Nature Will Force Us

In the News (archipreneur): “By 2050, 90% of the world’s largest cities will be exposed to rising seas. The vast majority of coastal cities will be impacted by coastal erosion and flooding, displacing millions of people, while destroying homes and infrastructure. Marc Collins Chen, Co-Founder and CEO of OCEANIX, said humans can live on floating cities in harmony with life below water. …

“As part of UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda, floating cities non-profit OCEANIX, the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, BIG and partners propose a vision for the world’s first resilient and sustainable floating community for 10,000 residents: Oceanix City. …

“Designed as a man-made ecosystem, Oceanix City is anchored in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, channeling flows of energy, water, food and waste to create a blueprint for a modular maritime metropolis.

“Oceanix City is designed to grow, transform and adapt organically over time, evolving from neighborhoods to cities with the possibility of scaling indefinitely. Modular neighborhoods of 2 hectares create thriving self-sustaining communities of up to 300 residents with mixed-use space for living, working and gathering during day and night time.”

Question: In principle, there are more and more such projects. Do you think this is realistic?

Answer: I do not think this is realistic. I do not think it is necessary because there is so much unoccupied space on Earth that 200 billion more people could populate.

The future of humanity seems to be more orderly to me. People will realize that their balance with nature is primarily in their minds and in their attitude toward nature. That must be correct, balanced, and in correspondence with the laws of nature, not the laws of human egoism, which is opposite to all this.

Question: Are you saying that the sea level is rising only because, as you just said, we have a problem in our minds? Do you mean that all we have to do is to switch something in our brains and the sea will retreat?

Answer: Yes.

Remark: This is unbelievable!

My Comment: Why unbelievable? No. We will start to treat nature differently. Our thoughts and our desires are the highest level of influence on it.

Question: Can we measure this?

Answer: No, it is impossible to measure.

Question: So, there is no way to prove this?

Answer: Then there will be a so-called proof by contradiction.

Question: Is it possible to prove by contradiction that at some point, when the water will inevitably advance, that a person will switch something in his brain and the sea will retreat?

Answer: In other words, is there a boundary between human stupidity and human stubbornness? I think that there is. because although the person is a very big, stupid, and stubborn egoist, at the same time, he is nevertheless a sensitive element of nature, and when he is pricked, he screams “Ouch!”

It all depends on the extent of pricking. When everything is taken away from him and life becomes such that it would be better not to live, then he begins to think. However, this is enormous suffering! Enormous! From the Kabbalistic point of view, it is practically unbearable.

Nature will, harshly, precisely in its lawful way, correct a person. It cannot do this in any other way. However, we are given the opportunity to do this ahead of time in a positive way. We will not solve this problem by running from one corner of the globe to another.

In all that relates to ecology and our interaction with nature, we need to listen to scientists. They present expert data that you can neither believe nor disbelieve. This is just information, and we need to act according to it: what should we do to prevent this?

We will then come to the decision that everything depends on a person, on one’s attitude to other people and to nature itself. For this, it is necessary to correct the human nature from egoistic, when one feels nothing but oneself, to altruistic.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/25/19

The Layer In Which We Discover The Creator

Question: If a person is an evil inclination and the whole concept of good is based on the moral, egoistic definitions of our world, then how does a person determine his or someone else’s evil?

Answer: Only through the relations to each other. Your character can be anything: impatient, unbearable, you name it. The thing is how you relate to others, whether you want to connect with them, at least to become a little closer, or make some movement toward them.

It does not depend on your qualities from birth. There are people who are happy to hug each other, laugh, dance, and have fun. Also, there are people who sit in the corners and do not want to communicate with anyone. This is unrelated to our earthly properties given to us from birth.

It is completely different when I want to start connecting with strangers regardless of who I am or who they are. Indeed, if I unite with them, in this way I create conditions between us for the revelation of the Creator.

Question: So you can say that this is a good deed?

Answer: This is just a persistent action for our unification when we rise above our egoism. Naturally, we need to suppress our egoism—not destroy it, but simply rise above it until we include two states: the lowest, that is, egoistic attitude to each other, and the highest—the relationship of love, reciprocity, and unification.

Between these two opposite states, as in a sandwich, a layer is formed in which we find the Creator, ourselves, and the upper world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/7/19

The New War Against The Jews (Times Of Israel)

The Times of Israel published my new article “The New War Against the Jews”

The parallels between the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and today’s political climate are clear. Political extremism on both the left and the right have started to take hold. Civilized discourse between the various groups has devolved into name-calling, and the ghosts of anti-Semitism have reawakened, which many hoped were dead and buried along with the Third Reich. These echoes from the past should sound an alarm for Jews around the world, and especially in America. If history was to repeat itself and the unthinkable were to occur, how close are we to another Holocaust?

Then and Now

Steven Spielberg, who established the USC Shoah Foundation to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, expressed deep concern that genocide is as possible today as during the Nazi era. “When collective hate organizes and gets industrialized, then genocide follows,” Spielberg commented in a recent media interview. “We have to take it more seriously today than I think we have had to take it in a generation,” he added.

Within three months of Hitler’s coming to power in Germany in 1933, a nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses and professionals was ordered. The Nazis’ official explanation for the boycotts was that they were implemented as a counter-reaction to the demands of Jewish organizations in the US and Britain to boycott German-made products due to the Nazis coming to power (which was true). This action legitimized anti-Jewish activity and gave it official support, which had not existed until then and marked the commencement of the war against the Jews, as anti-Semitic ideology began penetrating into German consciousness.

The Nazis’ boycotts included harassment and vandalism of Jewish businesses, people and institutions. They were followed by a downward spiral of actions that lead to the deaths of six million of our brethren. It is understandable that when we hear the word “boycott,” it still triggers a brutal reminder of the beginnings of the Holocaust.

Israel’s Enemies from Within and Without

One of the major differences between the 1930s and today is that the State of Israel exists. Israel today is like the Jews of Germany in the 1930s: it stands at the frontline and beats the brunt of a new war on the Jews. Instead of blatant anti-Semitism, the hatred of Jews has been repackaged under the guise of anti-Zionism that today’s anti-Semites say is either Jewish apartheid or the Israeli government’s policies. This is meant to confuse the public and isolate Israel. However, we should not be deceived: anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Sadly, some extreme leftist Jewish organizations such as J Street and IfNotNow, as well as Israeli activists and intellectuals, are playing a leading role in global hatred campaigns, such as the BDS movement, which are meant to demonize and isolate Israel.

The Israeli students recently attacked in Warsaw for admitting they were from Israel, and the traditionally dressed Jews brutally assaulted in Brooklyn, were easy to identify as Jewish by their clothing and language. Secular Jews should take no comfort in this, nor should they fool themselves into believing that this cannot happen to them in the United States.

European Jews also dissociated themselves from the warning signals in the 1930s. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws stated that one Jewish grandparent made you Jewish and bought you a one-way ticket to the gas chambers.

What should we recognize about the current war against the Jews? It is potentially scarier than the Nazi’s war on the Jews. The new anti-Semitism can affect any Jew, anywhere, anytime, since threats are coming at us from all sides, in every shape and form: from radical Islam, the far-right and far-left, mainstream politics, economic forces, and even from the worlds of arts and academia.

The BDS movement’s growing influence portends the danger that may lie ahead. Zooming in, we reveal that the boycotts are working effectively: Europe’s largest bank, HSBC, divested from the Israeli defense company Elbit Systems, and the German sports company, Adidas, ended its 10-year sponsorship of the Israel Football Association (IFA). The BDS movement takes credit for both actions. Soda Stream and Ahava relocated their factories from the West Bank to undisputed areas in Israel. We cannot be naïve and think these are campaigns only against Israeli settlements: It is a war on the very legitimacy of the Jewish state, which is constantly singled out by international organizations and falsely accused of the worst possible atrocities.

All the charges against the Jews by the Nazis are echoed by the BDS movement against Israel and Jews. The Nazis claimed that Jews were the root of all evil, brought World War I to Europe, destroyed the German economy, and undermined the country. Similarly, BDS proponents claim that Israel is waging war, exploiting innocent Palestinians, extorting the world, and committing genocide.

The anti-Semitic trend in the United States is also unfavorable. 19% of Americans think that small shops have the right to refuse service to Jews if doing business with them goes against the religious beliefs of shop owners, according to a recent survey published by the Public Religion Research Institute.

It’s the Same War in Israel or America: It’s Our Shared Destiny

In addition to the economic impact, the most resounding influence of BDS activity is in the Western academic world, affecting Jewish students and academics. Senior researchers refuse to maintain links with universities in Israel and with Israeli researchers, while student associations pressure for the marginalization of Israel. The New York University Department of Social and Cultural Analysis voted to boycott the university’s Tel Aviv campus, and the American Association of University Professors issued a statement supporting the decision. The boycott movement covers virtually all campuses of US academic institutions including Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Yale. It also reaches inside student dormitories, creating a hostile and violent atmosphere for Jewish students who publicly support Israel, and even for those who are simply known as being Jewish.

Although many Jews in the Diaspora claim to have issues with the State of Israel, or at least its official policies, many of the boycott movements’ proponents make no such distinctions. For them, a Jew is a Jew, a good Jew is a dead Jew, and a good Israel is the one that is wiped off the map and erased from reality.

Israel is an intrinsic part of the collective Jewish identity and is perceived that way by the nations of the world. So when judgement is passed and punishment imposed on Israel, it falls on the entire Jewish collective and not on only an individual part.

The increasing pressure against Jews and the State of Israel is an attention call for us to come together and ask essential questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we headed?

The Jewish people are a unique example. The fact that we originally came from different backgrounds, united above our differences and become one people, “as one man with one heart,” makes us unique. But being special does not mean we are to look down on others from above; it means we are to serve others. Delivering that example of unity under the premise “love your neighbor as yourself” is what the nations of the world subliminally demand from us. They instinctively feel Jews hold the keys for peace and prosperity in the world, and their complaint for not sharing it is manifested as anti-Semitism.

It is incumbent upon us Jews to unite above our differences yet again. The only thing that will end the new war against the Jews is our making all the Jewish people as one. If we can find this desire to unify within us and fan its flames, we will become a positive force that will permeate the world, and hatred against us will vanish.

As Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag wrote during WWII in his 1940 paper, The Nation:

It is also clear that the enormous effort that the rugged road ahead requires of us mandates unity that is as solid and as hard as steel from all parts of the nation, without exception. If we do not come out with united ranks toward the mighty forces that are standing on our way to harm us, we will find that our hope is doomed in advance.

And from that common ground and goal, Jews must embark on a shared path that is not motivated by fears and materialistic impulses, but instead by the desire for a common spirit and vision as one unified and thriving people for this and future generations.

There Are No Sinners In Our World, Only Lazy People

Question: The revelation of evil and defects in love, are they simultaneous or consecutive actions and states?

Answer: I do not see any defects at all. Please remember and try to understand: there are no defects, no breakings, no crashes, and no traffic accidents whatsoever.

What has existed originally is being revealed, nothing new appears. Therefore, there is no division and separation between us. Each time a greater degree of corruption of our Kli (vessel) is revealed. It was broken in the very beginning by one act, what is called the sin of Adam. Now, all this is revealed to us.

Therefore, we must greet every horrible incident as a blessing. Now, you are given work: please correct it and get one step closer to spirituality, and after that, one more step. After a few steps, you will begin to feel how the world opens to you more and more, and the force of the Creator is within it.

You should not look at the world as if you are breaking it. We are not doing anything bad at all. There are no sinners in our world, there are only lazy people. We are not breaking or corrupting the world in any way.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/12/19

Life And Death—Alternating Sensations

Question: What happens after the death of the physical body? Does consciousness disappear?

Answer: Consciousness through the animal body disappears, and consciousness through the soul remains.

Question: What if a person has not yet developed a soul?

Answer: Then he must again dress into an animal body.

Question: So, he will simply not feel anything, as if he had fallen asleep and that is all?

Answer: Not really. Certain sensations remain, but they are very illusory since a person has not yet left his egoism. Therefore, he only feels certain fluctuations, and again feels himself in this world.

Question: But when he dresses in a new body, does he not feel who he was in past lives? Or is there an opportunity to feel?

Answer: No. He does not feel any of that. We need to understand: there is no such thing as death and life. This is all the alteration of sensations, nothing more.

Question: What does remain of the past life, what passes into the new life?

Answer: Nothing.

Question: What happens with the past experiences, with the sufferings and pleasures that a person experienced during his life?

Answer: It all accumulates and passes from one state to another. Nothing is lost. However, in principle, the experience that a person undergoes gradually becomes transformed in the person in the following generations. Therefore, we see that each new generation is different. It is not just somewhat more developed; it has a different type of thinking.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah” 12/11/18

Uniqueness Of The Creator, Part 10

Consequence of the Influence of the Upper Light

Question: I exist in some capacity and does the upper force constantly affect me? Can I call it upon myself?

Answer: Of course. But only to the extent that you are in the right environment. Through this environment you can invoke the upper force, and in no other way.

You can enter integration, mutual communication, with it only if you try to unite with the kind of people who have the same goal: to achieve some sort of equivalence with the light. Then, if you make small movements toward this, the light immediately changes in its movement toward you and moves you toward itself.

Question: How can I feel it? How will it be expressed?

Answer: It will be expressed in you beginning to love others more, appreciating and understanding that they are necessary for your development. But this is still egoistic.

Question: Is this called a “sensation of the Creator”?

Answer: No, this is not yet a sensation of the Creator. This is a consequence of the impact of the upper light. Other changes will then slowly occur—your birth in the spiritual world, in the quality of light.

Remark: To love others, to treat them kindly is good. But for me the “sensation of the Creator” is something that infinitely fills me.

My Comment: This is true, but it happens in accordance with your attitude toward others!

Remark: You narrow everything down to some kind of relationship…

My Comment: I narrow this down absolutely clearly and concretely. Kabbalah is a concrete and practical science. Therefore, in no case do I want to confuse my listeners.

Kabbalah does not say a word about anything abstract. Only in a group can you master it and make sure that it is right.

Question: Is the group just a means?

Answer: Yes, and then it becomes the source of correction, a technique, and the goal. In the group, as in a spiritual Partzuf, in the soul, the Creator is revealed.

Question: What gives a person a sense of the Creator?

Answer: One passes into another state, into another world, into another dimension. A person begins to understand what happened to him throughout his life, and where this leads him. One parts with one’s ideas about life and death, and does not fear death. A person becomes immortal. One understands everything that happens. A person becomes driven solely by one thing: how to help everyone else achieve the same state.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah”, 12/10/18

How To Develop The Point In The Heart

Question: Does a Kabbalist explore the world, not with the usual five senses, but with a new instrument called the screen (Masach)?

Answer: Yes. It is an anti-egoistic quality that we develop in ourselves by studying Kabbalah.

In every person, there is an embryo of the quality of bestowal and love for others, but it is just an embryo, what is called a small point in the heart that exists in his egoistic heart.

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains how to develop this point, like a seed planted in the ground that begins to grow.

We explore corporeal sciences subjectively. The wisdom of Kabbalah, however, tells us how we can plant our altruistic seed in egoism, and through the correct connection between us, it will grow and give us a new altruistic force.

Therefore, with the help of Kabbalah or the screen (an additional sensory organ), we can explore the true reality, which our egoism does not disturb.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah,” 12/13/18

New Life #1151 – Attracting Abundance Into Our Lives

New Life #1151 – Attracting Abundance Into Our Lives
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

We are within different fields of information, a field of desire and a field of thought. We can program reality by engaging in the law of equivalence of form. In a group, we can learn how to build a system of relationships between us that will adjust itself to the field of light that surrounds us and invite its beneficial influence. We have to be attracted to it and become like it in order for this reciprocity to occur. This is only possible when we act accordingly within a group. It is necessary to do daily exercises, connect with others, and turn to the field of light for the good of the whole through mutual bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #1151 – Attracting Abundance Into Our Lives,” 8/8/19

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Uniqueness Of The Creator Part 9

What Is the Influence of the Upper Light?

Question: In the article “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” item 155, Baal HaSulam describes how the upper light works. He says that Kabbalists obligated each person to study the wisdom of Kabbalah only in order to attract upon ourselves this light that changes us.

What is the influence of the light? How can I feel this transformation on myself and into whom can I turn?

Answer: You can feel the influence of the light on yourself, in your personal changes and personal qualities, such as desires, intentions, qualities, in the more clearly depicted purpose of development.

Question: Am I becoming more moral?

Answer: Maybe not. However, you increasingly understand what is going on. You might not yet be changing, but if you are studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, the upper light is already affecting you and preparing you to want change.

Question: Does it mean that the upper light is not the Creator yet? There is the Creator and there is the upper light, right?

Answer: No, there is only one force, but we call it different names according to the way it manifests itself. We call the upper intention “the Creator,” and we call His influence upon us “the light.”
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah,” 12/10/18

Why Evil Cannot Be Destroyed In The World

Question: Why does the Creator carefully protect and prevent the destruction of evil in the world?

Answer: Who would be corrected? Both evil and good must be corrected at the same time because they are all the cause of evil.

Question: Are you saying that good is also a reason for correction?

Answer: Of course! Both good and evil are equally responsible for the manifestation of some negative phenomenon. If we remove this negative phenomenon, then the same good and the same evil with their internal vices remain, and next time an even greater evil is manifested.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/7/19

New Life #1150 – The Trend Of Increasing Violence

New Life #1150 – The Trend of Increasing Violence
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Violence is increasing because the time has come for humanity to correct itself through general, social education. Today, our nervous systems cannot withstand the great pressures and tensions in the world. Seemingly normal people erupt in violence and no one knows what the next moment will bring. We are evolving from a very individualistic society to life with new meaning and interpersonal connection. People need to learn how to hold onto each other and bring life into balance. We need to be educated regarding how to build a new environment and general atmosphere that will bring a sense of calm everywhere and influence everyone for the better.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #1150 – The Trend of Increasing Violence,” 8/6/19

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How To Awaken The Jewish People

From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 9/15/19

Can We Move Forward Without Descents?

Question: Can we move forward without descents and disappointments?

Answer: No, we cannot. But we should relate to such states not as a descent, but as the revelation of even greater and greater shattering of our common soul. These are not descents, but problems that I can fix again and again.

Moreover, why should I relate to a descent negatively, with fear: “Oh, now something else will be revealed!” On the contrary, it is said that you should search for where there are more problems, like an old man who is looking for something he lost.

He knows that without these problems he will not advance. Therefore, he is called an old man, meaning a man who has wisdom and experience.

We just need to tune into the fact that there are no problems in life. It is always only the Creator’s attitude toward me that excites me in such a way that I feel the need for Him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/12/19

Flying To A Beautiful Future

Question: How does the light decide who is worthy to cross the Machsom (barrier)?

Answer: The light operates upon us simultaneously, and according to our strength, purity, and similarity to the light, we aspire to the goal in our own individual way, at different speeds.

Try to be as close as possible to the light in your qualities and you will literally begin to fly, as if through the air, to this beautiful future.

Question: Can a Kabbalist, with the force of his screen and thought, travel in time: backward, forward, like in a time machine?

Answer: Traveling in time means having a screen. Yes, it is possible. But again, what for? There can be nothing egoistic; this is not like some kind of corporeal journey: I want to fly above the clouds.

Here I am referring to taking off with the force of my will, tremendous internal tension, by bringing myself closer to the upper qualities of bestowal and love, to a universal greater distribution. In this way, I can fly. These are all very serious efforts.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/28/19

New Life #277 – The Male And Female Brain, Part 2

New Life #277 – The Male and Female Brain, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Spiritual transcendence occurs when a person constructs himself both as a man and a woman. We perform actions as men when we help others and desire to attain spirituality. We behave as women when we receive help from others and desire to enjoy life. Completion, wholeness, and true love between the genders requires connecting through sharing a common goal: to be one and to benefit the single system in which we all live. In the state of love for others, awareness will include both genders since a whole person has both male and female aspects. In such a connection, we will find that the differences between men and women disappear in the concept of one where there is a new brain structure, a new way of life, and a new dimension.
From KabTV’s “New Life #277 – The Male and Female Brain,” Part 2

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Efficiently Move Forward

Question: What attitude should we build toward the past, present, and future in order to move forward most effectively in Kabbalah and in life?

Answer: On one hand, it is very simple, but on the other hand, it is difficult. It is just that I have to imagine the whole of humanity, the whole world, as one single entity, one single construction, controlled only by a good upper force. I want to have my own relationship to this force, to identify with it, belong to it, and enter it. As soon as I try to adapt to the upper force, meaning to bring myself into a state of merging with the Creator, I will immediately begin to feel all of humanity as one single mechanism.

In general, everyone agrees that this is probably true, while others only talk about it. What else can they do? But I will know, see, feel, understand, comprehend, and also realize this through my actions.

The wisdom of Kabbalah gives us the tools to intervene in nature correctly through our participation. To the extent that I can correctly interact with a higher, eternal, perfect, good nature in absolute communication with all its parts, I will reveal, understand, and feel it, see its intention, the system, and the formula by which it works.

Question: How does one come closer to the future that you are talking about?

Answer: You have a group for this. If it is not there, you must create a group in which people would like to reach a state where they are one single whole, and realize it.

This does not mean that you should be physically connected to each other. You should simply support each other in your movement toward a common goal, take care of each other’s spiritual life, since in such a group the spiritual life of each depends on the others.

Therefore, if we relate to each other with full involvement, where each is ready to be there for the other, then we will begin to feel a manifestation of a positive force, the Creator, within us. I wish for you to feel it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/28/19

New Life #276 – The Male And Female Brain, Part 1

New Life #276 – The Male and Female Brain, Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Men and women experience the desire to enjoy in opposite ways, which are supposed to connect into one perfect system at the end of development. Women desire to build a home, a place to rule. Men, on the other hand, desire to break out, far away from home, and play with all kinds of new things. The nature of a woman is to absorb and receive. The nature of a man is to spread and overcome. In recent generations, there has been confusion and shuffling between the genders and the distinctions are fading. Men have taken on a feminine form since they are weaker than women. Men lack patience and are only strong in the short-term, whereas women are connected to nature and can survive long-term. The destruction of the masculine nature is not a coincidence but a course planned in the evolution of nature.
From KabTV’s “New Life #276 – The Male and Female Brain, Part 1”

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New Life #275 – The Ego And I, Part 2

New Life #275 – The Ego and I, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

As of today, we are recognizing the evil inherent to egoistic development and are moving into a new approach in which we are all concerned about social connection, equality, and reciprocity. A new vision is rising that will also bring us into balance with the ecological environment we live in. The true self is one that enjoys life in all its fullness. The power to make a change like this is latent in nature and integral education is the method for locating it. This requires a higher power that is revealed when everyone is connected as in one heart.
From KabTV’s “New Life #275 – The Ego and I, Part 2”

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A Different Perspective | Short Interview with Michael Laitman

From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 9/12/19

Am I a successful person?
What would I like to change in my life?
What am I afraid of?
Whom will I never forgive?
If I had one day left to live how would I spend it?
And what personality from history would I want to sit down to lunch with?
25 short questions and answers from a different perspective.