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...n to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah P... ...life’s systems and the order that dictates their existence. I had hoped that by studying how we live, I would eventually find what we are living fo... ... into the heart of every young person, but dissi- pates in the rat race of day-by-day living. “When I concluded my studies, I took a job at the In- st... ...daries of Joy 43 a huge gap between the “ordinary person’s” assessment of the effect of parameters such as wealth and physical state on one’s mood, ... ... parameters such as wealth and physical state on one’s mood, and their actual impact according to the measurements made in the research. The researc... ...th- ods. But as the desire to enjoy grows, these solutions seem less and less effective. The growing egoism of humankind no longer allows us to subj... ...y, a new entity—a bacterial colony—was formed, which was better suited to the environmental conditions. A bacteria is actually a community of bacter... ...coming world, a joyful and good place. Man’s power of thought and his crucial impact on reality are expressed in the following words of the great K... ...ltruistic bonding among all people, we will continue to experience a negative impact of Nature’s force upon us. Because our senses divide Nature in...

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...f Kabbalah teaches us how to live in the reality that is spread before us. It is a systematic method that has evolved over thousands of years, taught by a handful of unique individuals in every generation. Their task has been to ensure that the truths of Kabbalah would be given to those ready to receive them. During all that time, Kabbalah was concealed from the public (wh...

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... By Rav Michael Laitman PhD The Kabbalah Experience By Rav Michael Laitman PhD LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS The Kabbalah Ex... ...Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE Copyright © 2005 by MICHAEL LAITMAN. All rights reserved. Published by Laitman Kabbalah ... ...s. It is a systematic method that has evolved over thousands of years, taught by a handful of unique individuals in every generation. Their task has... ...nine Sefirot. Q: Does creation belong solely to the Creator? Can man have any effect on it? A: Man has free choice. He comes to a situation where he ... ...ritten by a genuine Kab- balist and in the right system, we can draw in a more effective illumina- tion of surrounding Light, which cleanses the soul ... ...! But that will happen later on. I don’t want people to wake up only under the impact of pain and disaster. I want people to awaken through studying ... ...h- ers take initiative and change their lives, influence society, and have an impact on the whole world. The same pyramid exists in our influence on ... ...heory about Kabbalah. It is The Theory of Shapes. It has an immense spiritual impact; it is full of mystery and secrets and with it one can triumph ... ... we express our freedom to choose our way. The more correct the choice of the environmental factor is, the greater the acceleration. Indeed, we can ...

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... Kabbalah Revealed Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Introduction by: Professor Ervin Laszlo LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Kabbalah Rev... ...Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Introduction by: Professor Ervin Laszlo KABBALAH REVEALED The Ordinary Person’s G... ...EVEALED The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah P... ...cal sustainability. Measures will be taken to protect the environment, create effective food and resource distri- bution systems, develop and use sus... ...that. We are 16 KABBALAH REVEALED trying to fight terrorism, poverty, crime, environmental degradation, disease, and other “sicknesses of civiliza-... ...goism through Kab- balah, and all other corrections will follow like a domino effect. Thus, during this correction, we can feel fulfill- ment, inspir... ... results” of spiritual process- es and occurrences. Whatever we do here has no impact of any kind on the spiritual worlds. Therefore, if we want to ... ...o connection with it. If we can place a spring on it to measure the external impact, we’ll get some re- sult. But if we can’t measure what is happe... ... seed remains the same kind of seed, its appearance may change as a result of environmental influences such as sunlight, soil, fertilizers, moisture...

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... By Rav Michael Laitman PhD The Path of Kabbalah By Rav Michael Laitman PhD LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS The Path of Kabb... ...ah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info THE PATH OF KABBALAH Copyright © 2005 by MICHAEL LAITMAN. All rights reserved. Published by Laitman Kabbalah ... ...ve consciously or unconsciously ad- opted this principle after realizing that, by changing our perspective, we might be able to better cope with our ... ... with an identical wavelength as that of the receiver. Thus, we only feel the environmental phenomena that correspond to our sensory systems. Moreov... ...erson, there is a stronger expression of egoism, and the Light has a stronger effect, push- ing the person more forcefully toward the purpose of Crea... ...egoism as bad, as our own nature. The only way to come to that is through the effect of the Light of the Torah, or the Surrounding Light that shines ... ...urroundings. On the other hand, we can always change ourselves along with the environmental changes. Changes to our environment affect us in proport... ...ese books, that’s it! Our desires come from Above. If there is some spiritual effect of these desires, then we begin to feel the Upper Force of the ... ...ses because the Kabbalist regards every act and every thought in terms of its impact on one’s progress. The Kabbalist evaluates these actions accordi...

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...ife's most vital question: What is the meaning of my life? Their interpretations of The Book of Zohar and The Tree of Life explain how we can benefit by using the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah on a day-to-day basis. Additionally, clear illustrations accurately depict the evolution of the Upper Worlds as Kabbalists experience them....

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... l a h for the St u d e n t KABBALAH FOR THE STUDENT Copyright © 2008 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah Publis... ...knowledge. But most people prefer not to put all their eggs in one basket by focusing on fulfilling one desire. They settle for a little of everythi... ... that in most cases, an irresponsible person is not famous. Therefore, if, by chance, one dared to write such a composition, no scribe would copy it,... ... the world where matters are so fused and intertwined by way of cause and effect, primary and consequential, as is the wisdom of Kabbalah, connected... ...urposeful guidance, meaning a slow and gradual growth by way of cause and effect, as a fruit on a tree, which is guided with favourable guidance to ... ...iritual has no contact whatsoever with the physical. It has absolutely no impact on it, as they have written themselves. ThE A CCUSATion A g AinST Th... ...ration of the Messiah King. This is why his composition made such a great impact in the world, since the secrets of the Torah in it occupy the level... ...he wheat abundantly. There is also the matter of the work of improving the environmental conditions to fit the needs of the plant and the growth, for... ...then do we evoke upon ourselves the Surrounding Lights, and through their impact, we will enter the Upper World. The glossary is intended for the co...

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...nd Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a free E-book at: http://thepathofsplitness.com/ ...

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... SPLITNESS By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January ... ...tter understanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is; very little. B... ...about it. If you watch it grow into a tree and wonder about it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to t... ...oat hasn’t had time to straighten itself out yet… it’s still roiling from the impact of nearly The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe ... ...ids violence; it avoids hitting itself by deflecting away from the dangers of impact. It avoids the violence of hitting something as much as possib... ...s destroying the lands they lived on made them this way. 25 Million years of environmental violence, savagery, and terror turned them into a permane... ... stronger than our outer awareness then our outer awareness loses its desired impact-effect. Then the split-off observer gives more credence to wha... ...The transition from hunter-gatherers to settlements. 287 social-individual-environmental dynamic balance. Once you increase the size of any human... ...ion. Because of the concept of the linear line. The entire history of human environmental destruction exists simply because it is a logical extrapo...

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...between 1950 and 1959 ($38 billion at 1998 values) The human cost is also high: over the 1984–2003 period, more than 4.1 billion people were affected by natural disasters. The number affected has grown, from 1.6 billion in the first half of that period (1984–93) to almost 2.6 billion in the second half (1994-2003), and has continued to increase. Although disasters caused b...

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...claims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book. In this first chapter the nature of an idea is developed, contextualized and shown to be a most timely topic. To pave the way for ...

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...2 The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues Seymour H. Fine With Foreword by Philip Kotler Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger ... ...loyment Recruits and Earnability 93 STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS -- HOW TO GET THERE AND BY WHAT METHODS 93 Market Segmentation 94 PRODUCT STRATEGY 95 D... ...ve the best interests of people-better nutrition, physical exercise, conservation, environmental protection-to the point where people might act on w... ...n to digress is difficult to curb. The scope here is confined to ideas that stand by themselves as products. Considered beyond the area of discour... ...ng of social marketing is a book by Lazer and Kelley (1973). Another, focusing on environmental conservation factors is that of Perry (1976). Howev... ... short- lived circumstances are usually marketed more dramatically and with greater impact by a single venture, or task-force approach. Examples inc... ..., in order of importance: 1. Withdrawal of all American forces from Vietnam. 2. Environmental protection. 3. Revitalization of government. 4. Eq... ...urn, a pioneer American sociologist, himself well aware of rural sociology, had an impact. His theory of cultural lag -- based on a large body of em... ... is brought to life. In the context of communication two factors help define the impact of group life on the communication process. One, with a l...

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...Total consumption of milk in developing regions is projected to increase from 164 million metric tonnes in 1993 to 391 million metric tons by the year 2020 – a 138 percent increase! The expected increase in per capita consumption is from 38 to 62 kg/person. The triple effects of population increase, income growth and urbanisation will fuel this tremendous growth...

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...ions Technological change and technology transfer for smallholder dairying Background Methods On-farm trials Change, dynamics and opportunities Impact of economic liberalisation Need for development of capital markets Stresses and opportunities Policy and project issues Institutional support for smallholder dairy development activities Projects Summary and conc...

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...n India) remain indeterminate apart from the data being an unsupervised one. At the outset, we first emphasize that the study and analysis (and there by the conclusions and suggestions) pertain only to migrant labourers from rural Tamil Nadu who are poor and uneducated and who are HIV/AIDS infected. So this study cannot be extended to urban people or rich/ sophisticated/ e...

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...study of peoples and populations, for it not only involves the merely mathematical spatial redistribution of people, but also because it has enormous impact on livelihood, life-styles, employment, socioeconomic and political stability; or in other words, it influences the entire society. When used in the geographical context, the term ‘migration’ refers to the ‘permanent o...

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...-mail: smarand@gallup.unm.edu Translation of the Tamil interviews by Meena Kandasamy XIQUAN Phoenix 2004 The picture on t... ... XIQUAN Phoenix 2004 The picture on the cover is a poster by Bronwyn Bancroft, an Australian Aboorgine artist illustrating the need ... ...com This book has been peer reviewed and recommended for publication by: Dr.Jean Dezert, ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace R... ...tical spatial redistribution of people, but also because it has enormous impact on livelihood, life-styles, employment, socioeconomic and political... ...or war and the consequent persecution or in some of the cases because of environmental degradation. In between these two diverse classifications, t... ...the ad and awareness campaigns in the media have not had their sufficient impact and secondly in the case of women whose glaring ignorance about thi... ...eligious faith. Finally as several interlinking of the relations and its effect on the nodes in some cases may remain to be an indeterminate and to... ...nt. Thus in a way in case of migrant labourers the profession has a great impact on contracting HIV/AIDS. Now suppose let us take the state vecto... ...ical system, 42 Economic factors, 7 Edge values, 38 Edge weights, 41 Environmental degradation, 7 Equilibrium of the system, 105 Equilibrium s...

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...s expended. Employment, crisis resilience, self-sufficiency, rural social support, and culture were maintained through agriculture, although hampered by institutional orientations to taxation more than research and education. By the 1960s, agribusiness contrasted with small-holders. Thailand is one of the world's few major agricultural exporters, leading in rice, rubber,...

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...aracters X and Z in double sampling. In this section we have shown that the suggested classes of estimators are more efficient than the one suggested by Singh et al (2001). Estimators based on estimated optimum values have been also considered with their properties. The optimum values of the first phase and second phase sample sizes are also obtained for the fixed cost of ...

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...laimants to highest rank and power. The cultural dominance of hawaii was doubtless a consequence of size, richness of forests and soils, diversity of environmental conditions and hence variety and quantity of population. The dynamic temperament of the old polynesian stock of the “big island,” as it is affectionately called today, was probably partly a consequence of the gr...

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...ssionized. 229 -- Ka-u In The forties. 231 -- The Shifting Human Scene. 232 -- Political Changes. 233 -- Fundamental Cultural Changes. 235 -- Foreign Impact. 236 -- Epidemics. 237 -- Disasters. 239 -- Dislocations. 240 -- The Changing Face Of Nature. 242 -- The Lands Are Apportioned. 244 -- Sugar. 245 -- The Labour Scene. 246 -- The Economic Scene. 248 -- Turn Of The Centu...

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...ities and when I started to fight for freedom of people, I was only 14. I was a teenage boy. An investigative student. It caused that I got tortured (by exposure) extremely hard. I have been all around hell, all around the Globe. I have stayed in Russia; places so cold that your very bones inside of you shriek. Deep down inside the underground city, where you ask yourself ...

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... a creaky house, a teenage boy is inside. He has heard much gossip about the daily challenges and the everyday complaints which people are confronted by and dealing with. Those people who are the heart, the soul, and the backbone of our society, auctioning their own homes; and their suspicious activities are under supervision in their everyday lives! Just imagine a group o...

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...ord Key# President Barack Obama Foreword The Forewords of Two U.S. Army Members Who Are Imprisoned in Iran IFRC Foreword Introduction Dedication by Bill Gates A Few Words from Stephen Hawking Chapter 1 The September 11 Attacks The 99% Secret Surveillance Devices and Big-Brother Times of Being Under Torture for Me and Effects of Social Media for Public Awareness ...

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...sophy that studies the origin, nature and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. This was introduced by one of the authors, Florentin Smarandache. A few of the mentionable characteristics of this mode of thinking are [90-94]: It proposes new philosophical theses, principles, laws, methods, formulas and movements; it reveals ...

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...ting & Finance, Griffith University, Australia. Copyright 2003 by W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, and Xiquan, 510 E. Tow... ...their interactions with different ideational spectra. This was introduced by one of the authors, Florentin Smarandache. A few of the mentionable cha... ...ear 1986. It was a fuzzy extension of the cognitive map pioneered in 1976 by political scientist Robert Axelrod [5], who used it to represent knowle... ...owing an expert to express not just the positive, negative and absence of impacts but also the indeterminacy of impacts. Practically speaking, we... ...man experts. Experiments are now ongoing that investigate the operational impact and effectiveness of employing this causal knowledge inferencing te... ...and the complex dynamics between a certain strategic goal and the related environmental factors. They [65] argue that environments can be classifi... ...se three kinds above. According to this definition of environments, those environmental factors are listed as follows: Uncontrollable factors: E... ...the cause-effect relationships between the strategic goal and those seven environmental factors described under 3 heads together with market share i... ...market position is built in some market segment it will have an immediate impact on profitability through links running from key assumptions on expe...