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hello, I have a question. What is or how do we feel the ‘sixth sense’? Is sixth sense the visions that I see in meditation? Are they the dreams where I receive the guidance that I pray for?
Hi Anthie,
We have 5 spiritual senses, when the soul clothes the light in 5 degrees, nefesh, ruach, neshama, haya and yechida. Are corporeal senses are like branches from each of these spiritual roots. Four senses on the face and touch as the “lowest” sense.
There is no mistaking a feeling. When you taste sweet, you are tasting sweet. When you feel heat, you are feeling heat.
It’s not a dream, it’s not a vision, it’s nothing blurry, it’s a sense, but it’s a spiritual sense, you don’t feel things from this material world in spiritual senses.
How do we feel spiritual senses, well that is what the whole wisdom of kabbalah is about. Kabbalah means to receive, the wisdom of kabbalah is how to receive the endless fulfillment that the Creator wants to give to us.
For that we have many processes and operations that we go through, many ups and downs and all of this is to start to measure.
Remember, we start in a field of endless light. Everything is filled evenly in all directions with endless light.
Then we learn at first we plant ourselves in the community of people who are studying the books of the kabbalists and I start to develop my soul which is the vessel in which some of this light can fill and be felt.
Very excited for you and the adventure you have embarked upon,
Seth@KabU
Hi Seth,
Please could you help me, because I am not sure if I am going in the right direction… Is it possible to perceive reality and feel a disconnect from it at the same time?Helen,
On the one hand the wisdom of kabbalah sounds like the most psychedlic or the most out of this world thing ever, to go beyond time and space, to have no barriers in any direction.
On the other hand a kabbalist has work in this world, food, sex, family, honor, knowledge, power, all the regular things from this world.
It can feel very disorienting sometimes to move between this and that.
About that we have many advices. For example, as a ox to the burden and a donkey to the load.
In that sense, with our physical form we are tied to this world, for example a mother feeds her child 5 times a day, 2 naps a day, etc.
A person works from this hour until that hour, etc.
And we also need to establish that in our spiritual work, so decide if you want to be an ox or a donkey :)) and you “burden” yourself (of course it is not a burden, it becomes the greatest gift, the key that helps open everything) with the spiritual work, you tie yourself to it in this world, establishing a time to study and a time to teach and a time to read and reflect, it takes some time, but you will make for yourself a routine.
In addition to that iron framework, you will travel up and down emotionally, in and out spiritually, connected, disconnected.
It is a little early to get into this more, but it is a good question and it will be clarified naturally as you continue with your study.
Seth@KabU
Shalom Seth ^.^
From a Kabbalistic point-of-view, should one be reading and re-reading the prescribed texts as to attune to a level of sincere prayer for connection with the Creator? The texts are truly spiritual gems, and contain a great density in very little words – I have felt many shifts in perspective since I began reading them.
Best wishes and many blessings,
Frankie
Hi Seth, I find that there are times when I am willing and able to give. I am willing and desire to give but my resources are minimal and then I feel a sense of limitation and wonder what to do. Is it that my situation prevents me from attaining that which will allow me to be more like my creator or is it the same egoism that creates my limitations?
Denise,
This is correct.
You named several different states.
We call these discernments. Later when we start reading the Rabash articles together you will recognize all of these states as he writes about them, they are common to everyone who comes to the path and starts working on the path.
Keep a notebook, write them, but write them without your commentary which comes from your current perception.
Read the sources, the course material and write down what you understand and what changes you are feeling in yourself.
You’ll see from day to day, maybe hour to hour, certainly week to week and over the course of months how many different states and changes you are going through.
All of them are coming from the Creator. We don’t need to make commentary on them, we need to feel them and connect with the sources.
The sources will give form to the those feelings.
For example. Suppose I have a feeling of hunger. If I live in the arctic, my thoughts and environment will clothe some kind of whale meat or seal meat onto my desire.
If I live in New York my thoughts and environment will clothe a hamburger or some other form.
Similarly, the hunger, the spiritual desire awakens in us and we want our form to be a spiritual form on it. So we immerse ourselves in the books of the kabbalists so that the desire can take the correct form to perceive the spiritual reality.
Seth@KabU
What am I?
Am I the programm inside the box? Am I the box with the programm inside? Or maybe I am something another but I am limited to the box like reality in order to fulfill the upper plan?
Marcin,
The reality according to the kabbalists who attained the end of correction tell us that we are all 100% in the perfect reality with all of creation, together with the Creator.
All that we feel is according to our senses. The benefit of our feeling of separation is that by this we acquire a feeling of self. As we rise in degrees, our attainment is in our hands.
If we were a spark in the sun, we would be one with the sun, but with no feeling of the sun or of ourselves. So our separation is precisely how we can now come to connection through our efforts and acquire it in actuality.
We need to feel our lives and measure from it. I need to hold two things. On the one hand I need to learn about the greatness of the Creator, meaning the integral force of love that permeates all of reality and on the other hand I need to feel this world which seems opposite and in that gap is where we work.
The Creator is the program (in your words), we are pioneers embarking on the greatest adventure ever who are discovering the program and rising to the greatest goal.
Seth@KabU
However Seth, in your response “ All of our suffering is a measure of our separation from the Creator.”
I do not recall, asking to be separated from God
Maria,
You are right.We didn’t ask to be born. Baal HaSulam goes as far to say, if we were to weigh all the good in our life on one side of the scale and all of the bad on the other side of the scale, it would certainly be better to not be born at all.
We have to begin to feel that we are standing before a system and all of our feelings are based soley on our perception which in the meantime is barely more than the level of animate. Let’s go back to our example of the mother and the daughter. Imagine if the daughter could speak when she was learning to walk. When we teach our children to walk, we move farther away.
She’d cry and say, why are you moving away from me! Come back!! Don’t you love me, don’t leave.
But we understand that she will be fine, in fact, by this she is learning to walk and then after a few more degrees you will be able to give her everything.
Seth@KabU
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