too open, too closed, just righteous
By zevi770 · January 7, 2016
the following which I have repeated a thousand times and is the basis of most of Kabbalah, was thankfully just revealed to me (in other words, a new way of understanding it which I believe is a revelation) in an absolute concrete modality and it literally encompasses the entire history, present and destiny
Kabbalah teaches about the three possible states – let us call them liberal, radical and conservative
The liberal state is a state based on naive love – this state is too open – a good example is the Syrian refugee crises – when you have naïve love – you refuse to consider the possibility, that amongst those who are coming are people who as they have done in Syria, as they have (reportedly) done in France, they will do in America – fundamentally the naive state is an emotion – when people love another they will refuse to see anything wrong, as this will cause them to stop loving and love is a drug (it literally produces serotonin) hence as they wish to remain high they refuse to acknowledge reality.
The second state is the exact inverse of love, namely hate – now we are all born to love – we are by nature like dogs are, social creatures – however, love is only possible in a state of security – for though we wish to love, we even more so (at least instinctively) wish to survive love – Hence when insecurity pops in, our primary desire becomes to be secure – In terms of biology, our rational mind ceases to function, our thinking mind is flushed away and we are driven by core emotions (mainly fear) which gets processed in the Amygdila nuclie region (bypassing the rest of the brain) – however another problem arises when people are in anxiety – for besides our desires for highs (loves) and fears of annihilation, we also have an ego, constantly measuring if things are fair (which really means if I am being demeaned? for if another is, it may repulse, but doesn’t anger us) So now the ego sees something unfair – “why is it that you are happy (remember others have love) and I am miserable?” – the ego then decides to balance out this unfair situation, “I need to demean you” – This is why, though it is obviously completely counter productive, as we call it, antisocial, people literally demean (bullies, which is the only reason behind terrorism, antisemitism – for example, as the sick suicide highjackers were flying the plane into the twin-towers they were also taunting the passengers – another example, though the terrorists who knew they would be killed and were going to kill the Jews in the Marinbad Chabad House, they also elected to torture them, for such is the nature of the ego – it can think of nothing more fair than to torture, rape (which as a psychologist told me, is not the desire to have sex, but to violate another’s dignity, which is why pedophiles act when their own self-esteem is low)
so we see both the state of naïve love is evil in its inaction, and the state of anxiety is evil in its consequent jealous hate of loving people
there is but a single solution which is the state of conservatism, namely the knowledge that there is an objective reality divorced from my emotional desires (which of course, love and fear as well as ego is based on.)
God revealed an absolute sense of right and wrong which includes faith (so don’t attribute negative causes to people so you won’t hate – believe all is for the good so you won’t fear) assisting others – forgiving and overcoming your sick impulses