Question: As a rule, most of the time a person talks to himself. Who is he talking to: his ego or the upper force? How can I tell if I’m talking to myself or to the Creator?

Answer: You are talking to whomever you envision. It can be close or distant friends, relatives, parents, the Creator, an evil force, a good force, it doesn’t matter what. Whomever you imagine is whom you are communicating with.

Question: Actually, if there were no pauses between speaking but only constant sounds, we would not hear each other at all. Is that why pauses are important?

Answer: That is right. It is very interesting to watch TV shows when several politicians meet; each one speaks without paying attention to the other; there is continuous constant noise. This is typical for them.

But ordinary people still communicate in such a way as to give each other the opportunity to speak and to somehow express themselves. By doing so, they show respect for each other.

In fact, a pause, a silence, and then speech are like inhaling and exhaling. These are necessary natural parts.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What qualities make a good politician?“

Before discussing the qualities that make a good politician, we need to understand that there is a higher force of nature determining and directing human development in order to guide us to aim for everything we think and do in connection with it. In the end, human connections will need to be glued together with the higher force of nature in order for human society to shift to a direction where we discover a new form of prosperity and happiness, perfectly adapted to our interconnected and interdependent world.

We thus need to place the attainment of the higher force of nature at the apex of human activity, i.e. at the heart of educational programs, decisions and laws. It should manifest on personal, family, social, state and global scales. By doing so, we will organize human society toward positive future progress, where we will discover the higher force of nature in our connections.

A good politician is thus one who aims to draw the higher force of nature into society, caring that connection-enriching education will fill society, and that people will gain the tools to positively connect and draw the higher force of nature into their lives. Good politicians will also not arouse hatred because they will be grateful to their opposition. They will use their opposition in order to show how correct their methodology is, because it will be the truth.

Based on the video “What Qualities Make a Good Politician?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Semion Vinokur. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: What is the right way to imagine the soul at this stage? Where can I find this organ inside myself?

Answer: The soul is a property of similarity to the Creator. If I begin to strive to bestow, to fulfill, and to be kind to others, that is, if I will try to somehow manifest in myself all the properties of the Creator that I know in relation to others, then I will increasingly feel myself approaching the Creator until I begin to feel Him more and more clearly.

It is this aspiration to discover an inclination for bestowal and love for other people in myself, that will be called the soul inside me.

Question: But why is it so? It is not clear.

Answer: There is nothing else besides this.

Comment: It is love and unity again.

My Response: This is the property of the Creator. It is His manifestation in relation to us, and in us this property is manifested as opposite to the Creator.

Question: Could they not have come up with something else?

Answer: You do not like it because it is too far away from you, opposite to you. That is why it was created this way, so that you could attain the Creator from the opposite state.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/16/22

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Question: You said that until the age of 13, a person perceives the world only in feelings. Does the mind switch on after age 13 when it can analyze everything that it felt before?

Answer: Approximately, nowadays, it may be not at 13, but at 25 because the current generation is in delayed development. This is noted by everyone: psychologists, sociologists, statistics, and polls.

Our generation is more infantile. Young people want to stay at home, do not want to start families and take responsibility; they prefer to sit in a cafe, buried in their phones.

Comment: According to our development, each person is, in principle, a child. He does not perceive the world with his mind at all.

My Response: We perceive everything through feelings, although we cannot admit it to ourselves, we do not understand it because our matter is the will to enjoy, to be filled.

Therefore, first of all, we are sensory sensors, and only later do we become aware of what we feel. Our consciousness is secondary, and matter, which is feelings, is primary.

Our feelings control us so much and dominate our consciousness that we simply do not notice this fact, we do not recognize it. We cannot get out of this, observe from the outside, and investigate. I am not even trying to explain this to people.

Only those who begin to acquire a second feeling, the quality of bestowal instead of the quality of reception, can calculate, realize, evaluate, and weigh to what extent they are in the quality of reception, and in accordance with this, how they can control and evaluate themselves, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mind and Feelings – What Is More Important?” 10/7/13

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And they created school the way the devil had ordered. A child loves nature, yet they locked him up within four walls. A child cannot sit still without moving, yet they forced him to sit still. He loves to work with his hands, yet they started teaching him theories and ideas.

He likes to talk, yet they ordered him to keep silent. He strives to understand, yet he was told to memorize. He would like to research and seek out knowledge on his own, yet it was given to him in a ready-made form.

And then children learned what they would never have learned under other circumstances. They learned to lie and pretend (Adolphe Ferrière, a founder of the Progressive Education Movement).

My Response: It is just as accurate today.

Question: Why did they take this free bird, a child, and stuff him into a cage?

Answer: It is because for you adults, this is simpler and clearer. To pressure a child by force and make him stay in our four corners, and that is all.

Question: Then what are we taking away from him?

Answer: We take away the free development of his soul, heart, mind, and even physical development.

Question: Do you think this is the most important thing for a person?

Answer: I think a child should grow up free. That is, he should sit and listen to adults, but it has to be interesting for him.

And he should spend more time outside with his friends. Simultaneously with friends and a teacher. To go out to the field, fidget with some cars and large machines, and other things like that. Raise a child according to his own ways.

Question: Do you think this is more important than, say, to sit him down and study physics or algebra?

Answer: There is no use of it. Only a few push through it and only because they want to be better than others.

Question: So, you are least interested in knowledge?

Answer: Right. We do not need it.

Question: So, knowledge least of all. And what you just proposed, what is that? Does this set a person free? What does it give him?

Answer: What I am proposing develops a child through the natural course of his activities. In this case, he will invent all kinds of things. Not some airplanes or helicopters but spaceships! Based on completely different principles, ones that we assume are used by aliens. And so on.

So, this liberation will give freedom to ideas, and we still do not know what a child has inside. There are entire worlds in him.

Question: You speak of freedom; what are the principles of this freedom for a child?

Answer: The principles of this freedom are free contact with nature, discussions, conclusions, and debates with adults and peers. All this is very necessary for their proper development. Otherwise, you are simply placing them inside a square or a cube, and they cannot get out of it for the rest of their lives, you constrain their thinking.

Question: And you stop this whole progress by that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does this require of teachers?

Answer: It requires teachers to become different—not like teachers we have today. We have to redo all of it over the course of many years. But then, we will get completely different results.

Question: By realizing this, will we one day reach the fact we need to change everything? The Department of Education…

Answer: Through a great revolution.

Comment: You understand that this includes everything—the entire bureaucratic system.

My Response: All of it!

Comment: Bureaucrats will reject it.

My Response: I am not speaking of whether they would want it or not, whether we should fight for it or not. I am not calling for anything.

Question: So how will it happen?

Answer: I don’t know. I simply talk about what is true.

Question: Can our thinking be taken and changed from above?

Answer: Anything is possible from above. And by “from above,” I don’t mean the government.

Question: So, the upper force can just transform our thinking?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In what circumstances will it do so?

Answer: I cannot assert this with complete confidence, but it seems to me it is when we become completely disillusioned in what we have.
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From KabTV’s “New with Michael Laitman” 9/29/22

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Question: Let’s say a person has committed some kind of offense. How can we help him? Should we moralize? After all, there are a lot of methods.

Answer: We can help him by attracting him to us and connecting with others. We should attract him to us to be in the team and interact with everyone. We need to try to adapt him to that, and that is all.

What is not clear here? All the people who read my blog or listen to me will immediately understand this elementary truth.

What, am I supposed to trample him into the mud? By that I am not correcting him. I have to aim for correction! And what can it be, if not the return of the prodigal son back to the integral, perfect Mother Nature?
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Perfect Punishment” 10/10/13

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic “Faith Above Reason”

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, Item 6

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)”

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is the importance of holding a steady framework?“

Holding a steady framework in life is very important and natural. If we lack order in our lives, we become miserable.

Frameworks help us keep our daily schedule and order. It is thus very important to see that people find their place in life, and that they will have strong social environments that help them hold their frameworks.

Based on the video “What Is the Importance of Holding a Steady Framework?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: What information did Kabbalists have throughout centuries, what secrets of Kabbalah, did they not  divulge? What were they silent about and how could this information have harmed people?

Answer: The Kabbalists had absolutely all information. What was hidden from people, you ask? Is Kabbalah a science that develops like other sciences? The ancient Kabbalists were initiated into all mysteries of nature. There are no such Kabbalists today.

Question: That is why I ask: What secrets were there that they could not be spread?

Answer: It was the same as today. The same secrets. For example, there is none else but the Creator. There is only one force in the world.

Question: And this could not be disclosed because people believed in many different forces?

Answer: They invented them for themselves.

Comment: In principle, the ancient Greeks would have been very offended if there were only one force.

My Response: What would they do? They would have nothing to engage in. How many statues, sculptures, and so on exist in Ancient Greece! Each village has its own museum.

People were at such a stage of development that they could not perceive that there is one force.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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