19. Shemini-Parah: In G-d's Acropolis -Balancing Our Mood Swings

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/TheLighthouseProjectMiami/videos/2025356687759646/ Notes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/brdkfrrin6nwu1j/19.%20Shmini-Parah%205779.%20In%20G-d%27s%20Acropolis.pdf?dl=0 -- People are gifted with many different emotions, allowing us to react accordingly to different situations. Often, these emotional reactions to different experiences create a mood-set. Today, science understands how certain thoughts, creating certain neuropath patterns, firing off associative neuropaths, in turn create chemical and hormones, which in turn, create mood reactions within our very body cells, as these chemicals fill their ports. For example, if from a young age we associate eating with feeling safe, then these associative neuropaths will fire off together, creating a sense of calmness and security within our body cells, creating a gestalt of calmness when we eat. Likewise, if the thought of meeting with a certain person associates itself with chaos, stress or anxiety, then the neuropath connections of the thought of having to meet with this person will simultaneously fire off the neuropaths that create stress chemicals, feeding them to our body cells, creating a gestalt of stress. Thus, the gazelle’s neuropath connections in the brain that pick up the scent or presence of a hungry tiger will automatically fire off the neuropath connections in the brain that will create an immediate influx of adrenaline, cortisol and the likes, so that it goes into fight or flight survival overdrive. However, the animal will only respond to external stimuli to create these neuropaths synopsizes in the brain. A rustle in the bushes will trigger the horse’s fight or flight reaction. However, the human mind has the power to do this without any external stimuli. The human mind, left completely to its own devices, void of any external stimuli, can begin to contemplate, imagine and replay non-existing events that will create mood chemicals and hormones in the brain, which will create moods of worry, happiness, fear, depression, anger, calmness and the likes. When the brain creates habitual thinking patterns of this sort, it becomes the homeostasis of the mind’s thought-pattern, which then becomes the homeostasis of the associative neuropathways that now fire off simultaneously, which in turn creates a homeostasis of a high influx of stress chemicals, which creates a homeostasis of the stress ports within each cell that needs to be filled. The outcome of all of this is, that the body is now driving the mind to think that which will cause the brain to produce the amount of stress chemicals that now feels normal to the body cells. When the mind’s fantasy thought patterns become volatile in their polar extremes, we now have a person who will experience wild mood swings. What is the spiritual source to this, within our souls? What form of service of G-d gone wrong causes this within our souls and bodies? Which service to G-d will restore a balance to our moods? This lecture is based on a maamor the Rebbe delivered in 1965, exploring the secrets of the purification process of the commandment of the Red Heifer, and of the a match that will take place in the Messianic era between the Leviathan and the Wild Bull.