Tasting Personal Utopia
There is a peculiar Kabbalistic custom which encourages tasting the food prepared for the Sabbath before the day actually begins.
On a practical level, this hopefully ensures that the food tastes ok, and if it need a bit more salt or curry power then you’ve got the opportunity to remedy it before the Sabbath.
However there is also a personal and spiritual element to this practice, and this is to anticipate the peace, holiness and redemption of the universal Sabbath before it has actually taken place.
That means that you are able and in fact strongly encouraged to taste and anticipate redemption, utopia in the present moment, before the coming of the Universal Utopia. What this means is that you are actually able to starting living in a utopian state, even before any evidence for a greater scene is taking place on the global stage. Which is really the main idea of this manual.
The way to do this is to use your imagination, and imagine what the world might be like if there was peace on earth. Moreover, imagine in detail what you own personal life would be like if there was peace on earth and anything was possible. How would you feel? How would you be? What kind of life would you live?
Imagining a possible future in the present not only makes it more likely to happen but it also fills you body with feel good chemicals, ones that help you to change the way you feel, and the way you have programmed yourself. By re-programming your internal chemical landscape your encourage new neural pathways to be born, and you help to actually create your future reality, not because you are a prophet but because you have begun to live in your future now. The change in you is more than just chemical it is electromagnetic and also quantum.
