By The Re-Birth Of The Old World

Question: The current economic system does not meet people’s needs. More than half of the world’s population lives in dire economic conditions and only about a billion people enjoy the affluence and richness of the world.

Moreover, economic development, which is the basis of capitalist civilizations, has practically ceased to function.

At the same time there is another type of economy such as robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. Can we say that the alternative economy will be the basis of the new economy? And what it will be like after the transformation of humanity into the new humanity?

Answer: I think it will be a transition from a qualitative perspective. It isn’t about the economy, not about ecology, but about humanity existing according to different principles, on another level.

It will live in the attainment of another external dimension. The new perception will not be revealed in our five corporeal egoistic senses, as we feel the world around us now.

When we unite on the new level, we will begin to develop feelings that will depict the picture of the world external to us, but it will not be through our corporeal senses which make us feel this world in such a narrow, blurred, and limited way.

The new world will be totally different: a world of forces and properties, not objects and phenomena that are depicted in our egoistic imagination. Then our economy, our culture, and all our life will take on a totally different meaning, an “extra-corporeal” meaning.

We will turn into creatures that will not need any material things, properties, attributes, environment, etc. We will be nourished by energy that is based on synergy, on mutual cooperation, on the balance between the positive and negative forces of nature and will exist between them.

The next level of humanity will not be a corporeal level but a level of thoughts, intentions, and energies. So I don’t think there will be anything left of our economy or our ecology, or our society. We need to be reborn, and this rebirth will be expressed in exiting ourselves into the new perception of the world external to us.

Comment: If that’s the way it will be, then there is no point speaking about the future technological advancements.

Answer: No. It will all die and become meaningless. Even today we are not particularly limited in our abilities. And what do they tell us?  The only thing humanity succeeds in issuffering.

Therefore, all the good things we could gain through economic or technological capabilities do not make us happy. We don’t feel a need for them. People today use drugs mainly in order to distract themselves; they don’t want to get married or have children; it is as if a person screams inside himself: “Leave me alone with all your technologies. I’m not interested in this life!”

I hope we will provide people with the answer to the question of what this life is really about. First humanity has to listen to and understand this and then think about how to reorganize life, since otherwise people will not want to live.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/29/15

Completing The Energy Of Life

Question: Is it possible for a person to make up for his loss of vitality by using a higher power or other sources?

Answer: It is possible and necessary! When a person begins to engage in developing his soul, he receives enormous energy from the upper force of nature. Of course he undergoes difficult states like disappointments, weakness, etc., but eventually due to his perseverance and the importance of the goal, he acquires a tremendous force called the love of others, the need to exist for the sake of others.

A person feels that he has exhausted the corporeal desires of this world and at the same time recognizes his connections with people from the love of others that he has acquired. He develops and he can continue to live in this world together with the feeling of the upper world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/08/15

A Chance To Make The World A Better Place

Question: Can a person who received a blow of fate, not understanding its causes, make a wrong choice again or does the correcting force guide him to make the right choice in order to develop? How many blows can a person bear?

Answer: There are people who reach the solution to the meaning of life, just as you have been brought to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and there are those who don’t reach the wisdom of Kabbalah, although they have suffered more than you have.

It depends on the root of a person’s soul. It is impossible to compare people. There are those who suffer and there are those who don’t suffer and who even enjoy life. We don’t know the reason for what happens in the world and you cannot compare everyone according to the same standard and say that the world is right or not, not knowing how things happen.

You can only speak for yourself. You have been given a chance to make yourself and the world happier, and along with your existence in this world, you receive a reward and a prize, the attainment of the upper world of Infinity. You are able to do so because this is the root of your soul, and later you will discover why it is so and why it was given you and not to the other 8 billion people. It isn’t a special privilege, but it is simply time for your soul to be born and to fulfill its mission. This is the reason you are here.

You cannot compare yourself to others. You cannot know what happens with other souls, which levels they belong to and where they are in the general control system, and there is no point thinking about it. You will discover everything by fulfilling yourself.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/08/15

Terrorism Ruins Islam’s Image

Comment: The president of Iran Hassan Rouhani admitted in an international convention in Tehran that all the terrorist organizations are in fact Muslim, and claimed that this ruins the image of Islam. Rouhani stated that the Islamic world is in a deep crisis and it has to change its negative image because Israel benefits from this image. Rouhani actually admitted that terrorism comes from Islam.

Answer: The world evolves according to its natural pace that does not change unless the upper force that can correct it is inserted into it. There are two options: either to let this force operated the way it does now, in a negative way, which is called the path of suffering, or to draw this force faster so that it will be a quick and sweet path, called the path of Light. If we operate in the ordinary way, along the path of suffering, we will not be able to do anything since it is an objective reality.

Islam is the youngest of the three major religions and it has to undergo the same evolution as the other two religions. In fact, both Christianity and Islam are two religions that wanted to conquer the world. This notion is gradually fading in Christianity and already belongs to the past, while Islam still has to undergo this process. According to Islam, they have to conquer and overpower the whole world. This process can be accelerated, but in principle, Islam is a system of people’s attitude to the world, which they have to develop, demonstrate, and then get rid of.

But the problem is that we are dealing with a great surge of extremism. It is based on religious feelings and leads to the use of arms in order to overpower and to conquer. Therefore, what the Iranian president said cannot change anything and will not prevent anyone from fighting. The Iranian president’s concern is because the war is in the Islamic world.

Comment: Yes, he called all the Islamic states, including those that fight one another, to stop the wars and to get on the right track.

Answer: It is impossible to avoid these wars because Islam’s path toward unity is precisely through an inner struggle. The Islamic world will have to undergo a serious fratricidal war and discover the mutual hatred between them that is greater than their hatred of all other nations. It is a natural process, and therefore nothing can be done, and all this will continue.

I wish Islam to be prudent where possible, to identify the Sufis who say the true Islam is a religion of brotherhood, love, and the right connection and unity. They should see it as a priority and respect the Sufis. It would be a shame if this true part of Islam disappeared.

Question: Would you advise the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to support and empower the Sufis?

Answer: On the one hand, the Sufis already know where the world is headed, but on the other hand, they realize what they are dealing with. It is about a great ego that is awakening now after the hibernation of the Arab world for centuries, and so nothing can be done and humanity has to undergo this phase. What is more, it all depends on those who engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah, not only in the Israeli nation but also those who study the wisdom of Kabbalah all over the world.

If those who study Kabbalah accurately advance toward the goal, which is unity between all mankind, this unity will affect and revive Sufism and revive the same movement of love thy friend as thyself all over the world.

Thus we will receive great help from the Arab world, and together will be able to accurately and firmly determine the approach of changing reality in a peaceful way. We only need to try to unite so that all those who engage in the Islamic ideology will recognize the seed from which they sprouted.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/28/15

How Can We Draw The Upper Light?

Question: How can we draw the Upper Light? Should we cry out, should we meditate?

Answer: You can only draw the Upper Light through your relationships with other people. It is even better if it is in a group of ten people.

If a good state of mutual guarantee, mutual communication, according to the principles that a spiritual group should be built, is formed between them, they begin to feel the upper force in this connection.

Question: What should the uniting positive force that can overcome the ego of all of humanity, that is revealed in all our relationships, both interpersonal, political, international, etc., be?

Answer: It’s very simple. You shouldn’t be in conflict with anyone, not with the family, with society, and not with the state, but engage only in connection and unity with all of humanity.

We have to establish a covenant with everyone according to which we will be able to feel the system of the upper management of our world, acquire the attribute of bestowal, and awaken the forces of goodness and unity in the world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/08/15

How Can We Avoid Ill Fate?

Question: If everything in life is predetermined, isn’t better to remain passive?

Answer: If a person waits passively, ill fate will still force him to look for a solution to improve his life. We are in a continuous search for this solution through science, art, having children, etc., until we find the best and only solution—the correction of the connection between us  because the upper force is revealed in the good connection between us, and then we merge with our root. Only the return to our root, from which we were created and to which we should return, can fully satisfy us.

Question: Is a person immune from ill fate if he studies the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: If you implement the wisdom of Kabbalah and don’t just study, then not only can you avoid ill fate, but you can also receive gifts from Heaven. I am absolutely serious!

A person suddenly begins to feel that he succeeds in everything. Not everyone feels this, but nature tends to be merciful with those who make an effort to resemble the attribute of bestowal in nature.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/08/15

Forecast For The Year 2016 According To The Clairvoyant Vanga

Comment: The newspapers and Internet have been full lately with the predictions of the Bulgarian clairvoyant named Vanga. Among other predictions, she said that the 44^th president of the United States would be a black American and that he would be the last. She predicted in the year 1989 that “iron birds” would bring down the “American brothers”; and indeed on September 11, 2001 the terrorist operation happened which shook all of America.

Also in 1996 she predicted that in the year 2016 Europe would be occupied by refugees from Syria after a war began there in the year 2010. In her words: “Europe would become the place for the Muslim Caliphate, the Europeans would leave Europe, and Rome would be the capital of the Caliphate.”

Answer: What is written in connection with all of these predictions makes sense to me. Throughout all of history there have been fortune-tellers, and from the point of view ofKabbalah this is absolutely natural. I spoke about this with my teacher Rabash and he related to fortune-tellers completely naturally.

These people can be from different religions and even not religious, like Wolf Messing, for example. They simply feel time and historical events according to how they need to happen. After all, the past, present, and future exist only in our perception, in fact, they are found in a single space, which the fortune-tellers see.

Question: What can you say regarding the prediction of Vanga for the year 2016 that worries everyone?

Answer: Everything is correct, and this was even written in the Kabbalistic sources about 2,000 years ago. But I very much hope that this year will be a year in which the Kabbalists will be able to explain to the world where things are going, where general evolution is leading us, and how with the right connections between us we will discover the upper world and move to the next level of existence.

Vanga prophesied according to the system of suffering because humanity has two ways that it can ascend to the next level, the way of suffering or the way of Light. Even the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about the path of suffering, but at the same time, says that if we want, we can use the upper force that will pull us forward, and we will go through all the states of development rapidly and comfortably, and within a short period of time we can attain the new level.

Question: Is it possible to go through the year 2016 in moments?

Answer: As for the moments, I don’t know, but consciously it is possible in days or a number of weeks and thus even pass through everything that human development must pass through until its complete connection within a single system and the discovery of the upper world within it.

So the future by the way of Light or by the way of suffering depends upon us, but in any case we will get to it. Understandably it would of course be preferable if it were not according to the predictions of Vanga but according to the advice of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/30/15

Why Do People Make Mistakes?

The Torah, “Numbers,” 22:28: The Lord opened the mouth of the she-donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have struck me these three times?”

The word “she-donkey,” like the word “donkey” (Hamor), stems from the Hebrew word “Homer” – matter, and refers to to a person’s egoistic nature. The Creator operates as the vital direct force on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature, so they don’t object to it. But the moment the she-donkey begins to talk, it is raised to the human level, the level of Balaam himself.

Compared to the other levels, it is possible to make mistakes on the human level because the Creator is concealed. The Creator is not concealed from nature itself, and in fact the laws that are revealed in matter are the direct revelation of the Creator.

The questions, doubts, and speculations come up on the human level, and so a person makes mistakes and corrects himself and then makes mistakes once more and corrects himself again.

The she-ass represents matter on all of the levels of life; it represents nature that is controlled by positive and negative forces that are balanced instinctively, aimed at clarifying actions according to the law of nature.

On the human level there are doubts and problems that must be solved. This is the reason that the she-as is much smarter than Balaam because the Creator is revealed in the animate level it is on, while He is concealed on the level of the speaking and is not revealed.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/12/15