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From p.108 of Kabbalah Revealed:
In fact, the name “sixth sense” is a bit misleading, because we are not actually developing another sense; we are developing an intention… Building the intention over each desire we feel is what makes us conscious of who we are, who the Creator is, and whether or not we want to be like Him.
Does this start with everyday material desires? For example, I go for a walk and enjoy the outdoors, but I remind myself that it’s the Creator who brings every moment of the outdoors into existence and so I enjoy them because He gives them?
Ilya,
Yes, this is how it begins.
While you study, you are building an inner model, inner systems. Later through your work with the texts and the others studying with you, you will work with your thoughts and desires and process it all through the inner system you build and you will feel how a new perception is built.
Seth@KabU
Shalom,
1) “The purpose of life is to create a creature and bring it to unbounded light.”
How do we “create a creature”? Are we the creatures we are to create, or is it something else?
2) Once we perceive an object, our programming imterprets it and then it leaves “the machine”. How does it leave the machine? Is that projection, or does it refer to something different?
Thanks in advance.
Stephen,
The thought of Creation, the “thought” of the Creator as the kabbalists say is to create a creature and bring it unbounded delight. We are the creation, we are not creating anything? What can we create? With what materials? Everything is here already, all we can do is rearrange what is already created.
Our problem is that we don’t feel the unbounded delight. So how can we?
That is what this wisdom deals with.
First of all, we need to understand and start to feel who we are, what forces are operating on us and what we can do with all this.I don’t understand your second question.
Seth@KabU
I don’t mean to be jumping ahead, but since Kabbalah is an ancient tradition, there are 2 scriptures which come to mind. one from Torah and one from Prophets:
Deuteronomy 29:29 and Daniel 12:4
Do these verses refer to Kabbalah as how, when, why it is being revealed to us today?
I feel a sense of connection here. I’ve been searching for the meaning of life for a very long time through a variety of religions. The religions I have tried to belong to felt constricted, judgmental and conditional. I’m excited about Kabbalah! It appears that I finally found my spiritual home. Fingers crossed. lol
Wondering if you can elaborate a bit more on the concept of receiving with the intention to bestow. I follow that I am a will to receive. To be more like the Creator, I continue to receive, but gradually with more and more intention to give. In the answer to Sara, you put it as, “So we agree that we will only receive because we love Him and we want Him to be happy.” Then you add, “And what can we do to make Him happy? Only to love one another.” By one another, do you mean love of the Creator, as in the host and guest analogy, or love of other people, or both? Where does one place their focus in this context?
Hi. In the interact section the sense of seeing gives an example of the sun as having no qualities or structure that can be seen. Of course we perceive it as a very bright orange sphere somewhere out there. It’s quite a mind shift, I had to have a lie down and a cup of tea to sort that one out but I got there and wondered why I had not thought of this before, the explanation makes perfect sense. After the cup of tea however I cast my attention to the moon and related cosmic “structures.” A ball of gas, photons etc ,I can grasp the idea but the moon seems to be a different kettle of fish. Someone has walked on it. It seems to have material properties created from an exploding star a long time ago? I know my retina will transpose the imagery that I am looking at in terms of the inner programme of the 5 senses but what would the moon look like through a 6th sense. Or does it really matter?
Martin
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