Comment: There was a storyteller named Sergei Kozlov. He wrote the fairy tale “Hedgehog in the Fog,” from which an animated film by Yuriy Norshteyn was made. It is considered to be one of the best animations of all times.

There are lines like:

Today also the Hedgehog said to the Bear Cub, “How good it is that we have each other.”

The Bear Cub nodded.

“Just imagine I’m not here. You’re sitting alone and there’s no one to talk to.”

“Where are you?”

“I’m nowhere.”

“It doesn’t happen that way,” said the Bear. “I’ll turn everything upside down, and you’ll be found.”

“I’m not here! I’m nowhere!!!”

“Then I’ll run out into the field,” said the Bear Cub, “and shout: ‘He-e-e-dgeh-o-o-o-og!’ And you will hear and shout: ‘Be-e-e-ar!’”

“No,” said the Hedgehog. “I’m not even a bit anywhere. Do you understand?”

“Why are you bothering me?” the Bear Cub said angrily. “If you’re nowhere, then I’m nowhere. Understand?”

Question: See, on the one hand: “If you are nowhere, then I am nowhere.” It is said, as if in a friendly way. How can I be without a friend? On the other hand, there is some depth there!

Tell me, what does it mean for you: “If you are nowhere, then I am nowhere”?

Answer: If a person does not find another in whom he can see himself, then he will not find himself. So, in whom will he see himself? We see ourselves in others. Therefore I need others so that I can see myself, my face, my character, and my qualities.

This is the only way I discover myself, by looking at others. And so it turns out that if there is no you, then there is no me.

Question: And in the perception of reality, if I am not there, then there is nothing. What does “there is nothing” mean? The world exists.

Answer: But this is what Konstantin Balmont wrote: “While I live, the universe shines. If I die, it will die with me.”

Question: But how does one understand that if I am not there and everything that is configured, this world, all these people, that all this also disappears?

Answer: It is all in me.

If I don’t feel the other—in actual fact the other, outside of myself—if I don’t feel myself in him, then I don’t feel the world at all.

Question: So I always have to see myself through someone?

Answer: Through someone, yes.

Question: And why do we see ourselves so ugly now?

Answer: Because we close ourselves, we lock ourselves, we limit ourselves, and we don’t want to see anyone but ourselves.

Meaning, I see mirrors around me, mirrors, solely mirrors. And I see only my single snout in them, such a perverted one with all sorts of grimaces and frowns. And I don’t see anything other than that. This is my world.

Question: So if I don’t let anyone in, and I don’t go anywhere myself, then am I scary? Is this then my world, my ego? Am I alone?

Answer: I see myself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/7/22

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Question: Are all eight billion inhabitants of our planet part of a single mind? What will they be next?

Answer: They will represent a single mind then. But now, when they are broken, there is not any mind.

As they unite, a common collective mind will arise that is based on connection, on mutual leveling before each other, on mutual union, where each one lowers himself in order to unite with the other and is included in the other and the others are included in him. As a result of such mutual inclusion, this mind will appear among people.

When everyone wants to unite with each other, suddenly a light emerges among them, and the upper force appears, a state called “adhesion with the Creator.” Thus, He appears among them.

Question: What is the difference between small personal minds of people and this single mind?

Answer: Personal minds are egoistic, and they serve only themselves. It is a mind of a small animal body that takes care of itself and tries to ultimately extract from the surrounding world everything it can in order to grab and energetically and corporeally fill itself.

The universal mind is when you connect to the entire universe, when you are part of it, part of the common brain, and you participate in everything together with it. Our current mind is not a mind because it exists in a small cell only to maintain its existence.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Collective Mind” 9/7/13

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The whole of reality was emanated and created with a single thought. It is the operator; it is the very operation; it is the sought-after reward, and it is the essence of the labor (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Inner Observation, Chapter 1, Item 8).

One thought of the Creator surrounds and includes absolutely all of creation and its actions from beginning to end in itself , that is, all people together. Therefore, by studying Kabbalah, we practically study the thought of the Creator.

Question: I have read that people who have been in space say that the entire universe is like a single thought. What is meant by thought here?

Answer: The same thing. Everything that surrounds us and influences us is the thought of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22

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The boundary between light and shadow is you (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec).

My Response: That is right.

Question: What does this mean for you?

Answer: You make this boundary between light and shadow. If you come to the conclusion that this boundary does not exist, then it does not exist. Then you really become a man of the universe.

Question: If the boundary between light and shadow does not exist, then what does exist?

Answer: There is only one upper light, the Creator. And that is it.

Question: Does a person come to such a state?

Answer: Yes. Just as it is written: “Before the restriction, Ein Sof filled the entire reality.”

Question: Does it mean that a person returns to the source?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will then there be no descents, no ascents, no day, and no night?

Answer: From where? Everything is already inside the light.

Question: But what about me, about my life? My “I”—what will happen to me?

Answer: You do not exist, and your life does not exist. You dissolve in all this.

Question: Is this the goal, to come to this?

Answer: Yes! Of course!

Question: Is that where happiness is, the one we are looking for?

Answer: You let go of absolutely everything and float.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/7/22

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Question: You said that until the age of 13, a person perceives the world only in feelings. Does the mind switch on after age 13 when it can analyze everything that it felt before?

Answer: Approximately, nowadays, it may be not at 13, but at 25 because the current generation is in delayed development. This is noted by everyone: psychologists, sociologists, statistics, and polls.

Our generation is more infantile. Young people want to stay at home, do not want to start families and take responsibility; they prefer to sit in a cafe, buried in their phones.

Comment: According to our development, each person is, in principle, a child. He does not perceive the world with his mind at all.

My Response: We perceive everything through feelings, although we cannot admit it to ourselves, we do not understand it because our matter is the will to enjoy, to be filled.

Therefore, first of all, we are sensory sensors, and only later do we become aware of what we feel. Our consciousness is secondary, and matter, which is feelings, is primary.

Our feelings control us so much and dominate our consciousness that we simply do not notice this fact, we do not recognize it. We cannot get out of this, observe from the outside, and investigate. I am not even trying to explain this to people.

Only those who begin to acquire a second feeling, the quality of bestowal instead of the quality of reception, can calculate, realize, evaluate, and weigh to what extent they are in the quality of reception, and in accordance with this, how they can control and evaluate themselves, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mind and Feelings – What Is More Important?” 10/7/13

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Question: There is a practice called microdosing, which involves taking small amounts of hallucinogenic substances like the mushroom fly agaric ((Amanita muscaria), LSD, or something else. Silicon Valley practitioners claim microdosing increases productivity and creativity.

There are hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube touting how this expands consciousness without consequences of becoming a drug addict (only a micro-addict).

Why does man have to wind himself up all the time?

Answer: There are two very interesting consequences in these microdoses. The first  is that a person begins to rise above himself; this is how he feels. The second one is that he begins to see not only above himself but, I would say, outside himself. Therefore, it attracts people. What else is there in our life?

Comment: Just don’t invite microdosing.

My Response: I am not inviting anything at all. I am not drawn to it myself. I want to realistically view things, not through some psychotropic drugs.

Question: You are always calling for connection between people, for a warm relationship. Is there microdosing in this?

Answer: In connection between us? Yes, of course.

Fly agarics have nothing to do with this. When we connect, we attract the upper light. It influences us, expands our consciousness, and raises us into another dimension.

Question: Is it even despite the fact that we do not want to connect, we do not want any connection at all?

Answer: Precisely because of that! Through this resistance to be in connection with each other—and in a good connection at that—we attract this force. This is the real microdosing.

We can attract a microdose of the upper light, but we are not capable of anything more. But each time, by attracting its different variations upon ourselves, we slowly, slowly create a kind of an ampoule within us, a store of this microdose, with the help of which we begin to feel the upper world.

Question: Do these microdoses accumulate within us? Do we just add layers?

Answer: Yes, of course. It is an accumulative process.

Question: It happens throughout generations? Does a person know when it will shoot out of him, when suddenly everything will work out?

Answer: He does not know anything in advance. It is because he has to work for bestowal, but all his calculations are in egoism. How can he know?

Question: Does it mean that if I knew that it would happen to me at a certain time, it would be a non-working system?

Answer: It would not work.

Comment: You are giving a difficult task to a person.

My Response: It is not me giving it. It is nature, which consists of two halves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/22

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Comment: You say that before the final correction, everyone sees the same events that are taking place, but in completely different ways.

My Response: Seeing events differently does not mean that they happen differently.

We don’t feel it, we don’t understand it, but Kabbalists look at the management system (why how, and for what purpose) and see it differently than an ordinary person.

Even on the corporeal level, for example, in court, two witnesses testify, both speak from the heart, but each one recounts the events from his own point of view because they see a completely different picture. At the same time, they aren’t being deceptive, but simply perceive it as such. And it is the same here.

We will not understand this until we ourselves begin to experience that this is all changing. Baal HaSulam’s article “Concealment and Disclosure of the Face of the Creator” says that in concealment we see a person as sick, poor, fallen, and suffering, and in revealation as healthy, prosperous, happy, and successful. That is, we see the world in a completely different way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Everyone Sees the World Differently” 9/7/12

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Question: We know that birth is a very emotional, powerful event for a child. After a while, he can already see, hear, smell, and feel. But no one remembers this event.

Not only do we have no memories of birth itself but also not of the first two years of our life, the time when we learned to walk, get to know mom, dad, family, and the environment, and uttered our first words.

We more or less remember all our emotional surges in life, we feel them, but we do not remember this. It is as if this period is completely cut off from us. Why?

Answer: A person begins to feel himself at the age when he really becomes human. This is at the age of 12 to 13, maybe even a little later.

Question: What feelings are you talking about? For example, I remember myself at the age of four.

Answer: Yes, that is true, but it is not a sense of your “I.” It is a sensation that I exist, and you remember some pictures, some scenes from those times.

Question: Are you saying that the “I” grows in a person and at some point it says: “From now on, you will remember everything”? And the “I” that was there when I was little was not the “I” yet?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When my “I” is revealed, what does it mean? What does it require? Why are such bright colors suddenly starting to appear?

Answer: This is when there is a connection with other people and especially hormonal attraction (at the age of 13 to 14). Then a person begins to form completely. All his, so to say, levels are already included in the awareness of the world and of oneself.

Question: Why does this “I” manifest in a person and begin to lead further?

Answer: In order for him to correct himself and to raise himself. In order for him to understand what he exists for. From this time on, you can already start working with a person.

Question: For an ordinary person, is the “I” something completely different?

Answer: It is because we are not being taught!

I was not taught either. But I remember wondering, “What is next?” And there is nothing. That is all. Next, you will go to school, to college, and so on.

Since I did not have an answer to this question, I did not want to study, and I did not want anything at all. I was quite often in a state of apathy.

Question: Was it because there was no answer? Did the answer arise from this “I” that required growth?

Answer: Of course. What do I live for and why? It was a terrible feeling that it is pointless, useless, and you are being forced.

Question: Is, in fact, our life the formation of this “I”? What does this “I” transform into,? What does it turn into?

Answer: It turns into indifference, into apathy. It exists because you exist. There are people who do not notice it. It is good for them, they are happy to live, acquire, build, give birth, and so on. This is how life goes on for them.

Question: Is there a connection between this “I” and that upper force that you are always talking about?

Answer: Yes. In the question: “What for?” This question is transmitted from above to everyone, but in little doses. The one in whom this question arises seriously, apparently can develop it and receive answers.

Question: Can we think and fantasize about this that these “threads” exist above and come from above to the “I” of a person?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How can one determine when and which “I” will play, when and which “I” will jump out?

Answer: To do this, you need to reveal your soul, that is, your entire connection with the upper degree. Then you will know why you are being pulled this way and not in another way.

Question: Exactly at this time?

Answer: In everything.

Question: Is it programmed which “I” will jump out and which will be dulled a little bit?

Answer: Absolutely everything.

Question: Does it mean every “I” of the entire eight billion?

Answer: Of course! The beginning of creation, the end of creation, and its intermediate states—practically all of them are known in advance. Only one thing is unknown: how a person in his manifestation of freewill implements his personal participation in all this.

Here, the implementation is not prescribed in advance, but is given to a person

Question: Does it mean that, in fact, something still depends on the person?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/18/22

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Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell? (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

Question: The author completely believes that we are in prison one way or another. We are constantly hitting and hitting a wall.

Answer: That’s right. The entire history of humanity is like this. But we still want to get to the next cell.

Question: I would like to believe that I am hammering away and somewhere I will break through a tunnel and come out into the light, but in fact, am I just trying to get into the next cell?

Answer: Yes. No tunnel leads anywhere because we are digging in the wrong direction. It is necessary to dig not into the next cell, but into yourself. We can dig into ourselves only if we agree on very serious mutual support, and we will really dig.

Then we will dig up a huge mountain of egoism. We can help each other climb it. Once we climb it, we will sit down and barbecue some kebabs. 😊

Question: What is on our skewers? What are we barbecuing? Is it our own egoism?

Answer: Yes. There are so many problems and scrutinies before we come to the correct state. It is because religions, philosophies, psychology, and everything around makes it all so foggy, even dark, that a person does not know which way to move. Any step can lead you around 360 degrees, in circles, but a thin line to the true state is anti–egoistic.

We must join hands and walk, and constantly annul ourselves, close our eyes, and obey the others. This is what we need to do together.

If we all do that, if we join our hands and hold on to each other, and although no one knows the way, but we hold on to each other and keep going, and every step we take forward is just to be closer to each other, in this case, we will get to the right place

Question: Then will then the tunnel be not from cell to cell, but toward the way out of prison?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/27/21

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Question: If the soul of a person is exchanged, if he is given another one, where does the previous one go?

Answer: It does not go anywhere. There are reincarnations of souls all the time; they move from one state to another.

In general, there is only one soul in the world, and all that happens to it is the development of its constituent parts.

We see the world as differentiated, divided into different souls that are clothed in different bodies. But if you look with different eyes, it is one soul.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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