What Are the Signs That Someone Is Deeply Unconscious, Spiritually?

In our lives, we are indeed spiritually unconscious. That is, we live on a spiritual level, but we lack its sensation. This situation is similar to newborn babies who become registered in state records, and who have several people already working for them, supplying them with food, diapers and whatever else they need, but they do not feel it.

In other words, newborn babies live in a system that takes complete care of them and which responds to their needs. Likewise, we live in the spiritual system, but we do not feel it. The spiritual system responds to us and provides us with all we need to spiritually progress, but spiritual progress in and of itself depends solely on us, on developing our desire for spirituality.

When we transition to a new spiritual level, we then start feeling the system in which we exist: how it responds to us, how we can influence it, and what we truly are. That is, we comprehend ourselves in relation to the spiritual system. Then, similarly to how we develop as newborns, infants, toddlers, small children and teenagers before we become adults in our corporeal lives, we also develop spiritually through similar stages, and our spiritual consciousness expands and changes at each successive stage.

When that world, that universe in which we actually exist, is revealed to us, it becomes the loftiest joy we could ever experience, one that fills us endlessly. It is this pleasure, which we call “light” in the wisdom of Kabbalah — a spiritual perception of eternity, perfection and harmony — that created us.

In our current lives, we exist outside of this spiritual perception of reality, and we thus experience a miserable existence. However, since we have no other example of how we can live at a higher level of spiritual consciousness, we are then generally content with our lives for the lack of knowing anything better. It is like we have been born in a prison, and we lack the sensation that there could be something else. If someone tries to release that very prisoner who was born in prison, then he will immediately wish to return to prison because of his inability to orient himself in another world.

(Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Am I a Puppet?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on April 10, 2010. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.)