Author: Linda Narbonne

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Kabbalah Is Not Religion, Mysticism, or Philosophy

Kabbalah Is Not Religion, Mysticism, or Philosophy

Kabbalah Is a Practical Scientific Method

Today many people still associate Kabbalah with mysticism, or blind belief. The perception of reality is a topic that clearly distinguishes the wisdom of Kabbalah from philosophy, religion, and science. Kabbalah is a practical study method that leads a person stage by stage through one’s personal development. Like any other scientific method, Kabbalah instructs the researcher what to do, identifies which results can be expected, and explains the reasons for them. It does not offer descriptions of theoretical states whatsoever—states that one cannot perform de facto and in complete awareness.

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To Perceive Reality in a Way Where Everyone Is a Part of You

To Perceive Reality in a Way Where Everyone Is a Part of You

The Evolution of How We Perceive Reality

The Wisdom of Kabbalah gradually leads us to a radically new way of perceiving reality.

To better understand the news that Kabbalah introduces in regard to the perception of reality, let us briefly review how science has approached this topic over the years.

The classical approach, represented by Newton, said that the world exists independently, regardless of man, and that the shape of the world is fixed. Then came Einstein, who discovered that our perception is relative and depends on our senses. In consequence, we cannot say precisely what comprises the world outside of us, as it all depends on the observer’s perception of reality.

The contemporary approach to our perception of reality is based on quantum physics, and holds that the observer affects the world, and thus affects the picture one perceives. The picture of reality is a kind of “average” between the qualities of the observer and the qualities of the object or phenomenon being observed.

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Why Our Perception of Reality Is Limited and How We Can Change That

Why Our Perception of Reality Is Limited and How We Can Change Tha

Can Our Perception of Reality Be Expanded?

The most complicated, yet fascinating topic connected to The Book of Zohar, and indeed to life, is “the perception of reality.”

It is known that around us are numerous waves that we do not perceive. However, there is also a field of higher information called “the upper nature” or “the Creator.” We can come in contact with that field and receive everything from it—emotions, understanding, information, love, sensation of eternal life, and the sensation of wholeness that exists in that field, which fills everything around us.

The very purpose of the wisdom of Kabbalah is to teach us how to develop our own tools so we can perceive that field of higher information. This can be done only if we change within; hence, when we change, we ourselves become like that field, and thus like the Creator.

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What Milestones Have You Met in Your Spiritual Development?

What Milestones Have You Met in Your Spiritual Development

Our spiritual lives are divided into four periods. The Creator’s enjoyment, which lies in delighting His creatures, depends on how much we can perceive and discern. It also is affected by how much we can discern Him as the giver of all goodness. Only in this case does He receive pleasure from us. This is much like a parent who plays with his or her beloved child and enjoys the child’s attitude toward him or her. The parent is delighted that the child recognizes the parent as a loving and strong parent who only awaits the child’s requests and is ready to grant them.

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Finally, Now You too Can Interpret & Benefit from the Book of Zohar

Finally Now You too Can Interpret and Benefit from the Book of Zohar

Today the Book of Zohar Can Be Interpreted Correctly

The Kabbalistic writings use the “language of branches”, describing spiritual matters using notions, objects from our world. Thus without the right interpretation the unprepared reader has no chance of entering the true meaning of the texts, to receive the necessary inner changes in order to attain the mind, the thoughts of the author.

And the books of Kabbalah and The Zohar are filled with corporeal parables. Therefore, people are afraid lest they will lose more than they will gain … And this is what prompted me to compose a sufficient interpretation to the writings of the Ari, and now to the Holy Zohar. And I have completely removed that concern, for I have evidently explained and proven the spiritual meaning of everything, that it is abstract and devoid of any corporeal image, above space and above time, as the readers will see, to allow the whole of Israel to study The Book of Zohar and be warmed by its sacred Light.
 
Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 58

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