[Claudio]

I want to support my previous comment/question by saying that I am desperately looking for a meaning to my life and for some answers about the extraordinary hardships I had to endure throughout it but, at the same time, I don’t want to succumb to some dogma.

Thanks very much again!

[Claudio]

Would it be possible, or is it anything wrong, with studying Kabbalah for personal leisure and to merely speculate about our own existence until I’ll find some proof that Kabbalah is truly a science?

I am more than willing to entertain a different perspective in order to gain an alternative level of understanding of human reality. However, I am having a hard time in passively believing the concepts I am being taught and imparted in this course thus far. I studied philosophy in high school and the more I am engaging with studying Kabbalah, the more it resembles to philosophy to me. We can all speculate about the meaning of life and suffering but I could argue that that could be a very personal and subjective matter to deal with.

I am a firm believer in science as to me it represents true reality, which is firmly backed up with numerous studies and with evidence consequently, coming up with the conclusions we already know or we may be familiar with.

I am looking forward to know what your thoughts are about Kabbalah not being a type of philosophical speculation about life and, if you happen to have a background in science, what made you come to the conclusion that Kabbalah is a science in itself?

 

Thank you very much!

 

[Claudio]

Probably “The Law of Equivalence of Form” is something that made me think. To my understanding, that’ll give us the opportunity to become like the Creator and trespass the barrier in order to make it into the spiritual world although, this concept just raises more questions as to how to become similar to the Creator and awake the intention to bestow.

I guess I am ready for lesson #3!

[Claudio]

So how is empirical evidence categorized in Kabbalah, and is it considered as true reality?

We might all perceive reality in different ways as well as experiencing different levels of reality (for instance, one particular dish may taste delicious to one person and disgusting to another, or a dress may look white and gold to a set of eyes whereas different eyes may see the very same dress as blue and black). However, it is universally known that if one touches fire they will get burnt, if one looks at the sun directly they will get blinded, if one tastes a lemon it will leave a sour taste in their mouth. We may also argue that if one sees a car crossing with a red light they have just witnessed an infraction. Since we have experienced the above events from inside our own box, does that mean those events are not real?

When do we draw the line between what is real and what is not while experiencing reality with our own five limited senses?

Thank you very much!

[Claudio]

To a deeper, more authentic level of reality, one that we are unable to perceive with our limited and filtered five senses.

[Claudio]

Hello!

I am enjoying this course enormously so far however, as a Kabbalah neophyte, I am finding its concepts very obscure and abstract as well as quite difficult to fully comprehend at this early stage.

Something that has truly impressed me so far, is the fact that Kabbalah introduces science, which basically explains numerous laws of the material world, into its teachings.

Thus, my question is, since science adopts evidence to explain every law in nature, what is the proof, or evidence, that Kabbalah is a tool to explain the forces in the material world, which are basically a consequence from a deeper level of reality.

Or shall we just limit ourselves to believe in the laws of Kabbalah just by mere faith, which in that case would render Kabbalah a religion no different than Christianity or Islam.

Thanks very much!

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