Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Julian Edwards- KabU Instructor]

Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[T C]

Thanks…I just have one question, really, which is a clarification of the reading materials. In the readings it talks about the need for the upper light to be disconnected from the Creator by the time it reaches our lower worlds in order for the creature to eventually develop the desire to be like the creator. Is this to say that all our “earthly desires” are simply ways for us to develop a singular desire (viz. to be like the Creator)? Once this singular desire is then developed, is this to say that the real “work” of kabbalah is done? Thanks!…Thomas

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Yes. And that’s why in Kabbalah there is the matter of unity in a group. Those “people” are desires, a shattering of the singular desire, the only Creation. After I unite with them in the correct way begins the work towards the Upper Light.

[Francisco]

Hi Gianni!

I have a few somewhat unrelated questions but all related to this week’s videos.

1 – As someone born a couple of years before 1995, I believe I am uncapable of feeling anything different about that year, being a child at that time. Did you or any Kabbalist detect any specific difference to this year in relation to the previous ones?

2 – Considering what happened in Babylon in 1800 BC that caused a major societal upheaval – is it possible that nowadays we are approaching a similar phenomenon? In the context of what we see and hear of entities such as the WEF, it feels as if the future is a horrible nightmare. Regardless of this presumption being right or wrong, is this perception a trigger to achieve a similar reaction to what occurred with Abraham? Could the WEF future be an equivalent to the Nimrod part of the Babylonian tale?

3 – Lastly, I have heard before in KabU’s videos talking about Kabbalistic attainment in the third person, sort of as if the speaker has not yet attained that stage. Julian in one of his videos uses this third person as well. Which leads me to (humbly) ask. Is attainment really possible for all of us? Or does this third person reveal that it is an attribute of The (with capital T) Kabbalists? I ask this question in the context of me feeling so far from what is described! I cannot even conceive how to act in pure bestowal.

PS: Your answer #58180 describes unbelievably spot-on how my ‘I’ feels socially (and now more than ever). I always felt too antisocial and disconnected, and it got worse after entering the Kabbalistic studies. This answer helped me see better. Thank you for it!

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

(1) 1995 – I have to say, first, that for a Kabbalist there is a significance to a certain date that may not be readily discernable to us. If we are to progress by way of “the path of suffering” – meaning without hastening the states so that we move quickly and pleasantly through them – then everything is set in stone. On such and such date it is written that there will be a third, nuclear world war. After that will be a fourth world war. We do see too that in 1995 our organization formed – meaning that is when students started coming to my teacher. Also, you can research what breakthroughs happened then with the internet. It was actually a breakthrough time, and it is because of this that you can study the authentic wisdom of Kabbalah, which before you could only do if you happened to be in a town where there was a Kabbalist and he was willing to accept you as a student. You can’t learn this from books. You need a teacher and a group to correctly tune to what is written, even if you have the correct books.

(2) Abraham – We are so much in that same state that you would be more correct to think that it never happened in the past and that it is talking about us. We are the Babylonians. Nothing has changed. We simply spread around the world to get away from each other. And now the world is like one tiny village, where all are interdependent – but don’t want to be! Now we have to correct the egos that would not let us connect those thousands of years ago. There’s nowhere to run this time. Either we connect, or we’ll nuke each other, only a handful of people will survive, and they will include in themselves all the desire and suffering of all of humanity and have to do the same correction through connecting together that we could do now in a much easier way.

(3) Personal attainment – Kabbalists don’t like to talk about themselves. They don’t speak from the point of personal attainment unless it’s necessary. And here, we have the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, who attained what they write about, and they say that “anyone can be as Moses”. So – even “as Moses”! Therefore, that is sufficient, and we don’t need any additional “proof”. Because it would not be proof anyway. If you think about it for a while you will know what I mean. Also, we have a very useful rule that no one speaks of their attainments, if they do have them. This is critically important both for the person and for people around him.

(4) Getting worse after Kabbalistic studies – Yes, but later you will see that this is just a phase and that you will get better. Everything will take on the right balance and you’ll be at peace with the whole world.

 

[Ralitza]

Hi Gianni (or Julian),

I have not finished Kabbalah Revealed Part 2 yet, but this course was available, so I enrolled.

Is it OK to do the two courses parallel or should I wait until I am done with Kabbalah Revealed?

I don’t work right now and have both time and desire to learn. In some months I will start working again, so I want to make the best of the situation.

Thank you!

Ralitza

[Francisco]

Hi Gianni,

Thank you very much for your detailed and insightful words. It is much appreciated.

All the best!

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

You can do both.

[BEN]

In Kabbalah meets Quantum Physics – in the User Illusion about the huge gap between the received 50M bit of info and the processed 50 bits. I want to ask about clairvoyant people, those that do tarot, channel messages or access the Akashic records. What does authentic Kabbalah say about this? is what they “see” of channel also screened by their perspective? so if someone says I saw this and that as your future or past life – can this be just like 1 photo from a whole movie?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Nothing special about it, there were people who, being closer to nature, could tell the next frame in a person’s narrative, like animals who, because they are in touch with nature, all head for the hills a day or so before a tsunami hits, while the humans, because they are so distant from nature today, go out to the beach to view the pretty wave coming, which inevitably swallows them. It’s actually far from spirituality, in the opposite direction, if it’s a real sense and not just a charlatan lying to people to make money. But even if a person can get their fortune told, there’s still free choice if they have the method by which to go above nature and hasten their good, beautiful destiny. No one can predict that, but only predict the predestined corporeal sequence of frames. Because those exist in the system, in one-dimensional storage, only they’re being realized by us one by one. However, the knowledge of those frames is also utterly useless because – and this is hard for us to understand – if we would know what will happen, like Oedipus sailing around the globe to avoid his destiny but ultimately carrying it out nevertheless, we would not be able to avoid a single iota of our destiny by knowing about it – and nothing is more painful than that, which is why it’s also better not to know about it. Therefore, there is nothing to do besides study the method by which we hasten our good future and go through all the inescapable states but in a fast pleasant way, like stages of a great adventure.

[Niklas]

Could it be that the whole practice of Kabbalah is simply based on understanding?

Here is what I understood:

– I cannot change my egoism
– The Upper Light changes my egoism
– I can draw the Upper Light by wanting to become altruistic
– The more I realise how egoistic I actually am, the more I will feel this as evil and the stronger my desire to change will become

Trying to change my corporeal actions won’t amount to anything.
Trying to change my desires will just be the ego sneaking in the back door.

So what is there left to do? Take an honest look at all I experience and see how everything stems from my egoistic desires.
Constantly contemplate what the Creator is trying to teach me through the experience I am having which probably is always aimed at showing me some “hidden” egoistic calculation anyway.

I could imagine that from this attitude all subsequent Kabbalistic actions appear naturally and the teaching of Kabbalah is simply there to greatly accelerate this process.

Is it like that?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

That’s all good except for the conclusion: nothing will happen naturally. I need to go through a process that is the root and model for the birthing process that happens in our world, except I’m not only the sperm that has to make it to the egg and adhere to the womb, but I have to build the womb itself and then stick there. This means I must build myself a nurturing womb, meaning a Kabbalistic group (which will be provided in the graduate program) and make it great in my eyes, such that I want it to be as my mother and north star, spiritually. The first part of the path is only in adhering to this concept of a group as though through it I will be adhering to the Creator. And only with this aim: from my Point in the Heart, through the friends, to the Creator it is considered that I am heading towards the goal. All that you said subsumes within this navigation.

Here, so that every step of the way would be by one’s free choice, nothing happens automatically if you don’t build it.

[Niklas]

Thanks.

[Niklas]

I have a question regarding a statement from “Kabbalah Revealed Interactive”. It says:

“As soon as one tries to immerse the Point in the Heart in a spiritual environment, forces both internal and external come to us in order to distract us. This comes from None Else Besides Him to strengthen our resolve.”

I had some forces pulling me away from Kabbalah, but I overcame them. Now, I am experiencing even greater forces trying to pull me away. Two years ago, I got rid of my PC gaming equipment to focus on meditation instead. Last week, suddenly, I had the tremendous urge to watch somebody play a computer game online. I shut it off again and kept studying Kabbalah because I thought “I already dealt with this two years ago and now I still have the opportunity to choose Kabbalah rather easily.” Then, however, I was pulled towards watching more and more. Now, I have even subscribed to an online gaming platform that provides high-end gaming PCs remotely. Previously, my internet was way too slow for this, but through a couple of events that seem absolutely miraculous to me, suddenly my Internet is able to support gaming remotely.

Should I view this simply as a “weight” given to me by the Creator to have some more opportunities to practice faith above reason? For a long time, I trained myself to behave according to “faith below reason”. I got rid of everything that potentially arouses desire for worldly things and ran into the most spiritual direction I could find with all my strength. Now, I am trying to shift towards “faith above reason” by trying to understand what is going on, checking my options, living a “normal life” and clinging to Kabbalah not with all my strength, but with some of my strength.

Also, previously, I was able to ingest many Kabbalistic videos, read many pages in the books etc. Now, it takes all my strength to watch even a simple 5 minute video. Does this mean that the quality of my work has now increased?

Or should I rather view all of this as “having missed an opportunity in the past” and now the Creator is sending me even more distractions to make me realise that I am heading in the wrong direction?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Niklas,

Of course, from Above, they know how to play with each one of us, with each one something different, what for him will be an obstacle. It is not whether gaming is bad, but does it detach me from thinking about the purpose of life? Do I have free time now that, in fact, I could progress towards the spiritual goal with? These are the questions around which one is judged if he wants to reach the goal, because to reach it, he has to get to where he actually wants to reach it, more than all the tiny pleasures of this world. He will get there. Every person will get there. Either suffering will eventually bring him there, or the Light from the study will. The best is not to beat yourself up for this, but to set times that you study – to be in any live classes, recorded ones, etc. And give yourself time for the other things you like – but not mindlessly, that since someone else wants your attention somewhere and knows how to pull you, you follow their design. And if you study this way, the Light will work and it, not you, will correct your desire. We don’t artificially make changes, but draw the Reforming Light that makes the changes.

[Niklas]

Update:

The (little) fulfillment I experienced from being seriously engaged in Kabbalah dwindled rather quickly while being immersed in gaming.

Now the inner egoistical calculation has shifted and I figured that I can use this situation as a springboard towards Kabbalah.

Once again, I decide against gaming and for spirituality.

However, the question why the Creator even sent me off course remains. Why was this situation necessary or good?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s a flirt. It is written, “my Lover is like a gazelle, it runs away, but then turns back to look”. He pushes you away so that you would chase Him. But again, you’re not required to give up the things you enjoy for Kabbalah, rather you already decided that was a waste of life, so you gave it up before you came to Kabbalah. So, don’t regard that as spiritual, but rather the extent to which you can remember you’re working with the Upper Force while doing everything you’re doing is what you need. And to the extent you’re unable it is a sign you need to build a stronger environment around you of correct books, media, friends on the same path.

[Niklas]

Thank you very much. I can work with that.

[Niklas]

For anyone who might be interested, I have found a middle path now. Instead of gaming, I use some of my time to watch series on Amazon. I am always drawn to series that explore the meaning of life, supernatural stuff etc. anyway.

I can take those series as actual experiences and ask myself why the Creator is showing me a certain scene. Why am I drawn to this? What does He want to tell me through it?

In gaming, on the other hand, I have no space for such thoughts. It pulls me in so hard that it always develops into a mindless chase after fleeting pleasures rather quickly.

[Author]

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