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The most important issues discussed in the video, Perceiving Reality, was that one should question his/herself how we know the meaning of things. The fact that we use our five senses to answer most of our questions and guide us to what reality is. However, the speaker in the video talks about how we are not really perceiving reality if we perceive it only through the five senses, such as the box he uses to compare. He discusses how the box works, and that it only interprets reality through the function of the five senses. Kabbalah is described as a users manual of reality, how inner and outer worlds are related, which gives wisdom. This video clip made me recall certain phases where I would ask myself how do you know what reality is? How do we know we are alive? According to who? Who says that is the right thing to do? A series of questions where there is an answer but only based on what we learned and there is a point where you draw a line and stop, however does one stop asking because you don’t know the answer? Or because you really believe that to be the only answer? I agree with the speaker when he says that the desire will take you to see and get to know the “This” he mentions that is equivalent to unlimited pleasure, unbounded existence, and complete perception. The “this” is driven close through similar qualities by outside forces, instead of simply being close just by what appears to be close by our definition. Below are some sites that helped deal with the issues rose in this video.
The site below is based on the video and discusses more on the Kabbalah
http://www.kabbalahlearningcenter.info/
This site talks about us not being able to perceive things we are not able to recognize because our ability to identify is based on our five senses
http://kabbalah.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_do_we_perceive_reality

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Reality is what you make it. This video really hones in on what that phrase really means. Why do we interpret stimuli the way we do? Why do some people interpret stimuli different than other people? If one person interprets something differently than we do, whose reality is more acceptable? Both? Neither? The video says that even objects with known meanings, I.e. the chicken and the hammer, are compressed into a singularity when viewed “outside the box”, but how do we know they were even inside the box to begin with? Where does the box begin? Where does it end? Does it contain the entire universe? If so, how could be possibly begin to understand everything when it is impossible to even begin to imagine the scope of the entire universe? If every object we recognize is the same as a completely different object, what would happen if every human suddenly acquired this “infinite perception”? What would happen to the world? To human beings? Would society crumble? With unlimited pleasure there would be no need for work, or education, or any contact with any other human beings. Should we pursue this “ultimate knowledge”, or should we be content with the knowledge that we have no knowledge?

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