I got part way into Tucker's episode today and the guy mentioned Kabbalah. I had been curious about it, think I saw Charls Carrol mention it but never watched him long.
I figured it was some Jewish heresy like Christian gnosticism but GPT says its accepted in mainstream Orthodox Judaism but is only taught to like 10% of people? Is that right? It just sounds like the typical hidden knowledge type shit, but its very weird to hear that its accepted in mainline rabbinic Judaism. Anyone know about this?
I think Gnosticism makes sense, we’re definitely prisoners of the demiurge.
The "prison" is made up, much like all sky grandpas. Pain is nothing more than a signal transported through your nervous system. Suffering is your intepretation of it. Your intepretations are shaped by whatever mommy and daddy shoved into your head during your formative years.
Look into near death experiences. Not a cursory look at some debunk article, but do a deep dive. I’ve never heard of anyone that’s done that and not come out with a more open view of what lies after death.
In the very least, nde’s and other scientific studies on basic psy abilities like how people are able to affect random number generators and similar will convince most people that a reductive materialist view of the world is not quite right. Personally I had a very reductive materialist view of the world until I looked into such things.
The only catch being that you have to go into it with an open mind.
Studying science is actually a known pathway to finding God. When people actually look at the world with open eyes and an open mind, they naturally find it for themselves.
I agree. Unfortunately so many people don’t have their eyes or mind open. And that goes for some classically religious people as well as some people that I think of as being a part of the religion of science.
I do my best not to judge anyone. Everyone is on their own path