The Paradox of Creation: The Tension Between Consciousness and Physical Reality

Episode 57 · May 16, 2024

Faith and trust in the Creator

The Truth Hurts · Episode 57 · audio in Hebrew

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The conversation

Sometimes you feel loneliest exactly in the moments when you would most want someone to be there. And when you look outward and see a world that always seems to take the wrong side, that paradox does not stay out there. It seeps inward. In Gili's words, that feeling of loneliness is a belief we created ourselves, because Creation only reflects back to us what we believe in. From there she builds five principles that try to explain how this works, and why the only real choice left to us is what to believe.

The truth

  • We are always under divine providence, and the logic is simple: if there were no providence, none of us would exist at all, so the way she sees it, the only thing left to choose is what you believe.

  • The way she understands it, the earth is a playground for strong souls, and the limits of the body, of time, of movement and of the five senses are, in her words, exactly what makes rising above them a real achievement.

  • The first law is that what exists, exists, and there is no point arguing with it or fighting it. Resistance only makes the thing stronger.

  • Time is a complete illusion. The past already happened and the future is still to come, and what you always have is only here and now, one moment stacked on the next.

  • To draw something toward you, love for instance, you have to resonate with the thing itself and not with the lack of it.

  • You cannot chase what you want in order to get it, because searching broadcasts lack and anything you chase runs away. Instead, she recommends letting it come to you.

Questions and answers

Is karma a punishment?

No. Karma is a wheel of movement and action, not a punishment. It is action and result, a reflection and a mirror. Whatever you put out in your thoughts, your words and your actions comes back to you, because Creation has no choice but to reflect back what you are broadcasting.

How can you draw something you want into your life, finding the love of your life for example?

Not by actively searching, because searching expresses lack. Instead you have to turn yourself into the energy that resonates with the thing itself. If you want love, you have to be love, to love yourself, and to let it come to you out of faith and calm rather than out of complaint or pursuit.

Why does it matter so much to pay attention to our thoughts?

Because a thought that stays in your head long enough takes over. It spreads like fire and brings more thoughts like it along with it, until it filters down into emotion and from there into actual action. That is why we have to be zealots about our thoughts and guard them, the way you lock a door against thieves.

How can anyone believe that what is happening to the Jewish people right now, like university gates closing to Jews, is "for the good"?

Gili suggests seeing it as an opportunity: if the gates of academia around the world are closing to Jews, that is a sign that Israel should take its own resources and build an international academic center here that will match the best in the world. That way the closing turns into a push forward.

Gili's original episode description

This week started in heavy sadness under the shadow of Memorial Day, but just as Independence Day begins the moment Memorial Day ends, we have reached the end of the week and things are starting to loosen a little. Life is full of paradoxes.

In this episode, Gili and Tal dive into the world of paradoxes. They describe the paradoxes that show up inside a person's belief system and how the reality of consciousness and physical reality can be in constant tension.

They point out that we have to understand that everything that exists comes from one Source and that everything is open to change, including the way we interpret reality.

Gili and Tal encourage us to start with a real change in consciousness: to stop chasing what is missing and to start resonating with what the soul wants, love and positivity, because that is the only way we create the reality we hope for.

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.

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