Secrets: Order and Knowledge

Episode 56 · May 9, 2024

Truth, lies and authenticityConsciousness and how we perceive reality

The Truth Hurts · Episode 56 · audio in Hebrew

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The conversation

There are weeks when it is harder to breathe, and the week between Holocaust Remembrance Day and Memorial Day is one of them, with the stories that keep surfacing and shaking us all over again. From that painful place Gili turns to a completely different question: what choice is left to us when we have no control over what happens? A secret, sod in Hebrew, is not classified information but an acronym for seder ve'da'at, order and knowledge, a journey of consciousness you enter through a question rather than a ready-made answer. And the Garden of Eden is not a place you travel to but a state you can reach here and now.

The truth

  • The Hebrew word for secret, sod, is an acronym for seder ve'da'at, order and knowledge, and it describes a journey of consciousness, not information that is forbidden to reveal.

  • The Garden of Eden is a state of consciousness and not a physical place. In Hebrew the name is read as "the protection of what is tender".

  • We have no control over what happens or over the thoughts that come up in us, but we do have free choice: whether to identify with them or not, and what meaning to give them.

  • You can address the Creator by any name you like. Even if you call Him Charles, He answers. What matters is understanding who you are dealing with.

  • Maimonides wrote in the Guide for the Perplexed that the gates of comprehension to certain realities are locked to us, not because those realities do not exist, but because the way to them is blocked.

  • As Mr. Shushani put it, the entrance ticket to the world of knowledge is the question itself.

Questions and answers

What is Gili and Tal's secret?

The Hebrew word sod, secret, is an acronym for seder ve'da'at, order and knowledge, and what it describes is a person's journey of consciousness, not forbidden information. The Garden of Eden in that sense is a place in consciousness and not a physical one. The secrets of Creation are revealed gradually, and the answer to the question of where they are is simple: they are in simplicity itself, even if being simple is hard.

How can you connect to the Creator and get answers?

According to Gili, the way is asking questions. Anyone can turn to the Creator and ask for answers, and there is no need to call Him "Creator" specifically. You could even call Him Charles. What matters is understanding who it is we are dealing with.

If we have no control over our thoughts, where exactly is our freedom of choice?

Free choice lies in whether we identify with our thoughts, not in the thoughts themselves. Gili explains that something like 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts come up in us every day and they are not under our control, but we choose whether to identify with any particular one, and that is the entrance into the consciousness of the Garden of Eden.

Why do people get sick at all, if the body is producing new cells the whole time?

Gili's answer is that there is such a thing as cellular memory. The moment a person identifies with something, they give it permanence, and the new cell that is born copies itself according to the old program. So identifying with an illness over time makes it continue even while the body is replacing itself at the level of the cell.

Gili's original episode description

This episode focuses on the process of consciousness that comes with searching for the secrets of life.

Gili and Tal suggest understanding the idea of a "secret", sod in Hebrew, as seder ve'da'at, order and knowledge, which means that there are simple answers to our biggest questions, and that those answers are inside our own reality of consciousness, which is a Garden of Eden that has nothing to do with a physical place.

They explain that picking up answers in life is like tuning a frequency on a radio: how to find the station you want and stay on it out of a whole universe of possibilities. They stress that getting to the right reality first requires a deep understanding of who we are, what drives us and how we see ourselves in relation to the world around us.

So how do you get to a pure and clear consciousness?

About the podcast

Listening to The Truth Hurts feels like sitting in on a healing session.

The truth can hurt. It’s right there in the name. But we’re not here to cause pain. Quite the opposite.

In each episode, two women sit down for an honest conversation: an Emotional Healer and her client.

We talk about healing and consciousness, faith and science, the body and soul, personal growth, energy, and different approaches to healing. Above all, we face the truth no one says out loud: everything around us is upside down.

Is this podcast for you?

  • You want to hear the truth, and you’re ready to face it. (Yes, those are two different things.)
  • You want to gain insight and improve your quality of life.
  • You want to make a change.
  • You want a deeper understanding of the laws of the universe.
  • You want to live a healthy life in body and soul.
  • You want to take away something you can carry with you for life.

You don’t need any prior knowledge. You only need the desire to explore a wide range of ideas and discover practical guidance for living.

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