HEALING LOVE
The end of an action is determined by the original thought.
The thought of creation is to delight created beings.
Baal HaSulam
“Hi, Mark! Glad to hear from you. I’ll call you back in an hour, okay? My online lecture begins…”
“No problem. What kind of lecture is it?”
“About a human in the modern world. Zoe holds it.”
“Oh! The famous one?”
“Yes!”
“Great! She knows how to explain complicated things in a simple way.”
“That’s why I wanted to listen to her. Maybe I’ll also learn one or two useful things for our project. And on the whole… there is something that worries me, and it’s important… In conversations with our children, who are already parents themselves, about the future and the purpose of life, we now hear ‘I don’t know’ more often. You see, we don’t understand where… we have even stopped dreaming.”
“True,” the old friend and project partner agreed.
“It turns out that we have no idea of the end goal.”
“And if we don’t have it, others will impose their views on us.”
“I hope with Zoe’s help…”
“Go ahead, Kira; I won’t keep you any longer. Delve into it. And I’m very much looking forward to hearing your thoughts after the lecture. Take care!”
Kira realized she was a little excited. She glanced at her watch: “It’s time to connect.” Kira checked the microphone and turned on the camera.
New faces began to add themselves to a large gallery view on her PC screen… the number of participants grew; one more minute — and they saw an elegantly dressed female lecturer.
“Well,” she smiled amicably, “hello everyone!”
Kira liked Zoe at once.
“The topic of today’s lecture is The Modern World and a Human,” the lecturer spread her notes on the desk, collecting her thoughts.
“Let’s be clear right away. All we know about human history from written sources — stone inscriptions, clay tablets, or papyri — dates back 2.5 thousand years. Everything that happened before is very arbitrary.
Does historical data provide an understanding of the human development process?”
Zoe raised her eyes from the notes and looked inquiringly over her glasses.
“There are several theories about it not fitting together: some regard a human being as a scalar determined by such values as religion, living in a specific climatic zone, psychic features, etc.
Others consider him a vector, adding direction to magnitude. That’s how we describe evolution.
But a human being… is both a particle and a wave at the same time.”
She paused, peering into the listeners’ faces: do they agree? There were no objections.
“This duality is a property of matter.
The changes occurring in historical periods are understandable and visible. They also encompass sciences and technology.
And our level as humans, inner changes… What is the development here?”
An assistant put a cup of coffee in front of Zoe. She thanked, pulled it a little closer, and announced:
“Here comes a small visualization,” Zoe enabled the screen sharing. “We see an orchestra: artists and different instruments. There is a piece to be performed, and the conductor stands already on the podium, everything is ready…
But what do they do first?” she paused, waiting for an answer. “The first violinist plays an A note. The rest tune their instruments to that pitch. To ensure that everyone is in the same system, on the same wavelength, and in sync with one another (watch here).
A reference tone gets set for all to tune to; only under this condition, a composer’s idea can be realized.
Why am I talking about this now?
Do we have an image of our only correct state?
The one that is the peak of human development.
Don’t rush to answer; think calmly. This information is, of course, new, so we have enough time for questions.”
She looked out the window. The evening sun beautifully illuminated her face profile. The gemstone in the pendant reflected the light with a flashing spark.
“Once, a hundred years ago, there was a forest here.” Zoe shifted her gaze back to the screen with ‘tiles.’ “A horse-drawn cart was the most common mode of transport at that time. What is its maximum speed? 25 km per hour. Today, you probably have come home or to your office by car. The average driving speed in a city is about 24 km per hour. It means a car weighing 2 tons transports one person at almost the same speed as a cart a hundred years ago. And the forest is gone…
Is it development?” She rested her eyes on the audience.
“But she’s right! It did occur to me before that not everything was so smooth with this development, wherever you look…” Kira thought to herself.
“Let me now deliver a short narration,” the lecturer put on her glasses and began to read in an emotionless academic tone.
“As far back as Descartes’ time, philosophers saw the goal of knowledge in putting the forces of Nature to use. You may want to make a note for yourself: ‘working with the forces of Nature.’
Later, Poincaré hypothesized that the Universe had the shape of a three-dimensional sphere, and Perelman, in our time, has proved this mathematically.
In his turn, Vernadsky developed the concept of the noosphere, which in Greek means the ‘sphere of reason.’
What does the noosphere contain?” She asked a question and answered it herself. “Our thoughts, desires, and actions.
Imagine a kind of ‘bubble’ with all of us inside, placed in a natural environment.
When we fight endlessly against each other, it gets filled with negativity, distrust, hostility, and rejection. And this affects everyone.
Zoe checked her notes and continued:
“The great modern-day prophet…” and she explained in a different tone, “a prophet is an intermediary between the higher forces, the forces of Nature, and our world. Please note his name, too: Baal HaSulam,” wrote:
…the Creator … gave humanity … the atom and the hydrogen bombs. If the total ruin … is still not evident …, they can wait for a third world war, or a fourth one …. The bombs will do their thing, and the relics after the ruin will have no other choice but to … not work for themselves more than is … needed for their sustenance, while everything else they do will be for the good of others. If all … agree to that, there will no longer be wars …; no person will be concerned with his own good …, but only with the good of others. (The Last Generation | Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam))
He worded it for us to get a vision of the program of human development, not in the sense of the main stages of evolution, but the goal of this development.
A person like you and me would want to know: what needs to be done?” She took off her glasses, toyed with them, then drank from her cup. “Do you remember the orchestra tuning?
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I’m going to show you something else now. An experiment with two tuning forks (watch here).
“Impressive?” Zoe asked with a slight smile. “And here is what such a scientific authority as Albert Einstein thought about this:
Match the frequency of the reality you want, and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
A question appeared in the chat:
“What are all these tuning forks and orchestras for? Suppose I’ll produce that exact A…”
Zoe made a serious face. She gathered up the sheets of paper lying on the desk and put them aside. Looking straight into the camera, she remained silent for a short while and then said:
“As the example with the tuning forks showed, there has to be… similarity between human qualities and those of Nature. They should be, as you put it, ‘that exact A.’”
Which words can describe this perfect state? In your opinion, what does it feel like in our sensations?
One by one, the conference participants began to turn on their videos, and very soon, the screen became full of images of many different people — well-groomed and careless-looking, dressed businesslike and casually, surrounded by their usual things.
“Can you hear me?” Kira switched on the microphone, saw the nods, and shared her thoughts. “The feeling a child has when the mother holds him in her arms…”
She was interrupted by a young man wearing glasses and a light blue shirt:
“And what should we do with this similarity?” A big ginger cat showed up: he walked with a swagger on the keyboard, blocking the screen with his tail. The guy grabbed the cat, put him on the floor, and came back into view. “Let’s say I now have this knowledge… What’s next?”
“That’s the point!” Zoe intervened. “According to Stephen Hawking, the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge,” she paused, giving him time to grasp the idea. “The laws of Nature are impossible to break; this is not in our power. It means that if love is a law, we must become love. There is no other way.”
“So, I must confess my love to everyone from now on?” The animal lover persisted. “All this is fine, but how to do it?” The cat jumped back onto the desk and lay before the screen.
The lecturer smiled and shook her head.
“Let’s return to the beginning of our lecture. We need to tune… into the frequency of love.
You, Kira, have given a very vivid picture familiar to each of us — a mother and a child. Sensual, understandable.
For the baby in the mother’s belly,” she paused for the listeners to imagine it, “ideal conditions are created.” She was silent for a moment. “Then the child gets into a loving environment of parents and grandparents who look after him, support him, and give him confidence.”
She emphasized the keywords, making them easier to retain.
“As an adult, he, in turn, will have to care for them. Build a new level of relationships.
The quote from Baal HaSulam means just that. Remember?
Such an image we are given. A benchmark. The perfect state. Undistorted by politics and ideology.
“Her gaze is… loving,” the thought suddenly came to Kira.
“Let’s now look at the big picture. The Universe appears to hold us in its arms, maintaining balance thanks to constants. Gravitational constant: 9.81 m/s². A minimal change in it — and organisms won’t preserve their properties and functions. Speed of light: 300 km/s. If the light propagation were to accelerate or slow down, it would affect many physical phenomena. Fine-structure constant: 1/137. Scientists joke that the hand of God wrote this number. If it were different, the formation of molecules would be impossible.
Everything is very delicate and considerate…
When the process is predetermined and launched by Nature, but humanity resists the motion that has already begun, it looks as if a baby doesn’t want to come out, which is dangerous for both him and the mother.
I’ll cite one more quote. Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, writes:
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:2 (biblehub.com))
She noticed she was about to lose the attention of her audience and suggested:
“Shall we turn to contemporary poets? It’ll be easier to get a feel this way. Here is what Boris Pasternak wrote:
Don’t imitate — imposture’s tasteless,
But learn to live, so, after all,
You’ll draw the love from open spaces
And overhear the future’s call.
(Boris Pasternak. A Life of Fame)
You see, we are able to attract the love of the world around us. What does it give us?”
All fixed their eyes on the lecturer, waiting for a hint.
“A possibility to rise above everything, above fate. In another ‘echelon’ to get through hardships if we are in love. Here is how Arseny Tarkovsky pictured it:
And we were led don’t know where,
A moment’s mirage, then evaporation,
Whole cityscapes — miraculous affair —
And underfoot was minty sward foundation,
And birds along the way flew in formation,
Against the flow, the fish were swimming free,
Before our eyes, the heavens were unfolding…
Behind us still, our fate was grimly holding
A razor-handed madman, seeking fee.
(Arseny Tarkovsky. First Dates)”
And she added in a soft voice:
“Don’t button up your hearts. Let the impulse come… from within, from the heart, towards each other.
And Nature cares for everyone.”
The audience fell silent, reflecting on what Zoe had said. While she enthusiastically amplified the idea:
“Imagine a large handmade Persian carpet presented to the UN headquarters in 2005 with woven verses by the poet Saadi Shirazi saying that human beings are members of a whole in the creation of one essence and soul — ADAM.
In Hebrew, “Adam” (דוֹמֶה ‘domeh’) means “like the Creator.”
That’s our ideal state. And no one can express it better than the prophet did:
…When humankind achieves its goal, with respect to the success of the bodies, by bringing them to the degree of complete love of others, all the bodies in the world will unite into a single body and a single heart… Only then will all the happiness intended for humanity become revealed in all its glory. (The Freedom │Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam))
I’ll now get a small musical fragment on. I want you to listen to the Universe soulfully speaking of love to us (listen here).”
Kira was experiencing a quiet joy. It all seemed so right and… beautiful!
What she has just learned spared her so many needless actions imposed by others.
“But the most important thing is children… We should explain to them exactly this, the true goal: our level as humans… a human among other humans… tuning in to love,” she repeated to herself.
