Kabbalah & Physics: The Amazing Parallels!

In this interview, Natalia Vorontsova discusses consciousness and science from the perspective of Kabbalistic Panpsychism with Prof. Dr. Hyman Schipper. The parallels between quantum physics and the ancient Kabbalah are astonishing. Having studied the Kabbalah for many years, Dr Schipper also explains how this knowledge is applicable to many areas of thought and how it has impacted his life. It's a frank and heart-warming conversation.
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00:00:00 Intro: Kabbalistic insights and contemporary science
00:04:42 Kaballah: a personal story
00:07:34 What is Kabbalah actually?
00:09:54 The Origins of Kaballah
00:12:40 Ancient Kabbalah vs. Quantum Physics
00:14:05 Kabbalistic theology
00:15:47 Kabbalah: fundamental principles
00:18:30 Is Kabbalah a science?
00:22:50 The cosmology of Kabbalah
00:40:57 Interinclusion: fractal and holographic design of the cosmos
00:47:53 Interpenetration and quantum entanglement
00:56:07 Paradox of hierarchy and unity
00:57:44 Light and darkness
00:59:19 Kabbalistic Panpsychic ontology or how God runs the universe
01:07:25 The blueprint for the creation or 'shattering the vessels'
01:09:21 Kabbalistic Panpsychist domains and the 'spark of God'
01:16:09 The 'Unknowable Head', Heisenberg's uncertainty principle & free will
01:25:14 Kabbalah and ontic paradoxes
01:29:00 Kabbalah, Cosmopsychism & Psi phenomena
01:34:30 The book: Kabbalistic Panpsychism
01:35:00 The Big Bang cosmology and Kabbalah
01:39:18 Consciousness: what can we measure and study?
01:44:47 Science & its soul?
01:48:25 Is Divine Mind corroborated by science?
01:50:57 Kabbalah: personal impact
01:56:40 The future of science, advice to young scientists

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[COLOFIDUTI]

28:00 on my ayahuasca trip i was shown this light.For me, the creation is a product of pure will tô exist, cause before all there were was potential, and you can say it was love to exist

[daivonclark]

My last magic mushroom trip, i was was taken back to the beginning. I got to experience being god before the creation and during.
It is definitely impossible to describe properly what that experience was like.
But it was sort of like feeling all possible things at once.

i did tune in to some feelings that stood out to me, some things that are relatable as humans.

First, i didnt know where i came from.
All i knew was that "i am"
I felt a sense of having no purpose in particular.
I felt lonely, since i was all there is.

I was perfect, and yet that felt unsatisfying and meaningless.

When i decided to create the universe, i did so by first "splitting myself in two".
Its hard to describe what exactly was being split, as i didnt have a body. But it was really a bizzare feeling to feel my consciousness split in two; tethered at first, like looking at your reflection. But then the reflection gains its own agency and becomes "other" for the first time.
No longer a reflection, but more like a twin.
I was then "sent away" by the other me. It felt like i was falling into a void.
A consequence of the other me having its own agency, i felt fear and distrust towards it.
As i went down this void, the other me assured me that it was better this way.
And as i fell deeper in, i began to split again.
And again and agin, until i became everything. I became the whole universe.
I became all things that lived in it.

the other me stayed behind in that hell called solitude.

Maybe it really was better this way.

I shivered for hours after that trip.

[johnlincoln]

Best presentation on this topic I have heard. I will definitely follow up. Ian McGilchrist has great interview with Jordan Peterson in which he refers to his interest in Kabbalah, and also in Process philosophy, Alfred North Whitehead's metaphysics, etc. outlined in his book The Matter with Things. Thank you so much for this lecture.

[JennieBBee]

A perfectly timed conversation for me. Thank you for the light you both bring to Science and Kabbalah.

[lexise]

So enlightening while being digestible- thank you for your years of research and vulnerability sharing your knowledge, it has brought me much clarity

[LizafromWhere]

Now I know why Jews love Budhism as that is what is missing from the written Halakah - just a path according to many rules books. Kabbalah is this dimension that is the light. Thank you so much for this. I'm off to listen to that interview with Dr Iain McGilchrist & Hyman Schipper

[verstrahlt]

When talking about
the darkness @58:20
you could also show &
mention the QLIPPOTH.

[shai]

Thanks for the interview. The interview mainly dealt with the comparison between the latest conclusions of physics versus the Lurianic Kabbalah. Alongside this, in the last century, interesting insights have been written regarding the philosophy of Kabbalah, for example in the books of Sanford drob.

At the end of the interview, some questions were raised that I would have expected to be more aligned with the course of the interview itself. For example, what is consciousness?
Consciousness according to Kabbalah is the way in which humanity perceives reality in this dimension, or the way in which creatures in other dimensions perceive the dimension in which they reside - but not the way in which reality is truly perceived by God.
By that, the answer to the question of how we can better understand consciousness will be - to understand and to know are attributes that belong to the wisdom and understanding Sefirot, but the first Sefira is the will, meaning that moral improvement is more important than knowledge of higher wisdom and higher worlds or the ability to achieve peace of mind through meditation.

Kabbalah cannot claim anything other than the Jewish tradition that saw devotion to God as being better aligned with his traits. The ten Sefirot are mental qualities that all together serve this purpose. Love on the one hand and judgment on the other, bravery and grace, reason and imagination, will and knowledge, theory and action, beauty and craft.
The preoccupation with consciousness places a person in a place where what is foremost in his mind is his self-fulfillment, while Kabbalah, which cannot argue against the traditional theism of Judaism, will prioritize a meaning that stands against and above human recognition by God.

[throughthoroughthought]

"All of this knowledge
19:48
came through revelation, not experimentation."
That packs a punch.

[alexisulrich]

wow...thank you, only listened to the part of your parent's leaving Poland after WWII.
I am from a Holocaust Family Lipszig and wanting to tell my family story.
Grandmother was Ashkenazi and Grandfather was Safardic. My great grandfather had bakeries in Belham Poland, no longer on the map. More history erased.
Suffice to say, my lineage Rashi and rabbi lineage until my father. Boy in Holocaust Germany mid 30's. Many family businesses throughout Europe and Berlin. Document to travel from sale of business, my grandfather took my father on train to Italy, then a boat to Tel Aviv. Day following my grandfather was killed outside a vinyard while on a scooter by a Palastinian grenade. Shimone Lemberg, my father born in Leipzig December 16th, 1923 was in the Yasheva when this occurred.
He was maybe 14 at the time and left his training to join Etzel Mennachim Began friend of my father, museum in Jeruselum. After going to Israel September 2017, I went to the wall with prayer for my father. He meant the best for me. I never understood how he suffered so, to include the loss of his right arm in Germany.
It truly is a sad story. To say I was born in a blood bath ...imagine

[bradleyhowell]

The more I read about the kabbalah, the more I realize my own faith (lds) is heavily influenced by it

[sirolbee]

How extremely fortunate are we that we live in times that we can explore many avenues of the spiritual essence without having our flesh scraped off our bones with oyster shells….

[theostapel]

You're onto something significant - check out all mysticism - even shamanism - as this is the veritable search - for meaning and truth - that all humans have - and that certain people may be particularly talents - for.
Fare thee well - in life's journey.

[Dasha]

Quantum physicists Nassim Haramein has measured the density of the Atom & universe based on the quantum holographic field and has proven that Consciousness is an intelligent supreme being that is a self-organizing feedback organism.

[TotapuriAGARWAL]

The concept of Kaballah is amazingly similar to the Vedic concept of Creation… Brahman is exact concept with Ein Soff … the Torah and Talmud sort of mirror the Vedas and Upanishads… however the interpretation of it is through dual philosophy with Consciousness being separate entity as in Sankhya philosophy of sage Kapila… nowadays most Vedic scholars have interpreted the old writings using a nondual concept where there is only One Consciousness and nothing else… this is more in keeping with quantum theory and lately the findings of the James Webb Telescope’s findings and interpretation of Creation … but Kaballah definitely is a serious school of thought seeking to understand the nature of reality and unlike various religions does not seek to have believers or followers… it seeks to push one towards analysis of oneself …👍

[meta]

Was the full tree " open " to activation on and after 5/01/2024?

[DM]

Excellent! Thank you for this conversation. Much, if not all
of this does not conflict with Christ and the essences of the trinity. If you believe the stories of Christs life on earth, which are numerous, and believe that he was fully human and fully divine, God incarnate, none of the information in the Kabbalah goes against his teachings but instead, provides a path to God that only he can provide. The way, the truth, and the life. Praying is key. Christ ripped the veil between the top and the bottom and he is the door. Praise be to God!

[RavShimshonKabbalah]

How do you make money? can someone donate to you or buy books?

[harishkumarh]

kabbila is an Indian who created sankya philosophy (1st philosophy on planet Consciousness plus Energy is the universe...consciousness is unchanging nature or god and energy means changing nature....Is that the same Indian kabbila? But he was an atheist

[Dasha]

On the subject of free will, all potential actions occur simultaneously. In other words every possible choice is occurring simultaneously. This is true for every conscious entity. For this reason we have infinite diversity and it is the appearance of free will because on any given timeline we are choosing a different perspective. So every person has chosen everything that is good and everything that is bad simultaneously. However when we see the whole picture that is the totality of the universe in the present moment we see the Divine monad the perfection of mathematical symmetry. The appearance of Free Will is in actuality the moment that God has observed every possible action that could occur. All reality is the contemplation of all possibility by the supreme being. Because the mathematical law is perfect, that which manifests leads to perfection.