Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Newton wrote more about this than he did about physics

Hi there,

Isaac Newton was, by most accounts, the greatest scientist who ever lived.

He discovered gravity. He invented calculus. He explained the motion of the planets.

He wrote the Principia Mathematica, which arguably did more to shape modern science than any book ever written.

But here's what almost nobody knows about Newton.

In 1936, the economist John Maynard Keynes bought a trunk of Newton's private papers at auction. What he found shocked him.

Newton had written more on alchemy, theology, and biblical mysticism than he ever wrote on physics. Over a million words on alchemy alone. Thousands of pages on the hidden meanings of scripture. And among his prized possessions are Kabbalistic texts. The ancient Jewish mystical tradition that Newton believed held the keys to the cosmos.

Keynes wrote afterwards that Newton was "not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians."

Newton believed, privately, deeply, his whole life, that the ancient Jewish mystics had already discovered the fundamental laws of the universe.

That science was just catching up.

I think he was right.

I've spent thirty years drawing from every wisdom tradition I could find, the Sufism of Islam, the Vedas of Hinduism, the teachings of Christ, and the practices of Buddhism.

And the Kabbalah of Judaism – 3,500 years of mystical inquiry into the nature of the divine, is, without question, one of the most extraordinary spiritual technologies ever developed by the human race.

And there's one idea from Kabbalah in particular that I haven't been able to stop thinking about ever since I first encountered it through my friend David Ghiyam.

Before that, let me tell you why David is different.

I've always had a deep admiration for spiritual teachers who don't just teach, they build.

Teachers who walk their wisdom into the marketplace.

Teachers who can sit you down on a Tuesday and explain Lurianic Kabbalah, and on Wednesday be on a board call running a nine-figure company.

David is one of those rare humans.

Join David in Manifesting Summit

He's the co-founder of MaryRuth Organics, one of the largest supplement brands in America. The #1 children's vitamin brand on Amazon. The #1 liquid vitamin brand in the country. He and his wife, MaryRuth, built it from nothing, profitable from day one, into a company doing hundreds of millions in revenue.

But ask anyone who knows him, and they'll tell you the company is just the surface.

Underneath, David has spent twenty-five years studying Kabbalah, given over two thousand spiritual seminars, and logged more than twenty thousand hours of one-on-one coaching with CEOs, founders, athletes, and seekers from every walk of life.

Spiritual teacher. Business badass. Both.

The first time he sat me down and walked me through the teaching I'm about to share with you, something shifted in me. The kind of shift you can't unsee.

It's an idea so simple a child could understand it. And so profound that it reframes everything you think you know about why manifesting works, and why, sometimes, it doesn't.

Let me share it with you.

The Story of the Vessel

In Kabbalah, there is a teaching about light and vessels.

Imagine the universe as an infinite ocean of light, what the Jewish mystics call Ohr.

This light is pure abundance. Pure love. Pure creative energy. It flows constantly. Without stopping. Without condition. Without judgment.

Now imagine a vessel, a cup, sitting in that ocean.

Here's the question the Kabbalists ask: Why isn't the cup full?

Not because the light isn't flowing. It always is.

Not because the light is being withheld. It never is.

The cup isn't full because of the size, the shape, or the integrity of the cup itself.

A cracked cup can't hold water.

A cup turned upside down can't receive anything at all.

A cup with a tiny opening can only receive a trickle, no matter how vast the ocean surrounding it.

This, say the Kabbalists, is the human condition.

We are not cut off from abundance. We are not undeserving of love. The universe is not withholding anything from us.

We simply haven't learned how to receive.

Why This Changes Everything

Think about what we teach in Manifesting Mastery.

We work on the belief that whispers I don't deserve this. We work on the fear that whispers I can't sustain it if it comes. We work on the desperation that pushes away the very thing we're reaching for.

We work on the Upper Limit Problem, that strange phenomenon where we self-sabotage right before a breakthrough, because somewhere deep down, we don't believe we can hold what's about to arrive.

In Kabbalistic terms, every single one of those is a crack in the vessel.

They're not problems with the universe's willingness to give. There are distortions in your capacity to receive.

This is why clearing a subconscious block produces real, visible changes in your external life. You're not convincing the universe to give you more. You're expanding the vessel. You're sealing the cracks. You're turning the cup right-side up.

The light was always there. It was always flowing. You just couldn't hold it yet.

I remember the first time I really felt this in my own life.

It was 2008. I was sitting in my office in Malaysia, and Mindvalley had just hit one million dollars in revenue for the first time.

I was supposed to be celebrating. Instead, I was anxious. Restless. I kept finding new things to worry about. New problems to invent. And it took me months - months - to understand what was actually happening.

I wasn't afraid of failure.

I was afraid of the success itself.

The vessel hadn't expanded yet. The light was rushing in faster than I could hold it.

So my mind, dutifully, went to work building cracks - anxieties, doubts, distractions - anything to stop the flow.

Once I saw it that way, everything changed.

The work was no longer "how do I get more?"

The work was: how do I become someone who can receive what's already here?

Come and Learn with David

David Ghiyam will be teaching at the Mindvalley Manifesting Summit, alongside some of the most extraordinary teachers I have ever had the privilege to share a stage with.

Regan Hillyer, the world's #1 manifestation coach.

Sonia Choquette, the New York Times bestselling intuitive whose 27 books have been translated into more than 40 languages.

And Paul McKenna, named by The London Times as one of the world's leading modern gurus alongside Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.

The way David explains these ideas live, in the room, is something else entirely. And the rest of this lineup is genuinely a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of teachers, each working on a different layer of what blocks us from receiving.

Reserve Your Seat at the Manifesting Summit

The light is already flowing toward you.

The only question is, how big is your vessel?

If this lesson in Kabbalah shook anything in you, I look forward to seeing you there.

To your expansion & growth,

Vishen