Woodstock celebrates its 50th anniversary. What is this festival? Is it really a grasp of freedom or just a temporary pleasant dizziness? Back in the years when the Woodstock festival first took place, the feeling of freedom was enlightening the world as something simple and beautiful. However, within this sensation was an absence of responsibility toward society and an over-naivety that disallowed such freedom from becoming a long-term reality.
The naivety of the time was a result of people not understanding what they lived for. It is true that the first Woodstock was a place for freedom and joy, but unfortunately it was not real enough to last. The love that was “in the air” of the original Woodstock can be likened to a drug that was sprayed out generously among everyone in that moment of time.
Woodstock represented an outburst for a desire for freedom, and although it couldn’t bring about real, lasting happiness, it did provide the sensation of a great, kind and loving force enveloping everyone, a longing for a real love that couldn’t yet be defined in a pinpointed manner. The wisdom of Kabbalah calls such a phenomenon an “awakening from above.” It is a spiritual action that leaves a Reshimo (impression) of a lofty, more connected state, after which comes a feeling of relative emptiness. Why does emptiness follow such a pleasant sensation? It is order to provide room for us people to reach that state of love by ourselves.
We had that awakening from above. Today, we can see that no one is spraying us with this drug anymore. On the contrary, the general tendency around the world is toward more social division, depression, loneliness, anxiety and stress. The wisdom of Kabbalah states the reason for the mental and emotional decline of humanity as running simultaneously with the growth of a desire to find the true potion of life, i.e. to rise to the degree of love and bestowal without waiting for it to be “sprayed” upon us or sent to us from someone or somewhere. If we acknowledged our goal as a society to attain a state of positive connection, and applied efforts to achieve it—with mutual responsibility toward each other and understanding how nature works on us—then we would generate this potion of life from the positive connections we would create among each other. By doing so, we would lay the foundations in society for love to dwell among us, with mutual responsibility and with understanding and awareness of how nature operates on us. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, such an action is called an “awakening from below.”
There are two levels of reality: the level of human egoism, i.e. the desire to enjoy at the expense of others; and the higher level of love, bestowal and connection. If we, in a controlled manner, rise above our egos, without canceling them, and reach a state where “love will cover all transgressions” (Proverbs 10:12), then in between our egoistic and altruistic layers, we’ll find our freedom.
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