In 1994, the devastating Rwandan genocide saw the murder of around 800,000 Rwandans. When a new government came about, it established the state forgiveness project: perpetrators of the genocide had to ask the survivors and victims’ family members for forgiveness,…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
Can you influence plant growth with your thoughts?
We influence not only plants with our thoughts, but also animals and even stones. However, we cannot yet examine such phenomena. There is absolute interconnection and interaction between all parts of creation. If we saw this network of forces, we…
Is evolution truly random?
Evolution is not random. If we perceive anything random in nature, it only appears to us as random because we lack understanding of how nature truly operates. Nature’s laws are very clearly determined. Nothing in history happened coincidentally, and nothing…
How can we solve natural disasters?
We need to start understanding and digesting the changes taking place in nature. We should start by responding to them from our human level, which is the highest of nature’s levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate and human. In other words, we…
Dating and Relationships: What are the keys to a successful relationship?
The key to a successful relationship is in the willingness to concede. Upon mutual concessions, partners have the ability to grow their love for each other. One who concedes in a relationship gains peace, connection, tranquility and love. It leads…
What are the biggest challenges facing humanity these day? Why are they a big deal?
Increasing pain and suffering around the world should end up sparking our realization that nature is guiding us to an eventual abstinence from the rat race for technological, industrial and financial dominance, and we should instead pay attention to our…
What is the thing that one can take from this life to the next life?
The one thing we can take from this life into the next life is the effort to positively connect with others that we made in this life. We exist in a shattered soul that is in a process of gradual…
Why does God allow suffering?
The world is full of suffering and we cannot justify murder, theft, or any kind of affliction of pain on people. However, when we feel that our pain and suffering in this world can lead us to a correction, i.e.…
What’s your secret to a happy life?
My secret to a happy life is to be in balance with nature, to feel that I pose no interference to nature and to other people, and to try and be an organic part of the world so that people…
What does happiness mean to you?
Happiness means being in balance with nature on the still, vegetative, animate and human levels. When you are in balance with all levels of nature, then you feel something special, the highest level of balance, which is called “happiness.” Balance…
What are some ways you or the masses can get manipulated over the internet?
We generally do not feel that we are being manipulated through the Internet. However, there is constant monitoring of the sites we visit, our desires, and the spheres of our interests. Of course, we will still see how we can…
Is there a value in resisting a new technology which, while potentially harmful in the short term, could save millions of lives in the future?
We can evaluate the essence of science exclusively by its goal. If, as is being discovered today, the goal is harmful to us, then we cannot use and develop it. In any field, we cannot excuse ourselves by saying that…