This cannot be explained at once. It is not something that can be handed to a person as ready knowledge. It becomes revealed only as a result of great inner work on oneself. Then we come to a state where…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
What Is Spiritual Freedom, and How Does It Work? Why Do We Need Spiritual Freedom?
From childhood we are tied to this world by a thin “string,” and indeed, this world suppresses us from the very beginning. We grow into its habits, values, and fears, and we do not even think of escaping. Somewhere inside…
What Does It Mean That the Word Was God?
The world stands on the quality of goodness and love. That is the “word” of the Creator, the law of bestowal, the upper intention that sustains everything. All of this comes from the upper force, not from us. If the…
Is There Any Benefit from Suffering?
If we do not strive for connection with the force of love and bestowal that created and sustains us, and we simply want to live calmly and quietly on this planet, then naturally we do not want suffering, troubles, and…
Is It Important to Follow Physical Commandments for Spiritual Growth?
All the commandments or Mitzvot are nothing more than expressions of spiritual laws dressed in actions of our world. In and of themselves, the physical acts have no independent power. When a person performs them only externally, mechanically, without inner correction, they…
Can Drugs Be Spiritual?
No. Drugs only bring about a disconnection from reality. With such means it is impossible to break through the barrier that separates our corporeal world from the spiritual world, to rise above time, space, and motion into the spiritual dimension.…
Can You Explain How Society Functions as an Organism?
For a society to truly function as an organism, it needs to start feeling itself as a single whole. In such a state, a collective mind, sensation, needs, and a mutual perception of reality emerge. Society ceases to be a…
How Do You Try to Imagine Eternity?
From the upper force of love and bestowal, which is called “the Creator” in Kabbalah, we receive desires and fulfillments. We feel desires as hunger and suffering. On the contrary, we feel fulfillments or pleasures as attainments of perfection to…
What Is the Difference Between True Equality and Fake Equality?
Fake equality is the attempt to make everyone the same. This was the basic principle behind systems like the Soviet Union, i.e., to erase distinctions, level everyone, and ensure that no one stands out from another. This has nothing to…
Can a Fetus Feel What Their Mother Feels Inside the Womb During Pregnancy?
The integral approach to education views nature as one whole. Nature has complete control over its still, vegetative, and animate levels, and they thus instinctively maintain a system of mutuality and complementarity. For us people, nature has left room for…
Why Are Most People Afraid to Leave Everything Behind and Start Anew?
From the very beginning, we are tied to this world by a thin “string,” and this world suppresses us from childhood. We sense that there is freedom somewhere beyond, yet we are afraid to take even a single step toward…
What Was the Religion of Abraham?
Abraham’s teaching can be called a religion from the moment it became a unifying force, i.e., when it turned into a practical method for building a society that absorbed the idea of unity, accepted it, and began to live by…