Question: If the past does not exist, why do I see old buildings?

Answer: All of this exists within you. If you were not here, then none of it would exist.

Comment: If I tell someone: “This is all inside me. You are a part of me,” they will think I am crazy.

My Response: That is natural. Even if you explain that physicists or philosophers propose similar theories, they will still say the same thing. What Kabbalah speaks about closely resembles some philosophical or physical theories. There is nothing unusual about it.

Understand that there is no way around it. What “seems” to a person or not does not matter. There is reality, and that is what we are discussing. Our corporeal reality exists only relative to us. If our qualities change, reality will change as well.

Scientists already write that time exists as an objective reality only relative to us. There is nothing truly objective. Everything is relative to us. Physicists directly speak about time flowing forward, backward, in any direction, or not existing at all. If time does not exist, then what is left? That means nothing exists at all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Reality of Perception” 7/20/10

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Comment: Once when you were talking about bestowal you said that reception does not exist.

My Response: Yes, indeed, reception does not exist.

It exists only in our imagination, in our fantasy. Therefore, our entire world is imaginary, unreal, because there is no such force or property as “reception.” It manifests itself as if in a state of loss of consciousness.

In other words, to the extent that we are in a loss of awareness of true existence, to that extent we exist as if in a dream, in an unconscious state in which we imagine our life in reception, in accumulation.

It is only our clouded consciousness that represents everything to us in this way. It is as if you are asleep, and this world is depicted to you in your dream.

As it is said in the Psalms that when a person returns to connection with the Creator, he reveals that he was asleep.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Loss of Consciousness” 7/22/10

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Comment: When you describe spiritual images, you say that at present we perceive ourselves in a completely different way. But when you explain this, you still try to put it in some form.

Answer: Otherwise, how would I be able to reproduce it?

Question: Suppose I asked you how spirituality can be conveyed? In a visual sense, this is difficult to do. But maybe there are some allegories or categories?

Answer: I convey it with words such as, for example, “field.”

Question: By “field,” do you mean waves, vibrations in the air?

Answer: No, it is a kind of a space filled with something, and you move within it. Depending on where you are in this space, you detect its new properties each time.

And then you begin to understand that this happens not because you are moving and thus detect its properties, but because these movements are, in principle, your own, while the field is constant, and there is nothing else in it but love.

Question: But this field is infinite. And I am like an element that can move within it?

Answer: Yes, some kind of finite element, a detector.

Question: But how can you embrace the entire field while being a small element?

Answer: Even if you are very small, when you acquire the same quality of love as the field, then there will be no barrier between you, and you will feel yourself fully sensing it, comprehending it, merging with it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Spiritual images” 7/2/10

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Comment: You claim that everything that was in the past, all of history, everything we see, as if never existed. But I look at old ruins and see that they seem so real that I cannot say they never existed.

My Response: Everything is genuine indeed! But all of this is within your awareness! This is what “genuine in my mind” and “genuine in my sensation” mean.

Question: But did it exist?

Answer: There is no such thing as “it existed or not.” Time does not exist at all. There is an objective reality given to us in our sensations. It turns out that reality is given to us in our sensations. Marxists put it correctly. No matter how you look at it, they were truly right. And Kabbalah supports this view. Moreover, it has been saying this for thousands of years!

Question: How should I relate to this? Why are people so fascinated by history, historical films, and historical events?

Answer: Because it all seems to be about us! People don’t really want to know about the present because it is very limited. It is always concerned more about the past or the future. The present is just a moment. Life is a moment between the past and the future. Therefore, we exist between the past and the future, and we’re interested in it.

The past is interesting because it defines the future. The past itself is interesting in the future: “Where am I from? Why me? Who am I?” This all speaks about me personally, about things I do not know because it seems I was not there then. But all of it relates to me.

In other words, if I want to understand something about myself today, I can better understand it if I knew where I came from, what defines me, who made me, who has been nurturing me for thousands of years, where, and so on. Therefore, people are interested, society is interested, every country is interested in its past, either to hide it or to reveal it (which is already politics).

The future is also unknown to anyone. Naturally, it is interesting. The present is transient. It consists of the past and the future.

But Kabbalah does not speak of time at all. It claims that time itself does not exist, and there is only the past and the future, which also do not exist just like the present. That is, I feel all of this.

But objectively, outside of me, there is no time, no sensations, no events. There is only one reality—the creation completely filled by the Creator. And this creation gradually undergoes internal changes in the revelation of the Creator.

Gradual revelation of the Creator to His creation is the course of all that exists. Moreover, this gradual revelation occurs within the creation and nowhere else.

It is divided into several stages. One of the stages is the unconscious revelation of the Creator when a a peron appears and unconsciously develops on the earth.

The next stage is when in our time, a person begins to work with this and can consciously reveal the Creator. He is pushed to this by his state, and Kabbalah helps him in this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Past Does Not Exist” 7/21/10

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Comment: In principle, I understand that our reality is a dream, but it is still impossible to treat it as such.

My Response: We need to perceive this reality a little differently, in a more composite way and try to illuminate it from multiple angles that take into account other states as well.

This is what society, science, crises, and everything we are going through demand of us today. Otherwise, we will not understand our world. We must envision and comprehend it differently, not as an ordinary person does, but at a slightly higher level. Life demands this of us.

The fact is that our everyday life, even its most mundane aspects, requires us to understand this life, this world, its causes, and its purposes. We see that we understand nothing of what is happening in our world and cannot reach any solutions.

Neither politicians, sociologists, nor political analysts can offer anything. We need to rise above because we have simply lost our way like a herd that is leading ourselves to some kind of precipice with no way forward while pressure builds from behind. Perhaps humanity needs to go in a completely different direction.

That is, our present, illusory, however we define reality, forces us to wake up, change, and recognize it as just one among many in order to understand the cause and effect of our state.

It is easy to say that five billion years ago the universe emerged, half a million years ago the Earth, sometime later life on Earth, and in another million years, either sooner or later, it will all end. So what? Is that all?

If so, then we confine ourselves to an earthly animalistic framework? But what if life compels us to resolve this problem? And although in our earthly, animal existence, we only care for the body, which is why we call such a life an animal existence, we are still not allowed to remain in it. We must find the true meaning of life; otherwise, we will suffer. Nature will force us to do so.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Reality is This” 7/25/10

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Question: Do I understand correctly that I must fill in and correct the qualities of my friends?

Answer: Of course, these are your qualities!

Question: How exactly should we relate to this? People have different personalities. Let us say I see a scoundrel or someone good. How do I interact and connect with them?

Answer: You can see how confusing this is. Now you will ask: “If I see others as a part of me, should I correct them or myself? If they correct themselves, they will be corrected in me. If I correct myself, they will be corrected on the outside. What should we do?”

I understand all this confusion, but none of this is necessary because it will lead you to all sorts of philosophies that will only distance you from the necessary practical actions. Ultimately, you will not achieve anything; you will only be confused or brag to others about how smart you are.

That is why Kabbalah is against it! First, it limits the portions given to people in the measure they can implement correctly. You do not need more. What for? Otherwise, it is all nonsense, philosophy.

In addition, there are some things a person simply cannot perceive correctly, which confuse him even more. This is not allowed. If you start telling an unprepared person about quantum physics and all sorts of variables beyond time, he will say you are not in your right mind.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Properties of a Friend” 7/18/10

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Question: When you say something in a lesson, you emphasize to everyone that this depends on you and that depends on you, and so on. I hear it too and wonder why you don’t connect everything together?

Answer: I address them because this way I enter their reality. I speak to them on the level of their reality.

If you and I were to rise to another level where we both perceived reality differently, I would speak to you differently on another level of perceiving reality. Suppose we both sensed the absence of this world and existed in the world of Yetzira, then we would communicate on the level of forces and not images as we do now.

Right now you see me on your computer screen, and I see you on my computer screen. But if we were to move into the realm of electrical signals beyond the screen and start communicating, not through imagery, but as the computer commands, everything would be different. Imagine two wires connected to each other, nothing more. And information flows from one to the other, not as images, but as impulses.

But in a lesson, I convey information to people as if they exist separately from me, because otherwise I would not be able to explain anything.

And this is how all of Kabbalah is described. How else could it be? We address a person who perceives our world as an objective reality in which they exist rather than a reality that exists within them.

Question: So are you speaking to them? Or are you speaking just to me?

Answer: I am speaking to myself.

Question: To yourself? Then why do you keep saying that it depends on you, you, and you? I hear it too, so it turns out it depends on me and not on them.

Answer: Of course! Only on you! We say: “The whole world depends only on you.”

Comment: This feels like a trick.

My Response: It is not a trick. We exist in a state that we have no other way to communicate. No one is deceiving anyone. Are we playing childish games, deceiving each other in this world? Is there anything worthwhile on this infantile level where people supposedly deceive one another? They are deceiving themselves!

Question: So how should I relate to these elements that you communicate with?

Answer: In no way. Correct yourself.

Question: And the connection? You always talk about connection.

Answer: Connect! And you will discover that all of it is you, that all of it is yours, that you are the one and only Adam filled by the Creator. And everyone else are just parts of you that have integrally become yours, and you alone exist.

Question: But you say the problem is that people cannot achieve connection because not everyone wants it. How can that be that not everyone wants it, yet everything depends on me?

Answer: Because these are your own desires that you have not yet gathered together and corrected to resemble the Creator. Therefore they seem to be opposite to you, standing against you, with whom you must somehow work, connect with, and attract to yourself.

Question: But if it is my fault that there is no unity, why don’t you pressure me, why don’t you say: “It is your fault” instead of speaking to the entire mass around you?

Answer: Because each of them is just like you, and each one must realize that everything is contained within them.

Question: No, this is probably impossible to understand. You speak very confidently, saying that this is clear and that is clear, but at the same time, there is a contradiction in it.

Answer: Even in quantum physics we encounter such paradoxes. What can you do?

Comment: So they exist, and at the same time, they do not exist.

My Response: Yes. When we start approaching the microworld where there is a kind of threshold for transitioning to another world, we discover that nothing is definite, that two things can be in the same place at the same time, and one thing can be in two places, that distance does not exist—it is entirely conditional.

Imagine I take a piece of paper and fold it and bring two opposite points together. In linear geometry they are on a plane. But by folding the paper, they now represent a single whole. It all depends on my perception of space.

This is what a spatial leap is—the ability to leap from one part of the universe to another across millions or billions of light-years. On a plane, they are separated by billions of years, but I simply fold it and find myself in another point instantly. And it depends only on my perception—only on me! If I can fold it within myself, then I am at any point I choose.

Everything exists only relative to me.

Question: Do you practice this?

Answer: It is not about practicing or not. It is simply the reality that exists within you.

You must rise to it because everything depends on the level of your egoism—whether it is linear, flat, or whether you can already shape it in any way, control it, give it any form, and construct your true reality upon it. Take any shape and say: “This is a plane,” and build your geometry on it, meaning, perceive the entire world through it.

And what does it depend on? On how much you can integrate your nine fundamental qualities, the nine Sefirot into the tenth, in Malchut. And then everything is within you. You truly perceive everything beyond time and space, only through your internal transformation, through the sensation of the Creator within you. And nothing else exists.

And you do not grieve over losing people, souls, or communication. It is all inside you and has become even closer, deeper.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. In Me and Outside Me” 7/26/10

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We think about changing the world all the time. This is the ultimate egoism.

Comment: We do this all the time.  But these media outlets will not be destroyed, the government will not be overthrown, and the bosses will not be replaced.

My Response: None of that is necessary. What we need is to try to show the whole world that its very nature—whether still, vegetative, animate, or especially human—is absolutely egoistic. And it is this nature that we must correct. Moreover, it is corrected precisely from the degree of “human.”

Question: So I always start with myself?

Answer: You start with yourself and with others, with the connection between us, with the connection between people. And then nature will change on all levels. From the top down, it will extend to the animate, vegetative, and inanimate world.

Question: If I, an ordinary person, start with my connections with loved ones and try to make them good no matter what, despite any conflicts and so on, will I begin to change the world?

Answer: Yes, of course!

Where is the methodology for correcting the world? It is in the correction of the human being. But not by simply shouting and pressuring others, but through a methodology of education, refinement, and transformation of the person.

Question: If I start to change, what do I see?

Answer: If I start to change, I begin to see that this is exactly what the world needs. And the world will change accordingly along with this. I will see more and more goodness in this world. And so through our attitude toward the world, not just mine alone, we will bring the world into a state of proper balance.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/3/22

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There is a strict law of nature that says my attitude toward others determines their attitude toward me.

This seems so strange to us. But if we try, if we make an effort, then gradually, we will see that the world depends only on our attitude toward it, and it will begin to change for the better.

In other words, you paint your own world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/3/22

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World Kabbalah Convention, “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson 2

Question: Going in faith above reason means going with eyes closed. How do we come to prefer going in this way in order to see the Creator?

Answer: If we continue going the way we have until today, we will never understand what is happening in our world. But if we begin to direct ourselves toward perceiving the world in faith above reason, we will correctly feel both our world and the Creator within it.

Question: Does each person have their own perception of reality?

Answer: Everyone has their own perception of reality, similar to how we perceive reality in our world. After all, we gather together, thousands of people, exchange thoughts and plans, and somehow understand each other. The same applies in the spiritual world.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 2/20/25, “Connecting to Lishma,” Lesson No.2

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