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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

..........................................220 9 F O R E WO R D T he essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To reali... ... gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our history. The desire for pleasure evolv... ...wer, and fame. Development of these three stages had lead to major changes in human society—it became a diversified, multi- class society. The fourth... ...quires that we understand our surroundings. To understand the present state of humanity and its pros- pects, we must build a bridge connecting several... ... its pros- pects, we must build a bridge connecting several milestones in the evolution of science. These milestones have significantly affected our... ...g those realities that are hidden from our perception. Everyone believed that humanity had discov- ered the necessary measures to know the world as i... ... highest of concepts and the hidden part of reality. This is the stage of the evolution of desires that humanity has reached today. This is the back... ...rm between the creature and the Creator.” The wisdom of Kabbalah depicts each evolutionary stage of the will to receive from the very first stage of... ... how the will to receive will evolve. Our entire history is determined by the evolution of our will to receive; this can help us understand how huma...

...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden parts of reality which scientists are now...

...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the force b...

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On The Origin Of The Human Mind, Second Edition

By: Ph.D. Andrey Vyshedskiy

...HOMSKY, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, MIT “Boston University’s Andrey Vyshedskiy brings a neuroscientist’s perspective to the discussion of human mental history in On the Origin of the Human Mind.” —Scientific American Mind (July 2009) “I found the Mental Synthesis theory stimulating and provocative. The author puts forward an explanation for the evolution of...

...studying the neuroscience of consciousness, I was struck with certain facts about mental imagery that seemed to shed some light on the process of the evolution of the human mind. The origin of the human mind remains one of the greatest mysteries of all times. The last 150 years, since Charles Darwin proposed that species evolve under the influence of natural selection (Dar...

... Chapter 2. Neuronal synchronization 26 Chapter 3. Imagining new objects 32 Chapter 4. External manifestations of mental synthesis 39 Chapter 5. Humans versus animals 80 Chapter 6: Overall Discussion of Part 1 108 Part 2. Evolution of the Human Mind 135 Chapter 7. Introduction: a quick guide to paleoanthropology 136 Chapter 8. Cognitive evolution through the p...

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Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, The Part 2

By: Charles Darwin

...Part 2 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin app...

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Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, The Part 1

By: Charles Darwin

...A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin app...

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Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, The Part 3

By: Charles Darwin

...III. SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION TO MAN, AND CONCLUSION. Part 3 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin app...

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Reality Redux : Unlocking Homo Communicans: unlocking Homo communicans

By: Dr. Henk L.C. Meuzelaar

...day: duality, dimensionality, experiential vs agreement reality, free will and our quest for purpose"............ "Now, 2,500 yr later, billions of humans chained to reality TV are de facto agreement reality prisoners like the hapless souls in fig 30.".................. "Direct brain-to-brain (b2b) communication of experiential reality objects, scenes and events sounds ...

...ty check) ~ Weighing Anchor ~ Experiential Reality ~ Tsunami Warning! ~ Philosophy Dead? ~ Synopsis I: Exponential Virtualization (the price of human self-awareness) I.1: Retrospective I.2: Man’s Midas Touch ~ virtualization by symbolic communication I.3: Data Transmission Tsunami ~ mankind faces functional dementia I.4: Freeze, Flee or Fight ~ innate re...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... Solution ............................................................... 31 Evolution of the Human Desire for Pleasure ............................... ........................................................... 31 Evolution of the Human Desire for Pleasure ..................................39 CHAPTER ... .............. 110 CHAPTER 8: EVERYTHING IS READY (FOR LIFE’S PURPOSE) ..... 115 EVOLUTION OF THE GENERATIONS ............................................. .............................................................................153 HUMANITY AND THE WISDOM OF KABBALAH ...................................... ...OPLE OF ISRAEL .......................................................161 THE EVOLUTION OF THE CORRECTION METHOD ....................................... ... future of the state of Israel. 17 FOREWORD It is hardly a secret that humanity is in a deep crisis. Many of us already feel it. Sensations o... ...eed to understand their causes. The safest place to start is by understanding human nature and the nature of the world. If we understand our own nat... ...e desire to receive pleasure evolved in us over time, following the growth of human desires. Its first manifes- tation was in simple desires, such as... ...ires, such as craving wealth, honor, sovereignty, and knowledge, prompted the evolution of human society and its social structures: education, cul- ...

...Laitman's new book not only demonstrates with examples from science and Kabbalah that the ego stands behind all human suffering, but also shows how we can use it to our benefit. With clear analyses of the human soul and its problems, the book provides a 'roadmap' indicating how we can achieve a new level of existence and fulfillment....

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God Prophecy

By: Dr. Paraskev

...h to God. A pragmatic Path we could walk easily, smoothly, within a normal human lifetime. For others of us, it is a book that reveals what the future... ...or others of us, it is a book that reveals what the future holds. For each human and all humanity, for each soul and every society. The developments t... ...visionary – to name only a few that tried to see what the future holds for humankind. Utopists, ideologists, scientists, schizophrenics attempted to t... ...II. Which produced the United Nations... But why do all good intentions of humans always fail ? ... Or do they ? ... Time and time again we ask oursel... ...hat is this understanding that we need, to know the future ? The future of humanity. But the future of each individual, too... And the future of God’s... ... whole democratic system with high living standards for everybody. A great evolution has reached to its goal: the material one. But another evolution ... ...rchasing power, living conditions, quality of life, etc. And this material evolution will, surely, develop on and on until all people on Earth could l... ...iod. But in the same time, it is as unrealistic to think that no spiritual evolution takes place. This evolution is the second part of God’s Plan for ... ...ss, as good. But it takes much much more time to develop than the material evolution. Because, it is far more subtle and “long-range”. Nevertheless, e...

...is is a spiritual book that tells the real Truth of God. And the true Path to God. A pragmatic Path we could walk easily, smoothly, within a normal human lifetime. For others of us, it is a book that reveals what the future holds. For each human and all humanity, for each soul and every society. The developments that would make us materially and morally satisfied...

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The Path of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

..................................................9 Part Two: Phases of Spiritual Evolution ............................................... 70 Part Three... ...t only with regard to our feelings. However, because the sensory organs of non-human creatures would differ from ours, they would see the world as co... ...Kabbalah, since it is the only study that deals with the part of reality that humanity has yet to attain. But it is not enough to merely study the t... ...tor: “Who is He?” This is because the Creator is inside us, the Source of the human “self.” Hence, no matter how many times we ask ourselves, “Who a... ...ly applies to our world. Thus, by studying the processes of impregnation, the evolution of the embryo, and labor, as well as the infancy and growth ... ...h is not a historic epic, though there is a correlation be- tween the text and human history. But this is only because the construc- tion of the world... ...ld is reflected in its adjacent lower world, down to our own. Everything that humankind will have to go through during its as- cent through the world... ...a consequence of the thought of the Creator (the Thought of Creation) and the evolution of the worlds. The Thought of Creation relates to the emanat... ...U T I O N Q: What are the situations one goes through during one’s spiri- tual evolution? A: The Creator created the creature in only one state, calle...

...every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. The structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. But the story of humanity, or more accurately, of the human soul, is the undercurrent that drives the reader forward in this book. It is about you, about me, about all of us. This book is about the way we were, the way we are, the way we will...

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The Myth of Ulysses and Secondary Beauty

By: Antonio Mercurio

... thinking and acting, and who wants to transform him or herself as well as human history. Antonio Mercurio 6 THE MYTH OF ULYSSES AND SECOND... ...urished themselves with nectar and ambrosia and I am firmly convinced that human beings are deeply in need of nourishing themselves with beauty, mor... ...h. The next is Secondary beauty, which is created through the artistry of human beings and once it is created, is no longer subject to death or the... ... is immortal because it lives in the works of art created and preserved by human beings. It is immortal because it lives in the archetypes found wi... ...eings. It is immortal because it lives in the archetypes found within the human species’ collective unconscious. It is immortal because it lives ... ...pposites, can have access to it. This particular type of beauty signals an evolution in art. It will no longer require a material support that must ... ...he moral perfection the great religions proposed is only one step in human evolution, and that it is not an end in itself but is finalized to humanit... ...n, and that it is not an end in itself but is finalized to humanity’s next evolutionary step: to transform oneself into an artist of one’s life and o...

...logy. Reading it can be useful to anyone who wants to discover new ways of thinking and acting, and who wants to transform him or herself as well as human history....

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Additional SPIRITUAL Information

By: Petar Simeonov Abadzhiev

...…………………………………………….……….8pg The transmitted “SPIRITUAL information” from “SPIRITUAL Teacher” with “SPIRITUAL name” Divitìn Tistevòl of his “Disciple-human being” Petar Simeonov Abadzhiev:………………………………………………………….……..9pg 1.How is the COSMOS structured?.....................................................................................10pg 2.Shaping in color…………………………...

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Attaining the Worlds Beyond

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...oks by Rabbi Michael Laitman .................... 447 Contents It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualiti... ...uffering! How much easier would life be if the Creator were not concealed from human beings, but were clearly perceived andseenbyeachandeveryone ofus!... ...LDSBEYOND WindowtotheHeart It is clear that, since the creation of the world, humanity has suffered torment and pain in such magnitude, it has often ... ...rayers? Why did He turn away from them and scorn their suffering? All of these human beings subconsciously realized that there is a higher purpose to ... ...being united with the Creator. Why, then, is the Creator silent in response to human pleas forrelief? This can be explained as follows: people are muc... ...he hands of blind nature (predetermined qualities of character, laws of social evolution, demands of our bodies to sustain life and searchforpleasure,...

...In the words of Michael Laitman, "It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualities as total altruism and love. This is for the simple reason that human beings cannot comprehend how such feelings can exist at all, as everyone seemingly...

...It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualities as total altruism and love. Even the existence of such feelings is beyond our comprehension; we seem to require an incentive to perform any act that do...

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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

... one Universe to Another This book deals with the main themes regarding human existence and its content is the result of both an existential and ... ...l concept of time. One opposes the other and both are terrible prisons for humanity; one creates absolute thinking and the other creates nihilism an... .......................................... 127 8 CHAPTER IX: Thinking of Human Beings as Persons and as Artists of their own Lives and of the Life ... ...wers, fruit and seeds and produces oxygen that keeps the ecosystem alive), human beings can also, if they wish, transform, synthesize, create, conden... ...h, transform, synthesize, create, condense and transmit energy. In fact, human beings transform biochemical energy and mechanical energy into rela... ... of all. God, the artist, who models himself as a human being, over a long evolution lasting millennia, so he can give himself first a biological li... ...here is its peripheral nervous system? Second question: if we look at the evolution of life on earth, we know that early on there was no nervous sy... ... the central one was brought about. If this is what happened regarding the evolution of life on the earth, then what is it that must happen so that t... ... of all. God, the artist, who models himself as a human being, over a long evolution lasting millennia, so he can give himself first a biological li...

...condary Beauty”. Primary beauty is the type of beauty created by nature, and it is subject to time and death. “Secondary Beauty” is beauty created by human beings, a type of beauty that goes beyond the type created by nature and that,...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 489 The Evolution of the Worlds 497 Foreword to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbal... ...st, uncompromising kind. They set a very clear goal before them: to show humankind how to achieve eternal life—filled with pleasure and unbounded, ... ...times becomes possible. This is so for two reasons: either because of the evolution of the generation or by being given permission from Above, as it... ...nd here there is a conduct of particular and general: General—the whole of humanity, obligated to eventually come to this immense evolvement, as it i... ...e s T u d e n T Particular—that even before the perfection of the whole of humanity, this rule is implemented in a chosen few individuals in every ge... ...hysiologists and anatomists have discovered. And there is much there that humans have yet to find. From the above, you can conclude the vast variety ... ..., for only now do they have a common language. AppEllATionS AliEn T o ThE hUmAn SpiriT With all that is said above, you will understand why we someti... ...friend.” Any person can be as Moses. Undoubtedly, anyone who examines the evolution of Creation before us will see and understand the great pleasure ... ...nowledge is given only from mouth to mouth. And there is also an order of evolution in them, where each can add to his friend or regress (whereas in...

...ife 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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The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers (v. A4) : The Fifth Epochal Revelation, A4 version

By: Tigran A. Aivazian, Editor

"Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it." (196:1.3)

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The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers ( v. tablets/mobiles) : The Fifth Epochal Revelation

By: Tigran A. Aivazian, Editor

"Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it." (196:1.3)

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A New Therapy for Health & Energy, V4

By: Richard Clark

...Q) What is the goal? A) To end pain and suffering caused by illness leading on to the ending of all distortion in human beings allowing personal, internal evolution to restart. The question is always: what is causing the distortion in a person, and how to get rid of it? Also to create a parallel development with more traditional metho...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...d his enemies. He should have felt and acted with responsibility towards his fellow human beings, even towards those who wronged him greatly. But ... ...ucers exploit Truman's life shamelessly and remorselessly in the ugliest display of human vices possible. The Director indulges in his control-mania... ...zing movie, "The Matrix", a breed of AI computers takes over the world. It harvests human embryos in laboratories called "fields". It then feeds th... ...species" derives its energy needs from the electricity produced by the billions of human bodies thus preserved. A sophisticated, all-pervasive, com... ... "The Matrix" generates a "world" inhabited by the consciousness of the unfortunate human batteries. Ensconced in their shells, they see themselves ... ...ter through only well defined types of experiences, are equipped with limited (and evolutionarily biased) senses, programmed in a way which tends t... ...ient beings must be complex? Complexity is one solution. Simplicity is another. Our evolution “chose” the former. Processes in other corners of the ... ...As Seth Shostak notes in his excellent essay, titled "SETI and Intelligent Design", evolution experiments with numerous dead ends before it yields a... ...berration or the rule, no one knows. The diversionist and convergionist schools of evolution are equally speculative as are the basic assumptions o...

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Veritas Neo: The New Vision for a New Reality

By: Kee

...m and the work that he begins that will shed a light in the darkness that humanity has lost itself in. Yes, my name is Trinity and I have seen many t... ...p so I didn't understand how he could remain so steadfast in his love for humanity when quite a few of its members were openly mocking him, having a... ...e World ________________________________________ Neo's Open Letter to the Human Race: Love. This is where this Book begins. The "teachings" within th... ...of society’s expectations… and like all systems, it is self- perpetuating. Human nature, from its earliest origins, teaches you that to belong is to ... ...eeper than blood, than bone, than the pulse that drives the cortex of the human brain… and fear of change may well be the most terrible of all of th... ...anguage. And through this eye, this perspective, I've taken a look at the evolution of the world's computer code... and from that, I've been able to... ...pt those things, to the degree that I need to. Trin thinks it's part of my evolution, in what I need to do. That's personal... just like your choices... ...But in my Purpose here, and in my powerful beliefs about true freedom and evolution, I needed a document, clear and straightforward, that stated not...

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Awakening to Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...h text 9/29/05 1:20 PM Page vi PREFACE Out of all known creatures, the human being is the most com- plete. Yet it is the human who asks the eterna... ...on is not just “Why do things exist?” but also “What am I living for?” The evolutionary processes of nature and living organisms astonish us with thei... ...s. For example, young animals mature in a matter of weeks or months, while humans need many years to grow. Only at the end of the process do you see t... ...ns need many years to grow. Only at the end of the process do you see that humans are the masters of creation; however, during the transitional phases... ...mans are the masters of creation; however, during the transitional phases, humans are much weaker than any other animal. If we did not vii Awakening t... ...that it is the young animal who will become the master of creation and the human who will lead a bitter life and die. It follows that we understand ne... ...derstand neither the meaning of our exis- tence, nor the reason behind the evolutionary process. We perceive the world through our five senses. What w... ...scientifically, culturally, but not ethically. At a certain point in their evolution, people must feel an inner need for spiritual development, a need... ... viii PREFACE Awakening to Kabbalah text 9/29/05 1:20 PM Page viii The evolution of humanity is like the evolution of the indi- vidual: It evolves...

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