Rav Michael Laitman, PhD discusses an example about the way we perceive reality from the film "What the Bleep Do We Know!?"
VIDEO: Kabbalah, Science and the Perception of Reality (09:42)
An example was used in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" to present how we perceive reality: When Columbus' ship approached the American shores, the Indians standing on the shores couldn't see it. Only when one of them saw ripples in the water, and looked for what was causing those ripples, could he make out a big floating house. He described was he saw floating in the water to the others, and then they too saw it.
The point of the example is that they could only see the ship once they'd built up the perception of it inside them.
In the above video, Rav Michael Laitman takes this example one step further. He says that the ship doesn't even exist outside them; that outside them, there is only constant Upper Light, and that the Upper Light forms these pictures within them.
In other words, Rav Laitman makes the point that nothing exists outside the person; that everything in the world is only our perception. He uses this example to illustrate that Kabbalah is the method of changing our perception of reality in order to perceive what we don't yet perceive - the Upper Light, unobstructed by images that it forms within us.
This is the goal of Kabbalah studies - to equalize in form with the Upper Light and discover the true state of existence outside of our body. For more info: www.kabbalah.info
