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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: What is the meaning of our life if, as it turns out, we see the world though the egoistic glasses that show us the imaginary world?

Answer: The meaning of life is in making a decision that life is pitiful and that from it, we have to rise to the upper reality. The difference between these two types of reality defines the power of our spiritual attainment.

Question: And what is so wrong with our current reality?

Answer: First of all, it is wrong because it is illusory. Science already knows that what we see in front of us is a holographic picture, while actually there is not a single Universe, but many.

The egoistic, materialistic, development of science leads it to the limit of the materialistic comprehension of the world and brings it to a dead end. Science is in crisis because it can not advance and make further discoveries. Only one thing is clear: We have reached a borderline.

Until we discover the upper force, the entire world will remain an illusion. We exist inside the computer and we have to change our perception. Being only at the still, vegetative, and animate degrees of perception, we’ll remain inside the same computer program as now; after all, nothing can be changed there.  

But on the human level, in our relationship between the people, we acquire a new program called a program of bestowal instead of reception. And inside of it, we start feeling the upper reality, filled with the force called the Creator.

It turns out that we take off our egoistic glasses, which we used to see the world only through the point of view of personal benefit, through the will to receive. And now we see the world through the prism of desire to fulfill the other, to give, to love, and that is why we see an undistorted reality.

“What is good for me” is an illusory reality, and “what is good for others” is the true one. Illusory, egoistic reality drastically differs from the true reality, and that is why we often argue and do not agree with each other, even those closest to us. Because now, each of us has their own truth.

In true reality, everybody will have one opinion, one intention, since everyone will care about the other, and not about himself. And that is why there will be no arguments between us, but only connection and completion of each other.

Everybody will rise above his or her personal egoism and will try to satisfy the other’s needs, to fulfill the other’s desires. And that is why love and unity will always prevail between us. Can there be any conflicts if I constantly think about how to fulfill the desires of a fellow human being?

We will soon come to this state, we have no other choice. Evolution itself and current global crisis will bring us to the new reality. By rising above egoism, we raise ourselves above time, space, and movement, above the petty egoistic desires toward the desire of the upper force, which is bestowal and love.

The only true reality is the force of bestowal, the force of love. We have to take off all egoistic glasses we wear now and see the true reality.
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From a TV Program “A New Life,” No. 787, 11/01/2016

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Question: Is a dream an illusion or reality?

Answer: A dream is a kind of a from from this Earthly reality, nothing more. This means it is a disconnection from reality.

Question: In the past people believed that dreams were as much a reality as the reality that surrounded them. Today the wisdom of Kabbalah says our world is an illusion and we can transcend to another world where everything is good and right. Is it programmed by the Creator that one reality replaces another infinitely?

Answer: According to Kabbalah, we are in one desire in which we feel the Upper Light, the Creator, but we can change ourselves and acquire an altruistic perception of reality, and then we will actually feel the Creator Himself and not the distorted form that the ego depicts for us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: If the reality we live in is uncomfortable and hopeless compared to the spiritual reality, which is sweet and wonderful, why do I hold on to this world in such a desperate painful way? Why is it so hard to break away from it?

Answer: We should not be detached from this world. We have to live in this world and at the same time begin to attain the upper world, the Creator. This will be a great addition and the union of the two worlds.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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