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Hi Esther,
All psychological states (and all of us are in a certain psychological state that characterizes our perception of reality, in which we feel ourselves existing in a world, in which there was some history before I existed and there will be people existing after I die) are a product of the shattering of the singular system, in which there weren’t different people, but one Creation, a single desire. Now, I experience a shard of this once whole desire. My whole essence is this desire. And if I would go deeper into my true essence, it’s the whole integral desire that is common to all those broken pieces of it, which include all the people that exist and ever have existed and will exist. All of us, towards the true, whole and perfect reality are truly like someone with a severe cognitive disability. Towards that reality we are blind, deaf, unable to taste, and completely distorted in all possible ways. We don’t even know in what world we exist. And that’s why people are miserable in it, and why the world is going in the direction it is. It’s clearer by the day to everyone that no good future is possible for humanity. With this comes the increase in mental illness, both inborn and acquired. All of this is a product of the shattered perception of reality, which is inborn in every person to varying extents. We need to correct this perception. Through connection with others, for which we need the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is the wisdom of how to connect the shattered desire, we reveal the whole, eternal reality, above time and space. And there, there is no mental illness. Now, those in our world who are born with a severe mental illness or disability, they play a special role in the system that includes all people. All people are on the path of suffering actually, and this is just their particular participation in the correction of the broken vessel, in an unconscious manner. And all of us are involved in the gradual, painful correction of this broken vessel. If we have an awakening to the wisdom of Kabbalah, we need to move to a conscious, proactive, and far more pleasant and quick correction process.
Hi Paul, sorry it seems I missed this one. That’s the way the Creator built reality, that if I want to reveal Him, reveal the Upper World, I need to start keeping the laws that exist there before it gets revealed. It’s like a child needs to know the street laws before crossing an intersection. But here, it’s even more. It’s like I live underwater and to exist above, I need to develop new organs of survival. In the spiritual world one cannot exist in the qualities we have now. Therefore, I need an Upper Force to add to my qualities these new organs of perception, 5 new senses. I can draw this force by various exercises the Kabbalists advise for us to practice in the Kabbalistic group. I need to act towards them, as much as I can depict it, like I will act in the spiritual world. I won’t be exactly right, it’s a game of sorts, but I nevertheless will invite the Upper Force to change me.
Hi Duke. In an individual. Each person has to have a society, a spiritual society, towards which he is working. He has to be towards them like the Creator is towards reality. That is, he has to try to think of them rather than about himself, since the Creator does not think about Himself. He has to try not to be indifferent to them, as the Creator thinks always about the wellbeing of the whole of reality. So, the student needs to do many exercises so that the Upper Force will work on him and make these changes in him. The exercises are not an end in themselves, rather a means to invite the Upper Force. Now, this Force also doesn’t fundamentally change what he is. We’re a Desire to Receive pleasure – and nothing besides. Therefore, that won’t change. This desire to receive, when it is in its current, inborn form, is called hatred of others. Usually, we are not even developed enough to identify it as such. It doesn’t reach hatred, but mere indifference to everyone who is unrelated to different forms of self-benefit that could come to my desire. And again, this nature won’t change, it’s going to stay. Except for one thing. A new thing is born atop this desire, called Kavana/Intention. And through this intention it is deemed that I enter equivalence of form with the Creator. And I find out that only the direction of the desire determines my entire perception of reality – whether I’ll perceive this imaginary dream world, or be born into the spiritual world. It is revealed in one birth into it, like a baby born from the womb into a brand new world; and then it is attained more and more. Each time, it’s revealed more by starting with hatred/self-interest/indifference towards others or the Creator, and then covering it with a greater love. This is the spiritual path. And even before this process there are many stages of a similar process, prior to spiritual birth. That’s why I need a Kabbalistic group to measure myself with, to what extent I’m in passion, indifference, or hatred towards the spiritual process.
Hi Paul,
Problem: all our language comes from experiences of the world we are born in. There are no words in our language to describe the Upper World. There are no experiences that are similar. Even the words that we somehow use to help a person try to imagine what they should do to reach the spiritual world – the person of course doesn’t hear them correctly. But these words are, again, not in order to describe spirituality, but to give the person a depiction that, even though it’s not correct, it is a depiction towards which he can move in the direction of spirituality. And he also doesn’t move in the direction of spirituality but he, by this, positions himself before the Upper Light, which is standing by to make the changes in the person, which bring him to Equivalence of Form with the Light, a form of bestowal rather than reception. And by Equivalence with that Upper World, he feels it.
Hi Mira,
Humanity is headed not towards more superficial freedom, which is what they had, but towards the feeling of incarceration. And it will be immeasurably more pleasant a realization if we understand beforehand that we are imprisoned by our own egos. I am locked inside a bubble, and it doesn’t let me out. I always do what it wants. It leads me down a slow, painful path of development – towards the same goal we’ll reach inevitably – but through a press of development. If we learn the wisdom of Kabbalah we can learn how take our destiny into our own hands and how to truly feel free. Because free doesn’t mean democracy or being able to post whatever my ego feels like it and whatever I want. Free means to be above my ego. We don’t feel how to exit it is to sense a totally new, eternal world, above time and space. Just this, as if this small trigger within us, keeps us chained to this perception of reality. And it is something slight, but infallible. As a result of it, is the persistence of my perception – that I’m in a world, there’s no Creator here, and it’s a pretty bad world. But this is just the radish I was born in, and I thought the whole world was bitter like this radish. But when we become free of it we come out to a wide wonderful world. So, in short, we have to learn the wisdom of Kabbalah, discover how much the ego controls our every move, learn what force exists in nature to enable me to rise above it, and what system do I need to establish contact with in order to rise out of myself to.
This is not simple, but it involves the Restriction of the egoistic desire for myself and then I am neutral towards my own desire, above it, as if it does not belong to me, Therefore, I am objective towards myself. I do not use my desire now without first checking whether upon any desire, I can place an intention for the Creator. We have a lot of study before us, to be able to do this. Because first of all, step one is to study for the Reforming Light until it will gradually clarify in me what is the desire in me, that is in order to receive through and through. And then it has to clarify the Point in the Heart, so that I will see that I am like a dipole, with two completely opposite systems in me. Then there are more steps, but the main thing is to know that I need to absorb as much Kabbalistic material as possible, to draw as much of the force of Nature as possible which is standing by to change me internally, billions of inner changes which I have no power to discern, let alone change on my own. But it can and it will.
