Kabbalah Introduction

Material and spiritual senses

Material and spiritual senses

We are born with five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, through which we receive some information from outside. Our brain processes this information and produces a combined picture of the surrounding world. These sensations are called "this world" or "my world". Precisely speaking, we don't know what exists around us. We just attribute our reaction to some outside influence.

Our ear is designed so that a membrane separates between our inner part and the outer reality. This membrane may be more or less sensitive, healthy or damaged.

Accordingly, we define a sound as strong, weak, high-pitched, low-pitched or even imperceptible. The quality of the sound I hear depends not on what it is like on the outside; it is determined by the parameters of my sense, i.e. by my inner qualities. What I feel is not the outer fluctuations, but my sensor's reaction to them. In fact, I perceive something inside and call it an outside sound.

The same refers to the rest of our senses.

It turns out that we are an absolutely closed system: each of us feels only his inner reactions to an outside unknown influence. We can never perceive something that happens outside of us objectively. Whatever we feel in our senses is processed by our brain and the information is presented in a certain way. Outside of our senses we have no idea what this information is like. We are locked inside ourselves.

What can the additional consciously acquired sense provide me with?

It allows for receiving information not via my natural five senses into my egoistic desires (interpreting everything in terms of personal profit, i.e. being biased), but directly and impartially.

This way I can achieve a genuine attainment of the absolute and objective universe.

This is what Kabbalah allows us to do. Like any other science, Kabbalah is characterized by repeatability of experience, registered data etc. Kabbalah is a science and has nothing to do with religion. Religions do not teach Kabbalah, because it reveals to man the true universe, where the Supreme governing Force desires only one thing - to make man equal to itself.