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December 16, 2024

The NIU Shooting Spree – What Can We Learn from It?

What's Happening to Our Youth?
What’s Happening to Our Youth?

An Article in Kabbalah Today Issue 12

Last week, a shooting spree by an ex-student of Northern Illinois University (NIU) left five students dead and more than twelve wounded, and moreover, more and more youngsters are succumbing to drugs, depression and horrendous acts of violence. What has brought about the crisis our young generation is facing? Kabbalah explains that it’s their desire that’s in crisis, as they can no longer fulfill it with what we try to give them. more…

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  Chanah wrote @ March 15th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

People are obviously becoming bored with toys and distractions but they don’t know that anything else exists so they use what is here for a sense of immortality. I believe that some can get their minds into a state that is telling them that the power they will achieve through crossing the “forbidden borders” will liberate them…..there is the appearance that they’ll be liberated from this world or the small, disatisfying world they are dwelling in. During an episode like this a person experiences a tremendous adrenaline rush, a kind of intoxication and then a distortion of reality not unlike the drugs and crossing of social boundaries experienced by the children of the Sixties. This is the new, more malevolent variety of intoxication and instant power and can be had by the common person, even children, our most powerless citizens.

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