Comment: Can our brain communicate with the brain of the person next to us without us noticing it?

Scientists have found that if people spend a lot of time together, the activity of neurons in their brains becomes similar and sometimes nearly identical. Both brains start working synchronously.

After two weeks of watching the same movies, reading the same books, experiencing similar life situations, and talking only to each other, people begin to use almost identical language constructs, experience similar emotions, and share a common point of view.

Professor Moran Cerf from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois says people close to you somehow influence your perception of reality, and in such a way that it is difficult to notice or explain.

My Response: In reality, our brain communicates with the universal mind of the Universe. We are connected to it, like modems. There is an immense system between us, and through it, each person receives information.

“Direct” communication is often an illusion. What I say and what reaches a person I am talking to are not the same thing. The main influence of the environment passes through other channels.

That is why I am interested in my students studying according to the single system, from the same sources, reading my blog, and so on. Only in this way do we come closer to each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/3/18

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Question: How should we relate to the emergence of physical problems in life?

Answer: If a physical problem arises before me, I must solve it physically and at the same time realize that the Creator gives it to me so that I constantly imagine that there is none else besides Him and that all problems, both good and bad, come from Him.

Our main problem is to perceive the world as an image sent to us by the Creator and identify everything that happens to us with Him. There is no other force in the world that controls everything, and all that seems to exist apart from Him, the Creator does specifically to confuse us.

Why does He confuse us? So that we develop a keen sense of His uniqueness. Then we will begin to feel His manifestation in everything that surrounds us so much so that everything that exists inside us in the heart and in the mind and outside of us in inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature, everything, is produced, determined, and sent only by Him.

Therefore, at any moment of life, we must surely aim ourselves at the Creator and always hold on to this from the moment we wake up to the moment we fall asleep. If we try to do this, we will very soon feel that the Creator surrounds us, we are in Him. Then, we will determine for ourselves that there is none else besides Him.

This is practically the whole science of Kabbalah. We do not need anything else in life. Once we feel we are inside the Creator and that He controls everyone and each person individually, we will immediately begin to clearly perceive the whole world, the entire reality. It will become apparent that we ourselves do not exist except for our only point of perception of the Creator. And everything else, this illusory world and other upper worlds, are His imprint in us.

But until we reach such a state that we exist in the Creator as a small point and everything else is Him, we need to perform actions in our world: work and provide for ourselves and our family. That is, we must exist in our world at the same time. But this will also change as we become more and more aware of the Creator who fills the whole world.

The science of Kabbalah leads a person to a state of sound, actual attainment of the basis of nature. Nature does not call: “Stop working, give up your life and think only about the Creator.” A person must take care of himself, attain the Creator, and gradually see how these two sensations of reality get closer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: The idea of ​​transforming the egoistic nature of a person into an altruistic one with the goal of achieving adhesion with the Creator looks beautiful.

But I do not understand how this idea can be conveyed to the masses? To whom? This is an educational process, not just something you tell a person and that is it. The educational process is in the hands of the exploiters, and this is not beneficial to them.

Answer: I think that the educational process of a general type, the one that spreads to the entire system of humanity, is in the hands of the Creator.

Therefore, Baal HaSulam and other Kabbalists write that we are obliged by all means to begin dissemination and lead humanity to this goal as quickly as possible, to explain to it what awaits us if we follow this path correctly and what awaits us if we act incorrectly. We have a clear instruction, and we must follow it.

There is such a force in nature that knows how to lead and develop humanity, we just need not interfere with it and rely on it.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24

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Comment: You once explained that there is a layer of souls that communicate with each other and actually interact on some spiritual level without even realizing it.

My Response: Yes, we do indeed exist on a spiritual level, but we just don’t feel it. Like, for example, a newborn baby who is born in our world, he is registered in all the records, many people are already working for him, supplying him with food, diapers and everything necessary, but he does not feel it.

But he is in this system. The system takes complete care of him, responds to him.

Similarly we are in the spiritual system, but we do not feel it. And the system responds to us and provides everything necessary for our advancement. However, in our case, everything depends only on us, on our desire.

Question: When transitioning to the next phase, does a person perceive the same thing in a completely different way, for example, the same layer of our conversation?

Answer: Of course, differently. He begins to feel the system in which he exists: how it responds to him, how he can influence it, what “he himself” means. He comprehends himself in relation to it.

Yet there is a difference for a person, whether he is an infant, a small child, or an adult.

Comment: Understanding this is a very interesting thing. In my opinion, only Kabbalah allows this to be done.

My Response: When that world, that universe in which we actually exist, is revealed to a person, it is the highest pleasure for him, which fills him infinitely! We are created by this light, this perception, this eternity, perfection, and harmony.

Therefore, today, when we are outside of it, our life represents absolute misery. But for lack of anything better, we are content with this, like a person born in prison does not feel that there could be something else. Try to release him from prison, he will immediately want to go back because he will not be able to orient himself in another world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Am I a Puppet?” 4/10/10

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All of the souls extend from the soul of Adam HaRishon, for after he sinned in the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, his soul divided into 600,000 souls.

This means that the one light that Adam HaRishon had, which The Zohar called Zihara Ila’a [upper brightness], which he had in the Garden of Eden at once, spreads into numerous pieces (Rabash, Article 10 (1984) “To What Degree One must Attain In Order To Not Reincarnate”).

The Creator created a desire opposite Himself, seemingly separated from Him. The Creator is the attribute of bestowal. Desire is a property of reception. But in the state in which it was created, desire does not experience opposition to the Creator. Therefore, it undergoes division into 600,000 parts.

Six hundred thousand is a conditional concept. In spirituality, there is no division into parts or stages. We divide it this way for ourselves to grade, label, weigh, and determine spiritual states. In reality, spirituality is a continuous field without any distinctions.

Only when we try to feel and understand it and we need to somehow grasp it in our feelings and thoughts, do we divide it relative to ourselves into gradations and facets, although it is indivisible.

For example, consider air. Suppose we are trying to define what air is; we must divide it relative to ourselves into some quantities, values, and qualities. By itself, it may not have them at all, but otherwise, we cannot grasp or define it.

Therefore, for us to comprehend the Creator, He specifically created within Himself the desire to bestow and give pleasure. However, He does not represent the desire to bestow, to fill, a good or evil desire—all these manifest only in relation to the creations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Who understands life is no longer in a hurry,
He relishes every moment and watches
As a child sleeps, an old man prays,
How it rains and how snowflakes melt … 
(Omar Khayyam)

Comment: Even at the moment I was reading, a sudden calm came over me.

My Response: Of course.

Question: Is this understanding life? Just observing?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does it mean to just observe life? After all, I am living it.

Answer: It means seeing how everything in it passes, moves, develops, fades, and dies.

Question: So, I just observe? But I am a participant in all of this. These are my loved ones.

Answer: You can be a participant depending on how you perceive it.

Question: What does observing mean to you? You still perceive things, that there are problems and everything.

Answer: I would say that I perceive life as a slowly flowing river. Only our absurd actions disturb its state of smooth, good balance.

Question: How can a person become the observer of their own life?

Answer: Look from the side, and most importantly, do not accept everything that is about you and for you.

Question: How?

Answer: Understand that it flows next to you, then everything will be simpler and more accurate. I do not think life should be perceived as if it always wants to tell you something personally. This will cause such internal disturbances that a person will not be able to relate to life correctly.

Question: It is said that everything exists for man. What does that mean in this context?

Answer: It is for them to see themselves in this stream of life. Just as we attend the funerals of others so others will attend ours. And so on. There is nothing unnatural about it; everything flows.

Question: So is that how I should live?

Answer: Yes, this is not indifference; it is just a way of perceiving life.

Question: Is this the right way to perceive life?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But we are always looking for the meaning of life. It would be good to find a higher meaning of life to strive toward. Where does this simple observation you talk about fit in? Does it disappear and some kind of drive begins?

Answer: No. What can drive achieve? On the contrary, if we want to see meaning in life, we must immerse ourselves in it and flow along with it.

Question: When it is said that everything is within a person, what does it mean that everything is within me?

Answer: It means that both the correct and the harmful attitude toward the world, people, and oneself are within a person. A person should still attune himself to the fact that everything in the world is indeed flowing. This is a vast river. And if they want to throw themselves into it, I do not think that is right. It is better to observe.

Question: Where does this river flow? It is known that rivers flow somewhere.

Answer: This river, yes. As written in the Torah: Gihon, Pishon, these rivers flow into the system of the upper world, to paradise, to hell, and so on.

Question: But one would still like to flow into paradise. Or does a person have no such thoughts?

Answer: Throw yourself into this river, close your eyes, and let it carry you. And do not think. Because the one who created all this determines everything.

Comment: I remember a simple example. When I eat, I eat quickly. And I eat an apple the same way. But you once described how Rabash would sit down, peel an apple, and eat it slowly. I remember this somehow gave the impression of a certain attitude toward life.

My Response: He had a very serious attitude. He took every minute very seriously. Very seriously!

Comment: For some reason, that example stayed with me. I would like to live like that.

My Response: Take an apple, a plate, a knife, sit down, start peeling it, and cut off pieces.

Question: And live like that?

Answer: And live.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/8/24

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Question: You say that when reading The Book of Zohar, we do not feel how spiritual forces influence us or how many corrections occur during its study. If a person does not feel anything, does it mean that nothing is happening?

Answer: Certainly! Do we feel what is happening in our bodies? We feel only a millionth part of what is happening, and everything else passes by our senses and thoughts. We do not catch anything, and we do not have time to process anything.

Question: I can usually judge something when I feel something. You say if I do not feel, then is nothing happening. So does studying The Book of Zohar influence people?

Answer: The fact is that, on one hand, the integral world in which I actually find myself is vital to me and not the one that seems to me. I want to know the complete picture of the world and how it affects me. And what I do not feel today, I can feel tomorrow. Therefore, first of all, I need to experience this world. Second, I work in the part of the world that I feel.

There are two worlds: revealed and hidden. I must uncover everything around me and connect with the universe entirely.

This is what Kabbalah is for. That is why it is called the science of receiving. Receiving, that is, the disclosure of the universal complete universe, so I feel myself not within the framework of our world, not within the framework of my body, but in perfection, in eternity, in complete harmony with all of nature, I feel as an integral part of it, as eternal as it is.

Question: Let’s say an ordinary person begins to study The Book of Zohar. Does even just reading a passage affect him?

Answer: It does even if he just hears and does not understand. All the same, he is in contact because everything that happens in our world is some kind of contact through the matter of our world, which is desire.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Hidden Influence of The Book of Zohar” 3/7/10

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Question: I often notice that you close your eyes when you want to convey a specific spiritual picture. Why do you do this?

Answer: To focus. In principle, whether my eyes are closed or open has nothing to do with the sensation of the higher world.

Concentrating on the students and conveying information to them is necessary because it is challenging to bring it out from the inside and clothe it in some earthly form. You need to concentrate so you are not disturbed by images, sounds, or smells. Everything gets in the way!

I remember when an ambulance passed near the place where we were studying with Rabash, he got switched off. If a tractor was working quietly somewhere, emitting a distant, monotonous sound, it was difficult for him to concentrate.

And I have an even bigger problem. First of all, I am not him. He was huge on the one hand. On the other hand, 300 students are in front of me. I must feel them, but feelings still include earthly sensations too.

It turns out that the slightest sound, some kind of knock, someone said something, someone misunderstood something, and I already start to lose my intention, my concentration. Therefore, I need it to be quiet. Even the smell of something is distracting.

It seems to us that the Kabbalist withdraws into himself and plunges inside like a yogi. No. His immersion coincides with the intensification of all earthly senses, I can’t even tell you how much!

For example, while we are walking and talking with Rabash, a small pebble the size of a pea suddenly got into his shoe and prevented him from concentrating. This doesn’t fit at all with how we are used to thinking about the upper world.

To the Kabbalist, all this appears as one whole, and he becomes sensitive to everything. He does not leave, does not float away somewhere; on the contrary, every particle, every connection in the world becomes very important to him. He sees this unity and mutual influence. This whole world is what he needs.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalist’s Super Senses” 3/11/10

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Question: Essentially, do I have to absorb absolutely the entire world?

Answer: It is already in you. Let us say you are sitting in front of your computer right now. In it you can see the whole world. If you see it on the screen, it means it is in your computer system; otherwise, you would not see it.

But the problem is whether anything is outside of you at all. Maybe not. I see what arises in my feelings. But what is behind these feelings? I do not know. Maybe I am in some kind of matrix that projects some images and sensations to me, and makes some suggestions to me. I have nothing but my feelings.

Where do they come from? Maybe now I am in an unconscious state, and this whole world manifests itself in my sick imagination: I am talking to you, I exist, and so on.

But in fact, you are missing one more state in relation to which you could measure this.

Comment: You once gave an example that there is a computer system that includes the processor itself and a screen on which all the processes occurring in the computer are projected. It seems to us we see something. In fact, we do not feel the processes themselves.

My Response: This is why we need to get to this processor, to all its internal parts. They are our system, only they are hidden from us.

When I get to them, I will find out why it all exists, and at the same time I will discover that it was created for my sake. There I will find my eternal, perfect state, I will be able to control myself and not be controlled.

Today I automatically react when someone evokes certain feelings and thoughts in me. I myself am this screen, this guidance, and I have no opportunity to enter an objective state. After all, the fact that I am now talking and in contact with you is all some kind of reaction to what is in front of me.

Where do I really separately and objectively exist?

We do not have this. This is what we need to achieve.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Swallow the Whole World” 4/10/10

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Igal writes:

I wake up in cold sweat. I was 100% sure it was really happening to me, but it was a dream. If that is the case, maybe I am still dreaming? Maybe this whole life of mine is a dream? My wife, the children, my job, and the war—all a dream? If that is the case, I want to wake up. I am not happy with too many things in this dream.

My Response: His fears overwhelm him.

Question: His fears are overwhelming. He does not like this dream. Here he asks, “After all, is our life a dream or not?”

Answer: Our life is a dream but actually on a different level, meaning, not at the level of suffering or not-suffering, but at the level of existence in general. We do not understand or feel this world correctly.

Therefore you can call it some kind of dream. But, in general, we can get rid of this dream and wake up.

Question: So he asks: “How do I wake up?”

Answer: How? This is the method of Kabbalah.

Question: He continues: “When I wake up, will reality be better or worse?”

Answer: Reality itself may not change. You, your outlook, and your feelings will change, for the better.

Question: Does this mean I woke up?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So there could be the same war in reality, you say?

Answer: It does not matter.

Question: What does it mean if there is a war and I wake up? What are my feelings? The reality is that there is a war.

Answer: On one hand, you see a war going on, people are killing, dying, and so on. But on the other hand, in this you see the necessary action of armies, nations, and so on, which enter into such relationships with each other. And in the end, it leads to the best outcome.

Question: So, I see that no matter what happens, everything leads to the best outcome. Is this called waking up?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is the best in this case?

Answer: The best is closeness with the Creator.

Comment: You are unshakeable in this.

My Response: Yes, there is nothing to add here.

Question: Another question from him: “Could it be that I am sure I woke up, but it turns out to be a dream again? And so on endlessly.”

Answer: Yes. So what? How do you know if you are awake or not?

Comment: This is the question: how will I know that I am awake?

My Response: There is no way to know.

Question: Is this how we are destined to live?

Answer: No, we are not destined to live like that at all. But there are states called reincarnations when we exist this way.

Question: From dream to dream, from dream to dream?

Answer: Yes, some such actions. But in fact, we come completely out of the boundaries of our world. And then we see it from the outside.

Question: So what do we see?

Answer: We see that everything is controlled by a single Creator, and we are around Him.

Question: What kind of force is the Creator?

Answer: It is a force that by gradually teaching us, leads us to a state of complete harmony.

Question: And the last question: “Is it better to wake up or not?”

Answer: We must wake up in order to achieve a more and more true state and so that all dreams, fantasies, and everything else would disappear from our world.

Then we would not fight, we would not exchange bad words, bad deeds, or bad actions.

Question: Do you mean in the relations between us?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24

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