Question: In some movements they promote not pondering over the group’s teachings. The members say: “It’s impossible to explain, come to us, you have to experience this.”
Answer: That is correct. There are things that you can’t appreciate from afar, even music, until you get used to it, understand it, receive explanations, and get trained. This is the same as culture that teaches a person how to perceive paintings, sounds, dancing, and ballet.
If they take you now to the opera, for example, you will run away from there, because you have a clip-perception. And here in front of you on stage for two or three hours, they will be singing about love, and you will be admiring and crying. You must be ready for this.
Comment: Often such misunderstanding is used as criticism.
My Response: Of course there will be criticism. How is it possible not to criticize what I don’t understand? It is easiest to say: “Ah, it’s worthless, empty.”
Personally I have no complaints about such people. They are just shallow, small people who, without being able to figure something out, talk about it.
Likewise, the lyrics philosophize about physics. But they have nonetheless the opportunity to ask around and understand something in an easy way, but this is impossible in Kabbalah. In Kabbalah, you must see it and feel it, because this attainment is not from our world, not in our senses. We do not have adequate perceptions about what we feel when we acquire spiritual sense organs.
That is why I have a problem explaining this to a person. My parents asked, “What are you doing anyway?” I couldn’t explain it to them.
I am engaged in Kabbalah.
What is this?
This is the science that speaks about the upper world.
And what is the upper world? Is it the world we get after death?
We get nowhere after death.
Where do the souls reside?
Souls don’t reside anywhere, there is no place.
Where then is the upper world?
And it doesn’t exist until I create it with my changed qualities.
“It looks like our child skidded off somewhere. It’s a pity, he gave such hope both for science and business. He gave up science, then opened his own business. Quit business and went somewhere into Kabbalah, and really got enslaved with Kabbalah,” my parents said and they left for Canada.
That is all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah about Cults” 12/18/13
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