How Could Katrina Happen To A Country With A God-Fearing President Like Bush?

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Doesn't it seem a little strange that this terrible disaster took place at a time when America has a god-fearing president like Bush? Doesn't it make you stop and wonder what really makes the world go round? Maybe it's something very different to all the traditional (religious) stories we've been told all our lives. Maybe it's something much more sophisticated and advanced than we are capable of understanding right now? On the other hand, maybe if we make a tiny bit of an effort to understand it we will ....

The science of Kabbalah explains how it is man's collective thoughts and prayers that drive us forward. Although the current events in New Orleans may seem like a punishment of some kind, there will come a day when America will look back at these tragic events and see them as a tremendous turning point for mankind. The force that created us is sending these blows to make us grow up and start thinking about what we were put here for. And here's a clue - I seriously doubt that movies, TV, eating out, and non-stop shopping were what that force had in mind at the time of our creation.

Kabbalist & Scientist Rav Michael Laitman explains global changes in An Interview With The Future (that is available for free download). He explains how if we want to know what's going on we must know that there is a system (or upper force) with subsystems within it, which operate on us, on our body and soul, and the whole universe.

In order to achieve permanent contact with the upper force, we need to develop a new sense for feeling this connection. That upper force tells us how the communication system is built, how it works around us in reality, and how it aspires to bring us back to the center. It shows us how this force runs through the entire world and through man himself.

That system is what motivates man and the world around him. You can call that force “upper force” or “Creator,” it makes no difference. If you feel the collective power of the world, you will be able to understand how to conduct yourself correctly. The soul is like a computer program. If we study it, we will be able to organize the situations we face in the best possible way for ourselves and for society. The program never changes. It is our thoughts and prayers, meaning our desires, that change the program and man alike.

Kabbalah explains that the upper force, is complete, and it is only our perceptions of it that change. Everything depends on the changes we undergo, not on the light, because the light does not change. The light behaves intransigently, mercilessly, and atrociously. That modus operandi cannot be changed, because the light extends and works on the entire creation from its origin, from the point of the “end of correction,” the point where the creature is equal to the Creator. Hence, this condition and operation of the light on us force us to reach the same situation. It is therefore obvious that if we do not aspire for the same thing we find ourselves placed under the pressure of a vicious power that pushes toward the center.

The equivalence of form is tantamount to your consent with the plan. I compared the plan of the Creator to a computer program, because they are both unchangeable. You can scream at your computer all you want, but it will not answer you until you fix the problem by yourself. And so is man with regards to the Creator – before man corrects himself, he has no reason to expect creation to treat him benevolently.

We are unaware how much our sensory system, which is the whole world, depends on the emotions, on our ‘vessels.’ If they change even just a little bit, the whole world immediately looks altogether different. But before a person crosses the barrier and doesn’t feel the upper world, meaning the Creator, he feels that it is the Creator who changes.

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Kabbalah: Choosing Not To Be a Victim

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I spoke to my graphic designer this morning, who doesn't study kabbalah. He is of course devastated by the news from New Orleans. This is how our conversation went:

Designer: "I can't believe something like this is happening in America, it's just unbelievable."

Me: "It's going to get worse because Israel isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing."

Designer: "What are you saying - that you know what's going to happen? We've seen prophets before ...."

Me: "It's not a matter of seeing the future! The root for everything that happens in our world is in the upper world. Kabbalists or people who study kabbalah, are people who research the upper world and essentially live both in this world and that world at the same time. So they can run the movie of our entire existence back and forward because they have the complete picture in front of them."

Designer: "Well there's all sorts of changes taking place in the world .... it's just nature taking its course ... there's nothing we can do about it ... we can't control nature."

Me: "Actually we can. And that's our whole purpose for being here. Kabbalah is the only way to achieve real freedom."

Rav Laitman is talking about all these 'blows' we're experiencing nowadays in today's morning lesson, how this is the only thing that's coming to us now from the upper world, because the force that created us wants us to grow. "If we go with the flow of things, Laitman says, "we can use these sufferings to get to a better place. But if we don't use these 'blows' properly then we will feel them like blows. Mankind is now experiencing suffering and hardship on many levels and this will only increase. Our spiritual advancement is dependent on these blows. If we recognize them as good we will see how beneficial they are. Once we reach a certain stage of development, the corporeal world we live in will dissappear because there will no longer be a need for it. The purpose of these blows is to show us that our time here is running out - that it's time to correct ourselves and move on to the upper world."

Israelis are so arrogant - it's very difficult for someone whose grown up here all his life, survived all the crazy stuff this country goes through, done everything he was told to do, served in the army etc. - to all of a sudden realize that they're missing something really big. Thank god there are lots of young Israelis waking up now and joining us. Hopefully, eventually my designer will get the message too.

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Catskills North American Kabbalah Congress: Sep 23-25

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View a video invitation from Rav Michael Laitman

Spiritual Rocket Fuel
Dear Friend,Working on your own you have a single power of desire that attracts the surrounding light. Now imagine the vast, positive force that becomes available to you simply by coming together, even for a few days, with people from North America and all over the globe who share this true desire to reveal the Creator. The gentle intensification of the light is truly transformative. A gathering of Kabbalists is like spiritual rocket fuel - it can swiftly bring about desirable changes within us that ultimately reveal both inner and outer peace, our healing and the healing of our world, by taking a person to the next level: to know and fulfill the purpose of life.

Three days that will change your life
This year our annual Fall Congress will take place in a beautiful retreat setting in upstate New York where you’ll meet with master Kabbalist, Rav Michael Laitman PhD, many of the students from BB and the world. For three days we’ll study together, laugh, eat, enjoy workshops, seminars and entertainment. We’ll celebrate and take in all of the natural beauty of the Catskill Mountains.

Whether you’ve studied for a month, a year or just a week, you’re invited !!
The cost per person for the 3 days and 2 nights is $230 US, which includes lodging, food, transportation, lectures, seminars, and much more. Transportation to and from metro NYC airports (JFK, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty) will be provided.

Congress will start at 3pm EST on Friday and finish at 2pm EST on Sunday. We would prefer that all air travel will be completed no later then 1pm on Friday, so that we have sufficient time to transport people to the Congress before the opening. All outgoing flights should be scheduled for after 6pm on Sunday.

Space is limited so REGISTER now. In order for us to process your registration on time, please, register by August 30th.

Phone: 800-540-3234 Fax: 212-918-0737

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Kabbalah: Forces We Haven't Discovered Yet

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Here's an excerpt:

The forces, from the coarsest that we can feel the most - to the most hidden forces that I am only now discovering, or will discover in the future - but only according to my revelation. It's not like they didn't exist before and now all of a sudden they exist. The corporeal reality and the spiritual reality are one and the same, it's just that for us the corporeal world is revealed and the spiritual world is still hidden. As we progress and perceive the different forces around us (reception, bestowal, etc.) the spiritual reality slowly becomes revealed. We can feel the forces at work and then that reality becomes more and more revealed.

A person separates these things subjectively according to what he feels or doesn't feel, but it's actually all one and the same thing. But once we start discovering these hidden realms we understand that our five senses present us with just a tiny portion of reality and that if we depend only on them we can't move onto the next level. A person in this world may have more intelligence, but not an augmentation of feeling. He uses his mind to constantly add to the dimensions of time and space, and therefore sees bigger processes. But that's it. The wisdom of kabbalah adds additional senses, of course along with intelligence, and this person gets into a much higher type of research, of another reality. And when we do discover this other reality, it will feel perfectly normal - just like little kids today know how to operate all kinds of complicated computer things that didn't exist 10 or 20 years ago. In other words, when it actually happens, we will go into the revelation of the hidden reality in a very natural manner.

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Kabbalah on Katrina

Got the following from the Huffington Post off of Neil's blog:

"This month, a study published in the journal Nature by a renowned MIT climatologist linked the increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes to human-induced global warming. Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and–now–Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children."

Yes - everything happening in the world is our fault but it has nothing to do with global warming.

The only Kabbalist & Scientist in the world, Dr. Michael Laitman often explains how nature is in perfect harmony - and how the only thing out of whack in the natural order of things is the human ego. Everything that is happening around us in the reality we live in is all simply to direct us toward taking care of the issue we were put here for in the first place - and that is getting our ego in perfect sync with nature. That is the only way we can advance and rise above our obsession with material things that actually give us no lasting type of filling.

Here is the part that we can't see in our current state: Humanity is ONE - and not divided into all these groups - Republican, Democrat, American, Christian, etc. All that is an illusion and is simply like that to distract us from the main goal - which is to return to that state where we are all truly as ONE MAN WITH ONE HEART - just like we were when we received the Torah at Mt. Sinai.

What am I trying to say here? We are all on the same team - we have a job to pull off here together. If you don't have a burning desire to know the meaning of your life then we're going to have to wait for a few more of your incarnations until you're ready. The greatest Kabbalists throughout time who achieved very high levels of adhesion with God cannot get to the final stage until the rest of us have woken up. Think about that for a second. If Katrina isn't making you think about the meaning of your life today, maybe the next disaster will ...

As Baal HaSulam writes, we can choose to advance through suffering or pleasure - the choice is up to us. That is actually the only real thing we choose here on earth. The script for everything else we do here was written a long long time ago.

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Kabbalah - The Power To Change Reality

I really recommend checking out this morning's lesson (1 hour video with full english translation) - Rav Laitman is talking about how Baal HaSulam's material gives us light for the entire way.

The last greatest Kabbalist to grace the earth in our time, Baal HaSulam (hebrew for: owner of the ladder) explains where we exist, in which status, the reality around us, who we are, how we perceive our lives and reality, how we should relate to it, and whether it is in our power to change reality. How we go through this world and return again in different incarnations. Are we in some other situations than our current situation? Are there other dimensions? In another time? That we can be in at the same time as that we're in now? There is time and space and movement. Can we alter that? And if so can we move between this world and other dimensions in a different manner?

The answer to all this comes from recognizing who we are. As we come to know ourselves, we see clearly the reality that is inside of us, and from that point that we begin to develop.

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Kabbalah: Expand Your Perception Of Reality

Rav Laitman talks about his teacher's father, the Baal Sulam (hebrew for: owner of the ladder) :

"... He revealed the wisdom to the world. No other Kabbalist apart from Baal HaSulam wrote for people who don't yet have a sensation of the upper world. He was the first to put the wisdom in a format that anyone who simply desired something above this world could understand. His books enable people to enter the feeling of the upper world and get close to the Creator.

Lately we've started explaining to academics in Israel about the importance of Baal HaSulam and his vital role in Jewish Philosophy. They realized that they had missed him and hadn't seen how big he really was. His books explain the entire history of all of mankind - all the reality beforehand - about the creation of the worlds and ours, and the entire process mankind is going through.

Through all of this he essentially paved the for getting into kabbalah. And his son, who was my teacher, expanded upon his father's writings even more by talking about the internal work an individual must undergo for spiritual advancement. So that anyone who has an interest beyond this world, who feels that this world doesn't fill him, can simply open Baal HaSulam's books and through them arrive there."

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Kabbalah Explains The Male Female Relationship

Rav Laitman's words from the Heidelberg Congress -

... Why do women always have to be inferior to men? That is because we relate to this world in the wrong manner. Kabbalah says just the opposite - that it is impossible to achieve harmony and perfection without using two forces - the man and the woman together. Only the right combination of these two allows the discovery of a brand new vessel - it cannot be discovered in one of them on their own. Their joining forms a third vessel that is in a very special situation - that is ready to feel the Upper Force. It is possible for a man or woman to achieve this in a partial manner on their own because each of us are divided inside to female and male sides - but this is in the preparation period where we feel uncorrected - it is possible to advance individually or with a group. But serious advancement can only be achieved by finding a spiritual mate that complete each other's souls in an internal/spiritual manner - and through this relationship the new vessel will become revealed where they will feel divinity. Because divinity has no gender - and the separation into genders is only for us to complete one another and create this special vessel for receiving the Light.

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Kabbalah Explains The Secret Meaning of the Bible

Very special newsletter this week - but first view an invitation from Rav Laitman for the Catskills Congress in September, where he talks about discovering hte hidden parts of reality and forces around us and how we can use them to change our destiny and improve our life.

The Secret Meaning of the Bible
Imagine our universe for a moment: the endless amount of galaxies, stars, and worlds. Now imagine that we remove from our universe a specific portion of space. How are we able to imagine the resulting emptiness of this void if it contains nothing that is able to be measured or described? In reality we perceive all phenomena in terms of time, space, and movement. We cannot envision something that is absolutely static, frozen in time, without any volume. This is an analogy of our understanding of the spiritual worlds. There is no time, movement, or even space in the spiritual worlds. Since all our reality and perceptions are based on these physical concepts, it follows that there is absolutely no connection between spirituality and our construction of physical reality based on our perceptions and sensations. This results in a lack of words and vocabulary that is able to express spiritual concepts
The Secret Meaning of the Bible

Why There has to be Death?
Question: Why do we come into this world? And on the other hand, if it took so much effort to bring us into this world, then why do we leave it? Why do we have to die? Can we exist in this world forever? If a human being is destined to live for 100-120 years, wouldn't it be better if he lived for 600 years and died, after finishing all of his incarnations? Why do we have to come back into this world and revive it again? And the last question: if the soul is some sort of entity that continues to live after physiological death, then why do we relate to death as to something that happens to us and at the same time, not to us? That is, we do exist at the place where the eternal soul dwells - we die and have no idea what happens next. Is it a fact that although we perceive only this world, our soul exists simultaneously in some other dimension which is on another side of the verge that we call death?
Why there has to be Death

Heaven and Hell
Question: Let us talk about Heaven and Hell. Does the science of Kabbalah believe that Heaven is a kind of pain relief pill, an analgesic, used by all religions? Religions depict images of the Heaven Garden and Hell to manipulate believers. Do such places, such dimensions really exist? Is it true that after death each soul either burns in the fire of Hell or enjoys eternal pleasure? If there really are such dimensions, then how do they correspond with the fact that according to the Science of Kabbalah there is no reward and no punishment, as everything in this world is predetermined, and man is not in fact responsible for his actions?
Heaven and Hell

Thought of the Week
If you attune yourself as a part of the group, and, along with others, wish to feel the Upper Light that would correct your egoism, then this Light will affect you. This is because now it has to influence you only in this way – through correction.
Rav M.Laitman PhD: One Law

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No Such Thing As A Coincidence

A client of mine was just here for a meeting. We got into a very long discussion about Kabbalah, and of course he forgot his notebook (and actually just came back to pick it up as I started writing this). This is perfectly normal.

A fellow blogger of mine just had a similar experience. He visited my new blog yesterday, left a comment, updated my link on his site to the new domain etc., and all of sudden got a very unusual kabbalah sign from Above.

This is something I forgot to mention in my Monster-In-Law post. Jennifer Lopez runs into the man of her dreams (in the movie) about three times in a matter of two days - and she knows that there has to be a reason. She's absolutely right. We get signs all the time but often choose to ignore them because change requires effort. And we are very lazy by nature.

All we do throughout the day is simply to reach a state where we can chill out at the end of it all and do absolutely nothing. That is because in the Upper World life is like that all the time. There is no hustle and bustle up there because we're all connected as one so there is no need for any of that. That is why the Sabbath (a day of total rest) was created so we could start training for that type of existence. Actually everything we do in the other six days is all just for achieving the state of "Shabbat".

Kabbalists are people that can achieve that state of Shabbat any time they want. A few times a week, or even a few times a day. But don't expect to ever catch them with their feet up on the sofa watching tv. Our guys get up at 3:00AM every single morning for a 3-hour lesson that is broadcast on Israel TV and to the rest of the world on www.kab.tv.

So what am I trying to say? If you're reading this - don't kid yourself. It's not by chance. You may not do anything about it right now but don't expect the signs to be there forever. There's always your next incarnation. Me? I'm not planning on coming back to this world. I've set my sights on a better place and I have every intention of getting there.

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Another Kabbalah Movie Review: Monster In Law

I whole heartedly recommend this hysterical movie, Monster In Law - especially if you happen to have a really annoying mother-in-law. I've been married for two years so I'm a big expert on the subject.

There is a single law governing the entire universe and the way it works is very simple - you go along with it - you have pleasure. You go against it - you suffer. The law or Light or whatever you want to call it is always pushing us in a certain direction and that is up - to grow, to develop, to progress - in a nutshell to constantly yearn to be on a higher level than the one we're on right now. To constantly want to attach ourselves to something higher than ourselves. That's what we've been trained for all along.

So when a mother attaches herself to her offspring - she is going against nature. She is essentially going in the wrong direction and that's why it makes everyone around her so uncomfortable. It also makes it very difficult for the kids to have something to progress towards because their next level is coming down to their level and messing everything up.

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Kabbalah Take on Mr. & Mrs. Smith

My new favorite movie is Angelina and Brad in Mr. & Mrs. Smith because it is a great demonstration of the male/female relationship in action. You can basically take any movie and look at it from the perspective of kabbalah so here goes.

At first you throw two perfect strangers together and hope for the best. Most couples are pretty much winging it in the early stages. There are two completely separate egos at work here, each with its own very compelling agenda that is based on a person's background, upbringing, work and social environments, etc. Sort of like two lines making up a V - the egos are totally independent of one another and going in completely different directions. That situation is no fun because there is nothing to gain from it. And not only are these two people not getting along they basically wouldn't mind strangling one another just to further their own interests. Because each feels totally justified that their interests override those of their partner's based on their personal value system.

We see that the situation shifts altogether when the two egos (or lines) converge into one - two egos - one male and one female - with the exact same goal in mind - that is an unbeatable thing. A couple in this situation can overcome anything - and I mean anything! - as long as they stay focused on the goal. That is the entire foundation of human development in a nutshell. And you heard it here first.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith could only achieve their personal goal of surviving when it transformed into a mutual survival goal and they began working together as a team. If they hadn't each given a little to reach that state they would have been history. Notice they didn't really do it willingly at first because it's against the natural inclination of the human ego. It took a bit of direction from Above. Think about that next time you look at your partner.

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