Question: I do not like myself, but you say: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Maybe it is necessary to love yourself first? But how?

Answer: Start loving others, and then you will see how much you love yourself. Only then does a person begin to understand that he is actually a terrible egoist!

Question: Usually this phrase is actually translated like this: “Let me love myself first, and then I will deal with others.” But you say it differently. Strive toward others, love others, and then you will see how much you love yourself.

So a person must forcibly make such an effort and start trying to love people. Will some bitterness appear in him then? What will appear in him?

Answer: He will see that he is divided into his external and internal parts, and in fact he loves only himself and only for this is he ready to exist.

And then if he understands that he has to remake himself, he will already need some kind of correction methodology.

Question: And these are the kind of people who find us?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/1/24

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Question: If my perception paints an external picture of the world for me, and this external picture is actually me, then what is the point of transitioning to a state of bestowal to others if they are me?

Answer: You never actually bestow anything to anyone else. What you do in your life is develop your perception, engage in self-knowledge, self-understanding, and self-discovery. That’s it! Everything that appears to be outside of you are your own sensory organs, which are intentionally made to seem foreign and unrelated to you. This is done so that by attracting them to yourself, you develop the desire for bestowal and love instead of egoistic desire, and you discover that all of it is actually yours. These are your attributes, your desires.

There is nothing in the world that does not belong to you. By integrating these so-called external objects, which are actually forces, attributes, and desires, you form a vessel within yourself for perceiving the Creator, the upper world.

The idea that something exists outside of you that is seemingly not yours and foreign is an illusion. It is you!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Whole World is Me” 2/4/10

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Question: Before clearly realizing that everything I see outside of myself is in me, can I feel something as part of myself?

Answer: Maybe in a movie. In The Matrix and in other movies, perhaps they tried to somewhat portray this. I do not watch such movies, they are very primitive.

But in order to somehow hint to people what the perception of reality is, we need to come up with something. The correct perception of reality is explained in the Introduction to The Book of Zohar and by many Kabbalists in general. They wrote about this long before Einstein and other scientists because they discovered from their own experience that everything we see from the outside is actually in us, and there is no world outside.

There is nothing outside at all—everything is inside! There is no such thing as “outside of me.” I am everything! And you? And you are in me!

Comment: But often people say that all this is a fantasy.

My Response: Of course, it is a fantasy! Until we have clearly revealed it, it is a fantasy.

I am telling you about this fantasy now so you can start to grope it a bit even though you do not have any properties for it yet. But with your mind, you can push yourself toward it. Once you have even tiny buds of new properties, then you will be able to develop them using your mind and thereby accelerate your development.

If we did not have a mind and only had feelings, I would not tell anyone anything, because it would be impossible to hasten the path of development: it will come in its due time. But since we have a mind through which we can strive to comprehend this picture, draw closer to feeling it, we can direct our sensors to somehow feel it and compare various fragments; that is why I am speaking about it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Know it” 1/12/12

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Question: Is our ultimate task to feel the correct reality within ourselves, that is, to move from the external picture of the world to the internal one?

Answer: Of course! Undoubtedly. We must arrive at the correct picture of the universe without any distortions. After all, it is precisely egoism, which deliberately acts as an obstacle for us, that projects our inner reality outward and shows it to us as if it exists outside.

At present, within myself, I only feel my inanimate, vegetative, and animate states. But my human state I sense outside of myself because I am an absolute egoist.

To the extent that I become connected to external objects, accept them as my own, with participation, with sacrifice, even with love, to that extent, I feel them within me, as a mother feels the fetus within her, and to that extent, the entire universe seems to enter me.

Question: Is this already the end when I feel the entire universe completely?

Answer: Yes, of course, the end! Because this is the culmination of my unity with all of nature. When all of nature enters me, and I feel it within me and become an integral part of this nature, then the sum of all these impressions, parts, is felt within me as my adhesion with the Creator, with the highest common thought of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Know it” 1/12/12

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Question: Why do we feel that there are some good and evil people and deeds outside of us?

Answer: This is our internal and external perception of reality since everything inside is depicted to us as kind, our own, and everything outside is harmful, evil, alien.

Question: As a rule, a person, no matter what he does can always justify himself. And how can we justify those “scoundrels” that we see outside?

Answer: You should reveal that it is you. Through understanding, reflection, and then through correcting yourself with the help of the surrounding society, to the point that you begin to perceive the world that way.

Question: You often talk about the world as a part of yourself, but at the same time sometimes you say: “They, they, they…”. What do you mean by “they”?

Answer: They are my thoughts, qualities, and feelings that I perceive as existing outside of me. That is, these are my thoughts, but I do not agree with them.

Question: Do you treat them as external factors?

Answer: Of course! How else?

Question: In this case, what is your task? To change these qualities?

Answer: By working on yourself make these qualities feel positive, and then to this extent they will become mine, in my explicit feeling. And to the extent that they do not clearly feel like mine, they will seem external to me.

Being in the spiritual world means that I feel both bad and good qualities, and in general, the whole world exists in me and at the same time outside of me. This duality helps me to correct myself faster and feel the whole world as my personal inner whole, like the ten Sefirot of my soul. And there is nothing but this soul, and all that I perceive is all its parts.

Question: How often do you see progress in your change of perception?

Answer: This progress is start-stop, impulsive, which can be compared to a tiger before a jump: first it sways, and then jumps, then sways and jumps again. And every time you jump, attainment is achieved, the inclusion of some additional, supposedly former external, area.

We study in Kabbalah that the soul was divided into internal and external parts: Galgalta veEynaim–AHAP. Or to the root-soul-body (Shoresh-Neshama-Guf), which a person feels in himself, and to the garments and structures, that is, buildings and the world (Levush-Heichal), which he feels outside himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Now It” 1/12/12

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Question: How do you raise the importance of dissemination?

Answer: According to the importance, what is determining, the cause or the effect.

Since any of our actions can only be performed under the influence of the light, we must first take care about the source of the light, how to awaken it and how to direct it correctly. To do this, we need to place the object which needs to be influenced by the light before the light.

Through what should it be directed toward the light? Through the world, through the group, then it will be aimed at the action of bestowal and the light will come to it from the opposite side.

The thing is that everything here works not as it seems to us in our world (it only seems), that we are the cause and then comes the effect. On the contrary, when you become the right cause, the effect comes to you from above, the light, and you see that in fact, it by itself was the cause.

It is the same as if we correctly perceive events, we begin to switch the cause and effect between them.

Let’s say, a bullet is flying toward a window. Before the bullet has even reached it, the glass is already breaking. Since the glass must break, such an action occurs in our world that causes it to break.

Question: How do you constantly perform this analysis? After all, it is constantly changing.

Answer: I live in it. I constantly have a double reality because I work in it and see how it depends on my properties (there is nothing objective here) until I transfer everything from my actions, from my properties, to the side of the Creator who works with me at the beginning and at the end.

That is, the beginning of the action is in Him. The process of the action depends on how it will proceed in me, on how much I am connected with the Creator. The end of the action is also in Him. So, the beginning and the end are clearly defined. I can only feel the intermediate state either closer to the Creator or closer to creation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Change the World for the Better?” 1/23/12

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Question: When you focus on dissemination, how do you calculate which is better?

Answer: You just have to feel it; words can’t convey it to people anyway. When they start to feel it, then they will see. Just like every day we become more and more agile and adapt to new sensations and new opportunities.

If a man from the middle of nowhere hears us, he will say: “What’s the matter? I don’t understand.”

And if you tell an advanced person about this who understands, say, computers, he will say: “Yes, I saw something like that. You’re saying the same thing as there and there.”

Meaning, people will increasingly agree with you. Therefore, we need to advance humanity, and then it will understand us.

We shouldn’t dig into this, there is no special mystery here. In fact, this is the attainment of reality, which is part of my specialty, ontology. Anyone can go in and study it, take the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” and read what Kabbalists write about it.

Comment: But this is a completely different perception of reality.

My Response: People started talking about it 5,000 years ago. But they were Kabbalists who began to discover a new reality.

Rambam writes that the world we feel is under the speed of light. How could he talk about the speed of light in the 12^th century? And he’s not the first. We see what Kabbalists wrote back in the days of Aristotle, Plato, and other philosophers.

Reaching the next degree does not depend on time. You can dress according to your time, use the tools, instruments, and everyday life appropriate for that time, and inside yourself, at the level of “Man,” be at the degree of the Creator and attain all actuality, all reality.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Change the World for the Better?” 1/23/12

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Question: Any object that is perceived by a person as external consists of combinatorics: inanimate, vegetative, animate. All these objects are simply drawn to us like this, but they consist of 613 pixels. And what is the difference between them and the person I see?

Answer: Each person has a different set of desires. That is, there are 613 desires in each one, but in a different arrangement, in a different combination.

Question: But if I see a person outside of myself?

Answer: What do you mean you see him outside of you? In fact, you see him within yourself, you depict him in your feelings. It seems to you that he is outside of you; we have such an idea that supposedly all this exists outside of us. I can touch it and feel it that these objects can affect me positively or negatively from the outside, and all this is inside me. That is the illusion.

Question: Where is the boundary between the fact that I need to perceive the world as a part of myself and as a world that exists separately?

Answer: When you work on yourself and try to get “out of yourself,” this boundary constantly expands. You work on expanding this boundary. You see where the feeling of the world inside you ends and the world that you perceive outside of you begins.

By working on your qualities, on getting out of yourself, on developing ever broader altruistic qualities, fields, you increasingly include in yourself what seemed to you before to be outside of you, clearly feeling it.

It becomes your world. You see everything outside of yourself, and you clearly feel that it is yours, it is within you. And you play with this duality.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We Don’t Know It” 1/12/12

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Comment: According to Kabbalah, everything consists of 613 desires. Every element that I see consists of different combinatorics of 613 desires.

My Response: Not just any object, but a person! Every human consists of a combination of 613 desires. We don’t talk about anyone besides him because all the inanimate, vegetative, and animal elements that seem to exist outside of us are also our desires.

Question: How, for example, can a stone be viewed in relation to our desires?

Answer: Very simply, my desire of the inanimate level draws such an object to me, and evokes in me the feeling of this object.

Question: That is, a stone is, in principle, one desire?

Answer: No, it is the sum of my 613 desires, which are currently at the inanimate level of development and appear to me in this form. The combination of various partial vectors adds up to a vector of such a level designated as a stone in me.

For example, behind the image on your computer screen, there are also vectors.

Now you see me on the monitor and then in your head. In the same way, the picture of the world is drawn by vectors in our heads. What about the monitor? The monitor (screen) is inside us, but we don’t feel it; it seems as if everything happens outside.

And why was this done, this “outside” orientation? Mainly so that we can work with our egoism until this supposedly external vision becomes our internal one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We Don’t Know It” 1/12/12

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Question: How does the mind accept a different perception of reality? You often say that mind is harmful. But on the other hand, it helps.

Answer: The mind serves desires. If desires are aimed at striving toward the goal of creation, toward balance with nature, with the Creator, then this mind is beneficial. It should be activated, developed, stimulated.

But if the mind is directed toward harming others, then of course it needs to be somehow tamed because it leads us backward.

That is, if a person is overwhelmed by any animalistic passions, it does not matter. The main thing is for the mind, which belongs to the human level, to be directed toward achieving unity with creatures and merging with nature, with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Know it” 1/12/12

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