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Michael Laitman, PhD
The Science of Kabbalah – A Method for Resear
and the World
It is well known that we discover the world using our organs of perception. We a
that only perceives things entering it from outside. To be more precise, nothing
box, it is only being affected or "pressured" and then reacts to it.
Whatever "gets" into us – a self-contained system, through the five organs of per
processed and analyzed. Whatever is not picked up by our five organs of perceptio
The external force in itself remains unperceived by us. We cannot judge it objec
our reaction to an external force. Therefore, our perception is contained inside us.
that comes our way is processed by no other means than our senses.
All existing physical instruments merely serve to expand the range of our sensatio
allow us to go beyond their limits. No instrument can create a new organ of percep
imagine how we would perceive the surrounding world if we had different organs o
After analysis, the entire collection of sensations creates in us an internal picture
world". This is an entirely subjective picture that cannot be compared with anyth
compare objective reality existing outside us with the subjective reality existing ins
We cannot escape the limitations of our perception and are permanently locked w
of our sensations. Collectively we all share common sensations that provide us w
to communicate with each other, to exchange signs, impressions and to understan
All our organs of perception, or to be more precise, organs for the reception of i
record, process, and evaluate it exclusively according to its personal usefulness.
Any life form is created in a way that its only desire is to receive pleasure. Thi
levels of existence. A desire to receive a maximum amount of pleasure is the m
vegetative, animate, and human natures..
Kabbalah, ("reception" in Hebrew,) is a method that allows us to develop an
perception, i.e. to receive additional information about something that exists in the
By mastering this method we start feeling the surrounding world in a completely
world will be perceived as independent from our egoistical body and isolated
person that has sensed this is called a "Kabbalist".
This is an ancient, scientific method for attaining the Upper World. It has its
methodological and psychological system. It investigates fully the mechanics of
and demonstrates how in any situation one can go beyond his internal sensation
the external ones, even before they start affecting our five organs of perception.
