What Is Heaven Really About and How Can It Be Revealed To Us Before We Die?
Josia Nakash
March 19, 2006
Barbara Walters recently did a big story on Heaven for ABC where she got people’s opinions about what it’s like. However, none of the distinguished people she interviewed provided a practical method for getting there....
Kabbalah provides us with a complete roadmap for accessing heaven whenever we want to.
According to Kabbalah there is a spiritual barrier, a “screen” that separates this world from “the upper world” (heaven). To what extent does the barrier seal off access for people who live in this world? What does a person who acquires such a screen get from it? And what else is behind it?
All the forms that we are able to imagine regarding what a “spiritual screen” is and how we use it to connect with God, are all a result of our imagination and have nothing to do with the true reality. The wisdom of Kabbalah is also called the Hidden Wisdom because it opens for those who have acquired a screen. So the question remains, what is a screen?
The answer involves learning a little more about ourselves and how we function:
A person is built like a black box with five openings, the senses. Each opening has skin around it covering it. Take for example hearing that is pressured somehow from outside. The pressure does not go inside but rather hits the surrounding skin protecting it, and part of that entire system measures the reaction, the resistance to the pressure that was exerted on it from outside, so that it won’t fold inward because of the pressure from outside.
So essentially the ear measures the reaction without our interference, and passes it on through the nervous system, to a place where the brain analyzes with the help of memory and other systems, what that reaction is similar to, by comparing it to past reactions, etc.
In our eyes there are many points for absorbing the beams of light that hit them, and as a reaction many nerves take action so as not to allow the beams of light to penetrate inward. The nervous reaction goes to a center in the brain that analyzes the picture revealed to our brain.
Our sense of smell is also activated by the nerve ends, where smell molecules hit them and awaken them. The nerve ends react out of their desire to keep their situation balanced, just like all the other senses and anything living in this world, which is how we get their reactions. In accordance with this the same goes for sensory and taste senses, and man himself. We resist to an outer thing that is trying to penetrate inward, and then measure our resistance.
If we didn’t have these five senses, we wouldn’t get an inner reaction to the fact that something is pressuring us from outside, and actually would not feel the world or space that we are in. This situation would leave us as unconscious, since cutting off the five senses is like cutting someone off from reality.
A Sense That Is Not Covered Like The Others
The “sixth sense” in us is a spiritual sense that is also built according to the same system and principle; it also has a so-called “cover” that is called “a screen”. The thing hitting and applying pressure on this screen is the upper light (God), and if the screen is capable of rejecting the upper light and not allowing it to penetrate inward, as a result of measuring these reactions to the pressuring light, a man is capable of feeling the “upper world” or “the Creator.”
The difference between these senses is that in the five senses there is a covering that ensures outer occurrences not penetrating inward and that is done right from the beginning. But a person receives the sixth sense without a covering, and that is why it’s not activated.
There are people who begin to feel that such a sense exists in them, but it is empty because it has no covering. There is sort of a “pipe” without a screen, and a person feels a lacking to receive whatever goes through that pipe but cannot because it is not activated at his end. That is why we feel things like desires, passion and suffering – because we don’t get a reaction from this sense.
The sixth sense exists in us, but it is dormant, until in one of our incarnations it breaks out and man feels emptiness, that usually comes in the form of the question, “What is the purpose of my life?” When this sense begins to awaken in us, it brings us to the right place.
The sixth sense is revealed after the development of the regular five senses that we’re used to filling ourselves but do not want to continue in this way. When we ask why we cannot fill ourselves with this other sense we begin to search for ways to fill it naturally, but with no success.
The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to acquire this screen on our own, and once we acquire it, according to the reaction of the screen to what’s outside of it, we will sense a higher spiritual dimension.
What a person senses is the upper power, the Creator, the upper world. And from that point onward the sixth sense -- in deference to the other five bodily senses -- keeps growing and growing until it reaches its maximum capacity.
Without a screen we are living without spirituality. And actually, Kabbalah deals only with this. So any explanation needs to be divided into two parts; the first is how to build a screen, and the other is how to work with it. How can we use the screen to discover the upper reality and learn what it is? All of our images and sensations that we explore with our spiritual sense are called sensing the Creator or sensing the upper force.
The Sixth Sense: Being Awakened To Spirituality
Why aren’t we given practical guidance about heaven the minute we’re born? Why do we have to wait for an introduction?
Some people believe that when we die we acquire a sixth sense for feeling the spiritual reality. This is not true. We are left only with whatever we have acquired in our life through the five senses. If we succeed in acquiring a sixth sense, then we have it, and if not, we will have to come back to the situation we were in before our soul dressed in its current body, meaning return to the point where we don’t feel anything, as sperm.
At a time when we are awakened to spirituality, we cannot escape from acquiring the sixth sense. To the extent that we try to escape we will experience sufferings, until we will truly desire despite all the obstacles placed in our way to rise above our human level.
The emptiness, the bad feeling we experience in our five senses, awakens in us so that we will turn our attention to the sixth sense and not so that we will fill it. At the same time the sixth sense itself begins to awaken and reveals to us how empty we are. And we gradually begin to develop a sense of something new that we have never desired in the past. It’s the same as a person not knowing that he is blind, and suddenly feeling a strong desire and seeing. He does not know what the meaning of seeing is, but the desire awakening in him is very powerful.
So if during this incarnation a person has not felt the “next world”, they will not attain it after dying because what have they done to deserve it? If we haven’t acquired a screen in this life, meaning we have not acquired a connection with the Creator, why should we be connected to Him after we die?
Without our body we are simply “a point” in spirituality, and after we die we remain that way. All we have to do during our seventy years in this world is develop and acquire a connection with the spiritual realm. Everything that happens to us in this world is arranged specially for that. And it is precisely here in this world that we are capable of building a screen. Otherwise we would not be in this world at all.
The development of the sixth sense determines our life. So people who are actively engaged in this direct their lives at enlarging this sense, since they find that the five senses we were given no longer serve as a main source of pleasure. We feel them as earthly, as a fleeting phenomenon that will disintegrate and disappear. We would much rather nurture the sixth sense, develop and cultivate it, because through it we can feel eternity that has nothing to do with our five human senses.
A person who has built a screen despite the resistance of their body identifies with the life that is felt through the sixth sense. In contrast to his sensing the spiritual realm and his getting closer to God he senses the pleasures of this world as being of lesser importance.
When one crosses the barrier and acquires a screen, we go from feeling this world to feeling the upper world. If a person reaches it, this attainment will last forever. Even after our body dies, from the point where our soul started as a dot, it will expand and thicken and will then be called “a spiritual face”.
The actions of a person who has already acquired a screen are connected to divinity - God, the upper force - through the screen. The connection between them grows and strengthens. Through the sixth sense, we discover the source of the upper world. And through the information about the upper world we discover a tremendous doubt that is constantly sending us sensations and pressures that it is dealing with. That is how we learn through God’s activities how to become like Him, until we become exactly like Him.
It is only through the sixth sense that a person carries out certain acts that are critical to one’s advancement. And by doing so, one discovers how in comparison all the other acts he carries out with his five senses stem from an egoistic urge for sex, food, things, etc.
The bottom line is that the thought of Creation (God’s plan) is to raise us to His level. So if you don’t have a screen it doesn’t matter if you are in this world or another. Acquiring the screen is the only way to guarantee us spiritual, eternal and perfect lives.
Funny -- we seem to have a multitude of screens in front of us nowadays, except the one that really counts.
Josia Nakash is a marketing consultant and copywriter in Israel. Having searched for meaning for many years and found it in Kabbalah, Josia is dedicated to promoting the hidden wisdom that is now available to all. You are welcome to visit her blog Kabbalah For Women and contact her with feedback or questions at josia@kbb1.com. © Copyright 2006 by Josia Nakash
Kabbalah provides us with a complete roadmap for accessing heaven whenever we want to.
According to Kabbalah there is a spiritual barrier, a “screen” that separates this world from “the upper world” (heaven). To what extent does the barrier seal off access for people who live in this world? What does a person who acquires such a screen get from it? And what else is behind it?
All the forms that we are able to imagine regarding what a “spiritual screen” is and how we use it to connect with God, are all a result of our imagination and have nothing to do with the true reality. The wisdom of Kabbalah is also called the Hidden Wisdom because it opens for those who have acquired a screen. So the question remains, what is a screen?
The answer involves learning a little more about ourselves and how we function:
A person is built like a black box with five openings, the senses. Each opening has skin around it covering it. Take for example hearing that is pressured somehow from outside. The pressure does not go inside but rather hits the surrounding skin protecting it, and part of that entire system measures the reaction, the resistance to the pressure that was exerted on it from outside, so that it won’t fold inward because of the pressure from outside.
So essentially the ear measures the reaction without our interference, and passes it on through the nervous system, to a place where the brain analyzes with the help of memory and other systems, what that reaction is similar to, by comparing it to past reactions, etc.
In our eyes there are many points for absorbing the beams of light that hit them, and as a reaction many nerves take action so as not to allow the beams of light to penetrate inward. The nervous reaction goes to a center in the brain that analyzes the picture revealed to our brain.
Our sense of smell is also activated by the nerve ends, where smell molecules hit them and awaken them. The nerve ends react out of their desire to keep their situation balanced, just like all the other senses and anything living in this world, which is how we get their reactions. In accordance with this the same goes for sensory and taste senses, and man himself. We resist to an outer thing that is trying to penetrate inward, and then measure our resistance.
If we didn’t have these five senses, we wouldn’t get an inner reaction to the fact that something is pressuring us from outside, and actually would not feel the world or space that we are in. This situation would leave us as unconscious, since cutting off the five senses is like cutting someone off from reality.
A Sense That Is Not Covered Like The Others
The “sixth sense” in us is a spiritual sense that is also built according to the same system and principle; it also has a so-called “cover” that is called “a screen”. The thing hitting and applying pressure on this screen is the upper light (God), and if the screen is capable of rejecting the upper light and not allowing it to penetrate inward, as a result of measuring these reactions to the pressuring light, a man is capable of feeling the “upper world” or “the Creator.”
The difference between these senses is that in the five senses there is a covering that ensures outer occurrences not penetrating inward and that is done right from the beginning. But a person receives the sixth sense without a covering, and that is why it’s not activated.
There are people who begin to feel that such a sense exists in them, but it is empty because it has no covering. There is sort of a “pipe” without a screen, and a person feels a lacking to receive whatever goes through that pipe but cannot because it is not activated at his end. That is why we feel things like desires, passion and suffering – because we don’t get a reaction from this sense.
The sixth sense exists in us, but it is dormant, until in one of our incarnations it breaks out and man feels emptiness, that usually comes in the form of the question, “What is the purpose of my life?” When this sense begins to awaken in us, it brings us to the right place.
The sixth sense is revealed after the development of the regular five senses that we’re used to filling ourselves but do not want to continue in this way. When we ask why we cannot fill ourselves with this other sense we begin to search for ways to fill it naturally, but with no success.
The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to acquire this screen on our own, and once we acquire it, according to the reaction of the screen to what’s outside of it, we will sense a higher spiritual dimension.
What a person senses is the upper power, the Creator, the upper world. And from that point onward the sixth sense -- in deference to the other five bodily senses -- keeps growing and growing until it reaches its maximum capacity.
Without a screen we are living without spirituality. And actually, Kabbalah deals only with this. So any explanation needs to be divided into two parts; the first is how to build a screen, and the other is how to work with it. How can we use the screen to discover the upper reality and learn what it is? All of our images and sensations that we explore with our spiritual sense are called sensing the Creator or sensing the upper force.
The Sixth Sense: Being Awakened To Spirituality
Why aren’t we given practical guidance about heaven the minute we’re born? Why do we have to wait for an introduction?
Some people believe that when we die we acquire a sixth sense for feeling the spiritual reality. This is not true. We are left only with whatever we have acquired in our life through the five senses. If we succeed in acquiring a sixth sense, then we have it, and if not, we will have to come back to the situation we were in before our soul dressed in its current body, meaning return to the point where we don’t feel anything, as sperm.
At a time when we are awakened to spirituality, we cannot escape from acquiring the sixth sense. To the extent that we try to escape we will experience sufferings, until we will truly desire despite all the obstacles placed in our way to rise above our human level.
The emptiness, the bad feeling we experience in our five senses, awakens in us so that we will turn our attention to the sixth sense and not so that we will fill it. At the same time the sixth sense itself begins to awaken and reveals to us how empty we are. And we gradually begin to develop a sense of something new that we have never desired in the past. It’s the same as a person not knowing that he is blind, and suddenly feeling a strong desire and seeing. He does not know what the meaning of seeing is, but the desire awakening in him is very powerful.
So if during this incarnation a person has not felt the “next world”, they will not attain it after dying because what have they done to deserve it? If we haven’t acquired a screen in this life, meaning we have not acquired a connection with the Creator, why should we be connected to Him after we die?
Without our body we are simply “a point” in spirituality, and after we die we remain that way. All we have to do during our seventy years in this world is develop and acquire a connection with the spiritual realm. Everything that happens to us in this world is arranged specially for that. And it is precisely here in this world that we are capable of building a screen. Otherwise we would not be in this world at all.
The development of the sixth sense determines our life. So people who are actively engaged in this direct their lives at enlarging this sense, since they find that the five senses we were given no longer serve as a main source of pleasure. We feel them as earthly, as a fleeting phenomenon that will disintegrate and disappear. We would much rather nurture the sixth sense, develop and cultivate it, because through it we can feel eternity that has nothing to do with our five human senses.
A person who has built a screen despite the resistance of their body identifies with the life that is felt through the sixth sense. In contrast to his sensing the spiritual realm and his getting closer to God he senses the pleasures of this world as being of lesser importance.
When one crosses the barrier and acquires a screen, we go from feeling this world to feeling the upper world. If a person reaches it, this attainment will last forever. Even after our body dies, from the point where our soul started as a dot, it will expand and thicken and will then be called “a spiritual face”.
The actions of a person who has already acquired a screen are connected to divinity - God, the upper force - through the screen. The connection between them grows and strengthens. Through the sixth sense, we discover the source of the upper world. And through the information about the upper world we discover a tremendous doubt that is constantly sending us sensations and pressures that it is dealing with. That is how we learn through God’s activities how to become like Him, until we become exactly like Him.
It is only through the sixth sense that a person carries out certain acts that are critical to one’s advancement. And by doing so, one discovers how in comparison all the other acts he carries out with his five senses stem from an egoistic urge for sex, food, things, etc.
The bottom line is that the thought of Creation (God’s plan) is to raise us to His level. So if you don’t have a screen it doesn’t matter if you are in this world or another. Acquiring the screen is the only way to guarantee us spiritual, eternal and perfect lives.
Funny -- we seem to have a multitude of screens in front of us nowadays, except the one that really counts.
Josia Nakash is a marketing consultant and copywriter in Israel. Having searched for meaning for many years and found it in Kabbalah, Josia is dedicated to promoting the hidden wisdom that is now available to all. You are welcome to visit her blog Kabbalah For Women and contact her with feedback or questions at josia@kbb1.com. © Copyright 2006 by Josia Nakash
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