Yehuda Berg - The Power of Kabbalah: Technology for the Soul

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When I was growing up, my parents taught Kabbalah from the basement of our house. I didn't understand much about what they were doing back then. All I knew was that there were always lots of people in our homefrom drug addicts to the homelesswho my parents were teaching and helping.

By the time I was 12, I had started asking questions, so my father, the Rav, introduced me to his wisdom, the wisdom that his teacher's teacher had made accessible by translating into a modern language, and that his own teacher made available to the working class, and that the Rav and Karen (my mother) gave freely to whoever wanted to learn. My father gave this wisdom to me.

Yet at no time did he tell me what to do with it, or tell me that his wisdom was my path. I was always given the free will to be a doctor, or an architect, or what ever I wanted to-become. But at 17 I knew, somehow, that was my path too. I needed to be part of giving this wisdom to others.

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My father gave me my first project to work on for The Kabbalah Centre, and since then there have been many more. With every project and every step along the way I believed I needed the Rav or his wisdom as my crutch. It did not matter how many years passed, how many students I was teaching, or how many bestsellers I had written; I was still this 17 year old boy hiding behind the Rav, needing his direction and approval.

I believed I was unworthy to be a teacher in this historic lineage of giants. I needed the Rav. I needed the Rav's teacher, and his teacher's teacher.

On September 2, 2004, my father had a stroke, and we essentially stopped studying together. As I could no longer look to the Rav, I tried to put things off on the kabbalists: "according to the kabbalists" this, or "according to the kabblalists" that. All the while I was avoiding taking responsibility for being a teacher myself. Until now.

Interestingly, in the first page of my first book I quoted Kabbalist Solomon Gabirol regarding acquiring wisdom. He said "In seeking wisdom the first stage is silence, the second stage is listening, the third stage is remembrance, the fourth stage is practicing, the fifth stage is teaching."

If you are truly seeking wisdom you must teach.

This insight was the first step of my own journey. Kabbalah: The Power to Change Everything is the next step. In writing it I have learned that to truly teach you need to accept responsibility for the whole package, no matter what. To change the world each of us needs to be a teacher,

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to stand on our own two feet on a soapbox in Trafalgar Square, with no mind for who listens or what he or she will think. To just risk it.

This book is my soapbox, and here I stand fearful and hopeful that you will chose to learn, and one day, to teach.

With love and trepidation, Yehuda Berg

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INTRODUCTION: APOCALYPSE NOW

Whether we realize it or not, we are at war right now. We are in a fight to the finish to stop the relentless destruction of every aspect of life. A war of consciousness. The Bible tells us that there will come a time at the end of days when, "You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat." Leviticus 26:29

This world is meant to be blissful, beautiful, happy, healthy, clean, eternal, sustainablein short, perfect. And so are we. So what happened? Although it may have been intended to be perfect, the world was not created this way. It was created so that through our own efforts we can achieve perfection for ourselves and the planet. So what is the story with this painful history of humanity?

It's the story of Consciousness.

Our consciousness.

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Consciousness is the essence of everything. It is what makes us da what we do and think the way we think. It is a hard-wired driver that essentially makes us who we are.

In 2009, scientist Dr. Robert Lanza wrote a book called Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe. Dr. Lanza states in his book: "There is no separate physical universe outside of life and consciousness. Nothing is real that is not perceived. There was never a time when an external, dumb, physical universe existed, or that life sprang randomly from it at a later date. Space and time exist only as constructs of the mind."

Quantum physics basically says human consciousness plays a vital role in reality. In other words, your kitchen table does not exist until your consciousness observes it. According to the latest experiments in physics, there is no independent universe out there. The entire cosmos is an illusion, conjured by the mind. Nothing really exists outside your mind. The universe you think you see only exists within the realm of human consciousness. It's a construct of mind.

According to Dr. Lanza, consciousness creates the universe we perceive instead of the other way around! Namely, the universe did not come into existence and then create galaxies, Earth, life, and then consciousness. Rather, consciousness birthed the universe itself, including all of its laws. Put another way, there is no such thing as mind over matter. Mind is matter. Not only did consciousness create everything, but consciousness is everything.

Is science saying (and am I suggesting) that we ourselves created the suffering that exists in this world?

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The answer is yes.

Written more than 2000 years ago, the Zohar explains that the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was not built with axes and hammers. Yes, these tools erected the physical structure, but its real creation came from the consciousness of the people who envisioned it. In fact, all the wonders of the worldthe Pyramids, Angel Falls, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, etc.were created by consciousness. This past August, I visited Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, and there is no question in my mind after viewing this wonder of the world that it was created by anything other than consciousness.

But by the same token, it is also consciousness that destroys. I know The Power to Change Everything sounds like a lofty goal when: