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Later today comes my first first experience of being on a live seminar, & going into a group of ten. It is also the Winter Solstice, so the moment of least light and greatest dark. What a great place to start !
So far this course has made me aware of how I behave in my daily life, and its made me aware that its true, I really don’t care about others , and keep myself apart. Not that I like it, its a lonely place to be. I am painfully aware that on my own I do nothing to help the world, and am ineffective .  That’s my starting place.
What I m trusting is that, by being willing and open, having the desire to change this, that together with others all wanting the same, that “it” will begin to happen. What is this “IT” ?   I guess the working together so we join in intention & prayer, so leaving the ego behind & moving into a group mind, where we feel that our souls are uniting again as part of AdamHaRishon . I see this as probably our best hope of turning our planet & fellow creatures around at this precarious moment in evolutionary history .
Not that we can change it ourselves, but through heartfelt combined prayers we will be able to sense , allow, & work with the Divine Light that hears us & comes through.  There is a desire, which is dependent on what actually happens. And what happens ,I guess, depends on how well we connect and how in harmony are our desires.  If we are able to call up a sense of the divine presence, then our desire will increase, and has the chance to become firm trust & faith. This is the aim, and once we feel the effects of this connection , we will KNOW the truth of the Kabbalah. So may it be !
Shifting from an egoistic perception of reality to a perception based on bestowal means transitioning from self-centered thinking and actions to a mindset focused on giving, contributing, and considering the well-being of others. It involves prioritizing and valuing collective interests and the greater good over personal gain or self-interest.
An egoist might mix error with truth by practicing these teachings solo, outside of the context of a circle of friends and fellow awakeners who keep in each other in check, and prevent the others from drifting off into the heresy of egoism.
This is where we must be exceedingly careful to discern exactly what constitutes perceptual errors. Any potential “errors” that will enter into one’s account of the search for truth and wisdom will not appear in what is being said in the books or by the teacher, but in how the aspirant will carry out the teaching in the specific context of his own life through the way he or she implements the teaching in the procedural, perspectival, and participatory ways of knowing, each of which parallel the three degrees of purification, illumination, and devakut.
If one is not accountable to a group of caring and attentive friends who monitor each others progress every step of the way, it’s very easy for an aspirant to tragically slide into spiritual inflation and ego-worship (mistaking ego for true “I”).
This is a very subtle and important point, since fundamentalists will often zero in on the content of a teaching as its source of error, when, in fact, the truth or falsity of propositions are nearly impossible to detect at the initial stage of the proposal, for the simple reason that they are merely verbal proposals, and they have not been taken out into an actual lived experienced to be tested pragmatically for performative errors and verifications, as well as the verifications of one’s circle of friends. This is why Kabbalistic circles, and all other authentic forms of enlightenment, were always part of a brotherhood – a collaborative effort of raising consciousness, not just the solo journey of a lone mystic who can easily lose his way traveling the path alone.
Thus, my only cautionary note in what you are teaching here would be for the aspirant to subject himself to a sincere self-scrutiny before he embarks on this process of awakening by asking this question:
**Am I seeking wisdom and self-knowledge in order to “love the Lord God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love my neighbor as if my neighbor were my self” or I am just doing it to get an ego-boost and to serve my own selfish desires and appetites for pleasure and self-glory?**
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