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Show Me The Upper World

laitman_624_03_0Question: Can a Kabbalist reveal his consciousness to others so that that they will yearn to love others like he does?

Answer: How can you reveal that? There is no way. How can you reveal mathematics or advanced physics to a small child? You have to bring him up first.

Therefore, we hold lectures and explain the structure of the upper world, but we teach it theoretically in an abstract manner by using examples and diagrams.

Should I show you the upper world so that the sky will open and you will suddenly see the next level of the evolution of matter? With what properties would you perceive it?

You need to leave your egoistic attributes below and reveal yourself. The rule of love thy friend as thyself is so that you will discover yourself and will be able to see the next level of the world.

Why has the Creator created everything in such a terrible manner? For us to develop new sense organs for the next world and to enter it by the connections between us, not in order to correct our corporeal lodgings.

But how can we do that if we have not built a system of perception system in the coordinates of the upper world? How can I convey it to you? There is no way.

First we need to develop internal senses on the next level, and then we will begin to perceive it.
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From the Talk at the Moscow Jewish Cultural Center, 11/24/15

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How Can We Feel The Upper World?

Laitman_109Question: How will I know that I have transcended to an upper level of existence?

Answer: You will see and understand it by what you experience because you will transcend to a state that is not limited by your corporeal body, mind, or corporeal feelings. You will begin to perceive everything not inside you but in the general mass to which you are fully interconnected and in which all the people on the planet acquire a single attribute of one single human being.

We have to experience the upper state by studying the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to truly feel and understand it; the wisdom of Kabbalah is a practical scientific method. Just as you have been taught in your childhood to perceive this world, to be in it, feel it, clarify it, and respond to different situations, so you will also be taught in a much more profound manner how to perceive the upper world.

You were born with corporeal senses, but you have to create the spiritual senses by yourself through your connection to others. This method is not created and automatically fulfilled in a person.

All have to discover it inside themselves. Even if one of the students refuses to do so now, he will still have to come back to finish “his game” later. It cannot be any other way because we are in development. The levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature are the phases of evolution we have undergone, and now we are facing the next phase, the human level, on which we will exist in a general, collective, inclusive, integral form of man.
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From “The Echo of Moscow” Radio Program 11/25/15

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Going Beyond The Body

laitman_938_02Question: You are a Kabbalist, and I am not. In what way is your level different from mine?

Answer: A person engaged in the wisdom of Kabbalah begins to discover new possibilities for feeling the world, not within oneself, but outside oneself.

Usually we feel what enters us and is processed in our feelings and mind. We feel this ready-made internal picture. This is a method for understanding the world of sensations in our bodies, and we live in the world without imagining that another world exists.

In fact, the spiritual world is absolutely different. But we cannot go beyond the framework of the body to experience the true reality. The wisdom of Kabbalah allows you to do this because, when we cooperate mutually with one another, we build a completely different sense between us. So, this method is called, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

When we begin to enter into contact with each other, at the same time, we go out of ourselves and get the opportunity to feel everything that is outside of us. That is when we begin to see the world, undisturbed by our properties,  eternal and perfect.

We must rise to this level and exist in it, because it is the next stage of our development, not the physical stage that we have already completed, but the spiritual world.
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From “The Echo of Moscow” Radio Program 11/25/15

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What Happens To A Person When He Transcends The Machsom?

Laitman_032_01Question: What happens to a person when he transcends the Machsom (barrier)? Does he enter a new dimension?

Answer: Yes, a person exits his egoistic intentions and enters altruistic intentions, which enables him to feel what is external to him, outside of his natural perception.

Question: What actually happens to a person?

Answer: It is the revelation of a new dimension in new attributes of love and bestowal that are above human nature that a person acquires by his efforts to connect to the friends who study the wisdom of Kabbalah with him in a group. The change that takes place in a person is actually a person’s spiritual birth and the attainment of the soul.
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The Secret Of n-Dimensional Space

laitman_237Question: I am a mathematician and I read TES and The Introduction to TES in great depth. I feel the material. Mathematics cannot describe an n-dimensional space. How can we attain this space according to the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: It is impossible to describe this space in our natural properties. That is why the wisdom of Kabbalah is called the secret wisdom, the concealed knowledge. But in fact it isn’t secret or concealed, but in order to reveal it, a person needs to acquire the properties of the upper world.

A multidimensional space can be created only inside a person, according to the space that is created in him as a result of his efforts to acquire the attributes of the upper world. It is by the connection in the group that he directly perceives the spiritual world.
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Forecast For The Year 2016 According To The Clairvoyant Vanga

Laitman_083Comment: The newspapers and Internet have been full lately with the predictions of the Bulgarian clairvoyant named Vanga. Among other predictions, she said that the 44th president of the United States would be a black American and that he would be the last. She predicted in the year 1989 that “iron birds” would bring down the “American brothers”; and indeed on September 11, 2001 the terrorist operation happened which shook all of America.

Also in 1996 she predicted that in the year 2016 Europe would be occupied by refugees from Syria after a war began there in the year 2010. In her words: “Europe would become the place for the Muslim Caliphate, the Europeans would leave Europe, and Rome would be the capital of the Caliphate.”

Answer: What is written in connection with all of these predictions makes sense to me. Throughout all of history there have been fortune-tellers, and from the point of view of Kabbalah this is absolutely natural. I spoke about this with my teacher Rabash and he related to fortune-tellers completely naturally.

These people can be from different religions and even not religious, like Wolf Messing, for example. They simply feel time and historical events according to how they need to happen. After all, the past, present, and future exist only in our perception, in fact, they are found in a single space, which the fortune-tellers see.

Question: What can you say regarding the prediction of Vanga for the year 2016 that worries everyone?

Answer: Everything is correct, and this was even written in the Kabbalistic sources about 2,000 years ago. But I very much hope that this year will be a year in which the Kabbalists will be able to explain to the world where things are going, where general evolution is leading us, and how with the right connections between us we will discover the upper world and move to the next level of existence.

Vanga prophesied according to the system of suffering because humanity has two ways that it can ascend to the next level, the way of suffering or the way of Light. Even the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about the path of suffering, but at the same time, says that if we want, we can use the upper force that will pull us forward, and we will go through all the states of development rapidly and comfortably, and within a short period of time we can attain the new level.

Question: Is it possible to go through the year 2016 in moments?

Answer: As for the moments, I don’t know, but consciously it is possible in days or a number of weeks and thus even pass through everything that human development must pass through until its complete connection within a single system and the discovery of the upper world within it.

So the future by the way of Light or by the way of suffering depends upon us, but in any case we will get to it. Understandably it would of course be preferable if it were not according to the predictions of Vanga but according to the advice of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/30/15

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Infinity Is A Real State

Laitman_712_03Question: How can a person find out what his fate is?

Answer: From a Kabbalistic perspective the revelation of a person’s fate is finding out his location in the overall control system. If a person engages in the method of correction, which means the wisdom of Kabbalah, he will be able to attain that. He will gradually get closer to the root of his soul and thus begin the correction not only of humanity and the world but all of creation.

Humanity is inside five worlds that conceal the eternal world, and the right mutual cooperation between all its parts can balance everything. We learn this structure of the worlds in the control system by studying the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: What is the definition of a world according to the wisdom of Kabbalah? Are the upper worlds similar to the reality we live in here?

Answer: The upper worlds are nothing like our reality. Reality as we know it has nothing to do with the upper worlds and is not considered a world according to the wisdom of Kabbalah. We only call it a world.

The fact is, that worlds are states that conceal the only real state there is, called Ein Sof, Infinity. They are lower levels of existence that conceal it from a person and allow him to gradually discover Infinity so that he will be able to feel it and be in it. Thus the feeling of Infinity a person can sense is called the worlds.

We gradually approach the infinite state that will eventually allow us to exist as an inseparable part of the eternal world. When we attain it, it will not seem infinite because we will already be able to contain and understand where we are and will begin to resemble Infinity. This state will be attained when all of humanity melts into one whole, which is also the mechanism by which all of humanity will resemble Infinity and begin feeling it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/08/15

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Karma Or Spiritual Development

laitman_760_5Question: Is there a law of fate, called Karma, that depends on the actions of a person in this world?

Answer: A person indeed can influence his fate, but not on the level of Karma, but only through his own aspiration along with those like him for greater unity. Then his influence will be positive. However, if he does not act according to those opportunities that are given to him for unity, his influence will be negative.

In this world, we are very limited by our philosophies and inventions. We have only one possibility: to unite and create a connection between us or not. Accordingly, we are either cut off from the higher forces and discover negative influences, losses, and suffering on all levels, or we make it possible for them to pass through us and create a positive influence.

Question: Is the attainment of wholeness and transition to a higher level a common inheritance, or will some of us not merit reaching this?

Answer: We are involved in everything that is required to hasten the spiritual development of the whole so that each one will take his place within spirituality and all of us will reach the final state through the good and rapid way, not the slow way of suffering.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/8/15

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Does The Spiritual World Exist On Its Own?

Laitman_115_07Question: In forests we see a “beastly” environment, in a city we see a “consumer” environment, and in a Kabbalistic convention there is an environment of “unity.”

Since the environment is what controls people, their behavior, their thoughts, and their desires, can I call Sefirot an environment that is present in a society?

If this is right, can you explain the spiritual environment; does it exist on its own, or does the society need to create it?

Answer: The spiritual world doesn’t exist, just as our world doesn’t. Our world is created only within our sensations, within our “receptive” properties, and we need to create the spiritual world with special properties of “bestowal,” which we acquire.
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The Déjà Vu Effect

laitman_423_01Question: Is the déjà vu experience a manifestation of the higher power, or is it our choice?

Answer: There are states where a person receives particular influences from the underlying integral system in which we exist.

Sensations of being within the system suddenly could pass through him, the ability to predict the future or a feeling of being in another place. This is a temporary, superficial, physical state and is irrelevant to the higher state.

Kabbalists don’t pay attention to it at all because entry into the higher management must be conscious.

Question: Could memories of past lives arise in a person?

Answer: In fact, there are no so-called past lives because in the upper world, in which we actually are even now, we are in a completely different state than that which seems to us as reality now, as a dream.

When a person is thrown into an unfamiliar place and a feeling arises in him that he has been there already, this indicates his heightened sense of what is happening.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/8/15

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