Question: LSD is a separate category of drugs. If, as you say, it is just a certain illusion, then why does it cause a person to feel sensations that Kabbalists describe?

Answer: Taking LSD is not a solution to a problem; it is a disconnection from reality; meaning, it is not a conscious correction of oneself within society where you become a useful member, and express yourself as loving and caring, like a mother toward others, and where every member of society perceives you this way, and you perceive them the same. Such relationships are characteristic of the society of the future.

But those who take LSD detach from reality while not connecting with others. They do not want even the smallest contact! They enjoy experiencing all kinds of rosy visions within themselves.

Yet Kabbalah speaks about something entirely different: a very real, very difficult path of correcting a person, where he controls himself and acquires screens, meaning forces, that allow him to rise above his egoism, above each of its measures.

This is a very clear path carried out in connection with other companions, where together you go into battle against your own nature.

All this is completely opposite to the disconnection from reality, to the solitary floating, abstracted from others, that consists of perceiving some internal excitations. I see no connection between Kabbalah and taking LSD. It is a completely different approach, and works on completely different material. It is not you working, but chemistry. You can inject anyone with a drug, and there you go; he already supposedly floats in another dimension.

A person does not change his nature in this. He returns again to the same world, and that is it. Of course, he can tell how good he felt. But what next?! What does he change through this?!

You are suggesting: “Let us make an injection, and then for years not work on our nature.” But we must change our nature, and become godlike people, similar to the Creator; meaning, we must rise above our egoism into the quality of giving and love, into the correct mutual engagement between us, reveal in this engagement the higher world, eternity, perfection, and exist within it.

At the same time, our world does not disappear. We sense two levels of existence: our world in its full material form—we go to work, have children, raise them, serve in the army, do everything necessary—and simultaneously we feel ourselves on a higher level. A person exists on two levels! And one level does not cancel the other but helps it.

On the earthly level, each person is a useful member of society to the extent that he behaves normally as a simple human being. He does not shout: “Let us love each other!” and so on.

But internally he works toward the others so as to bring them closer to the quality of giving and love, to the correct interaction between themselves as one organism. I have never seen or heard that people who take LSD strive for this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah and LSD, Part 1” 10/6/10

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