If I were to make a film about the perception of reality, first of all, I would explain about managing our desires. The only thing at a person’s disposal is the opportunity to exit his natural existence where desires control him arbitrarily.

Sometimes, on some small level, a person can manage them, for example, he follows some kind of diet or wants to go to work instead of sleep. But this is a preference of some egoistic desires over others. This is not the kind of management that Kabbalah talks about.

Kabbalah talks about managing desires where we rise above their control of us in order to manage them ourselves.

I connect with the force of nature that launches me, and I act. That is, I am above my desire, which is my essence, and I manage it together with the upper light. This very part of me, which rises above my desire and connects with the upper light, with the Creator in me, is called Man, human.

Those who do not have this opportunity and have not developed the technique of rising above their desire and still live in it, are not called people from the point of view of Kabbalah. In the meantime, they are called “existing at the animate level” because they are launched completely unconsciously, uncontrollably by the upper force that simply develops them from generation to generation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Unreal reality” 6/27/11

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Comment: In the article “The Rose” in the Introduction of The Book of Zohar, it is said that the rose is a cup of blessing, which indicates the extension of five Hassadim within her five Gevurot, and so on.

My Response: When Baal HaSulam writes commentary on this article, he gradually descends from the level of the Creator to the level of creation and begins to explain how the lower souls are arranged and how they perceive the influence of the Creator on them.

For example, the article says that the cup must be raised with both hands and then held in the right hand with five fingers when the blessings are pronounced. Therefore, in our world, it is customary to bless the wine.

These examples explain that the blessing with which you should turn to the Creator should consist of five qualities: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut. They should be connected together. As one hand connects five fingers, so you should take a cup of wine and, raise it, bless the Creator for giving you such an opportunity.

Question: Why should the cup be held in the right hand?

Answer: In spirituality, there is a right side and a left side. The right is good and the left is evil. Therefore, it is necessary to pronounce blessings while holding the cup in your right hand.

Question: What do we need these actions in our world? Why do this if we are talking about some great, inner things?

Answer: In our world, everything comes down to simple tradition. But in fact, these are very deep actions with which we awaken the upper governance.

In principle, if a person understands what he is doing, he can awaken certain forces upon his desires and thus correct himself.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23

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In the verse, “In the beginning God created,” God, too, elicited thirteen words to surround the Assembly of Israel and to keep her: THE, HEAVEN, AND-THE, EARTH, AND-THE EARTH, WAS, EMPTY, AND-CHAOTIC, AND-THE DARKNESS, OVER, THE FACE, OF THE ABYSS, AND-THE SPIRIT” (Introduction to The Book of Zohar, “The Rose”).

Comment: At first glance, these sentences seem completely unrelated.

My Response: The fact is that when you read the Torah, you begin to understand that all the relations between us and the Creator are summarized and encrypted in it in a short form. Basically, the Torah only talks about this.

Question: What does it mean “The Creator created the heaven and the earth”?

Answer: Heaven is the upper attitude, the quality of Rachamim, i.e., the quality of mercy to each other. Earth, on the contrary, is a quality of hardness. This way, being between two forces, positive and negative, that operate within us, we can use them to move ahead toward adhesion with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23

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Just as a rose among the thorns is tinged with red and white, the Assembly of Israel contains Din [judgment] and Rachamim [mercy]” (Introduction of The Book of Zohar, “The Rose”).

Judgment, the quality of rigidity in our relationship, is red. But when we remove the judgment in our relationship and treat each other only through friendship, love, and kindness, this is white.

That is, a Kabbalist feels bestowal and love in the form of white light, and the rigid relationship between us in the form of red.

Judgment and mercy are two qualities of a person, according to which we invite upon ourselves the same two qualities from the Creator. As we treat each other, so does the Creator treat us.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23

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Question: A samurai came to a sage and asked him if there really is hell and heaven.

“Who are you?,”  the sage asked.

“A samurai,” the warrior answered.

“You’re lying,” said the sage, “You have the face of a beggar.”

The samurai drew his sword. The sage said, “That is how the doors of hell open.”

The samurai understood and, bowing, hid the sword.

“And that is how the doors of heaven open,” said the sage.

Is it possible not to pull out the sword for any insult? Meaning, not to go through hell before heaven?

Answer: It is very difficult. I think it is almost impossible.

Comment: So, the road to heaven is paved through the hell that you are passing through. This is serious.

My Response: What can you do? This is how we were created. This is our incomparable egoism.

Question: In principle, it does not forgive anyone, it must immediately answer?

Answer: Yes. The first thought is to draw a sword because that is who we are; there is no getting away from it.

There is no way we can turn ourselves around so that we are guided by the good since, “I created evil.” It is like the words of the Creator. “And He created the Torah to correct it.” But it is evil to start with.

Question: Why was evil created in the beginning?

Answer: In order for a person to realize his nature from edge to edge. From evil to good, both manifestations fully, and then lean toward the good. Then indeed they will be guided by good over evil. But one cannot exist without the other.

Question: So, one way or another we go through hell to heaven, right?

Answer: Certainly.

Question: Then what is the wisdom of man? We say, “Man is wise.”

Answer: It is to see in advance, without going through hell at every step, that you need to act differently. But this comes from very big trials and experience.

Question: So, does the experience of constant hell lead to the fact that a person becomes wiser?

Answer: Of course, like that Japanese sage.

Comment: You often say that a person can concede. You even used the words “submission,” “annulment,” and “annulment of oneself.”

My Response: These are all very difficult states that you still must go through hell. I do not believe that a person can overcome himself in advance without having a lot of experience. It is impossible.

Question: You are now talking about rising above your egoism. What is it to rise above egoism?

Answer: That means to feel egoism in all its possible manifestations in life, even in nature, and to rise above it all the time. To bow your head, that is, to reduce your egoism, reduce, minimize, suppress.

Question: If you constantly do the exercise of suppressing your egoism, annulling yourself, will it help?

Answer: I do not think this exercise is even possible. This is philosophy. It is possible only if it is gradually, gradually exercised in a suitable society. There should be an environment where everyone wants it. They cannot do it, but they want to.

Question: Do they have a feeling that they cannot accomplish it?

There must be an awareness of evil. And then they all together, in front of each other, together can, helping each other, get out of this fetid pit.

Answer: Certainly. There must be a revelation of evil. And then they all together, before each other, they can help each other, and get out of this fetid pit.

Question: Who is responsible for the way out of there? Us?

Answer: Yes, us! We have to ask, beg, think, speak, and show examples to each other, and thus act. Everyone who has more egoism, of course, becomes higher. In general, this is the work.

Question: If this work is done in the society of those who want to get out of egoism, does it help others?

Answer: It helps others, not even only by example. It does not even matter if they see it or not because it is a force of nature, and it is thus added to the general equation of nature and outweighs egoism first, and then altruism.

Question: Are you saying that if this group manages to rise, it will begin to lift everyone after it?

Answer: Yes. We must act.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/29/23

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Question: Recently, several films have been released about the perception of reality, which seem very close to Kabbalah. People realize that there is another reality, but no one can describe it; they can only fantasize and speculate about it. What is the use of their fantasies if a person does not really see it?

Answer: A person is like a child who plays all the time in order to become an adult. When he aspires to this, he makes great efforts and therefore becomes an adult.

At the same time he invites certain influences upon himself from the degree to which he aspires, from that reality that he does not have in him. But if it exists, he comes closer to it in this way. This is the law of nature! Even plants have an inner desire to grow, and therefore they get big.

Comment: But besides Kabbalists, no one else particularly describes another reality, mostly only those who take hallucinogenic drugs. Moreover, they describe it clearly and precisely, as a single mechanism, and very close to how it is described in Kabbalah. They probably do it due to some other reactions.

My Response: No, they cannot get to the spiritual level. They describe some internal fluctuations that occur in them under the influence of psychotropic substances. But this is not a transition from our reality into another reality! It cannot be done with any drugs!

After all, besides the fact that you must suppress your egoism, you must correctly use your egoistic desire in the opposite direction, for exiting yourself. They do not have that! I do not have a shadow of a doubt that they do not see anything. They can describe some of their inner experiences because chemical reactions work in the brain.

You can say, “But chemical reactions work for you too.” Certainly. I have them as well. But I tune them with my desire, rise above them, and feel the spiritual world not in my animalistic body.

Let us say I am in a spiritual reality. You can come up to me, shoot me in the head, and my body will die, but I will still remain in the spiritual reality because “desire for my own sake” depicts our world for me, “desire for bestowal” depicts the upper world for me, and thus I I feel this upper world without any connection with my body.

But they do not have that! They do not control their desire. Therefore, their description is completely unrelated to spirituality.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Unreal Reality” 6/27/11

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Comment: When I first came across Kabbalistic videos, you were saying the same things as you do now, but there was some energy behind your words. Then, over time, as I listened to it over and over again, I no longer had the initial trembling.

My Response: Your egoism has grown, and therefore you are no longer receptive to the same words. You are thinking: “I already know this, let’s move on. What else can you offer me? Why don’t you reveal anything further?” And grievances arise in you

And grievances are very simple, and I have them too. I told you, now you open it up within yourself. I can’t reveal anything more to you.

Question: How can we use the egoism that has grown?

Answer: But the egoism in you has become completely different. You are no longer the programmed person you used to be; it is possible to talk to you now. You already feel a little, understand and hear the world, hear our ideas, and are able perceive them from two sides, not just by cutting off and remaining closed off.

You have revealed another whole being in yourself; you have done significant work. It is not an easy thing.

Question: Does everyone have their own time frame for a specific turnover?

Answer: This is correct. It happened relatively quickly for you. There are people who haven’t been able to hear for years.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Internal Overturn” 5/28/11

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Comment: When a person begins to study Kabbalah, he enthusiastically takes up dissemination and thinks that this is how it should be. Then he stumbles upon a barrier that breaks him and shows that he needs to be careful not to run to everyone and not “wave the flag.” He begins to realize that the fanaticism that was driving him previously is stupid.

My Response: This is the fanaticism of the crowd that was imposed on you. But now nothing is imposed on you, but gradually you are given additional intelligence, additional facts, an additional scheme of creation and the world so that you would act. Previously, on the contrary, you were manipulated.

Comment: I understand the reaction of people who encounter Kabbalah for the first time. When I began to study Kabbalah, I had a standard reaction of fear from the normal world that I had seemingly gotten somewhere wrong. There has always been such an attitude on the part of people.

My Response: No, now you can safely tell them what Kabbalah is talking about because you have some kind of conceptual apparatus and an appropriate vocabulary.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Fanaticism!!!” 6/14/11

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Question: You have students who have been studying for more than 15 years. Do you see how they change? Maybe some change and some do not?

Answer: No, everybody changes. The fact is that the changes that we have to go through take a very long time. First, they are passed through by a group that moves due to a point in the heart and advances not because it is pressed by a crisis or some kind of suffering, but because it rushes forward on its own.

Therefore, our world group moves at its own pace, learns, and creates a huge spiritual academy out of itself. However, the masses who will come will begin to study just global nature a little: what kind of interconnected world we find ourselves in, what a closed integral system means, and so on. It will be easy for them.

They do not have to know much. It is enough for them to study such simple things as why we should be interconnected, why nature forces us to do this, and why we used to develop in a certain way, but today we develop in a different way, and why egoism used to force us to compete, to be in a consumer society, and now is destroying itself, becoming its own gravedigger, and forcing us to make it integral and global, to enter an analog system in which everything is interconnected so that we build a new society.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Internal Coup!” 5/28/11

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Comment: In the practice of Kabbalah, at some point a person goes through an interesting turning point where he begins to look at people outside of Kabbalah correctly. He seems to change and does not impose his views and interests on them.

My Response: What for? The fact is that each of us must become an integral element with his own mind, with his own feelings, with his own understandings, with adaptation. I can’t do this job for you and I can’t force you. Nature requires your personal reasonable participation.

The problem is that all eight billion inhabitants of the planet need to be trained so that they become smarter, more sensitive, so that they understand, realize, see each in their own measure the whole system, their participation in it.

You can’t come to anyone and show them: do this, be silent, and that’s it. Therefore, all the previous egoistic approaches with instructions, orders, and violence are not suitable here. As it is said: “There is no coercion in spirituality.”

There’s nothing you can do. Only indirectly, you will explain to a person twenty thousand times, show ten thousand times, hug him five thousand times, invite him to observe, watch, and so on. And what will sink into his heart after that, that’s what you’ll get, and there is no other way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Fanaticism!!!” 6/14/11

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