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I watched this video at ~9min Dr Laitman’s answer provided a clarification on my question, Thanks for all your answers, and any additional information will be appreciated.
In the “Preface to the Book of Zohar,” Baal HaSulam explains that what we perceive as the outside world is actually a mental projection created within our minds. He compares the brain to a photographic machine that inverts the images we see, making us perceive them outside of us, even though they are actually inside our consciousness.
Given this idea, I’d like to ask: How can understanding that our perception of reality is a projection of our inner state help us in our spiritual work? Specifically, how does this concept influence our ability to transform ourselves and our experience of the world around us?
Also for example, if we are all in the same room, with five people seeing the same object (like a chair, table, building across the street that can be seen through the window, etc.), how does Rav Yehuda’s comment apply here? If the “outside” world is an illusion created within our minds, why do we perceive the same object similarly, and how does this align with the idea that changing our inner world can influence the way we experience the world around us?
Does this mean that the path to changing our external reality starts purely with changing our internal perception, and if so, what practices in Kabbalah can help us align the two?
I want to understand how can perceiving reality with the will to bestow from the creator who wants all good for us, and with the will to perceive as we perceive things as good or bad because of our ego align with situation where for example someone else uses for example black magic or witchcraft or similar practices to harm us or our loved ones for example physically with an illness, or a negative event, how does this apply in this context, my understanding would be that dwelling in our inner state to become as close as the creator would prevent anyone from being a nuisance to us. Do you have any idea to share on that.
Also are there any other forces other than the creator (and the five spiritual worlds which to my understanding is based on the will to bestow)Â that are able to affect our reality from spiritual level to also affect our reality in the world?
Thanks for your previous answer.
I am curious, in the lecture the instructor said that Abraham when he was sitting outside of his tent, he was teaching the Kabbalah to the travelers. I read in Genesis 18 as per the Torah and Bible that Abraham sits at his tent’s entrance, sees 3 visitors (angels), and offers them hospitality. One announces that Sarah will have a son, can you clarify on that please?
