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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.
167 forever!
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