Kabbalah – The Fountain of Youth
We have searched for the “Fountain of Youth” our entire lives. We have heard stories of a mystical spring that bestows eternal youth and vitality on all who drink from it. It is the stuff of fairy tales. Or is that it?
Physical longevity is a hot topic these days. You read about several technologies that offer plausible new methods, such as regenerative medicine, biotech breakthroughs, and stem cell research, which promise increased life expectancy as we search for ways to become immortal.
Dr. Patrick Dixon explains in his presentation entitled Biotech/Genetic Revolution: Impact on Education and Aging, that in the United States alone there are 75,000 people over the age of 100 and there are technologies capable of increasing that number to more than 140,000 in the next 5 or 6 years. These medical advances have already been used to repair a person’s brain after a stroke and to repair the spinal cord with its own tissue.
Our idea of adolescence used to be “until 18″, but now it can be up to 30 years or more. Many of us who have children know this to be true. Our kids come home at 33 with laundry in tow when things don’t work out. People wait longer to have children, sometimes as late as their 40s. In fact, biologically, we are 10 years younger than our parents at the same age, and the idea of ”staying young forever” is becoming more and more real.
But why is the concept of physical immortality so seductive? Why do people want to live forever? Probably so that they can continue to experience the world and all the pleasures it has to offer. However, the wisdom of Kabbalah explains that there is eternal pleasures that await us, and in fact, we do not have to extend the life of our physical body to experience them.
the road to eternity
Kabbalah is known as the “wisdom of the occult” because it reveals the part of reality that is hidden from our five senses. Throughout history, scientific research and advances have always come from our desire to know what is hidden from our five senses. But scientific research has only expanded the tidy of our senses through instruments such as X-ray machines and telescopes, yet none of these technologies has investigated anything beyond the perception of the five senses.
Allegorically speaking, man is like a “black box”, which feels, understands and perceives only what enters through its five “openings”. Therefore, in all our investigations, we are limited by our five senses. And all the external instruments that we build, or that we are going to build in the future, cannot escape the limitations of the five senses. Therefore, in order to perceive beyond our five senses, we have to learn how to create a new “opening” inside the box or, in simpler words, how to develop a new sense.
Kabbalists explain that each person has the ability to develop a sense that is capable of perceiving a broader and more complete realm of reality, beyond time and space. We can refer to it as “the soul”, but in fact, it works like any other sense, only at a higher level of consciousness, beyond what relates to our physical body.
When we start to feel through the soul, we will realize that we really don’t need to look for ways to make our bodies live forever. Through the soul, we connect with the eternal flow of life and experience pleasures and sensations that are infinitely greater than the world of our five senses.