I loved learning about the history of Kabbalah, the dots I was able to connect with other myths and stories I had already heard and it all making sense together. I also found interesting the reasoning of humanity forgetting our inner divinity and our unity with Nature, the spiritual necessity of the path we ought to tread in remembering and ascending once again.

I was enthusiastic with everything read or video seen during the week.

The sixth sense being an intention, related to how we use our desires, made me want to know more and more.
Our souls will be corrected when we learn to use correctly with the right intentions, the raw material, our desires that already exist..

I am fascinated!

I understand the need to hide this wisdom and for some reason I hope to understand the need for its revelation.

I really hope this course helps me get the answers I’ve been voraciously seeking to my questions. I feel almost certain there is more to this. My biggest question, though, remains: “Why the heck are we here so that we have to fight our way back up?” Once the pathology is understood, a remedy or even a cure may be found.

I was raised in the Christian religion, and I am still a participant in it. I even went to seminary and I work at a non-denominational/evangelical American church. I have always had a desire to see my community return to the Creator, but until recently I never felt free enough to explore the things I felt were so deeply broken in my tradition. I don’t hate my tradition, I sincerely love these people and I hope for us all to find freedom together, but I do get so frustrated with our lack of unity and the oppressive systems teaching worldviews that create division and smother love. I began to try to read Christian Scripture through different eyes – perhaps things aren’t as they “seem” to our interpretations; maybe there are spiritual truths behind these words that we don’t understand. My tradition tries to force almost an entirely materialistic (“literal”) interpretation onto Scriptures (except for where it’s inconvenient because they do still want to seem spiritual), which I have never felt right with (i.e. the entire universe was created 6,000 years ago). Anyone suggesting that maybe it’s talking more about spiritual reality than physical reality is accused of “overspiritualizing” to the point of heresy. I still have so much to learn, but what has blown my mind is that I am not alone and I am not the only one seeing this. I am no longer afraid of seeking to find the spiritual world in the Scriptures (and beyond our canon!!) because I can see that while this world exists and has its purposes, it is not the totality of existence, and that the upper world is so very, very real. We do not have to deny it out of fear or lack of knowledge. I long to remain in my tradition, with hopes that maybe someday I can figure out how to safely teach these ideas, like planting seeds, to those who might listen – to others who also feel this deep longing for greater answers. I hope I’ve said all of this in wisdom and love.

One thing that gave me a new perspective was the amount of things that Kabbalah is not. This revealed to me how unique authentic Kabbalah truly is and reminds me to enter into this journey with humility, curiosity, and an open mind.