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Hi Gianni,
My understanding is that the ego is the matter and the condition which forms the basis of my existence. But the fact is that I have the freedom to choose how to use my ego based on an intention to bestow or to receive for personal benefit. This suggests I am not my ego. My ego is simply the only faculty I have at my disposal through which I can fulfil my intention. This suggests to me that my true essence is anything but my ego. So, my question is who or what am I? Who or what is the true ‘I’ who has the freedom to determine the way in which his faculties ought to be used?
Thank you.
You consist of various, unscrutinized qualities, which for now are all mixed up like in a soup. From the study of Kabbalah, this parts of this soup get divided out, and then you can work with them in a clear way. For now though, you try to determine your spiritual future by taking what you can from the egoistic direction, and placing it on the side of the spiritual direction. You’ll be able to do so to the extent you manage your environment, to make it more spiritual. Besides this management, everything else is predetermined.
The week 4 classes freaked me out! (all the other classes were great!). I’ve been in so many groups before, large and small, where we had to do things like gaze in each others’ eyes in silence and hug each other. I hated those so much! It always seemed so fake, especially since afterwards in trying to talk with the same people, more often than not there was discomfort/ awkwardness, mainly from lack of our personalities meshing comfortably I guess. Maybe the gazing and hugging is what’s real and the trying to talk is what’s not, but I associate these types of exercises with nothing genuine and good. I’ll feel really disappointed if the so-promising things in most of the lectures and books here turn out to be beautiful words only. I guess I’m in a descent, is that correct? What might I anticipate next?
Hi Hannah,
I wouldn’t call that a descent. You’re just trying to make sense of this path, but there’s a lot of missing information as well as misinformation in the form of experiences from other paths which make it harder to imagine what we’re talking about.
What’s described here are laws of nature, which are eternal. We’re in them whether we learn about them or not, and eventually we’ll have to learn about them.
Hi Gianni. I’m George from Melbourne, Australia.
I was hoping to join the virtual congress this year, but I’m afraid that it would require a full day commitment for three whole days. I own my own business and I really haven’t the ability to take one day off work, let alone three days. What are my options please?
Thank you!
If it’s a virtual congress, you can register for virtual participation. If you have a ten by then, you group with them; if not, you’ll group with others in your same situation.
Hi Julian,
I was so excited to meet the group yesterday and I anxious to start week 4 today, which I finished. I really look forward to each weekly lesson since I started studying Kabbalah. Now week 5 doesn’t begin again for more than month and I feel saddened by that.
What should I do in the meantime?
Thanks,
GamelahHi Gamela,
Let me know if I’m missing something, but the courses with Julian are self-paced. After  finishing those you enter the grad program where there’s 3-4 optional live classes per week.
Hi Tammy,
Let’s deal only with what’s before us now. There’s no congress to go to, so don’t worry about it. I’m assessed spiritually based on my realistic options – including if, examining every angle, I really have no possibility to get to a congress but wanted to with all my heart. There will be virtual congresses in the meantime. And probably in September there will be a KabU Retreat near New York and one in May near Amsterdam – whichever is closer to you is worthwhile to attend, at least once, as it will change your whole approach to the virtual environment which is going to be your main arena for spiritual work.
HI Gianni,
I m finding it hard to formulate my question, trying to join up the dots, of what you said in the channel on 31.12.23, with what Julian said on week 4 of Kab Experience, about the Congress, AND the bigger question , of what effect this has on the world around us.
I’m coming from acceptance that the planet we live on, Mother Earth, is suffering from the negative environmental effects of “developed” humanity. Is this work as received from BalHaSulam concerned with the state of the Earth, or purely about reaching equivalence with the Creator ? From where I am now, it seems that the work we do here is about reaching the Upper Light ? So are we attempting to attain Kether? Because the place where we see the pollution & degradation is right here in Malkut. Is this right?                             Is the work we are doing solely to rejoin the soul of Adam HaRishon, or , where does the state of the Earth fit into the picture?
So, there are several things to ask about. One is that the people speaking about the Convention talk about making the “connection”, and did so in terms of their personal feelings. And I think you talked about “Act normal in everyday life, and study Kabbalah”. (?)         This is where I am getting lost. I m hearing that this is internal work, and it will affect the external physical reality I am living in, the world around me….In the KabU programs, we have also talked about “group mind”, using starling murmurations, of the behaviour of ants & bees. In what way could this work – beyond a cluster forming & then dispersing again?
I m not sure how I see the dots join.   Maybe we cant know the answers, since we dont know the mind of G-d & what we are working towards. Even though 10, 000 people at a KabU convention is one thousand groups of 10, I guess it is still tiny in terms of world population. Could there be any way of knowing if it did/could have any effect ?
I hope you can feel into what I m trying to work out !  Thank you .
Hi Sarah,
This will all be sorted out in you, and I can’t do it for students. But all problems are resolved in one fell swoop by the correct personal inner work, from me to my group and through them, to the Creator. Kabbalists write that all the worlds were created for a person, it’s all inside you, and so on. So, correct yourself and the rest will take care of itself. And you’ll make sense of the relationship between you, your inner work, and the world – but much later on. About the world, you can do nothing, in the meantime, except be a normal person, “like the norm”, with respect to all the mundane aspects of our world. The connections between your inner work and everything around you is intentionally concealed because otherwise there would be no free choice.
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