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SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY
Kabbalah Meets Modern Science – P2/2
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Welcome,
fine viewers to
Science and Spirituality
on Supreme Master
Television.
In March 2005, a unique
scientific conference
entitled “Quantum
Physics Meets Kabbalah”
took place in
San Francisco, California,
USA with Kabbalist Rav
Michael Laitman
and American quantum
physicists William Tiller,
Jeffrey Satinover,
and Fred Alan Wolf
in attendance.
Rav Laitman is
the founder and director
of the Bnei Baruch
World Center
for Kabbalah Studies and
founder and president
of the ARI—
Ashlag Research Institute.
The three scientists
appeared
in the critically acclaimed
American documentary
“What the Bleep
Do We Know?!”
The conference was
fascinating and featured
closed discussions
and panel presentations
before students
and teachers from the
University of California-
Berkeley, USA and
Stanford University, USA.
Rav. Laitman gave
a concentrated overview
of Kabbalah, an ancient
spiritual wisdom,
explaining the structure
of reality and how
the main substance
of creation, the desire to
receive pleasure, evolves.
A documentary was
produced about the event
by the Bnei Baruch
Kabbalah Education
and Research Institute
entitled “Ups and Downs
in San Francisco.”
Last week we showed
excerpts of this work
which featured
the interactions between
the three scientists
and Rav. Laitman
as he explained to them
the basics of Kabbalah.
This week we bring you
further portions of
the documentary which
fascinatingly depicts
the intersection
of the perspectives
of those trained
in quantum physics
with that of spirituality,
as represented by
the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Still, despite it all,
the scientists stayed on.
They listened;
they took notes.
As scientists,
they know that ultimately
this is the only way to
discover the truth.
Once more at the lecture:
Love, will, Light, wisdom
flows through
into the world and
that benefits the Creator...
I am afraid to tell you
it is not so...
Pour quoi? (Why?)
Because in order for us
to be a hose for the Light,
we have to have the same
properties as the Light
because it all connects
through a process
of equivalence of form.
Now if you can take
your desire— to first of all,
discern what exactly it is.
It is not some intentions
or properties;
it is a desire.
You can begin
to relate to the pleasure
that comes to you,
as it is says here,
by even one percent;
if you begin to do that,
you will feel the Creator.
Thus,
lecture followed lecture.
We’ve captured ten hours
of lectures on video—
videos of Rav
explaining all of
the wisdom of Kabbalah.
We saw the city only
through the car window
on our way back
and forth from the hotel.
They tell us it's beautiful.
Let’s return
to the lecture…
We have letters, say like
Aleph, Aleph, Bet, Gimel,
and then Aleph again, etc.
There are no words there,
they're dots there.
And we might have
20 such letters,
or six such letters,
or three or four.
All in all they give us,
how should I put it,
a formula, in which we
have to do things inside,
with our desire, and
that's how one is taught
how we should
perform actions
of receiving in order
to give to the Creator.
That's what we call God.
It is an unchanging law,
operating on
every item in creation.
Let's say that’s creation
So that's the creature.
And that law operates
on the creature in order
to bring it to equivalence
of form with the Creator,
so that they equalize.
So that the creature
and Creator will
merge together to
the point of no difference.
So what's so special?
It could do it
in the beginning?
The thing is though,
that the creature
has to develop
within itself a desire
to be like the Creator.
Now there is a sensation
that every word
is being heard
but how hard it was
to get there. We recall …
In our world,
there is nothing
that doesn't come down
from the world Atzilut—
the forces, the substance,
actions, time, space,
motion,
everything possible.
What is here,
in this world, is called
a "branch," which is
an upshot of what exists
in the Upper World.
So how do I
tell someone something
about the Upper World?
I take the names from
this world—of people,
things, places, society.
I refer to
what happens here
in the World of Atzilut,
but I take the names
from here, and there.
If one knows only about
this world, then the story
takes place in this world.
Then he imagines the
Creator as a big person.
But one who understands
that he talks
about something
beyond this world,
seeks where it is up there.
We will pause briefly
for some messages.
This is
Supreme Master Television.
Welcome back to
Science and Spirituality.
We now continue
with excerpts
from the documentary
about the intersection of
science and the spiritual
tradition of Kabbalah
entitled, “Ups and Downs
in San Francisco.”
In Kabbalah,
you never know when
that moment will come,
when all the pieces
fall together.
A major inversion
takes place and it all
begins to make sense.
Back at the lecture…
But still, how do I
receive pleasure and
constantly enjoy endlessly?
So, there has to be
someone up there
that I enjoy
because He enjoys.
It's as if the pleasure
goes through me, to Him.
So then, I'm not put out,
because my pleasure is
always here, like a mother
who enjoys with her baby.
She wants always
to give to it.
Do you recognize yourself
as part of the whole;
of course.
Right, that's it.
That's the purpose.
Why do we need to be
broken and go back up?
It is to learn the physics
of the lower level,
and then to go back
across the line
and learn the physics
of the higher level.
So here we have it.
Leading scientists
who recognize
the limits of their field,
meet Kabbalah, which
tells them that in order to
overcome that limit, they
need to alter themselves,
to change,
and only then can they
reveal a new world.
And that's not easy to
hear, not easy to accept,
and yet, they endured,
but it was very hard.
I think
I'm a giving person;
I think I give a lot
of myself in what I do.
Maybe it's my ego talking,
I don't know, but I…
I think we're all egoists.
I have no idea what God is,
but I feel God's presence.
Every once in a while
I see God,
so what does that tell me?
What do you mean?
You know, you don't feel?
There's no such thing.
What do you mean?
If you feel it,
can you measure it?
What are you
talking about?
I understand.
What are we
talking about then?
If you can't know God,
you can't feel God,
you can't…
We are talking
about a research
what the Creator is, only
in a scientific manner.
Meaning, I feel Him;
I measure Him;
I give measurements
and numbers
to every sensation;
I check the tool
with which I feel Him.
That's the wisdom
of Kabbalah, of course.
I have numbers.
Let's say from 0% to 100%,
and I know exactly
which Lights go where,
and how powerfully,
under which conditions.
When I take something
off the table, I define it as
taking it from the Creator,
and what pleasure
I give Him by that,
and then,
what kind of connection
it creates between us.
That was our
first experience of talking
to leading scientists.
Maybe we were unaware
of certain things—
the mentality is different.
But Rav
continued to lecture.
In Kabbalah, there is
no such thing as mentality.
In Kabbalah, everyone
is absolutely equal.
Back at the lecture…
How do we learn
about the two levels?
If we—
the ones who really feel
from within the heart,
the point in the heart,
the desire to go back to
spirituality and feel it—
we begin to learn about
our situation up here.
And that's
the wisdom of Kabbalah.
So, we learn
about us being here,
when in fact we are
already in that state,
but we don't feel it.
But, by wanting,
in our blocked states,
to awaken and feel
the true states, if we learn
about our true situation,
we draw on ourselves—
it's as if we draw the
Light that's present there.
Because I'm in that world,
in that state,
I'm not aware of it.
But, if I make every effort
to become conscious of it,
to be awakened,
my desire, my impulse
to do it, opens up
my additional vessels,
and then we begin
to feel spirituality.
What does that mean?
We begin to feel how
we are all interconnected,
as one body, and then,
through each and every
one, Infinite Light follows
endlessly, and
without any limitations.
All the problems that
we feel today in the world
is only so
as to force humanity
to begin to go back up.
Clearly,
you know your stuff,
there's no question about,
and I would learn,
I’d love to sit at your feet
for a long time.
It would be very useful,
it would help me
tremendously,
and I have no question
about that.
We were witnesses of
a new reality being born,
as a second breath.
Science saw in Kabbalah,
a unique opportunity,
a chance of
a breakthrough.
What was it that
made such a change?
Was it the hours
of Rav's lectures;
arguments and doubts;
perhaps it was simply
that the time has come.
Indeed Kabbalah, it does
have an awful lot to say.
I don't hear anything;
I don't see anything,
but I feel it.
What you know
is really amazing and
I honor your teaching
and your wisdom.
So the whole
phenomenon of Kabbalah
kind of emerging
out of its hidden-ness—
and in a genuine form,
as opposed to just fluff—
I think is very fascinating,
very valuable.
All possible ways
to awaken the people,
and have them become,
work on themselves,
I think it's the way to go.
Because this is something
that means a great deal
to me and because
I have a very
positive impression
of this meeting,
I'm certainly happy to help
in any way that I can.
I certainly can
contribute ideas to the film
and I'd be happy
to work with you on it,
sure, as long as there's
life, and breath,
and limb within me;
I'm willing to travel.
There are these three
dimensional pictures,
like wallpaper.
If you look at them, and
you de-focus your eye,
and you go
into the picture
and you find the
three-dimensional picture.
When you look at it
at the beginning,
it looks like just a jagged,
random pattern, and then
after a while you see
a kind of flat 3-D image.
So these things.
What the wisdom of
Kabbalah actually does
is it helps you
get that picture.
It does not do
anything new actually.
It just focuses
and aims your attributes
and everything in you
in such a way that you
begin to see into matter.
We are glad to have been
able to share with you
excerpts of the
documentary “Ups and
Downs In San Francisco”
which was produced
by the Bnei Baruch
Kabbalah Education
and Research Institute.
Thank you for joining us
for this edition of
Science and Spirituality.
Coming up next is
Words of Wisdom,
after Noteworthy News.
May Heaven’s grace
be upon you.
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