Posted on May 29th, 2010
A question I received: Many people in the world now suffer from
depression; they don’t leave their homes for months, and require psychological help. What can help them?
My Answer: Depression is the most common illness in the world today. Only one remedy can be advised for it: the
Light that Reforms. No psychologist can help in this regard for it is due to the
Creator being revealed to us in the opposite form that is prompting rampant depression.
Once each of us felt that he or she was one little person around which the world was revealed in different layers of our
egoism:
1, 2, 3. As our ego grew bigger and bigger, we developed in accordance
with it by creating a new environment: a world of new technology and
social relations. This is how we developed over the course of our entire
history, stage by stage, 1 – 2 – 3, toward wealth, honor, and
knowledge.
However, today we have come to the fourth level, which is a special
one. At this level, what is becoming revealed is the Creator, the
quality of “bestowal,” and not our developing ego, our property of
“receiving.” This is the fundamental difference of our epoch, which is
the epoch of revealing the Creator.
Previously, nature (the Creator) forced us to develop, that is, to
grow and become smarter, more knowledgeable, understanding, and
powerful. But now human beings have completed their development at the
level of this world. People are recognizing the pointlessness of new
discoveries, and everything gradually fades, the development of science,
space research, and so on. We have completely depleted ourselves.
Today, in contrast to this, the Creator – a new nature – is revealed.
And here we need to proceed in a different manner. We cannot enter a
new stage with our egoism; we will only harm ourselves. We need to
realize that a completely new approach has begun, and neither our
strength, nor advanced technologies and scientific discoveries can help
us.
Suddenly we will discover that all the systems that we built in this
world have stopped working. All the former goals (money, power,
knowledge, family, education, and culture) have lost their value.
Darkness and despair are coming into the world, but this is because the
Creator, the Force of bestowal is being revealed in it. We don’t want
it, since it cancels out our egoism, our nature, and all our desires!
It is like a child who ran around wanting to play, and suddenly he is
told “That’s enough. Now you have to give and to love. Go play with
your little sister.” This is contrary to his nature, and hence his life
becomes dark; he immediately loses all his energy.
Therefore, we can understand why people are sitting around depressed,
unable to leave their homes for months at a time. Antidepressants are
the most popular medicine today. However, I can advise that the
Surrounding Light is the only medicine.
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/28/10, Shamati #16
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Question: Can
I break through the external decorations and connect to the points in
the hearts of my friends, to their internal emptiness, which they
themselves may not yet feel?
