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27 Iyar 5768; June 1, 2008; Day 42 of Omer (Malkhut of Yesod)
 
 

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Torah Beyond The Facade - In Honor of Shavuot, the Close Encounter that Brought Torah to Earth
By HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok. Copyright (C) 2008 by Ariel Bar Tzadok. All rights reserved.
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What we know about our universe is ridiculously small. The theories and ideas we concoct about the true nature of reality are ridiculously skewered by the limited scope of our mental vision. The human race, in our present form is a small, primitive and almost insignificant form of life. So small and primitive are we that if other more advanced forms of life were to become aware of our existence, they might view us as being nothing of great significance, similar to how we might view the discovery of a new chain of bacteria.

We sit in arrogance and question whether or not there is life in outer space more intelligent than our own. In a universe that is billions of years old, we view our existence as unique and paramount. Such sheer arrogance boggles the mind with its absolute idiocy. Maybe there is very good reason why we have not been contacted by E.T. if indeed contact has not already taken place. Maybe their idea of contact is radically different from our own. Maybe their idea of contact is to watch us under their version of a microscope. Maybe their idea of contact is to interact with us at a safely removed distance. A safety not required for them, but for us. Maybe they watch our development like we watch the growth of a cellular colony on a Petri dish in a lab.

You do not think that any of this is the case, do you? Then you are probably one of the enlightened uneducated who thinks he/she knows a whole lot about nothing. Whether you like it or not, there are forms of life in our universe far beyond the scope of our present level of comprehension. And your lack of belief in them has absolutely no affect upon their reality and the plans they unfold on a daily basis. Human history is replete with accounts of visitations of such highly advanced entities. In modern times, we have discounted these records of ancient history and have relegated them to the level of fantasy stories and make believe.

Yet, maybe there actually were ancient gods? Maybe there really is some truth underlying the stories about Zeus and Olympus, Odin and Valhalla, Krishna and the Mahabharata, the visiting Sons of God and Genesis 6? Ancient history is replete with records of such interventions and equally replete with records why such overt intervention had to cease. Although these records portray entities not to dissimilar from us, yet, these portrayals only maintain a limited record, a record written by psychologically primitive humans (equal to our present state of primitivism). What has survived for us today does not accurately describe to us anything about the true nature or reality of our visitors, if indeed they were just visiting.

No one should come to the ancient record of the receiving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai and view it in light of mythology and legend. On the contrary, the story begs to be seen in its actual light. According to every record of the event we have, in the Torah and in later legends, Sinai was an extraordinary close encounter of the most intimate kind. We were contacted from beyond our Earth, possibly from beyond our dimension. It cannot be denied that this contact, made at Sinai, has radically changed the course of human history. There is not one human being alive today whose life has not been radically altered by the events in world affairs that have unfolded due to the original revelations at Mt. Sinai.

Sinai gave us the Torah. How sad and primitive is it that after all these years, we are still as unenlightened as monkeys, we still come to view the Torah as being merely a book full of words. We sit and howl at it and never seem to get the message that Torah is extraterrestrial. It is not a book; it is only in the form of a book.

Compare it if you will to a CD/ROM computer disk. A primitive mind sees only a disk of plastic and recognizes its value only as a mini-Frisbee. Tell the primitive that this disk contains a wealth of information and he might accept what you say in faith, but his mind does not possess the capability to understand how and where the disk has all this information. Therefore, in his primitive mind, he concocts all kinds of stories and fantasies to explain to himself and others where the information on the disk lies and what it has to say. Needless to say the concoctions of the primitive mind are so far removed from the reality of what the disc actually contains that we cannot even compare the two. The primitive mind has no idea about laser inscribed grooves and the computer scanner needed to read them.

Maybe at some point, the owner of the disc will introduce to the primitive a computer, which will only be for him yet another device far outside his experiential range. The owner of the disc will then have to demonstrate how the disc actually works. The primitive will be completely lost, not recognizing what a computer is, what it is doing and how the disk is being read. He will certainly not be able to do anything with the wealth of information on the disk. The primitive is totally out of his league and experiential range. He will need to be educated from scratch. It will take a long time before he will become ready to make use of the information stored on the CD disk.

For him the CD used to be a gift from the gods, a symbol of worship and reverence. His primitive mind embellished the disc with all kinds of myth and legends. Now, he will have to learn that all he has built is just primitive infantile fantasies. He will have to grow up, mature and come to learn the truth, or better to say, the falsehoods about all the sacred cows that he has primitively worshiped for a long time. He will have to grow up out of his primitive state of infantile worship and begin his long path down the road of scientific discovery.

Let this analogy serve us to describe our relationship to Torah. We are the primitives and all our centuries of studying Torah do not even come close to accessing its true resources and information. Until the Givers return and teach us how to open it and use it properly we are as much in the dark as any primitive would be. Torah is no more a book than the information engraved on a CD. Information requires both a scanner to read and a mind to comprehend it. Torah information can be put into words, but those words only point in a direction.

One can write a book about a person. The book may even contain graphic details about the person, including his/her full psychological profile. Yet, this entire account, however detailed it may be still does not replace the actual living person and in spite of all its details, cannot contain everything there is to know about the person. Torah is such a "person," although it is certainly not accurate to describe her in human terms by calling her a "person."

Torah is a living breathing conscious sentient entity. It is a life-form beyond modern scientific definitions. Torah is not of our Earth or even from our dimension of space/time. Yet, Torah exists here amongst us. The book is its external form, its hologram. One can look on its surface and see one thing, a fa�ade. Only once its veil is penetrated and its true extraterrestrial origins exposed can one ever come in contact with the true Living Torah.

Learning Torah requires of us to use the non-primitive side of our human mind. This is the faculty of higher human thought placed within us when the Torah/Bible states that we were created in the "Image of G-d." Essentially this mental element is itself extraterrestrial and non-indigenous to our natural genetic makeup. Essentially when this "higher" mental element was implanted within us, we were changed at a genetic level, allowing this "higher" element full access into every one of our genes. It has become indigenous to us. All we have to do is activate it. This requires of us an altered understanding of our relationship with information and knowledge.

Almost everyone can receive information. However, not everyone knows how to properly process the information received. It is easy to say, "I know this." It is much harder to honestly say, "I know what this means."

I emphasize here honesty, because many people say and really do believe that they know things that life and reality prove that they do not. When one has properly processed information one has successfully integrated that knowledge into ones behavior and choices. When such information is required we see it accessed and implemented in the choices that one makes. When we do not see such knowledge applied, then, in spite of one saying, "I know this," we see the truth that he/she knows no such thing.

Knowledge that is not properly processed and applied is like receiving a letter requiring an urgent reply and you not even knowing the language in which it is written. You cannot even read it all the more so respond to its urgent message.

Knowledge is far more than received information. Information must be processed and integrated before it can be called knowledge. The goal of the process of the integration of information, which transforms it into knowledge, is enlightenment. This is a state of mind and consciousness where one perceives the actual benefit and recognizes the transformational affect that the integrated information has upon one's life and thus in one's behavior and choices. One who actually sees more has more tools within one's repertoire with which to work.

Life on Earth is all about learning. We are sent here to learn. We stay here until we learn. Once we have learned what we have come here to learn, we graduate to the next grade, take the equivalent of a summer vacation and then go back to school, maybe back here on Earth and maybe in a completely different school.

Learning is never simply an acquisition of information. That can be received anywhere. Transformational learning is the integration of external information. The information is personalized and absorbed. It becomes part of the individual psyche, soul and mind. It forever alters and changes the individual. After is never like before. Not for naught does the Torah describe sexual intercourse as "knowing" the other. For just as sex integrates a level of experience far beyond the acquisition of mere external information, so too is all true knowledge so acquired.

One who does not learn from experience and is not transformed properly by the correct integration of information is said not to know anything, regardless of the amount of information one can recall. Information alone without integration means nothing at all. One for example, can memorize the entire Torah, however, unless one has actually internalized its message and has allowed oneself to transform, evolve and grow based upon one's new acquisitions, then merely reciting words and text mean nothing. Indeed, all the academic recall and analysis of the text only validate that one has learned from them absolutely nothing if all one can do is show intellectual prowess. Without integrated transformation, knowledge expanding consciousness, there is no knowing at all.

The problem acquiring true knowledge is that it requires change on behalf of the individual. It requires effort and growth. Generally speaking, people are lazy and are unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices to do what is necessary to truly become enlightened. Everyone wants to be in the right, everyone wants everyone else to agree with them and see all of existence through their own eyes. Needless to say that such shortsightedness and self-centeredness is not a successful recipe for a population of people to work together for the common good. Indeed, this attitude is the psychological foundation of what the Torah/Bible referred to as idolatry.

The individual is only one of many. The many form a collective whole that is comprised of many numerous and divergent parts. A whole that does not function as a whole is the definition of broken. Humanity therefore is defined as being broken. Unless this reality can be seen and experienced, then the emerging consciousness and conviction to correct what is broken will not be reached.

Enlightenment means seeing the true condition of things, not through the limited perspective of the self-centered individual but rather from beyond any individual limitations. One must see the whole as it is, and not just as expressed from the perspective of one if its pieces.

Acknowledging the condition is one thing, yet such acknowledgement does not allow insight into the true correction of the problem. Mere detached academic information without processed integration cannot produce the necessary knowledge needed to both recognize and correct a problem.

So, where does one go from here? If I were to give you the answer to this question, all I would be providing for you would be detached information of an academic nature. Words are now not what you need. What you need is an awakening and only you can do that for yourself.

You can close the books for now and instead open your heart. Rather than pray to G-d from a book try instead to pray from your heart. You do not need the words of others. You need to express your own.

You need to have the experience that there really is a G-d. There really is an Intelligence to the universe and that this Intelligence is Personal and permeable. It is everywhere and in everything, including every bit of each of us. G-d is not an old man with a white beard sitting on a cloud somewhere. Such ideas about a Supreme Being somehow being merely a super human is complete mythology. Most religious beliefs about G-d today are pure myth.

Within every subatomic particle in the universe, there is some form of information or knowledge that tells it that it is supposed to be a specific thing and act in a specific way. At every level, everything must contain this element of knowing. We can call this natural, but what made this to be so? Nature by definition did not create itself. Inherent within everything there is an inner component telling it what it is and what it is supposed to do. This inner most component of information or knowledge is what we call in the indwelling Presence of the Intelligent Designer. We call it G-d. In Torah tradition, we call this indwelling Presence of G-d, the Shekhina, which literally means the Indwelling.

G-d is a Sentience and a Consciousness. It is better to refer to G-d as an It rather than as a He. The older conventions are necessary for primitive minds who cannot conceive of extraterrestrial realties. However, after a number of decades of films and television, the majority of the world population can now conceive of ideas and think about realities which a century ago were inconceivable. We are at a point in collective human development where we can be introduced to more accurate and real concepts about the Intelligent Design of the universe and the Intelligence behind the design.

Access to this information, however, is not available through mere academic means. This is why modern science, crippled as it is by its lack of psychic, intuitive and meditative tools fails to acknowledge that which stares into its face on a regular basis. The day is coming soon, when the Givers of Torah will reappear and conclude the present stage of their operation with Experiment Earth.

At such a time of extraterrestrial intervention all facades will be removed and all humanity will be taught how to use the Torah properly. We will be taught how it is far more than a mere book or CD/ROM. We will see for ourselves the scientific realities underlying our religious instructions and not have to be told any more childish fairy tales about religion.

We have access to this level of truth right now. All we have to do is experience it personally and see it for ourselves. Silence your mouth and quite your heart, close your eyes and open your mind. Seek the truth within. Do not think about it; just allow it to come to you. If you find your mind thinking and contemplating then you are already on the wrong path.

If you feel frustrated and lost, this is good. It is the first step. Yet, be careful, many never do take the necessary following steps. Enlightenment is a long and arduous path, few can navigate its twisting and winding path successfully. They always tend to be distracted by their intellects and their worldly desires.

Righty did our Sages say that most people today have animal souls. Most today never take the necessary steps to achieve the consciousness of what it means to be human. So from one life time to the next the souls continue, learning a little bit here and a little bit there. Somewhere along the long arduous road they acquire tidbits of enlightenment. Little by little the soul matures and grows. In the end, after maybe some many millions of years and lifetimes, the souls will mature and become fully human. In a universe where time is measured in billions of years, many a few million here or there will not matter that much. I guess it is all a matter of perspective.

Torah transcends the miniscule Earthly perspective of a single human life span. One hundred years passes in less than the blink of the universal eye. Torah measures moments of time as we measure epochs of thousands of years long. Our life spans are miniscule, our consciousness is miniscule, what we can presently grasp is insultingly miniscule compared to what there is to be grasped.

The Givers of the Torah have never left us. They are working behind the scenes conducting what for them is Experiment Earth. We can choose whether or not we wish to believe this. But again, academic acknowledgement of detached, nonintegrated information means absolutely nothing. In other words, it does not matter what we believe. Our beliefs will not change a reality simply because we choose to ignore it or deny it. If we follow the procedures as outlined by the Givers, then we can indeed learn how to commune with them. A great part of Experiment Earth is to see who from among our race can learn the skills of communications. For after this first baby step has been taken, we can then use our ability to communicate to learn, grow and mature. In time, we will grow up and become full adult citizens of the universe. When those of us who make this effort succeed in reaching our destined heights, only then will we discover what the rest of G-d's universe has in store for us.

For this was Torah brought down to Earth, to teach us how to communicate and what it is we need to do. Bonding with Heaven requires an open mind and an open heart. Start with these and work from there. Pray to G-d for direction and trust. The Givers are watching. They will intervene, but only if you first show your willingness to welcome and accept their direction and intervention.

Life is a long road; it does not begin at birth and certainly does not end with death. Sooner or later, however long it takes, even after many millions of years and incarnations, we will learn what it is we need to learn, each and every one of us. Experiment Earth is a race, to see who grows up first; for the first will reach higher than those who decide to come in last.

Follow Torah and see for yourself what will be. Just remember this, know the true Torah with true knowledge. Only then will you no longer have need for my words.

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Shalom, Ariel Bar Tzadok

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