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Thought: Dr. Michael Laitman’s video on Kabbala, Science and the Perception of Reality speaks about somethng I have heard several times from the beginning of the course. That point in one’s hear is the beginning to “will.” I believe I had that point in my heart since I began reading books of Kabbalah written by Rabbi Wolfe from Australia and attended to of his lectures when he visited Chabad in San Antonio, TX. However, my life changed in 2018. And it is not until NOW that I have found Kabbalah teachers by scrolling through YouTube’s topics and caught one of Tony”s lectures. I immediately joined the course. The spark was there in my heart, the will since 1995, without the understanding of why and where it was there. However, I was not able to continue, or pursue where that point would lead me to, or what it meant. Now, I will be able to follow that point in this course with a much deeper understanding since the point in my heart has grown greater. Thank you all.
From the video: Do We Live in a Simulation? I struggle with “straight” words all through my Batchelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate education in Psychology. At first, it was because I knew English. However, I did not know conversational English, nor educational English. I bought a Webster’s Dictionary that would not only give me the definition of words, but also three to four sentences on how to use that word. I watched Tony’s video of Simulation about four times. Before watching this video, I was grasping what I was learning. However, at the same time losing what I had learned like white feathers fleeing from my brain because of a soft wind. In watching this particular video, Tony gave me a great metaphor regarding the video games of which I have never been interested in playing. However, I have watched commercials about how these games are played. What also comes to mind are the fantasy movies such as Continuum which is about a “detective from the year 2077 who finds herself trapped in the present day and must prevent notorious criminals from the future from altering history,” quoted from the introduction. I have not watched this movie. However, I have been watching off and on, the series The Man in the High Castle in which the main character, a woman is able to travel through time, past, present, future. The past represents the truth about what happened after World War II. The present and the future are false realities in which the Germans won the war and conquered one third of the Eastern states of the United States. The Japanese also won and conquered one third of the Western states. The middle of the United States is called the free zone where people can live “free.” In this series, there exist many films that one man has in his possession, hence, the man in the white castle in which his entire collection of films show the truth about what really happened after World War II. The other existing realities, the Japanese conquests and the German’s conquest of separate areas within the United States are, of course, false. The two “conquerors” know about the films and are trying very hard to find them and destroy before people, all the people find out that they have been living in false realities. I watch a little bit of the man in the white castle and go back to study the Kabbalah readings trying to make sense of the written words. Tony’s video on Do We Live in a Stimulation and the metaphor of video games hit my brain as if a lightning had struck my brain and my reaction was a huge WOW!!! After watching Tony’s video the fourth time, when he asks, “do you get it?” It was a YES, I do. Therefore, from this point forward, the rest of my learning will comprise of how I can “win” by attaining the root of my soul and accomplish adhesion with the Creator through learning how to begin and understand the steps upwards to reach the Creator. Thank you, Tony. I am wondering if your video can be transcribed into a written reading that I can use as a background as I move forward into the depth of understanding Kabbalah. I hope I make sense.
Understanding that each movement up through the worlds in an increase in ratio of the will to bestow vs will to receive make it much easier to conceptualize that path ahead.
Perhaps this is answered in future lessons, but its unclear to me if we are trying to replace our willingness to receive with a will to bestow, or if we are trying to convert our will to receive into a will to bestow. In the book Kabbalah Revealed, I gathered that we use our will to receive as a way to also bestow, as the only thing the Creator wants is to give and for his Creatures to receive that giving. So the Creators fulfillment comes from the reception of the Creature and his/her gratitude. So our will to receive endless amounts is actually a way for us to endlessly give to the Creator.
For instance, let’s say I find $100 on the ground. My gratitude towards the creator for giving that is a way for me to give to the creator. I can do this for anything – my loving girlfriend, my hammock i enjoy reading on, my small challenges throughout the day that are opportunities to rise above a fear, etc. I can be thankful to the creator providing all those gifts and opportunities. But what about factoring in other people? When I found the $100, what about the excitement and gratitude I get after the thought of how I can use that $100 to give to another person/creature? Sometimes I think about accumulating a lot of money and all the good I can do with it. Is that also considered the will to give? Or sense there is only the Creator and creature, should the will to give be directed only to the creator?
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