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How can you know that you have an authentic teacher? Also, should we be reading the Torah along with the Zohar?
ThanksHi Yvette,
1. The only compass we have is to follow our point in the heart. It will lead us to the place where we need to be. In other words, no one can tell you if this is the place for you or not, or that this is the teacher for you or not, you need to feel it for yourself. This follows the rules that “there is no coercion in spirituality” and “one learns only where one’s heart desires”.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/06/trust-your-heart/
2. The Zohar is essentially a commentary on the Torah, so by studying the Zohar you are already studying the Torah. If you want to read the Torah separately, it’s up to you.
And if you’re interested in learning how to properly decipher the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.
Albert @ KabU
Is it possible that with the right teachers, you can reach a very high level of the upper realms and then fall back from them when those teachers are no longer with us? It seems sometimes that its like a slow going trampoline experience. How can one maintain the upper realms?
Hi Elle,
Spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form, meaning that attaining spirituality requires us to become similar to it, to the pure qualities of love and bestowal that are there. Since our egoistic nature is completely opposite to spirituality, we naturally don’t feel it. In order to feel it, we need to rise above the ego.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
It could be that under a certain teacher, a person wants to cancel one’s ego and cling on to the teacher. As a result, they attain spirituality to some extent. Then when that teacher is gone, they stop canceling their ego and again fall into it, and again become disconnected from spirituality.
In order to maintain this type of work, besides the teacher, we also need a group where we can constantly work on rising above our ego. In the advanced semesters of KabU, everyone will receive their own virtual Kabbalah group and we’ll learn how to do this type of spiritual work in practice.
Albert @ KabU
In alchemy, there is said to be seven steps toward (inner) gold. Is this comparable to the five levels of consciousness, including our world and the higher infinity god?
Hi Patty,
I’m not an expert in alchemy, so I cannot answer that.
In general, there are many spiritual methods out there. But if we want to succeed in one of them, we should follow it without mixing in what we learn from other places. Otherwise we will corrupt the results we’re trying to reach. Sort of like trying to replicate a science experiment without following the procedures in the original experiment. Or like following two GPS systems simultaneously, one leads you to the goal through the west highway, while the other through the east highway. If we follow both, we’ll just wind up going in circles.
Albert @ KabU
Question about the 125 steps: Do I understand this correctly when I say, „As long as we incarnate here in this world where we are limited to our five senses, we do not enter the process of climbing those 125 stairs back up?
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When I learned Reiki, I had one client come to me because her late father appeared to her in her dreams repeatedly to tell her that she needed to read the Zohar and the life would not finish after we leave this one of existence, no, that he had a whole family and jobs on a different level of consciousness and that he wanted her to be calmed by this little transmission. She was not. — my interest for the Zohar was sparked then. I could not really understand anything I found, though.
My question here is: Can a person we have once known as a father, for example, appear in our dreams like that from one of the higher planes of consciousness?
When we return to the process of re-climbing the stairs, will we know exactly where we stand at all times?
Hi Seah,
1. It’s more correct to view this world as the starting point for climbing back up the 125 steps. Keep in mind that the 125 degrees represent the difference between us and the Creator. The Creator is a desire to bestow and we are the desire to receive. Adapting our desire to receive to work in order to bestow takes 125 steps. So to the extent that we correct our nature, make it similar to the Creator’s nature, to that extent we’re “climbing” this ladder. And to the extent that we’re similar to Him, to that extent we reveal Him in practice, in our lives here and now.
All of this works according to the law of equivalence of form. Just like a radio can pick up an external wave, when we tune the internal frequency of the radio to that wave. We too can tune ourselves to the frequency of the Creator and reveal Him in practice.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
2. Our dreams are typically removed from reality, so it’s possible to dream about anything. But Kabbalists don’t usually attribute much importance to dreams or the state of dreaming. They see it simply as a state where the brain summarizes/organizes the daily experiences. Similar to how some computers go through the process of defragmentation.
On the other hand, there is a spiritual state called dreaming which is the process by which we transition from one spiritual degree to another. It’s like the neutral gear on a manual transmission, which requires you to switch to the neutral gear before switching to another gear. In other words, in between every spiritual state is a state called “dream”. But it’s not related to the corporeal dreams that we experience in our physical bodies. Kabbalists don’t ascribe any importance to corporeal dreams.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2016/04/an-ordinary-dream/
https://laitman.com/2015/02/we-cannot-live-without-sleep/
3. The science of Kabbalah only takes us to the height of the full correction of the 125 degrees. We’re currently incapable of researching beyond that, so we don’t talk about it. Once we reach it, we’ll see what is ahead of us.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/what-happens-after-the-final-correction/
Albert @ KabU
Hello,
I have another question.
If an empath meets a narcissist. And during the interaction, the empath does not feel any light inside the narcissist, only feels war inside that person. After the relationship ends, the narcissist feels broken and their darkness seems to be disturbed.
My question is: So, unconsciously, the narcissist has a desire to be repaired by the light. So the encounter between the empath and the narcissist is the first step for the low-intensity light to enter the narcissist’s darkness to activate their development in the next lives.
Thank you~
A basic first step for a person to develop into a normal person (not to mention develop to the spiritual level), right?
I understand that misuse of Kabbalistic principles has been used by unscrupulous people to manifest selfish desires in the material world. However, is it scrupulous to use Kabbalah to manifest desires which are in alignment with manifesting one’s purpose?
Hi Linda,
Yes, that’s essentially what we’re doing every time that we read the Kabbalistic texts, we aspire to be within those higher desires that we read about, desires of pure love and bestowal. That aspiration is enough for the light to start working on us and turn our aspiration into reality.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
Hi To,
1. Kabbalah does not deal with the corporeal psychology of a person.
2. In general, it does not matter what qualities we were born with. We’re all uncorrected egoists and we all need correction.
3. Even though we often use the word egoism, we’re not talking about the simple corporeal ego. The spiritual level of egoism that we’re talking about is anything that stands in the way of our connection with the Creator. Normal people don’t have a spiritual ego. This is only something that we discover after doing some serious spiritual work.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/true-evil/
Albert @ KabU
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