Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Ben]

It struck me how entrenched we are in the egoistic perception that its really like a fish in water in the sense that because it surrounds you all the time, you don’t know how egoistic you are. I can’t wait to acquire the sixth sense through immersing myself in kabbalah.

[Vianney]

Most of religion speak about purifying the mind and heart, purifying desires, on one hand, and emphasize the importance of love, compassion, caring, giving and forgiving on the other hand. What blew my mind is how kabbalah teaches in a very clear and practical way what is the join between those two aspects of spiritual life by correcting the intention of our desires.

[Verena]

I really liked the videos on the perception of „reality“… and also the clip with the gorilla test; the metaphor with the red apple; the clip on how people reacted when receiving a cochlear implant. Thinking about how selective our senses and brain work, thinking about that programming to select for „whatś in it for us“ , for our egoism, makes me feel rather humble, for I feel itś very obvious thatś whatś leading most people on most of the time. And it feels inspiring to get knowledge about other ways.

Also, I am very thankful that all the material is shared here, and impressed by the way it has been edited, to help understand the underlying principles. While I find the recommended reading needs really time and makes me still feel like there is a bit of a link to religion (not that I would mind, itś just that I am getting that this is not what the teaching is about), I find the explanations in the videos are more relating to everyday experiences or modern science, so I really feel itś helpful to go through both and connect the information. I really feel very touched by the experience.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by Verena.

[Liora]

I found it fascinating that you can only attain the 6th sense through intention. You can not study it or intellectually move up to it. It is all in the heart. You have to yearn for it like the servant in The Garden of Yearning, the lost princess. (Rabbi Arush).

It reminded me of The Beast who could not regain his human form unless he truly learned the essence of caring for another. Pretending by doing the right actions did not work. He could not fool his way out. He had to have the right intention.

I even wonder if I will be able to know my own heart. Am I truly yearning? Or am I deeply curious about this unknown (to me) realm? “The heart is deceitful above all things, who can know it? (Jeremiah…. ?)

[Branden]

First of all, I have been enjoying reading all the other replies. What struck me from the lesson is how distance is measured totally differently in the spiritual worlds. Since there is no time and no space, distance is purely a matter of similarity of forms. And to have the same form with the Creator is to actually just be one with Him!

[Renata Klem]

It is very difficult to understand rationally that what we see on the outside is not real because this is what we have always thought it to be. I think this is why many people do not accept the existence of something more real that we cannot see with our eyes in our current state.

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