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Here's a video made just last month from our friends Anthony Kosinec and Andrew Martin in Toronto, as part of the "Perceiving Reality" project.

Here is an interview between Rav Michael Laitman and Eran Shayovich (a Kabbalah student of Rav Laitman). Rav Laitman talks about how the desire for spirituality is ripening in our age. As we find no lasting fulfillment in any of our other desires, the question "What is the meaning of life?" is amplifying more and more.

Then he talks about how the wisdom of Kabbalah is revealed in our time specifically to fulfill this final stage of desire that's appearing. A big call! Everyone thinks that they're method is the right one, so why would Kabbalah be any more "right" than anything else? This is the line of questioning that Shayovich takes to his teacher.

In this video, Rav Michael Laitman talks about an example presented in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" It's the one about Columbus' ship approaching the American shores; how as it approached, the Indians standing at the shore couldn't see it. Only after one Indian took note that there were ripples in the water, and looked to see what was causing those ripples, could he make out a big house floating on the water coming for them. "Ship!" he yelled--"Ship!!!" -- and that's how ships got their name...

No, that's actually way off. Anyway, Rav Laitman relates this example to our perception of reality, and then continues to go one step further, stating the difference between the perception of reality as taught by Kabbalists, and the perception of reality as taught by the scientists in "What the Bleep Do We Know!?"

Anthony Kosinec outlines the four stages of desires' development in this world, and the evolvement to the desire for the spiritual world.
From the lecture "Perception of Reality" filmed as part of the "Kabbalah Revealed" TV series. Full lecture available here: http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/kabbalah_revealed/kabbalah_r evealed_2.htm

What, are we suffering? Are you suffering? Maybe. Maybe not. But one thing that Rav Laitman says in this video makes you see where he's heading with it - that doing anything technical will eventually be to our disadvantage, and scientific and technological progress doesn't lead us to any clear answers, but more questions and confusion.

Rav Laitman says that all scientific and technological progress up until today was only for us to reach the conclusion that it doesn't help us, and to awaken the question "What is the meaning of our lives?" He goes onto talk about how Kabbalah presents the next phase of development, which comes to humanity to answer this question.