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“Do our thoughts influence nature?” (Quora)

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Do our thoughts influence nature?“ Indeed, our thoughts influence nature. We live in a single global-integral system of nature, we influence it with our thoughts, and we receive feedback accordingly. Similar to laws that operate on mechanical, electronic, electromagnetic and other material and biological scales, when we press, push or constrain […]

The World Is One Big Village

Question: What is history from the point of view of Kabbalah? Answer: It is the development of egoism. History is the development of the simplest egoism, which gradually increases from small, individual, family, like in animals, to communal, urban, state, and finally global. Accordingly, we see the struggles of people at the same level. First, […]

Income Growth for Every Third Inhabitant of the Planet

Comment: The largest trade agreement in history was forged between 15 countries during the pandemic. The main goal of the RCEP is to smooth the path of trade among the 15 Asia-Pacific nations and eventually pave the way for a comprehensive free-trade zone, in the style of the European Union or the old North American […]

“What do you know about the system in which we live?” (Quora)

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What do you know about the system in which we live?“ We live in a single global-integral system, and it has a specific demand from us. What is its demand? It is that we adapt to its global-integral laws. The system we live in urges us to connect to it in […]

Conflict of Reasons

Question: How do you distinguish whether you are in corporeal or in spiritual reason? Answer: It depends on whether I am included in an upper degree, whether I annul myself before it. Or maybe I am no longer annulling myself but have climbed to this degree, I am in it, meaning I begin to absorb […]

In a World of Lies

We live in a world full of lies where there is no independent, objective media. You take a newspaper, read it, and try to find through the news published in it what is really happening. No one is interested in the opinion of the authors of these articles today because it is all very biased. […]

“What did Einstein really do that was so great that helped humanity?” (Quora)

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What did Einstein really do that was so great that helped humanity?“ Einstein did nothing to benefit us. Moreover, he helped build the atom bomb, and told us that there are properties in our world that we cannot understand. It would have been better if he and the other nuclear physicists […]

Survival Technique

Question: Is it our task to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah to people as widely as possible? Answer: The task is not in the wisdom of Kabbalah, but in making a person understand that he is offered a method of existence in our changing world. After all, whatever one was taught and whatever one has […]

“How can we protect the environment?” (Quora)

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How can we protect the environment?“ Our every problem stems from our perception of ourselves as separate from nature, where we differentiate “me” from “everyone and everything outside of me.” Such a perception makes us regard our environment as subordinate to us. Even when we care for the environment, we do […]

How Do We Break Out of Prison?

In the News (SciTechDaily): “University of Chicago data and social scientists have developed a new algorithm that forecasts crime by learning patterns in time and geographic locations from public data on violent and property crimes. It has demonstrated success at predicting future crimes one week in advance with approximately 90% accuracy.  … “‘We created a […]