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Hello there 🤗! I am a beginner, I’ve been studying Kabbalah for some weeks now and I would like to check if I am on the right track. Here is what I have understood so far:
1. I cannot perceive the entire reality correctly because everything I perceive is filtered by my senses and interpreted by the ego in a way that serves my ego. So what I actually perceive through my senses are parts of me that have to be corrected.
2. I have to receive and accept everything that is in my life with joy and with the intention to bestow to the Upper Force (feel appreciation)
3. I have to connect with others with empathy and bestow to them ( offer them what I truly and unegoistically think they need) with the intention of understanding the Upper Force and feeling what it feels.
I’ ve been trying to put this in practice already, so I would to understand if this is right or am I missing something. Thank you!
Hey Alexandra,
1. Yes! What you actually perceive is what the ego interprets for you–it’s all “in order to receive”.
2. This is always the direction. A kind of “fake it till you make it” approach. That sounds superficial, but the same technique is used by children who want to grow. They just do it unconsciously and we do it consciously. With those efforts, we hope to awaken the developmental forces that will work on the place we’re making an effort to change–our intention.
3. This is correct, however the ability to do so is completely up to the Creator. Our job is to cook up the desire for such a thing, to want this intention to govern us instead of our natural intention. Eventually we will arrive at what Kabbalists call a “prayer” which is a burning need within us. This is not something that words can compensate for, “the Creator hears the heart”, meaning, whatever is in our heart, this is what He listens to–and not our mouth. Once we have a true desire for that (something that can only be acquired through a spiritual environment that gradually works on us and brainwashes us into wanting this), we will have a real need for something that is so opposite to us but have no ability to attain it. This is what the Creator hears and will grant our request if it is the right request.
Best of luck!
Chris
Hi Ziva,
A great way to begin your studies is by taking our course Kabbalah Revealed 1, https://kabuconnect.com/courses/kabbalah-revealed-part-1/, which will open up next Sunday. Meanwhile, you are encouraged to explore our self-study courses (https://kabuconnect.com/all-courses/), browse our VOD section and take part in our live events.
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Michelle
Hello Kabu! I just signed up so I have several questions. Which course should I start with? I have been studying with the Kabbalah centre and finished the Kabbalah 9 course. Something in my soul has been thirsty for a deeper and authentic learning of Kabbalah.
Do you have a Whatsapp group for community purposes?
Thank you for your time.
Hey Brad,
This is existing outside yourself. This happens at different levels, different layers–but it’s at least the fact that you have subjugated yourself, canceled your own self-concern and agreed to be somehow impressed by the desires of others. The more you make inner and outer actions to “buy” this desire of the friends, meaning you are investing in fulfilling their desires, gradually, you begin to truly concern yourself with their benefit–some small piece inside you has made room to care for them instead of yourself.
This is how we move forward, more and more making room for others in our hearts.
Hello! I would like to ask you what is the perspective of Kabbalah on energy healing. Since “there is no one else besides Him”, I am thinking that, maybe, working with energy healing is like working with other natural forces such as electricity, except that energy healing is something that humanity is just starting to understand. Is this correct? Thank you!
Hi Alexandra,
When Kabbalah refers to working with natural forces, it’s talking about this “partnership” that begins to form between man and the upper force, when a person starts their path of the correction. The first thing they realize is the way they initially understood reality to operate, operates in a completely opposite manner than what they imagined to themselves. This is actually extremely profound since we can’t even imagine what it means to have an opposite perception to something we have now, since we only feel what we feel–and that’s it.
However, to reveal the insignificance of the ego, how it pales in contrast to the force that gave birth to our reality and what sustains it. When a person senses that all their thoughts and desires–and all the thoughts and desires of others–are all coming from a single force, that this imagination I had of being somewhat in control of something seems so childish and silly, yet necessary at the same time.
All this to say, if we want to be healed, if we want good in this world, if we want correction–all this only happens as a result of the upper force’s influence. We ourselves have no such ability to do good or to heal, we are, by nature, egoists. We consists of only a desire to receive pleasure and that’s it. Yet, this partnership I mentioned earlier is a partnership that consists of us using our nature in a particular way that kind of “bypasses” our instinct to control or “force” our own ideas and influences into the program of nature and instead agrees to the program and wants to act as the Managing force manages–by means of bestowal. Until we have this ability to use the quality of the upper force, meaning to be similar to it and therefore use our nature with the intention to be similar to bestowal, our actions in this world are futile.
There’s a program and it exists and it’s being carried out at every moment. The goal of this program is hidden, its mechanisms are hidden and the reward of having this program revealed and exposed to us is also hidden. The only thing a Kabbalists is concerned about is finding their inner corruptions and correcting them. If we can heal what’s been broken spiritually, the world will also reflect this positive changes.
Chris
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