In the movie Bee Season, Richard Gere tells his daughter (who is a spelling whiz) that words express primal energy and when you permute the letters it takes you "beyond yourself". I believe he was talking about "engaging the observer" and he was teaching her from the Kabbalah, showing her how God creates through words.
On his website Dr. Fred Alan Wolf explains "the observer": "In quantum physics the observer brings things into manifestation from the abstract world (Platonic) of ideals and possibilities into the world of actualities. The problem we have dealing with this is that the observer is not to be found in any single individual! Yet the observer is in all individuals at the same time."
I copied this from the Learn Kabbalah website:
The Sefer Yetzirah, the ancient Book of Formation provides the foundation-text for prophetic Kabbalah. "In a way, all the Sefer Yetzirah is doing is reading the book of Genesis very closely. Usually, when we read the creation account at the beginning of the Torah, we take it somewhat for granted. God says "Let there be light," and there's light. The Sefer Yetzirah, however, hones in on the "says." It observes that God's "speaking" is the way in which God creates. We are not completely sure, but many scholars believe the magic word "Abracadabra" derives from the Aramaic Avrah KaDabra, meaning "I create as I speak." If this etymology is correct, Abracadabra really is a magic word; it is a performative speech act, just like the ten utterances of creation in the Genesis account."
While studying quantum physics from the Dr. Fred Alan Wolf's books Mind into Matter and Matter into Feeling with the folks on the On Eagles Wings web-cast, Bee Season was brought to my attention and I am so happy it was. I had never rented it as I thought it was just about a spelling bee. I know quantum physics is the scientific explanation for Shamanism and now I am learning how it is the scientific explanation for the Kabbalah as well. My attempt here is to clarify and simplify what I have learned to the best of my ability.
Dr. Wolf has headed all 9 chapters of both books with the 9 letter/symbols of the Hebrew alphabet or aleph-bayt.
The Mind Into Matter Chapters are: Aleph, bayt, ghimel, dallet, hay, vav, zayn, hhayt and tayt.
In this first book the letters/symbols/numbers are dealing with the archetypes spirit represented by Aleph through Structure represented by Tayt. Each chapter then goes into the quantum world of creation or The New Alchemy.
In Matter into Feeling he now focuses on their development or as he says "their transformation from seeds into young sprouts". This is accomplished by multiplying each letter/symbol by ten. These chapters are now: Aleph to Yod 1-10 (island-the movement to self-identity), bayt to khaf 2-20 (birth-the movement from dream to reality), ghimel to lammed 3-30 (wave-the movement from wave to feeling), dallet to mem 4-40 (blood-the movement of the trickster), hay to noon 5-50 (curve of life-the movement toward balance), vav to sammekh 6-60 (menses-the movement of sexual energy), zayn to ayn 7-70 (observation-the movement of the universe), hhayt to phay 8-80 (purity-the movement from self to soul), and tat to tsadde 9-90 (structure of love-the movement of life).
In Bee Season the whole family was, each in their own way, reaching for Nirvana but his daughter actually reached it by opening herself up to the words and their meaning. In Mind into Matter Dr. Wolf deals with the resistance we must go through to manifest our dreams while dodging the minefield of our patterns, addictions and engrams in our neuron-nets. In Matter into Feeling we learn that feeling stuck is only a phase and that we can transform ourselves and get closer to that place called Nirvana and be much better assistants to God in this world of Creation.
