A new survey published in Israel reveals that about half of the Jewish public in Israel believes that splitting Israeli society into two autonomous states is possible. Ten percent of the respondents in the survey believe that such a division…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
Do Our Thoughts Influence Nature?
Indeed, our thoughts influence nature. We live in a single global-integral system of nature, we influence it with our thoughts, and we receive feedback accordingly. Similar to laws that operate on mechanical, electronic, electromagnetic and other material and biological scales,…
What Are Your Thoughts on Pain?
Pain is our body’s reaction to all kinds of bodily disruptions. It warns of danger and makes us act—to move toward pleasure and away from pain, to diagnose the cause of the pain, to reach conclusions, and to advance in our…
What Do You Know About the System in Which We Live?
We live in a single global-integral system, and it has a specific demand from us. What is its demand? It is that we adapt to its global-integral laws. The system we live in urges us to connect to it in…
What Is Abundance, and Why Is Abundance Usually Associated with Money?
Abundance is the feeling of our ability to realize ourselves. We feel wealthy when we feel like we can do anything we have the ability to do. Likewise, we could have billions in our bank accounts, yet feel poor. As…
What Is the Difference between Material Joy and Spiritual Joy?
We feel joy from material fulfillments when we fulfill our own desires. We feel spiritual joy when we fulfill other people who were initially strangers, but who we then turn into our loved ones. We thus rejoice in their fulfillment.…
If I Rise Above My Own Desires and Fulfill the Desires of Others, Then How Do I Feel Those People?
You feel yourself and the others as one, that they are the closest and dearest people to you. The “self” that you previously considered, your personal “I,” disappears from your sensation. Its relevance drops significantly as it becomes more like…
Why Does Deja VU Happen? Why Do We Feel That Something Has Already Occurred?
When our brain starts comparing different phenomena, then it seems as if a certain event has already taken place. We start embedding one video fragment into another, one picture into another, and we thus encounter what we call “déjà vu.”…
The Loneliness Epidemic
This month, the U.S. Surgeon General published an advisory on loneliness titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.” According to the advisory, approximately half of U.S. adults experienced loneliness daily, even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which only…
What Did Einstein Really Do That Was So Great That Helped Humanity?
Einstein did nothing to benefit us. Moreover, he helped build the atom bomb, and told us that there are properties in our world that we cannot understand. It would have been better if he and the other nuclear physicists had…
Seventy-Five Years after the Declaration of Independence – Israel Rethinks Its Identity
This week, seventy-five years ago, in the midst of a war for its survival, David Ben-Gurion solemnly declared the establishment of the Jewish state: the State of Israel. But since that fateful day of May 14, 1948, Israeli society has…
What Does It Mean to Unite “As One Man with One Heart”?
“One heart” means that we are in a single desire to begin with. This desire shattered and organized us into billions of people who are separate and distant from one another. In other words, in our current state, we have…