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If the workshop is intense, it may lead to feeling really connected and thus really uplifted (that’s at least how it felt to me in the retreat). Anyways, getting back to daily life… it’s a big contrast. And feeling that disconnection afterwards might feel harsh. There was some advice how to prepare before the workshop… Is there any advice on how to go abthis sfter the workshop is finished and the effect fades away?
We need to try to keep the state of the workshop always. The calibration toward the friends in the workshop is actually the correct calibration toward reality. Of course, we fall, but we need to know this is the goal. We can temper the fall by surrounding ourselves with the right books, friends and teachers.
Hi Gianni. My name is George and I’m from Melbourne, Australia.
In my mind, it is almost certain that the workshop would succeed in showing us how to connect and to use the ego in an altruistic manner. The workshop appears to be a highly controlled environment comprising those of us who have undertaken some study of the wisdom of Kabbalah and who would, therefore, enter the workshop with the same intention of forming connections. But what of the real world outside of our community of Kabbalists? Would the principles we learn in the workshop help us in our efforts to form connections out in the real world with those whose intentions may not be altruistic?
Hi George,
In the end, yes; but not right away or even soon. Think of the workshop not as a means of getting along, but a means to adapt oneself to the Upper Force. It works when everyone plays the game of trying to reach this.
Of course, eventually – but again, not soon – all will have to learn that the world simply won’t work if everyone will not behave according to the rules of the workshop. We will simply see that the world and all its systems stop working otherwise.
For me, the only thing difficult to understand is the relationship between the material and spiritual world. For example, Kabbalah insists that we must love others, but others are people with bodies and material needs, and sometimes their behaviour isn’t friendly. So, do we have to make a distinction? How is it done?
Hi Esther,
It’s true that everything comes from the Upper Force, but if in my perception this Light already manifested as someone who, let’s say, is trying to rob me, then I need to use the things that the Upper Force arranged in this world to deal with it: police, courts, etc. I deal with everyone just as if I’ve never heard of Kabbalah. The fact that inside – as I’m calling the police, taking the person to court, etc. – I nevertheless remember that it all comes from the Upper Force is already my inner spiritual work. But no one should see this, I should not appear different from anyone else. Now, this is not the main inner work in Kabbalah, but it’s the right approach to the mundane aspects of life that have already manifested in corporeal ways. Once I’ve handled everything at this level practically and rationally, I can work toward a better future.
Gianni,
I have a question regarding the workshop with Julian: I haven’t been able to find any link, except to the video where Julian invites us to join, but it’s a Vimeo video.
Does the workshop take place on ZOOM? Or do I sign up with Vimeo and go from there?
Sorry, Jack. The workshop with Julian took place last Saturday. The link was in the banner displayed on the website the week of the event, in addition, you received an email with the link to Zoom about an hour before the event.
But don’t worry, there will be several opportunities coming up. You’ll be notified.
I’ll return in a bit. In the meantime I’ll try and sign up with Vimeo and see if I can find a link from there.
If, just in case, you can post a link, I will be really grateful because I really, really, really don’t want to miss this….and I’m already half an hour late. 🙁
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