Comment: When we talk in the group about loving one another, everyone clearly understands that they are working against their will, lying to each other, and deceiving. But through this, they attract the upper light.

My Response: Why do you say deceiving?! It’s not deception! I know that I’m in my egoistic desire and want to get out of it. I show others my enthusiasm for the desire to exit my egoism, in order to receive their inspiration in return. We are not deceiving each other! Knowing our nature, we act completely openly.

It’s not a game where I lie, where I’m one person inside and another on the outside. I deliberately act this way precisely in order to transition from our world into the upper world.

If you have two natures, egoistic and altruistic, then you have no other way to rise above the egoistic one except to play in the altruistic nature, like a child playing at being an adult. Gradually, under the influence of the upper light, it becomes real within you. Here we act absolutely logically, rationally, and in no way are we deceiving anyone.

Comment: It’s not exactly deception. Many people do these things through force.

My Response: That is exactly right, through force! So what?! In our world, we do everything through force. That’s natural.

If I’m facing a task that I don’t desire according to my natural inclinations, something I can agree with intellectually, but not emotionally, how else am I supposed to act? Come up with another method.

Comment: I’m not even talking about the method.

My Response: Kabbalah is the method, the method of rising from our world into the upper world, the way to transform one’s nature using the tools we have.

Give me the layout! I know it well, and that’s why it’s absolutely clear to me that all of this is very straightforward and it simply can’t work any other way. This is science! A method! A psychological, physiological, mental, and spiritual methodology for elevating a person to a new way of thinking and acting.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Deceive Myself,” 6/7/11

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Question: Is there a kind of truth that should be told to a person?

Answer: The only truth is to give a person freewill and let them choose their own truth. That is all. This is the most important thing in raising children and in relationships between adults.

Question: How do you do that? By example? Based on what?

Answer: Teach a person the method of correctly revealing life.

Comment: That sounds good! This is the main thing.

My Response: Yes.

Question: And what if a person is one hundred percent convinced that they are right and must pass it on to someone?

Answer: Then they should shut themselves up and swallow it! So as not to choke on their own truth!

Question: Even if I feel that by doing so, I will help them?

Answer: What huge egoism he has! It is bursting out of him! He has no right even to feel it himself. The only thing he can do is just understand how much of an egoist he is if he feels obliged to fill another person with his own opinion.

It is terrible! There is a very simple saying about this: “Silence is the fence around wisdom.”

Question: That is beautiful! That is, is it better to remain silent at that moment?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/8/25

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Question: What is the principle screen and reflected light? Why is the universe built specifically on it?

Answer: It is egoism that begins to oppose itself, wants to use itself only for bestowal, and by rising above itself, wants to give to others instead of using them; it wants to exploit itself for the sake of others. This is called “screen” and “reflected light.”

Question: Why is it necessary to build such a system in order to feel the Creator?

Answer: Because otherwise you will not feel the Creator. You don’t have the same qualities as He does. After all, all sensations, even in our world, are built on the similarity of qualities between the one who is being sensed and the one who senses. I can only feel what my internal organs are attuned to. They are not tuned to radio waves, I don’t feel them. They are tuned only to sound waves, I do feel those. The same applies to all sensations, visual and so on. In order to feel the Creator, to enter into resonance with Him, I need to acquire the quality of bestowal.

Question: But all the ancient texts clearly describe this system that you convey succinctly: screen and reflected light?

Answer: They are not ancient. They are timeless; they were just written about a long time ago. These texts convey an enormous amount of additional information, such subtleties that you can’t imagine!

Now if you are able to grasp only two things, screen and reflected light, then later these two words will be associated with such a magnificent infinite world, with all its colors, sounds, opposites merging into one whole, that you will need a book just to describe these two phenomena: screen and reflected light!

In fact, there is nothing else. Our egoism, above which there is a screen in order to use it in the opposite direction to bestow, is called “reflected light.” There is nothing else. But it is billions of times greater than our world!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Photo of the Creator,” 9/21/10

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Comment: In the process of human evolution, many concepts of design, appearance, and everything else changes.  For example, what occurred in the seventies now looks ridiculous.

My Response: I am not afraid to seem ridiculous if I create something. I create it in my time, based on the desire and the properties that are revealed in egoism at a given time. Since I am a product of my era, then naturally I create what corresponds to it.

Of course if we watch old movies, we see how naive they seem. But they were relevant for that time, for that level of egoism.

For our time, when egoism develops in its overt negative form—I would say, undisguised, impudent, and naked—when it completely exposes your naked nature to everyone without a drop of shame or embarrassment, I think that this is wonderful! I think people will finally understand who they really are.

When I see your impudence, assertiveness, and selfishness in everything, your unwillingness to openly take anyone or anything into account, I see you, and not some beautiful cosmetic picture, and therefore I am glad that such things are revealed in our time.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Evolution of Ego” 9/22/10

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Question: I noticed that people and animals from different countries are very different from each other. For example, in India, everything is about the same size, both animals and people, and they move slower than here. When you come to another country, there are certain qualities there. In Israel, cats are so arrogant that they are not afraid of dogs, and they chase them.

How much does geography affect people?

Answer: Undoubtedly geography has a very strong influence on us!

It is best to trace this through the example of the Jews, as an experimental people in the history of mankind, who settled all over the earth. If you take Jews from the Baltic States, or from Germany, or Asia, they are just different people, different nations. They are not similar to each other! The mentality is completely different.

They were once exactly the same since they came from the same territory. Look at what happened to them! Now they have different facial features, different personalities; everything is different.

This shows how much a geographical place, its nature, and the surrounding society affect people, which in turn is also a product of geography.

Question: Are animals also a purely geographical consequence?

Answer: Certainly, naturally, animals too.

They were influenced by the environment in the same way as their common primitive ancestor, who went to Germany or Central Asia. You can see how dogs differ after settling all over the earth.

Comment: Nevertheless, the language of animals is approximately the same, and that of humans is different.

Answer: It just seems this way to us. No! There are also a lot of differences in the language of animals.

Of course not as much as in humans, because this is a consequence of our internal emotional, physiological, and general development. But of course it is different because it expresses feelings in a slightly different way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Geography Influences…” 9/13/10

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Comment: You say that when a person is in concealment, it is the most maximal, best period in the development of the soul.

My Response: The greatest pleasure comes from the juxtaposition of opposites, from solving a problem. In other words, when we see certain phenomena, qualities, or parts that do not fit together, and suddenly they find a resolution, then the pleasure of the Creator arises, the pleasure of the one who creates. That is why this is the greatest pleasure, the pleasure of creativity.

Such pleasure does not just remain with you; in it, you become equivalent to the Creator. You create! You build something! You are not just drawing on a piece of cloth whatever comes to your mind, or some things you have seen or imagined in your fevered brain, but you are painting within yourself. This is truly creation, creation out of nothing.

It is not like Isaac Levitan, who looked at birch trees and painted them. I do not in any way diminish his talent. Inner creation is billions of times greater.

When you face these opposites and you are tormented about how to connect them because they must give you the highest harmony, the next degree where they can be connected, then they lift you up. They are the two foundations of the spiritual ladder.

You create the rungs you ascend on yourself by linking them between those foundations. That is when you understand that you are truly creating, that you are in revelation, in the act of creating something new, and not just copying birch trees.

Question: Even a person who has absolutely no creative inclination, does he also create his own perception? How does he create? Say a person is just sawing wood; he is just sawing.

Answer: There is no such thing as “someone who creates nothing,” because each has his own soul; he is building it! He is sculpting a human being out of himself! He did not place some discobolus, a figure figure throwing a discus, in front of himself to make a likeness. He made a perfect likeness and is considered a master. The horror we admire!

One must build something new! In creating from nothing, a person becomes similar to the Creator!

“Creating from nothing” does not mean that he sees a finished picture in front of him; he creates it himself. It appears in the world for the first time! It never existed before!

Question: Are you speaking specifically about someone who is in the process of spiritual advancement?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And each person builds his own new reality?

Answer: Absolutely! It has never existed before.

Question: But then how do you say that all of it already exists in harmony and is pre-programmed?

Answer: The point is that when you build this reality, you must create an internal readiness for the final result within yourself. And when it is born, you feel: “Yes, this is exactly what I wanted!”

Can you imagine what pleasure it is when, through birth pangs, this is born from within you, and you see in what is born that this and nothing else is what you longed for, could never express, and never imagine?

Question: But did it have to be born like that?

Answer: It exists on the next degree, but you do not know that. For you, it is new. And relative to the Creator, it is also new because no one has yet realized it in matter, that is, in desires.

Comment: This sounds like a self-learning mind.

My Response: Of course! The whole of Kabbalah is a process of self-knowledge, nothing but self-knowledge. And in fact our entire existence is nothing but a process of self-knowledge.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Creativity at the Level of the Creator” 9/17/10

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This repels many newcomers; they fly out of the group and do not want to continue studying. Or should they cross this barrier? What should people who encounter the methodology of Kabbalah for the first time do?

They understand perfectly well what you are talking about and admire the inner depth that you convey. But they cannot accept this method and constantly ask: “What is the point of all these actions: songs, dances, and other things?”

My Response: I see that for many people this is the most accessible and pleasant thing.

I look at a convention, thousands of people gather there, all dancing, singing, shouting. For them, this is an understandable way to express themselves and unite. It seems to me that this is what makes them happy. Would they really be pleased if I turned it into serious academic study there?

What else can you do if you want to lift people up, to inspire them? At least on this small level they can somehow express a longing for the Creator, for connection, even if not exactly for connection itself, but for something that draws them. I have seen this.

Still, I myself am not so inclined toward that. I have a completely different approach to attainment, to inward penetration. But we are talking about the masses who can feel and grasp things in this way.

By the way, after they dance, hug, and shout, when you listen to their questions, those questions are very deep and relevant, about the four phases of direct light and so on.

These are not just random questions from someone who does not know what he is talking about, but they come from understanding! They already feel these concepts and identify with them in some way. That combination is very correct in them. I envy them!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. To deceive myself,” 6/7/11

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Question: Usually people sing and dance at our conventions and unity evenings. About 50% of the people are genuinely inspired to join in, and 50% do it through effort. Should you enjoy our method or should you do it through effort, and thereby draw the light?

Answer: Both.

Look at how mass festivities, pop bands, singers, and “Madonnas” of the world inspire people. What can you do? That is how the masses find a way to express some common opinion, a feeling of unity. That is the way everything is made. We can’t invent anything else. The most important thing is the overall common impression.

Of course, if you ask me, I feel unity most during study when all of us are learning together, absorbing one idea, being inside it as one. I hope we will reach such a state where we feel how a new thought, a new idea, a new feeling is born in our unity. It will appear precisely in the connection between us, in the adhesions, and this thought will be felt by us as a third force, as the Creator. But we will get there gradually.

Naturally it will be revealed more during study than during dancing. But both are necessary.

In the end, over the course of a few days of a convention, people receive a certain impression that is created by everything together: the study, the questions and answers, the workshops, and the cultural events.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Songs, Dances,” 9/20/10

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Question: When answering a person’s question, do you tell them what they want to hear?

Answer: No, I answer what they are able to hear. I do not indulge people; I try to respond on the level at which they can hear me. Otherwise, what is the point of replying at all?

Why ask me if I’m just going to say what they want to hear? Let them just listen to themselves, then.

Comment: All students go through various states, and when they talk to each other, each one says, “I know this or that piece of information.” And so, each one brings their own distortions into the common understanding.

My Response: That is typical for people who haven’t yet come to a clear revelation of the truth, they guess at it, imagine something about it.

Personally, I never had that kind of experience, I don’t know why. Maybe because I was very close to my teacher, and I had sufficiently accurate information. I could always ask and get a clear answer.

Comment: Suppose someone shares a feeling that they can move through walls or fly above the ground.

My Response: That is just some kind of childish fantasy.

A Kabbalist in our world cannot do anything physically out of the ordinary, because the physical world operates according to its own laws. In this world, you can’t move anything outside of the regular laws of nature.

If you have some ability, it means that ability already exists in nature. Where have you seen anyone walk through a wall? If it were possible, then anyone could do it with some practice. What does that have to do with being a Kabbalist?

A Kabbalist’s qualities operate on the next level, beyond matter. In the realm of matter, he cannot do anything special.

Question: Does a Kabbalist know how everything works, but cannot go against it?

Answer: Against what, exactly? What do you expect him to change? We are given nothing to change except our attitude toward the Creator and everything around us. When you change that, you change your own perception, your perception of reality. That is it, this is an inner wisdom.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Can Kabbalists Walk through Walls?” 9/16/10

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Comment: You said that when a person enters spirituality, there is no desire, no Aviut, but only a Masach and reflected light.

My Response: Yes, all the empty space is filled with reflected light. It, like on photographic film, begins to reveal the Creator to you, and in this emptiness, you discover divine forces, absolute goodness.

All of this manifests around the entire mass of souls, which are inside, as if in some vast space, like a baby in the mother’s womb. This return to the best possible state is prepared for all of humanity.

Unfortunately, people will begin to feel it through suffering, which will involuntarily push them toward what are called “labor pains” There is no way around it; pressure is needed in order to give birth to the human being, to push him into this state.

Once we begin to feel it, we can consider the work of the Kabbalists practically complete. Experiencing such states, humanity will rush forward on its own.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Photo of the Creator,” 9/21/10

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