| Freedom. Throughout the course of history we see | | | | What they actually found was quite a surprise and as |
| country after country and culture after culture | | | | one scientist put it, “it was as if you woke up one |
| engaging in battle after battle and war after war all in | | | | morning and instead of a hand, you had a lobster |
| the pursuit of Freedom. Nothing seems as repugnant | | | | claw!” What they found was that the basic building |
| to the very nature of mankind as to be oppressed by | | | | block did not exist. There was no such thing as the |
| a force outside of their control that in any way | | | | tiniest possible unit of matter from which all other |
| whatsoever restricts individual freedom. Where does | | | | matter is built. Existence is a wave of infinite |
| this sense of the need for freedom begin? How do | | | | possibilities all intertwined and interconnected. Existence |
| we become free or know if we are actually free? | | | | is boundless, seamless and whole. There are no |
| The concept of freedom implies that we need to be | | | | boundaries. The atoms and molecules you consider to |
| free from something. There has to be an “us” | | | | be in solid form as your physical body have no |
| and a “them”; good guys and bad guys. So | | | | solidarity at all and they are freely mixing with all the |
| what do we do? We begin drawing lines and creating | | | | atoms and molecules outside what you call your body. |
| boundaries. These probably started as territories, the | | | | There is a scientific notion called the butterfly effect |
| creation of an imaginary line on the earth and | | | | that says if a butterfly sneezes on Mars, it will affect |
| everything inside this line is mine or part of my group | | | | us here on Earth. |
| and everything outside of the lines are not part of me | | | | If this is all true, then why can’t we feel it? |
| or my group. Years pass and eventually we have | | | | Authentic Kabbalah tells us that we do feel it – we |
| cities, states and nations, all with their neat imaginary | | | | just don’t recognize the connection. All of the |
| borders. | | | | troubles in the world today – the financial crisis, |
| Religions evolved and they too became very adept | | | | violence of all types, depression and drug use – are |
| at creating boundaries. Boundaries based on beliefs. If | | | | the result of us fighting against this interconnection of |
| you believe such and such a thing and act in such and | | | | humanity. Since we don’t understand the laws of |
| such a way then you will fall within the boundary of our | | | | interconnection, we don’t understand the result of |
| religion. If not, you are not accepted. So many different | | | | violating them. If we jump out of a window, we expect |
| religions, which all were creating their own space and | | | | gravity to pull us to the ground. We accept the |
| none being particularly tolerant of the other. | | | | consequence as inevitable. We must reach the same |
| There is one particular imaginary boundary that is | | | | level of understanding about the laws of |
| accepted by most of us and rarely recognized as | | | | interconnected systems so that we can accurately |
| imaginary. “Everything inside the boundary of my | | | | interpret the results of violating them. |
| skin is me and everything on the outside of my skin is | | | | For thousands of years, Kabbalah has told us that |
| not me.” This is a widely accepted concept. You | | | | existence is Unity and that we are all connected as |
| would be hard pressed to find a person on the street | | | | parts to a whole or as organs to a body. This |
| who would disagree. It is so obvious, is it not? | | | | interconnection is the fundamental law of Nature. The |
| Many mystical traditions would say this is not so | | | | study of Kabbalah is a scientific, methodological |
| obvious, but let’s leave them aside and turn to | | | | approach that instructs us on how to develop the |
| modern physics and Quantum Theory. Early in the | | | | senses to perceive the laws of an interconnected |
| 20th century, scientists were engaged in the pursuit of | | | | system. Once we can understand these laws, then |
| finally discovering the basic building block of the | | | | we can learn how to work with them for the benefit |
| Universe. The smallest particle within the atom itself, | | | | of all. We will no longer unwittingly do the equivalent of |
| from which all matter, is constructed. They felt | | | | jumping off a ten story building and expecting to go up. |
| confident that after years of development, they had | | | | We can stop the painful consequences of our actions. |
| the instrument they needed, the microscope of all | | | | Then we will be able to find where freedom truly lies. |
| microscopes, to view this infinitely small particle. | | | | |