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Today we have reached a state where millions of people around the world are already beginning to ask about life’s most fundamental questions: Why are we suffering? Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Does nature have a plan for us? These questions appear when humanity ripens inwardly to the point where it can no longer be satisfied with ordinary existence, and it begins to demand the meaning of life.
This is why the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed specifically now. It is the method that provides answers to these questions. How does it provide these answers? It does so in an empiric and practical manner by revealing a different reality to us.
Kabbalah is a method of revealing the upper reality beyond what we currently feel. This upper reality already exists around us and even within us, but we are separated from it by an inner, psychological barrier. It blocks our perception of the second half of reality, where we live in our true form of existence.
When we cross this barrier, it is as though a light suddenly turns on. It is no ordinary light, but the upper light. Within this upper light, we begin to see another reality that had previously been dark, hidden, and imperceptible, i.e., the reality of the upper world.
Then, we begin to understand what is happening in our lives from a whole new height and depth, why it is happening, and how our nature and the nature around us operates. We discover that we are not merely physical bodies, not the animate part that simply lives for survival, comfort, and temporary pleasure. We are souls, the inner human being who is eternal and perfect.
Then it becomes clear that we are eternal and perfect creations living in a higher form of existence. Our purpose is to rise into the upper, spiritual world, to live beyond the limitations of time, space, and motion, and outside the narrow boundaries of our present perception.
What about this corporeal world? It will still exist for a certain period of time. It remains as the stage that we develop on until we attain the upper reality. However, as we rise from one degree to the next, the lower reality increasingly fades away. It becomes less and less discernible, until eventually it disappears completely because our perception becomes fully spiritual and no longer needs the external picture.
Kabbalists say that we must reach this state here and now, in this life, while living in this world. Moreover, nothing needs to change externally. The only change is an inner one, that we rise above the inner psychological barrier residing within each of us, and discover the upper world. We will then begin to live in a completely different reality, one of absolute harmony, peace, and happiness.
Based on a lecture by Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education and Research Institute on January 4, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.