Today, humanity is discovering that it cannot control its circumstances and that it has nothing by which to manage the world. A special force is being revealed in the world; that of an integral connection between people. This force connects everyone into a single system in which we are not able to exist within our egoism.

The new laws of mutual participation and universal interrelation are being revealed, and our current egoistic sciences which were developed by man are not able to provide an explanation of such laws. As a result, humanity today is in a state of despair and does not see a way out; such is the state of the world.

Although a few of us might think that the crisis has passed, the reality is that it is only getting worse. The science of Kabbalah can gradually be revealed once we find ourselves at the dead end, which we are fast approaching.

The most important thing is that when people start suffering and encountering problems, they are able to correctly realize that their state is a result of a process that has been years in the making.  Egoistic desire is what develops humanity, pushes it forward, and develops the sciences.

This desire results in the destruction of all previous systems and leads to a collective failure in all areas of human activity. A person must understand that he has no hope for the future if he continues to use his egoism. On the other hand, we have reached a level of connection that obliges us to come to terms with others, and to even come to love of others.

All of this must be explained gradually, in the same manner that a person is taught about the world he lives in during the first 20 years of his life. Today, even the most powerful and wise person must come to know what world he lives in, what lies ahead and what habits he must acquire for life in the new world. This applies to every person inhabiting the Earth. We are in a new situation, and in relation to all previous development, this state is final and even irreversible. However, we now have the opportunity for a different kind of development.

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A question I received: What are Godly deeds and goodness?
My Answer: This is the goodness that fills the world that is discovered in my corrected desires. Even at this moment, I am surrounded by the world of Infinity filled with absolute goodness, but I have no ability to feel it.

Godly goodness is what I discover in place of the evil that I sense today. My egoism is constantly growing and by this it shows me that everything is bad. It shows me two opposites: the Light and that same Light in the form of darkness. This is how one feels the Light in this world, since he is opposite to bestowal.

The stronger the Light works on me, the harder and darker life seems to be. This is because I am opposite to it. The Light that is revealed relative to all souls and not only relative to me, shows me that everything that happens to me depends on the whole world.

This is why the world doesn’t understand why all of a sudden it experiences stagnation and inactivity. Subconsciously, a person feels that he depends on everyone. So, how should he act? He must be able to scrutinize when he bestows and when he receives. But the revelation of our global connection blurs the desire to receive and renders us helpless. If I am told that I am to complete some work and receive payment for it, this I understand. But I cannot work without a reward!

The difficulty here is that as the connection between us appears, the Light will increasingly reveal itself. We will feel its influence as increased darkness and crisis. But if we begin to play the game of bestowal with each other, we will be corrected. The science of Kabbalah, even as a game, will unite humanity in mutual bestowal with the source which will correct us. As a result, we will indeed find ourselves in a corrected state.

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Our friends in Mexico recently held a dissemination event in the city of Cancun. The newspaper The Voice of Kabbalah was handed out in the city and on boats. Many thanks to the strong Mexican groups for their great efforts!

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In the News (The New York Review of Books): “The Crisis and How to Deal with It”

Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 30. The participants were former senator Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros, and Robin Wells, with Jeff Madrick as moderator.

Jeff Madrick: “We have a three-front problem: a housing market that went crazy as the housing bubble burst; a credit crisis, the most severe we’ve known since the early 1930s; and now a sharp drop in demand for goods and services and capital investment, leading to a severe recession.”

Bill Bradley: “The national government has now made about $12.7 trillion in guarantees and commitments to the US financial sector, and we’ve already spent a little over $4 trillion in this crisis… If we look out to June, July, and if we see that the PPIP [Public-Private Investment Program, created by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner] is not succeeding, that the bank assets aren’t being bought at levels that they should be bought from the books of banks.”

Neal Ferguson: “This is the end of the age of leverage, which began, I guess, in the late 1970s, and saw an explosive rise in the ratio of debt to gross domestic product, not only in this country, but in many, many other countries… This is a crisis of the global economy. I’d go so far as to say it’s a crisis of globalization itself.”

Paul Krugman: “US households have seen their net worth decline abruptly by $13 trillion, and there are similar blows occurring around the world. So the people, individual households, want to save again… This causes a problem… If we ask the question “Where will the savings come from to finance the large US government deficits?,” the answer is “From ourselves.”

The Chinese are not contributing at all… Things are getting worse more slowly, but we have not managed to head off a crisis that could turn out to be self-reinforcing, and leave us in this trap for many, many years.”

Nouriel Roubini: It’s pretty clear by now that this is the worst financial crisis, economic crisis and recession since the Great Depression… But we’re still contracting at a pretty fast rate… The outlook for Europe and Japan, both this year and next year, is even worse…

The lesson of the Great Depression is quite clear: it began with the collapse of the stock market in 1929, and we ended it with World War Two. Therefore, war is a consequence of failing to take necessary measures within a required time frame.

Politicians are of the opinion that self-regulation is the way to go, which means that there’s no regulation whatsoever. The entire model of self-regulation and market discipline has gone down in flames.”

George Soros: There are two features that I think deserve to be pointed out. One is that the financial system as we know it actually collapsed… At the same time, the financial shock had a tremendous effect on the real economy, and the real economy went into a free fall, and that was global…

Markets were seen basically as self-correcting. That paradigm has proven to be false… When people see this crisis as being the same as previous financial crises, they’re making a mistake… The interesting thing is that what needs to be done in the short term is almost exactly the opposite of what needs to be done in the long term. Obviously the problem was excessive leverage.”

Robin Wells: In many ways we’re almost adverse to bringing up the situation in which we find ourselves with the net exporting countries… So I think we’re going to have to address these chronic global trade imbalances. You might very well see a shift toward more protectionism.”

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In the News (from MSN News): Toyota has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command…The person in the wheelchair wears a cap that can read brain signals, which are relayed to a brain scan electroencephalograph, or EEG, on the electrically powered wheelchair, and then analysed in a computer programme.

My Comment: Kabbalah has always maintained that it is precisely our thoughts that control the entire world. A person must learn how to use his desires and thoughts. Kabbalah teaches a person how to desire and think correctly (with the heart and mind) in order to elicit positive outcomes. But a person has constantly lacked guidance and, as a result, has always negatively influenced the world with his thoughts.

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In the News (from Gallup): “Obama Averages 61% Job Approval in June” U.S. President Barack Obama averaged a 61% job approval rating for the month of June…The 61% average represents a five percentage-point drop compared to his 66% average for his first 11 days in office, Jan. 21-31, 2009…

My Comment: The real trouble is yet to come! When it will, both viable anti-crisis programs and the means to implement them will be absent! Those capable of hearing about the true solution, which is correction with the help of an external force are ordinary people, and not presidents.

Therefore, only the wide circulation of Kabbalah throughout the masses will change public opinion in favor of the necessity of its implementation.

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In the News (translated from Rabkor.ru): Good news became goods in short supply. News is being made up and intentionally disseminated. Governments of all countries have spent trillions of dollars, not on recovery of crashing economies, but on the manufacturing of good news.

Markets immediately interpret this as an investment that drives markets upwards thus creating the next “financial bubble” that sucks money out of the real sectors. Politicians give beautiful speeches about fighting economic downfall and creating good news, but they are not able to overcome the crisis.

My Comment: The lies of our world will be revealed along with the necessity of  destroying  them and attaining the quality opposite to egoism, the quality of bestowal and benevolent connection. We can break free from evil only if we see it as evil, but it has to be big and obvious.  Thus, bigger financial bubbles are awaiting us!

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In the News (from Defpro): “German budget committee approves over €6 billion funding for several weapon systems” Germany’s parliamentary budget committee has approved the purchase of different weapon systems…The first part of a third tranche of the Eurofighter combat aircraft, worth some €2.9 billion ($4.03 billion) will put Germany on track towards completing its purchase of 180 jets in total.

My Comment: Again with guns before butter? Of course, unless the world is corrected, this is the only possible path of development. The world will continue to fall egoistically, and the suffering that goes with it will bring us to the realization that correction is necessary. In 2009, the world has spent more money on weapons than in any other year, even in the face of the financial crisis.

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In the News (from Insciences.org): “Sleep helps us to store relevant information” – When we are asleep, our brain is not idle. While our body is relatively calm and still, the neurons in our brain continue to work. This activity is important because during sleep we subconsciously process memories so that they can be stored in our mind.

In the brain, the hippocampus acts as the ‘temporary’ memory, i.e. the first structure in which a new experience is stored. Over the course of time, this experience is moved to the cerebral cortex for long-term storage, through a process referred to as memory consolidation. This takes place during periods of physical inactivity, for example during sleep.

My Comment: Kabbalah says that during sleep, the brain processes all that has happened – it sorts, memorizes, relives and makes conclusions. If this is does not happen, then a person loses the possibility to receive and process information. Our dreams are results of “wandering” thoughts and decisions.

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A question I received: I have watched a few of your TV conferences with economists. First half of a discussion is always quite good, but after this I find myself waiting for you to start finally discussing a joint plan of mutual work.

I expect your proposal: “You work on the economy of the future society, and I work on grounding it ideologically. Let’s try to build a functioning model of future society.”

Why don’t you end your discussions with such a proposal?

My Answer: It’s because as soon as I state that I consider the main, necessary condition for improvement in the economy to be to educate people in order to change them, that all changes are secondary and a consequence of education, my guest will lose interest in me. It’s because what I say means that no economic measures will yield positive results, and that therefore, his part disappears from our work.

An economist has to come to understand that his work is to develop a new economic model of society: a dynamic economy constantly developing in response to the changes of a new (communistic) social consciousness (the economy of public relations). They are not prepared for this as yet.

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