It would be a relief if this was all just laughable, like the funnies, and the silly pictures we are using here. But the reality of it is that it is not amusing in the least. On the contrary it is extremely painful and this silly humor is only attempting to make the best of it, to show the "bright side" of life, and to take the heaviness of the truth away.
And what is the truth?
The truth is that a reality has unfolded in the world. It is known by the name of
Bnei Baruch and it is an intricate web of
thought reform techniques weaved by Michael Laitman, using the fervent and blind loyalty of
a handful of Israeli men. They are called the "
inner group". Nobody outside that inner group is part of the deliberations motivating BB's actions, but
orders come out of there and spread throughout the world by way of the internet in a matter of minutes. The "
enlightened" members of
Bnei Baruch,
those who do follow the orders of Laitman and his delegates, go to work immediately to realize the desires of their inner group leaders. By following orders, submitting themselves to
three hours of daily live online lessons with Laitman (if they are men), and volunteering their
time and
work for
Bnei Baruch (especially if they are women, as in BB that's the only way to their "spiritual" attainment), Bnei Baruch followers believe themselves to be walking in
the path of sanctity, and they think their highest priority is their
personal correction. For such goal they will sacrifice their families, finances and health, because their "
Rav" ("
Great One") tells them it is the very reason they were born.
Yet in BB
no personal correction is possible without passing on the method to the rest of the world. This is one of the
Doublethink traps in Bnei Baruch's dogmatic doctrine. On the one hand
Rav Laitman (or
Laitman The Great One) tells his followers that
the world is perfect and given to us in the ideal condition for our development; yet when it comes down to bringing people into Laitman's web of thought reform, then
the world is in a desperate crisis, and that is the reason why people need Kabbalah in general, and him in particular. So
why would a perfect world need the help of an imperfect man? There is only one explanation that can possibly be implied in Bnei Baruch's ideological indoctrination: Laitman is the emanation of the very mythical Creator.
He is the materialization of His Will, The Thought, The Action, The Word that comes from Above. Laitman is too intelligent to articulate this in words. He goes further and deeper. As in the movie "
Inception", he will put the seed of the thought in people's minds without actually having to say it. How? By using people's deepest desires and infusing subliminal desperation, communicating to them how powerlesss they are without his "advice"; by twisting that "advice" into making them work for his will, dance to the tune he is playing. First Laitman makes an appeal to
compassion (although in reality he is appealing to
self-pity in disguise) and then, once he weakens his victims with a greater illusion of their own despair, he turns into a
fear monger puppeteer pulling the strings of his diminished puppet-followers. Concealing his
manipulative genius behind the mask of the Kabbalah, Laitman is able to break people's will and manipulate their minds at the level of
absolute rule by divine power.
The terrifying part is the realization that
the most intelligent and brightest, the most educated and accomplished people can fall in Laitman's web of thought reform. They will even read this and still insist that people's thinking does need reformation, and Laitman is the one who must bring it to them. And thus many intelligent, articulate and hardworking people like
Patrick Legault put all their effort into the front organization called
Mutual Responsibilty.
Michael Laitman understands that in our times it is almost impossible to successfully use claims of religious or political dogma, and not wanting to run the risk of appearing a radical fanatic, he uses social crises across the board, attracts people by appealing to
depression and lack of satisfaction, and tells his followers to "disseminate"
Bnei Baruch's ideology by infiltrating social events, like the 99% and "occupy" movements, popular causes (for example, educational or health reforms) and current concerns (economic crisis, etc). In order to minimize the possibility of being questioned, he commnads his followers to
work under a name and logo not associated with Bnei Baruch and his own kabbalah lessons. By doing this, not only more mainstream members can be recruited, but even more importantly,
connections to the dominant social order can be established through Laitman's followers, whose minds are completely reformed with his ideas and yet they remain unaware of the manipulations and implications. These followers have the potential to become influential elements in mainstream society which then Laitman can continue to manipulate as in the case of when
he ORDERED people to vote for Romney.
The saddest part for us yet is that we (the contributors to this site) were part of the brainwashing and its propagation. This is not something that happened to "others", it happened to us. Our thoughts were polluted with lies, our actions were manipulated with false claims which we were not empowered to question, we were part of Mutual Responsibility projects, of Education Teams, we were caught in the Bnei Baruch web of deceit and injected with Laitman's poison. We made friends who are still being used by Laitman as his greatest weapon of indoctrination. We learned that a great part of them not only are unable to see what Laitman is doing, but have very good intentions, and think themselves to be honestly working for true brotherly love and a better world. We could say the same thing about Germans when they supported the Nazi party. The Germans were not an evil nation. They were a great nation of thinkers, artists and humanists. But a wave of crisis turned them into a nation vulnerable to manipulation through fear and illusions.
Yet we are not the victims, we are the ones that made it out of Bnei Baruch in one piece. What is heartbreaking for us is that those who were
our friends are the victims and they are still there. Those whose very good intentions and hearts we got to know, but who are
unable to see the truth. They are still
trapped in BB's web, while they have their minds intoxicated with Laitman's spells of semantic smoke. Many of them even beyond any hope, these friends are yielding their will to
Laitman's destructive intentions.
And others keep falling in BB's deceiving web.