannot say whether it exists externally to him.

Does the world continue to exist for a person who lives today but is gone tomorrow, or not? A person cannot determine or prove that. No one can determine or prove that, including Newton, because with regard to each of us, the whole world is an absolute, subjective illusion.

One may say that we see how a person dies and the world continues to exist, but with regard to the person who died, we cannot determine anything because we don’t share his feeling.

Thus a person was created like that in order to alter his attitude to others, which for him is the indication of exiting himself and of feeling the upper world outside himself. The world outside a person is the upper world.
[198786]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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New Life 799 – The Desire Behind The Senses
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The way our senses function can change during a person’s lifetime according to how his desire and his needs develop. When a person doesn’t want to be in touch with reality, he shuts down his senses and dies. Old people’s will power gradually diminishes. A person doesn’t control his desire. It is the desire that controls a person.

Intuition is a feeling we have when something is perceived by our desire, yet not in all its layers, only by part of it. A mother feels the baby she has carried in her womb even when he is external to her. They remain connected. Our world is full of different connections we don’t see. There is infinite information in the air.

A person can correct his vessels of perception and discover the true reality. It depends on his desire. The new sensory system is called the soul, and in it, we perceive the reality that is external to us.
This reality is a force field of bestowal, giving and love.
The goal is to bring a person to a state in which he perceives this reality in an unlimited manner.
[198343]
From KabTV’s “New Life 799 – The Desire Behind The Senses,” 12/6/16

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Question: In the movie The Matrix, the world is presented as a matrix. Is it correct that our whole world is a matrix, a program?

Answer: Yes, our world is a program, a matrix, but not in the same sense as presented in the movie. This is a program of the Creator, which is how He reveals Himself within our desire that He created.

This desire is egoistic now; we need to correct it, and then we receive a completely different, altruistic desire. Then there will no distortions.
[198195]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: If you are saying that there is no world outside of me, then my friend doesn’t exist either, and he can say the same thing about me too. How is it possible to find out which of the two of us doesn’t exist? To whom am I referring when I call him a friend?

Answer: Actually, everything is an illusion until we begin to see the true world, not confused and distorted by our egoistic properties. Then a person will see that everyone makes up one single body, one soul.
[198043]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: If there are three people in the same room, which of them can see the true reality?

Answer: Perhaps none of them. Each sees through their egoism, and it is already the wrong reality. It is a person’s internal reality, but it is revealed in an incorrect, distorted form.

We can more or less see the same reality because we have the same senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
But our perception of reality is limited by natural boundaries. For example, we don’t need to see this whole world from a certain perspective in order to enter the next world.

Every individual comes into this world in order to perform a mission, and a Kabbalist does not aim at feeling all the people; there is no need to do so. It is enough for a Kabbalist to feel his small group in order to receive the Upper Light of correction through it and then to convey the Light of correction through him to all of mankind, to the whole system called one soul.

According to The Book of Zohar the whole world is inside a person. This doesn’t mean that people have to connect through their physical bodies; they have to connect through their desires. Desires are not people; they the network inside us which ties all of us together and where we all exist together undivided.

A Kabbalist influences the desire in which all seven billion people are integrally and mutually connected inseparably as one common general system.
[198292]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: What does the Creator get through the deception of our egoistic feelings in the imaginary reality that He shows us?

Answer: The Creator is not deceiving us. He has placed us within a particular perception where we are very limited and feel everything within us such that we will begin to ascend to another perception and begin to discover what exists outside of our senses.

We need to change our direction and go out of ourselves, becoming equal to what is outside of us, becoming independent, and beginning to develop these senses within us independently according to the degree of our effort.

That is how we begin to perceive the world that is outside of us correctly, not distorted by our egoistic feelings. This is a completely different perception through the characteristic of bestowal.

This is a perception of what is outside of us without coming into contact with it, without “swallowing” it into ourselves. By feeling it and not drawing it into ourselves and to the degree of our equivalence with the characteristics of what is found outside of us, we begin to feel what actually exists outside of us.

In this way, we bring out the property of bestowal, which is called intention. We begin to perceive the environment. The environment doesn’t actually exist. We perceive it according to the degree of the property of bestowal. Then we reach an understanding that this is the Creator.
[198575]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: Speaking about the perception of reality through the senses, where are we and where is the function of the brain?

Answer: We perceive information through the five senses that were given to us by nature. This information is summed up within us and gives us a sensation of what exists outside of a person.

If these senses were removed, a person would stop perceiving all of reality and would not be able to explain what exists around him.
[198307]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: Why does this reality exist?

Answer: Our reality exists precisely because in it, through investing effort, we can gradually attain the upper world and equivalence with the Creator. This is how we gain our independence.
[198304]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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