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Finding The Formula Of Human Evolution

Laitman_715Question: According to the accepted definition of science, the wisdom of Kabbalah is one means of describing and understanding the world around us. What do you want to achieve by promoting not the science, but just one perspective on the structure of the world?

Answer: Every corporeal science is one possible perspective of the structure of the world, while according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, all of nature and everything that was created stems from a desire to receive pleasure—no matter whether we express it by physical or psychological parameters. It turns out that by remaining within the framework of our science we are very limited.

Look what is happening with us. We don’t know where we came from, and we are not sure that we can predict what will happen the next day, not the next minute, or in a few years. What use is science if it doesn’t give people an understanding of the world and how to manage it?

The most important thing is to understand the formula of our development and what happens to us. We don’t even know how the engine that turns and moves us forward works. As Einstein said, we are just like kids playing with pebbles on the beach while the sea itself is unattainable. And so the claim that we can seemingly determine what science is, is like a kids’ game.

On the whole, science is based on human perception because there is a human being behind every instrument who feels and understands everything through his mind and heart. When we take it into account as variables in our measurements, we begin to see the world as a system that is constantly changing, and this system is dominated by us.

We can measure it, feel it, and work with it; we can insert different parameters into it and see what happens. This is already a systematic, cybernetic approach. Man cannot affect nature without changing your parameters because man doesn’t know how to adapt to it and how to see the result.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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The World Is What We Attain

laitman_926_02The Standard by Which to Evaluate a Wisdom

The value of any wisdom in the world is according to the purpose that it yields. This is the goal to which all the scrutinies aim. Therefore, a wisdom without some purpose is inconceivable except for infants playing games, since to pass the time they come and this is their purpose, according to their value. For this reason, a wisdom is not evaluated by keenness and proficiency, but according to the merit of the purpose that it yields.

You therefore find that any external wisdom is only for the purpose of corporeality, which is sure to be gone today or tomorrow. In that case, it is sufficient for the subject to be as the predicate.

And although the wisdom has many advantages over these subjects, for wherever it is, it is nonetheless a spiritual element, but we have already said that it is evaluated by the purpose, which is its persistence for eternity. And if the purpose is transitory and fleeting, it is lost along with it.
(Baal HaSulam, “The Wisdom of Israel Compared to the External Wisdoms”)

Naturally, our universe and its laws, which seem to us unshakeable, has its beginning and its end. There is a beginning, middle, climax, and then decline, reduction, and extinction in the development of any dynamic system.

Therefore, today we see that the laws we study and consider to be absolute exist only in the framework of our senses and only with regard to us. If our senses were different, we could attain totally different laws and connections.

Question: Does this means that you have to change internally in order to become a physicist? I study and explore how the world around me changes and create the necessary instruments.

Answer: On the whole, when I study something in any field I can freeze a certain parameter and keep studying with a fixed parameter.

It is the same here when we are subconsciously frozen in our egoistic senses and use them to explore the world. Therefore, it seems to us that there is nothing but the world that we see, but we forget that we perceive everything through our senses that are initially fixed by nature.

If we could change them, a totally different science would emerge based on our new senses. This variable dramatically changes all the laws as they turn from absolute laws to relative laws. It turns out that on every level and in every internal change a totally different science is created, a different state, a different world. This is what a person attains.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, when a person begins to change 125 fixed types of changes appear in him and accordingly 125 worlds, 125 levels or depths of attainment, which means 125 types of science.

But when you attain the uppermost level all your previous attainments merge into one single whole that is called the world of Ein Sof (Infinity). We cannot understand that yet, because we probably undergo a special transition there. This transition is still unattainable for us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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A Door To Time Travel

Laitman_910In the News (ibtimes.com.au): “Using single particles of light, scientists from the University of Queensland, Australia, have shown that a photon can pass through a wormhole to interact with its older self. The quantum experiment was aimed at simulation of time travel by quantum particles.

“The Collective Evolution, citing the Nature Communications, which published the findings of the quantum experiment, says the difficulty in time travel lies in the existence of ‘closed timelike curves’ (CTCs). A CTC refers to the line of a material particle in spacetime that is closed, enabling it to return to its starting point. The report says CTCs are used to simulate powerful gravitational fields of the kind produced by a spinning black hole. Based on Albert Einstein’s relativity theory, CTCs can theoretically warp or distort existence to bend space-time back on itself, enabling time travel.”

My Comment: If we assume that everything flows in time, the journey along the time axis is not possible. Whereas according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, everything exists within a single picture of the world. Past, present, and future can generate the existence of the world from the one and only state. It follows that time doesn’t exist but is only one parameter of subjective existence in our perception of reality.
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The Secret Of Spiritual Pleasure

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Why do you talk so little about pleasure from attaining the spiritual world?

Answer: I would talk about the pleasure, but unfortunately, it is not possible to convey it in words.

The Kabbalists write that if we add up all the pleasures of our world that humanity has ever experienced, is experiencing, or will experience at all times, it will be only a small spark in comparison to the billion times greater upper Light on the lowest spiritual level.

I didn’t believe them, but then I checked, became convinced, and I wish you the same.

Comment: One can only imagine how prepared a person should be to withstand the pleasures of the entire human history!

Answer: When a person works with the intention to bestow and not the intention to receive, he can pass all pleasures of the world through himself and not receive an “electric shock” because he becomes a conductor and not a receiver.

He is like a pipe that passes everything through itself to others, so he doesn’t enjoy the Light itself, but its derivative from filling others. This is the whole secret.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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The Uniqueness Of The Wisdom Of Kabbalah

laitman_214When we compare the wisdom of Kabblah with natural science, we discover a number of similarities and differences. According to Kabbalah, “a judge has only what his eyes can see.” Since this is purely a scientific approach, a person has to approach corporeal sciences and spiritual science in the exact same manner, which means according to the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Everything ordinary science uses is also typical of the wisdom of Kabbalah: attainment, repeatability of statistical data, graphs, etc. The wisdom of Kabbalah isn’t blind faith but attainment. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, faith is the feeling of the upper world, which means the feeling of the force that fills the world and manages it wisely. This is also the difference between the wisdom of Kabbalah and other sciences that perceive only the outcome of the upper force at the level of our spiritually still world.

The wisdom of Kabbalah explores the actual governing force that ordinary people in our world don’t feel or perceive. In order to do so, they have to acquire corresponding attributes that are similar to this force. According to the physical law of equivalence of form, a person can feel only what matches his senses. Only then can he explore the single, upper force of nature.

Kabbalists record and process of their studies as data, drawings, graphs, and so on. They also claim that the Hebrew alphabet is made of special symbols that signal the different connections and ties of the two forces of nature, the positive and the negative.

In fact, the Hebrew and the Aramaic language mutually complement each other, and they appear as a result of studying the two attributes of nature, bestowal and receiption, that are at the basis of all the actions and phenomena in our world, the positive and the negative, etc.

Since the wisdom of Kabbalah relies mainly on the attainment of the basic force of nature, it is more accurate, more broad, and much more profound than all the other sciences; it is the universal wisdom.

This is also expressed by ancient philosophers and philosophers of the Middle Ages, scientists, and Kabbalists. Moreover, according to recently published Newton’s diaries, he  studied Hebrew and Kabbalah and from it learned the laws he wrote about.

The uniqueness of the wisdom of Kabbalah lies in the fact that it requires a person to create additional new senses unlike corporeal sciences, which study the nature using our pre-defined senses. Kabbalah is a science for any person who development an additional sense within himself or herself.

There is the force of bestowal in nature, the force of the mutual connection, that we cannot perceive because we don’t have the inner sensor, the receiver that perceives it. We cannot feel the force of bestowal or measure it, so we don’t know anything about our existence. We know only a small part of the creation and it is rather one-sided.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is a science that tells us not only about our world, in which there is one force of receiving, but about all of creation that is made of two forces: the force of bestowal and the force of receiving. Scientists don’t understand this at the moment, and only perceive very little of this. The problem isn’t the human mind that is meant to serve the small egoistic force, but the need to feel the whole volume of creation, which manifested within us.

It is actually this need that pushes a person forward. A person understands that he has to attain the meaning of life, its reason, root and purpose. Without them there is no meaning to life.

Scientists speak about the attainment of the human state while the wisdom of Kabbalah tells us about its root: what manages a person, why, for what, and toward what. At the same time, Kabbalah explains what we are have to change inside us since we can investigate the upper force only to the extent that we are similar to it.

And most importantly is why does a person study it? This is also the major stumbling block. A Kabbalists studies in order to care of others, to help others for the good of others, which ordinary science, in principle, doesn’t do.

Ordinary science investigates what exists and it’s not interested in how to apply this. Kabbalah offers its services to politicians and to the rich who then twist scientific achievements the way they want. A Kabbalist, on the other hand, studies and changes the world within him, and politicians or the rich have no use of it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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The Subject Of The Wisdom Of Kabbalah

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What is the subject of the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: The subject that wisdom of Kabbalah explores is the possibility of being like the upper Light, the characteristic of absolute bestowal, the Light that surrounds us and within which we all exist.

Question: What exactly does the wisdom of Kabbalah explore in a person?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah explores only one of his properties, the property of reception that is opposite to the property of bestowal, and the process by which it becomes similar to bestowal.

Question: Is there repeatability of results in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Certainly, a Kabbalist constantly carries out experiments on himself and verifies them every second according to the Kabbalistic sources, where everything has already been written before him in different dimensions: the intensity of the Masach (screen), the Restriction, the characteristic of bestowal, its power, mutual interaction with the upper Light, resistance and so forth. Newton took the main elementary laws of mechanics specifically from there.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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Depression Affects The Whole Body

Laitman_037In the News (Science Daily): “An international team of researchers led by the University of Granada (UGR) has demonstrated, for the first time, that depression is more than a mental disorder: it causes important alterations of the oxidative stress, so it should be considered a systemic disease, since it affects the whole organism.

“The results of this work could explain the significant association that depression has with cardiovascular diseases and cancer, and why people suffering from depression die younger. At the same time, this research may help finding new therapeutic targets for the prevention and treatment of depression.”

My Comment: Of course, the entire body is affected because the body, as well as the whole of creation, is a complete system, ten Sefirot, according to the general rule, “There is no partial in spirituality.”

The more that research of this type will become known to us, perhaps people will understand more rapidly that depression is clear sign of the demand by the body to attain fulfillment of the desire for pleasure in any way. In our day, fulfillment of the desire for pleasure is possible only through discovering the meaning of life. This is possible only by discovering our next level of development, which is the revelation of the upper world with the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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The Imbalance That Threatens Creation

laitman_746_01In the News (planet-today.ru): “US researchers have combined data on the majority of galaxies known to mankind and created an impressive scale of it in their Cosmic Web project that illustrates the structure of the universe by means of links between individual clusters of stars.

“’Ultimately, the universe is a network of individual galaxies, combined with gravitational interaction. We have built a visual model of these relations and got something that with the proper proportion of imagination can be called, “A view of the universe from God’s point of view”,’ – explains one of the authors of the project Kim Albrecht.”

My Comment: Kabbalah says that not only our world but all of creation is a single organism, and among all the worlds, only the human being has freedom of choice in his behavior. The rest of the creatures are instinctively run by nature.

So the balance of the entire system depends only on human behavior, and only humans bring it out of balance, and conversely, can restore it to balance.

Kabbalah explains how to manage the system correctly and maintain its balance. Currently, the egoistic behavior of humanity takes the system of creation out of equilibrium. Kabbalah warns of the consequences ….
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“Take Off The Rose-Colored Glasses!”

Laitman_115_06Comment: Dr. Emma Seppala, Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, presents a world view that is opposite from your views. When asked whether human nature is egoistic or whether it is kind, she replied that there are those who believe that people are naturally egoistic and that tough competition is the key to their success, but the principle of the survival of the fittest is incorrect and that it is possible to advance without underestimating or humiliating others. It makes no difference what a person engages in as long as he works for the well being of others. From her perspective man is basically good hearted and merciful and not egoistic.

Answer: Does this mean that people were given a mind in order to behave nicely to one another and to understand each other. Is this what determines the relations between states and nations? Do we see that this is what guides and motivates us today and throughout human history?

Our relations are based solely on the individual’s desire to rise higher than others, to be better off at the expense of others, and to use them. We should study and get to know how the animate level of nature operates. We are no different from animals. Only we are given also the mind that we use for the same egoistic development in all directions, wherever possible. Therefore, people are the greatest evil in nature. That is what we see.This is the reason that man is the worst creature in nature and this is actually what we see. If Dr. Emma Seppalla wears rose-colored glasses there is nothing we can do about it.

Nature is basically absolute egoism and this is also what the Torah says: “I have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice.” Therefore, as long as man doesn’t use the Torah correctly, which means that he doesn’t draw the Light that Reforms in order to correct the ego, while he studies, he is a complete egoist. We are trapped in a vicious cycle that we cannot escape any other way except through the influence of the Upper Light that can pull us out. Otherwise, all our aspirations and our impulses, which may seem good, are totally egoistic.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 4/7/16

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Knowledge Affects What We See

Laitman_083Research (Johns Hopkins University News Releases): “Objects — everything from cars, birds and faces to letters of the alphabet — look significantly different to people familiar with them, a new study suggests.

“Using the Arabic alphabet as a frame of reference, Johns Hopkins University researchers studied how experts in the language and novices viewed various letters and found clear evidence that visual processing is influenced by experience. Their findings are forthcoming in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and now available online.”

Response: Kabbalah says that everything that we see is a reflection of our inner world, we see a world that is  in us. And further, all around us there is only white light, and we draw all the various colors of our intrinsic properties, which are different from that white light, on its background.

The white light is the characteristic of bestowal and love. Our paint is our egoistic characteristics different from the properties of bestowal. If we fix ourselves and resemble the white light, the property of bestowal, then merge with it, they say we reach adhesion (Dvekut) with it. This light is our Creator.
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