Question: If the past does not exist, why do I see old buildings?

Answer: All of this exists within you. If you were not here, then none of it would exist.

Comment: If I tell someone: “This is all inside me. You are a part of me,” they will think I am crazy.

My Response: That is natural. Even if you explain that physicists or philosophers propose similar theories, they will still say the same thing. What Kabbalah speaks about closely resembles some philosophical or physical theories. There is nothing unusual about it.

Understand that there is no way around it. What “seems” to a person or not does not matter. There is reality, and that is what we are discussing. Our corporeal reality exists only relative to us. If our qualities change, reality will change as well.

Scientists already write that time exists as an objective reality only relative to us. There is nothing truly objective. Everything is relative to us. Physicists directly speak about time flowing forward, backward, in any direction, or not existing at all. If time does not exist, then what is left? That means nothing exists at all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Reality of Perception” 7/20/10

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Comment: Some scientists believe that the most important process underlying creative genius is the tendency to pay attention to things that are usually ignored.

My Response: That has long been observed.

Question: For example, when Alexander Fleming noticed that blue mold was killing the bacterial culture in a Petri dish, he could have just washed it down the sink. But he continued his research and discovered penicillin.

Another example is that when we go for a walk in nature, our clothes can pick up burrs, which we simply clean off. But George de Mestral, while walking in the forest, paid attention to this phenomenon. While examining burrs under a microscope, he uncovered the principle behind Velcro.

To draw ideas from everything around you—unpleasant people, opponents, the world itself—you need to be an active listener, fully immersing yourself in your surroundings, and treat every moment as an opportunity for growth. Is this useful for an ordinary person?

Answer: An ordinary person will not benefit much from that. You truly need to be a Fleming or Einstein to notice such peculiarities of manifestations in nature to see something special in them that is interesting and warrants study.

How many people have cleaned mold from their dishes and pots? So what? You have to be a scientist to think: “What is this interesting formation? Why does it occur? What is the reason?”

For this, you need either to be a scientist or have an eccentric mindset—that happens too, but it is rare. Only then can you see a natural phenomenon and realize that it could inspire the creation of something, like a machine.

Comment: You have said that people in the society of the future will be valued for their inner beauty, involvement, and kind attitude. Right now, however, people seem to do the opposite; they focus on themselves, their own thoughts and emotions, and ignores what is happening around them.

My Response: That is actually good.

Question: Can the cognitive disinhibition of scientists help an ordinary person learn the inner beauty we need to achieve?

Answer: No, it cannot. That is not the way to achieve it. Humanity progresses very simply—only negative events lead to positive outcomes. If I see that something seriously hinders me, only then will I transition from it to something positive. That is the law of negation.

Therefore, there is no easy path to good outcomes for people. Only our negative discoveries about our lives, relationships, and everything within us will serve as a driving force for fostering better relationships.

Question: Can it not happen the other way around?

Answer: It is impossible! It is a law of nature. You need to argue more often. You must provoke such states deliberately, so you can later achieve better relationships.

Question: What does it mean to deliberately provoke?

Answer: “Let’s argue!” You cannot imagine how much this will free you from negative energy and how much you will uncover in a friendly way. And it must be friendly! Because you did not want to argue, but are now discussing things openly.

You start saying truthful things to one another and perceiving them in an entirely different way. In principle, you do not see each other as enemies, opponents, or adversaries. That is why you will perceive objections and remarks differently, in a friendly manner. It will become difficult to object to one another.

Comment: When we act friendly, there really is no inner defensiveness. A person becomes open to what the other is saying.

Answer: Exactly. Try combining these two approaches, and you will see how successful you become and how much less you argue for real.

Comment: People argue over trivial things because they simply do not hear each other.

Answer: No, it is not trivial! Never think that. Inside, there is a serious contradiction. A trivial matter is just a trigger that brings this state out, like in a war—something seemingly insignificant ignites the whole situation. But, in reality, a massive amount of explosive material has been building up inside.

Sports function this way, to defuse tension.

We need to reach a breaking point, an explosion, and only then can we continue developing positive relationships. Without these explosions, it is impossible. Without a moment of hatred, we cannot move toward the next degree of cooperation. It is a law! There is nothing you can do—it is a law.

There can be no good without evil. We must properly manage both states.

Question: How can a person value evil as the starting point for achieving good?

Answer: By treating both equally. Only then can we maintain balance, approach life correctly, and use both the positive and the negative to advance along our life’s path.

Question: How can this be done

Answer: By rising above both the bad and the good.

How? Only in the right environment with the science of Kabbalah can we transcend our nature. Then you will be able to manage it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/25/20

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Comment: Genetic engineering has challenged the Bible and says that Adam and Eve were not created by God.

Science has come to the conclusion that even in the formation of an embryo, as well as everywhere else, we observe a certain managing component. By studying the genome and knowing that there are managing and executing cells, it is possible to not only understand, but also to manage this process.

My Response: There are no problems in managing biological processes. But that does not mean that we create them. We interfere with their work, and that is what we call management.

Question: And who creates them?

Answer: This happens on a level above the human being. For this, a person must rise above himself.

How? Here is where the science of Kabbalah appears. Do you want to comprehend the next level? Do you want to reveal it? Please, you can. But to do this, you must seriously work on yourself and the connection with the next level—the managing one.

First of all, imagine that you are under this managing level all the time, under it. It constantly guides you and holds you. You try to get into resonance with it. You are managed by it. You agree and want to be managed by it. You do not want to act on your own—neither with your desires, nor with your thoughts, i.e., neither with your heart nor mind—not in any way!

You only want to feel this level and execute everything with your desire toward it; as it wishes, let it manage you. And you will be happy to add yourself to its governance.

This is how the next step is attained. This is called “annulling oneself,” annulling one’s egoism.

If we act this way, we will begin to feel this next level—its management, its qualities, its nature, and its intention. This is called attaining the Creator, because the next step for me is my Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/20/18

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Comment: The popular futurist and physicist Michio Kaku, who has interviewed various scientists and researchers, concluded that thanks to technology, we are moving toward a super-future where new devices and machines can help us become better.

My Response: If we could hand out devices to everyone that would constantly make us better instead of phones, that would be great.

Comment: We are talking about the possibility of digitizing a person, digitizing their memories.

My Response: You can do anything you want. But if you do not improve people, you will bring humanity a terrible future.

Today we are on the brink, where if we do not start improving ourselves in line with our technical capabilities, we will lead ourselves to a world where everyone will want to take a pill and die.

There is an enormous supercomputer at work above us. It is eternal; it is true! It is the highest intelligence. It is the Creator, and we here are nothing and no one! Everything that happens to us is done by Him so that we will realize our insignificance and want to connect with Him and, from His level, will see our lives.

Question: What is a superhuman?

Answer: A superhuman is someone who absorbs the qualities of the Creator.

If I turn myself into a collection of all the world’s information, I will just become an idiot. Let us rise spiritually from this Earth! We will remain on it for now, temporarily, in our bodies, but let us begin to rise in spirit and in understanding! We will see another level of information and of actions, a level that does not pertain to our earthly matters. Today we can already imagine it.

Let us rise to our level of governance, where we are governed from, and start seeing everything in completely different definitions, in different volumes, with different limitations. There is nothing earthly there. And from there, we will see where we can go further. But that is a completely different dimension! Not this four-dimensional one, but something else.

Comment: In one of your articles, you write that infinity is an infinite number of connections between creation and the Creator.

My Response: It is unlimited, where there are no separate connections between the Creator and creations, however and whoever they may be, but where they all merge into one whole. Without wires, everything merges into one system.

Question: In neurons, axons serve as connectors. But what is the connecting element in unlimited connections?

Answer: There are none; they disappear. The state becomes a fusion where there is no difference between the controller and the controlled; they complement each other so fully that they turn into a single whole. It is called “One.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/16/18

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Question: In a prayer is it possible to ask for us to be able to unite with each other and pass the full measure of light that the Creator wants to transmit through us to the peoples of the world?

Answer: Yes, it is possible.

Comment: What is the relationship between the quality of a collective prayer and the readiness of each ten? And vice versa, how does each ten depend on the collective prayer for its advancement?

My Response: It is a very close relationship. Therefore, we need to take care of one another and be critical of how each ten reveals itself in relation to others in order to provide the correct understanding of moving forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Run My Beloved”

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Question: I saw a documentary showing how prisoners participate in circles, like workshops, in which they connect. They reveal all sorts of childhood desires and often scream to release them.

Will similar things happen in our case? Or does the upper light smooth everything out and make our process gentler?

Answer: We are not dealing with psychology, but with Kabbalah, and we go through much more complex states. Simultaneously, our Kli (vessel) constantly expands, our sensations become more powerful, and we can contain more within ourselves. Therefore, we do not experience such psychological outbursts as in the groups you mentioned.

On the contrary, a person who advances in the study of Kabbalah appears much calmer externally. That is not because they are working on themselves to restrain emotions, but because, under their screen, there is an enormous capacity for desires, feelings, and sensations.

Thus, they can calmly endure states that would be difficult for an ordinary person to bear in our world.

Otherwise such a person might lose their sanity, as neither their nerves nor mind could handle it. But in Kabbalah it is possible precisely because we are constantly developing our Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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I started studying Kabbalah in 1976 when I was 30 years old. Three years later, I came to Rabash. But even before coming to Rabash, I started to read The Book of Zohar with the Sulam Commentary, studied the Introduction to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and other sources. I could not understand anything, but I was already trying to figure them out.

When I came to Rabash, then everything went along the same line. Before that, I sort of went through everything myself: science, philosophy, religion, and I saw that all that was just a delusion, absolutely everything, including science!

They lead a person astray from the right path to the goal of creation, to the meaning of life. So what if I find out how two solutions mix and what happens as a result? Nature around us is a huge sphere; I will scrape some properties, some knowledge, from it a little bit and study what I have scraped together. Am I going to do this all my life? Well, I will scrape together a little. And why? As Einstein said: “Like a little boy, I collect pebbles on the ocean shore.”

All great people have also asked these questions. And the most important thing that pushed them forward was the comprehension of the basis of the universe, its integral formula, that is, the connection between all its parts—what it is for. The whole connection: these X’s, Y’s, Z’s, and so on, what is inside the formula, equal to what? The meaning of life!

“What is it? Will I comprehend it or not?” Science will not give man an answer because he works with his brains and his properties like an animal that begins to scratch the ground with its hoof and sniff what it has found there. So much for science!

Moreover, I do not detract from its importance at all, but simply say that it is necessary to understand its limitations.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between Kabbalah, Science and New Age” 1/28/12

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The science of Kabbalah reveals the possibility of expanding one’s senses and awareness into an area opposite to the material one, to a new level, into a new dimension. Therefore, I completely surrendered to it, but with strict control over myself.

Kabbalah gives us great opportunities because you must constantly move against your egoism. Do you want to move? That is egoism for you. Try to use it to see how right or wrong it is, whether you need it or not, and how much you are just busying yourself with it. Some other properties, desires, and values in you push you toward this.

And we start working against your ego! We make any comprehension, any movement, not because you are carried forward, but on the contrary, with difficulty, with a tremendous force of opposition.

A scientist is driven forward by egoism, which pushes him to research. But here, it is the other way around. Therefore, there is a considerable opportunity for self-control and analysis: “Am I doing this right or not? For what? Why? Do I need this at all?!”

Question: A scientist is drawn in by egoism, but a Kabbalist is repulsed from his work. What makes a Kabbalist do this?

Answer: It is the importance of understanding the meaning of creation, comprehending the Creator, but not from a scientific point of view like a scientist, even though it is also importance for a scientist.

In principle, all scientists want to grasp the Creator. Subconsciously, any person in our world who lives only to feed himself still has the thought: “I want to understand the Creator,” otherwise he would not exist. Every atom and every molecule exist only for this purpose because in the end everything will come together in this comprehension.

But unlike scientists, you go against your desires and properties. And it is precisely because of this that you have a vast opportunity for self-control.

Therefore, I do not study anything extraneous because I very clearly see, precisely from the analysis of what other sciences do, how much this is work within egoism, and therefore, does not rise above our world, no matter how scientists think they are above it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference Between Kabbalah, Science and New Age” 1/28/12

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Question: Can we say that at some point in history humanity took the wrong path?

Answer: Of course! Since the time of Aristotle and Plato.

At one point they shouted: “Under no circumstances give science away to the ignorant! They will misuse it, they will sell it to the rich, they will put it at the service of progress!

But we need spiritual progress, not technological progress! We cannot open universities to everyone!

Science should be pursued only by people who with its help want to understand the meaning of life, the lofty matters that lie beyond the boundaries of our world!”

Science should develop only in the form in which it raises a person above our world! Anyone who might use it for evil purposes has no right to engage in it!

Even the invention of, say, a special meat grinder is also evil. You do not need it, and you can live without it! After all, in the end, it is by adapting science to our world that you begin its development.

There is no other way, either external development or internal. The world followed the external path of development. Historically, this happened 3,000 years ago.

Question: But was there another option for development? Or did we still have to go through this stage?

Answer: It is hard to say because in order to understand the answer to this question, you need to be in two worlds, in the duality that we are talking about.

Everything comes from the Creator, and at the same time depends on our freewill, on our choice.

We are not able to compare these two free functions; our mind is not adapted to this. To understand this, you need to be in both worlds: the spiritual one and ours at the same time. Then you will not have contradictions; you can perceive absolutely opposite facts and information as complementary and not mutually exclusive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Dead-End Path of Human Development” 1/24/12

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Question: For thousands of years all religions have been saying that there is no knowledge, there is only faith. Many of us came to Kabbalah to comprehend the Creator, that is, to gain knowledge. It seems there is some contradiction here.

Should we have both knowledge and faith or is faith only above knowledge?

Answer: The point is that the faith we practice in the wisdom of Kabbalah is not an ordinary faith, but faith in the fact that the Creator is the upper force of nature.

It is precisely Him that we attain in our mind and feelings by becoming like Him in the measure of bestowal. In this way, we begin to understand the Creator and the world He created.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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