| If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one to | | | | properties, so that if our properties change, our |
| hear it, did it really fall? And does that tree even exist? | | | | perceived picture of the world changes as well. |
| Classical science has changed its mind about this again | | | | This discovery revolutionized the scientific world; |
| and again, and lately it has taken a direction that is | | | | however, it was no innovation to the world of |
| remarkably similar to what the wisdom of Kabbalah | | | | Kabbalah. For centuries, Kabbalah books have |
| has been saying for thousands of years. | | | | described that reality is relative, subjective, dependent |
| But first, a brief history detour. For centuries, scientific | | | | on the observer, and changes according to his attitude |
| research was based on the belief that reality and the | | | | to it. Kabbalah has always advanced the idea that the |
| observer are two distinct entities. Reality was thought | | | | picture we perceive depends solely on us and does |
| to be objective, to exist regardless of whether there is | | | | not exist outside of us. In fact, the reality we see is a |
| someone observing it or not. In other words, scientists | | | | reflection of our inner qualities, and if we change our |
| thought that the tree exists in the forest whether | | | | qualities, we will perceive a completely different reality. |
| there’s anyone to see it or not. But further | | | | So both Kabbalah and science aim to broaden our |
| research in the 20th century proved this to be wrong, | | | | picture of reality through scientific research, but when it |
| and that reality is relative - it depends on the observer. | | | | comes to changing the observer’s qualities in order |
| In the 1920s, Albert Einstein was the first to introduce | | | | to do so, they part ways. |
| this concept. He showed that the observer’s | | | | Even though a scientist may know that the findings of |
| velocity causes his reality to change. Later on, | | | | his research depend on his own qualities, he |
| scientists went even further and concluded that reality | | | | doesn’t work on developing himself as a part of his |
| does not depend just on the observer’s velocity, | | | | research. In other words, whatever an ordinary |
| but that it is altogether subjective and exists exactly to | | | | scientist investigates understands and reveals, remains |
| the extent that the observer perceives it. In other | | | | as something that is “outside” him. |
| words, we perceive everything through our own | | | | |