Question: Since ancient times people have wanted to know what awaits them in the future. There were prophets, seers, and oracles. And even today, people are very concerned about their future. What is “the future”?
Answer: The future is what we build in the present. The concepts of past, present, and future exist only in our perception. It is very difficult to explain the concept of time to an ordinary person in our world because to do so he must rise above time, movement, and space.
Everything must be examined with respect to the person, meaning we must understand that we are not studying what happens in the world, but in our sensation of the world. A person senses changes only because he himself changes, not because something outside of him changes. If I see a hurricane, rain, drought, winter, or summer, it means that I feel such states within myself.
I perceive this entire world within myself: stones, plants, animals, and people; those that were, are, and will be, all exist only in my perception.
Therefore I need to investigate why my sensation is divided into these three categories: past, present, and future. Once I understand this, I will be able to relate correctly to reality. Reality does not exist independently outside of me, but it is determined by my perception.
The wisdom of Kabbalah says that nothing outside of me changes. Everything happens only within me, in my perception, which changes day by day, moment by moment.
This completely changes the whole picture because if the world were outside of us, our ability to influence it would be very limited. Clearly predicting droughts, floods, and earthquakes helps us protect ourselves from an external threat by building dams or leaving the dangerous area. Yet this does not prevent the blow itself. If I understand that a flood does not occur externally, but in my inner sensation, then I can arrange myself internally so that the tsunami will not come at all. I can create a completely different world for myself where the sun shines and everything is wonderful.
Or perhaps I will even feel like I am in an entirely different dimension, in another world. After all, if everything depends on my perception, then I simply need to know how to manage my sensations in order to build a good external world within them. In other words, I divide the world into external and internal and say that I can change only the internal world, my sensation of the world, but not the external world.
The most important thing here is what to consider a constant and what is a variable that is subject to change. Either we consider ourselves constant and the external world changing, in which case we must protect ourselves from it.
Or we accept the external world as constant and unchanging, as the science of Kabbalah says, that the upper light is in absolute rest, and all changes and corrections occur within the person. In that case I can change myself and get the reality I want.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 934 – What Is ‘The Future?’” 12/19/17
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