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Other People’s Desires

219.01Comment: When you describe incorporation into other people’s desires, everyone always imagines that you gave something to someone: either you brought a cup of coffee to a friend or something like that.

My Response: No, a Kabbalist does not work at this level. Illusionists can work at this level—to guess a person’s desires and thus perform tricks. A Kabbalist does not perceive desires of this type at all.

For him, mutual desires are desires for connection: whether they exist or not and as far as we can combine them. Our task is the restoration of one single organism, the parts of which we must connect after shattering. We have no other concern. That is, I perceive you as a part that needs to be attached to a common organism. That is how a Kabbalist sees it.

Therefore, bringing someone a cup of coffee or something else is not what is required. The Kabbalist’s desire to feel the other is not at that level, although in general he should take care that this other, who seems to exist outside of him, has what is necessary for existence.

Comment: After all, the material is also included here.

My Response: Yes, in this way the existence of an extraneous desire or an organ of this desire is evaluated within us. Each of us is a separate organ that exists at the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels.

On the still, vegetative, and animate level, I have to take care that the other has everything necessary, that is, what any animal needs.

On the human level, I have to take care to create all the necessary conditions for him to properly connect to spiritual nutrition.

How does the part of the desires that is called human, feed? Only when it connects to one shared system. I have to bring him to the possibility of connecting to this system.

But he still has freewill. Without the fact that he realizes himself and connects himself to the common system, nothing will happen.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Other People’s Desires” 6/27/11

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The Effectiveness of a Single Thought

202.0Question: How should a person properly adjust himself in thought?

Answer: Our job is to combine all our desires into one single desire, all thoughts into one single thought.

Apart from desire and thought, heart and mind, there is nothing else in a person. It is necessary that all hearts and all intentions come together. In principle, nothing else exists.

The more effectively you connect with others, the more you have a great opportunity to experience the inner world, not our animate world, but the next degree where we are connected.

Such a gradual, consistent, causal connection goes through 125 degrees until our complete connection.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Thought” 7/9/11

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Method of Personal Development

630.2Comment: It is said that you can go mad from Kabbalah.

My Response: Kabbalah introduces you to the general hologram of the universe, and you see an absolutely correct, real picture, and everyone in it from the outside: how small and flawed they are, that they are perceiving everything somewhat distorted, like little children.

But it is impossible to go mad from Kabbalah. Of course, this is not an easy science, but it is a method of personal development.

While engaging in the implementation of the method, you are under pressures that force you to develop. Therefore, it often seems to a person that he loses himself, passes from one ray of vision to the second, third, and fourth one, that he looks at the picture of the universe from different angles, and sees the entire reality from inside and outside. He changes at every level, which a person in corporeal life generally cannot do. Of course, this is not easy.

But, on the other hand, although it is stressful work, it never fails. Never! Of course, it takes nerves, there are strong tensions, but this is development.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Brain Of A Madman” 7/12/11

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The Brain of the Mentally Ill

13.03Question: Very often we associate a person’s appearance with some way. Let’s say I have a friend who looks and thinks a certain way, and all of a sudden he goes crazy. But, in principle, outwardly it looks as usual, but it is not at all adequate. What’s going on with him?

Very often we associate a person’s appearance with a certain image. Let’s say I have a friend who looks and thinks a certain way, and he all of a sudden becomes mentally ill. However, in principle, he looks as usual externally, but he is absolutely inadequate. What is happening to him?

Answer: There are problems in the brain. There are no diseases as such, we are not ill with anything. Our disease is an incorrect perception of reality at the inanimate, vegetative, animate, or human level.

Our brain is a holographic system that is connected to the brain of the universe, with all the brains, if I may say so, of inanimate, vegetative, animate, or human beings at the general level of information, energy, that archives transmission of all data and their reproduction.

We all represent one single system, only each of us feels it as much as he can enter into it, solidify, and work in it.

Why is Kabbalah called “the science of reception”? Although each of us is now on the far periphery of this common, global holographic device of the entire universe, Kabbalah allows a person to enter it and perceive everything that is happening within the immense collective desire and thought on all levels.

It is like a holographic image that is created with lasers at different angles and which can then absorb an absolutely infinite amount of information. But while each of us has not yet entered this picture, he perceives only his small part. Therefore, sometimes he perceives it from a certain broken angle. In the material world, this is characterized by us as some kind of psychological, psychiatric problems.

Kabbalah tunes a person to enter and exist within this n-dimensional holographic picture. Then for him there will be no problems of time, distance, all kinds of past, present, and future events, as well as movements at the levels of this hologram, when he sees it from different angles, from different sides and all together.

This is the state we must achieve. This holographic volumetric system is the authentic universe.

Question: Can a person with mental disorders undergo correction?

Answer: No, they cannot because they have a problem with perceiving reality in the correct sequence, and they are unable to be in contact with us.

Such people have always existed. But as humanity gets closer and closer to the correct entry into the general hologram of the universe, it will be easier for us to work with them, and fewer people will have mental problems.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Brain Of A Mentally Ill” 7/9/11

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Everything Is in My Desire

537Question: How do you see the movement of the spiritual force?

Answer: Inside myself! All desires, the entire world exists inside me.

I understand that this world is also inside me. Everything around is in me, in my consciousness, in my desire. I can feel it. This entire world, this entire universe, the people I talk to, all the computers in my office, absolutely everything is inside my desire.

There is nothing but desire, and there is nothing outside of it. The Creator is also in it. If I reveal the Creator, this upper governing force, then I reveal it in my desire.

That is, first, you need to imagine such an infinite sphere, inside which me and my desires exist. Inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, human society, space—everything exists in my desire.

These desires, including corporeal ones, are born, develop and die.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Unreal reality” 6/27/11

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How the Creator Works on A Person

294.4Question: Mark Twain said: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

Don’t we ever see that this is all as though within us? That is, I always see that this is him who has become wiser? And I was smart all the time.

Answer: Yes. We are amazed at the changes in other people without realizing that it is due to our changes.

Question: But sometimes it is still said that “I have matured, I have become wiser.” A person sometimes says that. Is that the right thought?

Answer: Yes.

Question: At what point does this revolution take place that I have suddenly changed?

Answer: This is the work of the Creator on man.

Question: So I am changing and the world is changing? Is this the formula?

Answer: This is the formula. But who is changing me?

Question: Does the Creator change me? In response to what? Or is it just His will?

Answer: This is in order for me to gradually determine that I am in His power, and He commands the world that only He created. And I am grateful to Him for doing all these metamorphoses with me.

Question: Am I grateful afterward? And before that, is there still hard work going on?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: In order to tell me how I grew up, how I misunderstood my father, what he was like…

My Response: No, it wasn’t you who misunderstood. It was the Creator who guided you through all these states. That is why you have become smarter.

Question: So as a result, as Mark Twain wrote about his father, I am saying the same thing about the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: So, when I got smarter, I realized that You are good and doing good. But until it happens…

My Response: It doesn’t matter. After all, a person reaches such a state when he dies. And then he understands, realizes.

Question: Who is he? You said, “A person dies and then you say, “He understands and realizes.”

Answer: A man, in his soul.

Comment: But he’s dead.

My Response: And what does it mean that he died?

Question: What do you mean he died? You said, “A person dies and then understands.”

Answer: And then he understands and realizes what it means that the Creator has guided him through all the states of this life.

Question: And who is he who understands?

Answer: A man.

Comment: But he’s already gone. He’s dead.

My Response: That he was buried or burned? So what?

Question: And where is he, the man?

Answer: Spirit. This is the man.

Question: So, it is immortal, this spirit?

Answer: Of course.

Question: You are saying that there is an eternal part in a person that feels everything, goes through everything, and it only?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And this shell, this body?

Answer: You can bury it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/1/23

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The Sacrament of Sleep

549.01Question: You say that it is important for a person to correctly adjust himself before going to bed. Does it mean that sleep can also be used as a part of the methodology?

Answer: Sleep is disconnection of our animalistic body from the inner, spiritual body, which without external corporeal disturbances connects to a huge brain, a vast holographic system of the universe and performs archiving of all the data.

Therefore, a great work takes place during sleep, and it all depends on how we prepare for sleep. It is enough to dedicate fifteen minutes to this.

Question: What other elements should be considered before going to bed?

Answer: None. Just before going to bed, you must mentally tear yourself away from life, from family, children, from all your past affairs, and again come into contact with spiritual matters. Only spirituality stands before you, puzzles, and fills you. With this, you go to sleep.

Question: How do you prepare yourself before going to bed? Or do you already do it automatically?

Answer: Before going to bed, I work on the computer and watch the news purely for information; it is interesting how spirituality manifests itself in our world. Then with a few small concrete thoughts I go to sleep.

This is enough because I am in it all the time. When I watch the news, I practically do not break away from spirituality.

Students whom I advise to prepare for 15 to 20 minutes are a different matter. I take into account that a person before that worked, went about his business, family, and everything else, that is, all his systems were directed to other sensations, and he must again put himself in order, correctly direct himself toward the purpose of creation. Therefore, I say that you need to read the material for 15 minutes and think about it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Sacrament of Sleep” 7/9/11

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Work in Inverse Mode

423.02Question: You work with your desires. What exactly do you do?

Answer: There are desires inside me that seem alien to me. As far as I can draw desires that exist in my imagination outside of me to myself, make them my own so that they are like myself, to this extent I move forward.

The system that I reveal as the one inside me makes me unite all its elements and feel that this whole world is not external, it is inside me. As it unites with me, I feel its greater depth, the forces that govern it, and I contribute as much as I can to the good influence of all these forces inside me. Inside me!

You may ask: “Where are all the others?” There are no others. There is no one. Everything is inside me. Moreover, these are forces of huge negative or positive magnitude, of various forms. And all this is inside me, there is nothing outside! Therefore, I work inside myself.

But you can say: “Then why do you need to teach? Stay inside yourself and sort through all your ‘bugs.’ There is nothing else to do!” Right. In fact, this is how Kabbalists worked.

There is double work here because what seems to me to be outside of me but is actually mine requires double correction.

When I correct myself by bringing inanimate, vegetative, and animate parts closer to me, this is one kind of work. But when I work with those who seem to me as independent people, this is completely different work. These are my desires that allegedly have some independence from me. They are my own, but I can only correct them when I work against them as if they were outside of me. Thus, on these desires I kind of learn how to get out of myself.

And then, by bringing all eight billion different desires closer to me, my inner mini-humanity, through the fact that they want to unite, I rise to the level of the Creator.

This is achieved precisely by the fact that such an illusion, such a picture, such a performance, such a theater, has been created outside of me and I convince all the actors: “Let us unite together!” These are my personal desires, but I must convince them of the need for unity. In this way I correct my egoism, turn it over. I work in this inverse mode.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Unreal Reality” 6/27/11

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The World through Rabash’s Eyes

721.03I remember during our trips how Rabash, sitting next to me in the car, would comment on what he saw on the way.

Just like a native of Central Asia rides a donkey and sings about what he sees: “Here is a tree standing next to the road, and here is a village appearing in the distance,” and so on, so did he. And when he would see some animals, he would tell me that they were such and such angels, forces of such and such type, and in what interaction they were with each other.

He threw a few words here and there, but this conveyed the feeling of a different reality that is connected with you and influences you, and you influence it, and all this is a single sensation.

Question: Did he like to connect the two perceptions?

Answer: He was in it all the time. Therefore, when he talked to a person, for him it was his inner reality. He turned only to that part of a person through which he could influence his freewill so that a person himself would connect to him.

That is, when I am talking to you, I am talking to the part of me that has its own freewill that I have to convince to use it to connect to me and unite.

Question: Were there many people at that time with whom he could communicate with his inner part?

Answer: No! Absolutely not! He worked inside himself. This communication took place through the internal system. After all, everything is in him and in no one else. By correcting his attitude toward people inside himself, he was as if correcting them. He was preparing them to feel the possibility of correction.

Comment: But he was in a very rigid environment that was not suited to what he was doing.

My Response: He was passing by them. They did not exist for him as individuals. He saw as individuals only those who had some potential of freewill.

After all, everyone else is at the animate level. They need to come to the recognition of themselves as a person who needs to be developed. But they are still very far from it and they act instinctively like all the people in the world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World Through the Eyes of Rabash” 7/4/11

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Managing Desires

276.02If I were to make a film about the perception of reality, first of all, I would explain about managing our desires. The only thing at a person’s disposal is the opportunity to exit his natural existence where desires control him arbitrarily.

Sometimes, on some small level, a person can manage them, for example, he follows some kind of diet or wants to go to work instead of sleep. But this is a preference of some egoistic desires over others. This is not the kind of management that Kabbalah talks about.

Kabbalah talks about managing desires where we rise above their control of us in order to manage them ourselves.

I connect with the force of nature that launches me, and I act. That is, I am above my desire, which is my essence, and I manage it together with the upper light. This very part of me, which rises above my desire and connects with the upper light, with the Creator in me, is called Man, human.

Those who do not have this opportunity and have not developed the technique of rising above their desire and still live in it, are not called people from the point of view of Kabbalah. In the meantime, they are called “existing at the animate level” because they are launched completely unconsciously, uncontrollably by the upper force that simply develops them from generation to generation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Unreal reality” 6/27/11

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