Question: In the natural sciences, experiments are carried out in order to understand nature. Do Kabbalists also carry out experiments on the upper nature?

Answer: Kabbalists have nothing but these experiments. But they happen every second because a Kabbalist is in constant communication with the effort of friends in the so-called Kabbalistic guild.

When one interacts with like-minded people, they have the possibility to vary their desires and strengths in certain combinations together. As a result, they have an infinite number of mutual combinations, and thus they affect the Upper Light.

All of this happens while studying the primary Kabbalistic sources when they are in contact with the Upper Light that affects them, moreover, while they themselves affect the Upper Light. One-to-one, everyone is affected by this.

Thus, there is a huge influx of information. But it isn’t difficult as it comes to the Kabbalist not in quantities, but in feelings. The Kabbalist swims in it as in music; all is absolutely harmonious; one grasps the very essence of harmony and therefore doesn’t get tired. On the contrary, one just develops from this, filling with supreme peace.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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Question: Are all the laws of nature the Creator’s attributes?

Answer: Of course. All of nature is the Creator, but there is a revealed part of nature and a concealed part.

The wisdom of Kabbalah refers to the Creator as the concealed part of nature because what is revealed to us is its distorted part that we feel as such as a result of our uncorrected senses, as a result of our ego.

Comment: Humanity has revealed more than 200 physical laws of nature during the last couple of centuries.

Answer: This is also the revelation of the Creator, like the force of gravity for example.

There is nothing other than the Creator and man who feels Him. The question is what a person feels exactly, how and by which attributes.

Everything we can possibly imagine is the Creator; we are inside Him, but we feel only a very small part that is totally distorted and opposite from His real attributes. When a person ascends to the 125^th level of spirituality, he becomes similar to the Creator and is entrusted to reveal all the information he needs in order to perform creative actions.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Comment: Bio-physicists say that a person who knows science asks merely three questions: How was the universe created? How was life in the universe created? And how do living creatures learn to think?

Answer: These are of course, serious questions for scientists.

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains everything in a very simple manner. The major force in our world, the Upper Light, created a desire that is opposite from it as something from nothing. This desire is the creation created from what had not existed before. After all, the whole universe is filled only by one Upper Light.

Question: Is there no desire in the Light itself?

Answer: There is a desire in the Light, but it is a desire for love and bestowal, a desire to bestow, to give. And it created a desire to receive that developed under this influence. The Light created the desire to receive,  from the simplest to the most complex organisms.

They are all mutually connected and represent one unique system, one organism that multiplies and buds in different subsystems in four phases laid down in the Light.

The Light gradually develops the initial desire that was created until it reaches a state in which it begins to think, discern, feel, and even begins to build itself independently to resemble the Light. There is nothing new here for Kabbalists, but for scientist this is of course a problem they cannot solve.

Question: Does this mean that they cannot examine this logically?

Answer: No, no way. Science has already accepted the fact that it is finite because everything we receive, understand, and perceive is felt through the filter of our attributes, which are limited. We cannot stand in front of the filter and feel the pure Light because all our desires and thoughts are created by that filter. We cannot attain the Upper Light that created us because we only attain what we feel through the filter.

Kabbalah tells us how to create an anti-filter, which means that the wisdom of Kabbalah tells us how we should perceive, understand, and determine our connection with the Upper Light, which exists before the filter, when we are behind the filter of all our attributes and forces.

In order to do so, we have to turn our initial attribute to receive to an attribute to bestow, and then we will begin to reveal the Upper Light inside us, the upper energy, the thought of creation, and the upper mind, and then we will be able to perceive it.

This means that we have to build a model that is identical to the Upper Light inside us because it is impossible to leap over the filter. The wisdom of Kabbalah guides us in building the model of the whole universe, of the whole creation, inside us.

Question: Does the filter exist only in order to diminish the Light and to enable us to perceive it gradually?

Answer: Yes, these are five or ten Sefirot, which diminish the Upper Light, swallow it, and convey it to us.

We can build an identical system inside us that will influence the Upper Light through us outward, and this is what the wisdom of Kabbalah is based on. Therefore, everything is inside a person and everything can be attained.

When people remain in the framework of their natural nature, of course, they hit a wall. But eventually everyone will realize that we are finite, that our knowledge is finite, and that there no way out. Thus humanity will gradually understand that the wisdom of Kabbalah has the solution.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 6/9/16

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In the News (ScienceDaily): “A new trend taking shape in psychological science not only uses quantum physics to explain humans’ (sometimes) paradoxical thinking, but may also help researchers resolve certain contradictions among the results of previous psychological studies. …

“‘We have accumulated so many paradoxical findings in the field of cognition, and especially in decision-making,’ said Wang, who is an associate professor of communication and director of the Communication and Psychophysiology Lab at The Ohio State University.

“’Whenever something comes up that isn’t consistent with classical theories, we often label it as “irrational.” But from the perspective of quantum cognition, some findings aren’t irrational anymore. They’re consistent with quantum theory–and with how people really behave.’ …

“Their work suggests that thinking in a quantum-like way¬–essentially not following a conventional approach based on classical probability theory–enables humans to make important decisions in the face of uncertainty, and lets us confront complex questions despite our limited mental resources. …

“Quantum cognition is what happens when humans have to deal with ambiguity mentally. Sometimes we aren’t certain about how we feel, or we feel ambiguous about which option to choose, or we have to make decisions based on limited information. …

“As we mull over our options, we envision them in our mind’s eye. For a time, all the options co-exist with different degrees of potential that we will choose them: That’s superposition. Then, when we zero in on our preferred option, the other options cease to exist for us.

“The task of modeling this process mathematically is difficult in part because each possible outcome adds dimensions to the equation. …

“With the quantum approach, Wang and her colleagues argued, many different and complex aspects of behavior can be explained with the same limited set of axioms.”

My Comment: We are not the ones who make decisions. Our only decision is whether to be integrated in unity by using the power of the right environment, which we can construct by ourselves.

It is only in this way that we can determine all of our other decisions, whiich are absolutely derivatives of this one free decision. See the article, “The Freedom” by Baal HaSulam. In other words, the principle of superposition says that we determine our actions to the degree of their resemblance (accommodation) to the higher categorical principle of the characteristic of bestowal, connection, and love.
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Int the News (Hi-News.ru): “Why is there something rather than nothing?

“Our appearance in this universe is too strange an event that words cannot express. The vanity of our daily lives makes us take our existence for granted. But whenever we try to deny it and think deeply about what is happening, the question arises: why the universe is all there is and why does it have and is subject to such accurate laws? Why does anything exist? …As for philosophers, they came to this anthropic principle that our particular universe manifests itself in such a way because of our presence in it as observers.”

Answer: The reason for everything that exists is thought; it is primary and gives rise to matter, the desire to fill itself. It gives the desire, matter, its attributes and consequently matter, the desire yearns to resemble the thought, its Creator.

Question: Is our reality real? How do we know that what we see around us is real and not a big illusion that was created by some invisible force? Could it be that we are the product of an intentional simulation, that our civilization is an illusion and that we are not who we believe we are? What should we consider real?

Answer: Everything is manifested in our sensations, in us, and there is no way we can discover what is beyond us. Kabbalah develops within a person the ability to feel what is external to him by faith above reason and thus enables us to answer all these questions.

Question: Do we have freewill? Are our actions managed or do we make our own decisions of our own freewill? Neuroscience shows that the brain makes a decision before we understand it. Quantum mechanics indicates that we exist in a universe of probabilities and any form of determinism is basically impossible.

Answer: There is freedom of will to explore the intended path of development and to advance along this path either by force or consciously. (See the article “The Freedom” by Baal HaSulam).

Question: Does God exist? We cannot know whether God exists or not. We don’t know about the inner workings of the universe in order to make grandiose claims about the nature of reality and about the fact that there is an upper force behind the scenes.

Answer: We have to reveal the Creator. This is the only way to solve this issue! The method for the revelation of the Creator is called the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: Is there life after death? We cannot ask the dead, so we can only guess. Materialists assume that there is no life after death, but it seems impossible to prove this scientifically.

Answer: Our biological life is born, lives, and dies. The eternal element is the desire, which when connected to the biological body has to undergo different phases and grow. The desire grows by drawing the force that created it, the Creator. We were given life in order to reveal the upper state, in order to attain the Creator’s level in this life.

Question: Can we perceive anything objectively? We can observe the environment only through the filter of our senses, thoughts, and minds. Everything that we feel has gone through a multi-layer filter of physiological and cognitive processes. Our world view is subjective. The only way to check this is by somehow seeing the world through another person’s consciousness. We can observe the universe only through our mind and interpret it only subjectively.

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah develops senses in us that are external to our body, through which we discover the true reality, the upper world and the reason for it, the Creator. Our efforts in uniting the group spur and summon the correcting Light, the Surrounding Light (Ohr Makif), and it develops a sense of perception in a person that is external to his egoistic subjective filter. This is called the revelation of the Creator and of the upper world to a person.
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In the News (inosmi.ru): “According to many Western researchers, the lack of revolutionary technological innovation – is one of the main causes of the current long-term stagnation in the world economy. Over the past 25 years, after the start of the digital revolution (Internet and mobile), we have not made significant technological breakthroughs that have fundamentally affected the economy. …

“The scale of the impact of the three scientific and technological revolutions on the quality of life turned out to be incommensurable: with the first revolution (the creation of the steam engine and the loom in the late 18th – early 19th century), the second (electricity and the internal combustion engine in the late 19th – early 20th centuries) the quality of life changed radically. At the same time, a third, or Digital Revolution (since the 70s of the 20th century), although it has made life more interesting, it did not lead to an increase in real wealth in the West. …

“The Digital Revolution has significantly improved the quality of life worldwide. Human communication, flow of information, services and entertainment – all this is hardly reflected in a ‘rough’ concept as GDP, which operates on purely material ones. The question remains in maintaining the balance between the real and virtual economies.

Indeed, this balance in recent decades has been broken: investors prefer not to work in the real and the financial sector, where they inflate virtual bubbles and do not produce anything. People go into the virtual world and lose their sense of reality, have become Internet dependent and countries print virtual money and build up huge debts.

However, this world is material, and there are still many unresolved financial problems, we can not forget that more than half the population the world has no access to basic benefits of modern civilization, for they have not come and the 2nd stage of the scientific and technological revolution. … Challenges remain: hunger, water shortages, pollution, overpopulation. All this will require a breakthrough innovation in the real economy, for the survival of humanity depends on it.”

My Comment: The last and final innovation will not be a change in the physical world but a change in the person through the Upper Light, as it is written, “I created the evil inclination (the human ego), I created the Torah as a spice for it” (Kiddushin 30b) (Torah = Ohr Makif [Surrounding Light] to fix it).
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In the News (Mother Nature Network): “Trees go to ‘sleep’ at night, new study shows

“Researchers using lasers to monitor birch trees reveal physical changes that are akin to slumber. …

“That’s the fascinating conclusion drawn by a team of scientists from Austria, Finland and Hungary who wanted to know if trees followed day/night cycles similar to those observed in small plants. Using laser scanners pointed at two birch trees, the scientists recorded physical changes indicative of a nighttime slumber, with the tips of the birch branches drooping by as much as 4 inches towards the end of the night.”

(BBC): “Plants Talk to Each Other Using an Internet of Fungus,” “Hidden under your feet is an information superhighway that allows plants to communicate and help each other out. It’s made of fungi. …

“The more we learn about these underground networks, the more our ideas about plants have to change. They aren’t just sitting there quietly growing. By linking to the fungal network they can help out their neighbours by sharing nutrients and information – or sabotage unwelcome plants by spreading toxic chemicals through the network. This ‘wood wide web’, it turns out, even has its own version of cybercrime. …

“Around 90% of land plants are in mutually-beneficial relationships with fungi. The 19th-century German biologist Albert Bernard Frank coined the word ‘mycorrhiza’ to describe these partnerships, in which the fungus colonises the roots of the plant.

“In mycorrhizal associations, plants provide fungi with food in the form of carbohydrates. In exchange, the fungi help the plants suck up water, and provide nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen, via their mycelia. Since the 1960s, it has been clear that mycorrhizae help individual plants to grow. …

“In 2010, Ren Sen Zeng of South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou found that when plants are attached by harmful fungi, they release chemical signals into the mycelia that warn their neighbours. …

“‘We suggest that tomato plants can ‘eavesdrop’ on defense responses and increase their disease resistance against potential pathogen,’ Zeng and his colleagues wrote. So not only do the mycorrhizae allow plants to share food, they help them defend themselves. …

“In 2013 David Johnson of the University of Aberdeen and his colleagues showed that broad beans also use fungal networks to pick up on impending threats – in this case, hungry aphids.”

The poet Samuel Coleridge, wrote,  “Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it’s own, & that we are all one Life.”—Letter to William Sotheby (10 September 1802).

Can science come to this conclusion?

Answer: Science can achieve anything that is possible. It is proving that everything is mutually connected. If we want to live correctly, we should be connected to each other with good connections! But where are the people who want to implement this?

Question: Is it possible to get over ourselves and become interconnected in life, like the plants, if we receive guidance from scientific evidence?

Answer: I have never seen this anywhere.  All that is stated in the research of the correct behavior is not perceived by humanity! Scientists love to talk about nice things, but who among us lives to learn about it? Humanity doesn’t even learn about itself.

Look there was a war here, and there is so much suffering! The possibility of another war has not been negated. This indicates that suffering has taught us nothing! Egoism is the basis of nature, and everything that comes to it from the outside cannot penetrate into it.

So, there is no salvation on the level of our world. It will continue like this until a group of people appear in humanity who will bring a higher energy from above, an awareness, an understanding, the corrective Light because only the Light can unite us. Otherwise, humanity will annihilate itself gradually. Even if part of it remains, it will not have learned anything. Only the upper force will save us!

Question: In what way is this group that is studying the wisdom of Kabbalah different from a group of scientists?

Answer: Scientists have no control over humanity, but this group has the power to bring the positive force to our world that will balance the egoism. Then, in the balance between egoism and this second force called altruism, in the middle line, the world will begin to evolve consciously, with understanding and mutual cooperation, and will rise upward to completely new, higher levels of existence.

This will be an absolutely different world in which we will not exist in our present form any longer. Rather, we will be reborn as different creatures since our inner structure will be changed, and the external form will be changed accordingly.

Question: Who decides that the time has arrived for this?

Answer: Those people who are involved with this question say that the time has already arrived, and they are trying to do this. We hope that they will have done enough before the next war.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/29/16

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Comment: A group of scientists at Britain’s Sanger Institute , which is one of the leading centers in the field of genetics, published the results of a large scale study. After a detailed study of the unique genetic structure of thousands of Europeans, they assert that at least half of the people in Western Europe come from a common ancestor who lived about four thousand years ago.

My Comment: Genetically this is possible, of course. After all, humanity grows very fast. A hundred years ago the world population was three billion people and today it is more than seven billion. If we make an approximation backward, quite possibly wild tribes wandered across Europe.

A few centuries ago Germany consisted of a few wild tribes, while today it is the most developed state in Europe. Everything happens very fast. Therefore, modern man is not very different from his barbaric ancestor. It is practically the same man who hasn’t changed at all internally.

Comment: One way or another, scientific research is basically a search for what unites Europe.

My Comment: It doesn’t matter. History tells us that the worst conflicts were actually between brothers. It is doubtful whether a person who digs into his past will be able to see the future.

He should relate to it but only in order to correct his nature. He has to totally transform his personality. But this requires a totally different system and the upper force that can perform the change.

In other words, we need a manual according to which we will be able to summon the force that corrects us, that changes each of us into a human being, Adam (Man)! A human being, and not a two legged animal.

Question: Will humanity aspire for the image called Adam?

Answer: It will aspire to it only if it undergoes great sufferings.

Question: Will humanity look for Adam as the first step toward its spiritual development?

Answer: No, it will not look for that. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah is for. If humanity wants to listen, the wisdom of Kabbalah tells us that there was one man among all those who walk on their two hind legs, those who are called Homo sapiens, who was our special forefather.

Any of us who begin to work on themselves and try to create the soul inside themselves, begin to feel that they are the descendent of Adam, but only him. Thus after thousands of years all those who attain a soul feel that they are the descendants of Adam. Today such souls are alight like small stars all over the world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/17/16

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Question: All people basically understand that sharing the similar opinions is the key to a successful society, to mutual understanding, and to peace. So why are your remarks so sarcastic and contradictory to the common knowledge? Is this what the attitude of the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world should be?

Answer: Appeasement does not lead to anything good. On the contrary, on the level of debates and expressing opinions, there should not be conciliation and it is actually the clarification of contradictions and differences that is the basis for finding and attaining the one right decision.

Identifying the differences is the basis for any thought and understanding of different phenomenon. Debates have always been the scientist’s’ tool. The ability to sort out and to classify large amounts of data is the basis of any field of science. This means that on the theoretical level the aspiration to smooth any differences is detrimental.
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In the News (International Business Times): “British physicist Stephen Hawking has said that there is no God and that computers will overtake humans within the next century. The 73 year old dismissed any notion that there is a God in an interview by stating that science is able to explain the origination of everything.

“When asked by Spanish newspaper El Pais if scientists should believe in God, Hawking responded: ‘I use the word, God, in an impersonal sense, like Einstein did, for the laws of nature.’ This question was followed by: ‘Do you think humans would one day abandon religion and God?’ to which he retorted: ‘The laws of science are sufficient to explain the origin of the universe. It is not necessary to invoke God.’

“…[He] went on to say that the future of the human race could be bleak. He said that if aliens come to Earth, they could take over our planet. Hawking: ‘Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach. To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.’

“On the subject of artificial intelligence (AI), he added: ‘Computers will overtake humans with AI at some point within the next 100 years. When that happens, we need to make sure the computers have goals aligned with ours.

“‘I think the survival of the human race will depend on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe, because there’s an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth. I therefore want to raise public awareness about the importance of space flight. I have learnt not to look too far ahead, but to concentrate on the present. I have so much more I want to do.’”

My Comment: The wisdom of Kabbalah could be very useful for all scientists; they wouldn’t need to suffer for generations asserting hypotheses and then refuting them. Instead they could just discover the nature of God.
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