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When I was 40 years old I had a dream of a pyramid although the term “temple” was impressed upon me. Three quarters of it was submerged in still water, (and I felt the immensity of it though I couldn’t see it). What I could see was the top quarter of it above the water shining like diamond and beautiful in the light. There was blurred plant life in the background. I got the impression that the “temple” represented me but I never knew how to correctly interpret this dream. Here I am seven years later listening to this information about the inanimate, vegetative, animate and speaking and feel strongly that this is connected. Can anyone help with this kind of question? Thank you ☺️
Does working through these lessons on this platform = a group of 10? I only have one friend in my local area who is doing these lessons with me.
Hi Kerrie,
We’re not yet studying in groups of ten. We’re still in the fundamentals learning the basics of Kabbalah. Everything we learn here and in the intermediate semester is the necessary foundation for the work in a ten.
And in the advanced semester, everyone will be placed in virtual groups of ten with whom they can put all these things into practice.
Until then, having a friend nearby who is also going through these lessons is great. That’s very rare in our post pandemic world.
It’s also highly recommended to regularly connect to the live zoom sessions and to read through the Q/A forums. These opportunities to connect with other points in the heart and be influenced by their desire for spirituality is similar to the future work that we’ll be doing in tens.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Albert, I just saw you answered a lot of this in a previous threat in that we are never going backwards, and are not in multiple stages at the same time (I just cannot edit my question anymore). So, basically, most is answered already, I am just wondering what this stage of feeling like being drawn back and forth, of sensing the creator and then being pushed back into darkness, of sensing and then losing the sensation of „love thy neighbour as thyself“ on various levels refers to. Is this correction? And then the other question about how correction works on us and the whole remains for me. How often do we have to go through a correction to make it last in us and around us?
Hi Verena,
1. Spiritual advancement happens specifically from the ups AND downs. It’s just like the EKG chart that measures the heart. If there are ups and downs, the heart is beating, the body is alive. If it flatlines, the body dies.
Likewise in our spiritual work, our advancement is composed of many of ups and downs. But if we’re in the same state for a long period of time, then we stop advancing and are spiritually dead.
2. The corrections always remain. What happens after each correction is a new egoistic level is revealed, and then we start working on correcting that new level.
Keep in mind the emergence of a new level of egoism and experiencing those down states is a sign of spiritual advancement. So we should relate to these things positively. It’s just like when a child completes a puzzle, we are happy and reward him with a more challenging puzzle, so he can keep growing and developing.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2019/08/spiritual-sine-wave/
Albert @ KabU
Hi, are we passing through the stages of development one after the next, or are we going back and forth, or even experience different stages of spiritual development at the same time depending on our environment or inner states? Like a child sometimes goes through different phases of development step by step (like from turning over, to sit, to crawl, to stand, to walk) versus sometimes seems to be at different stages of maturity at the same time (like a child can be really immature in kindergarden, but reasonable when being with an older sibling or suddenly seeming to mature when being placed in a school environment)? I understand that as we start to grow our point in the heart and start to work on correcting our ego, we might just sometimes loose track, stumble back, and feel surrounded by darkness, and then there is a new revelation coming up. And sometimes it may seem clear and light to „love thy neighbour as thyself“ and then again it seems that doubts are closing this up… is this referring to a specific stage of development, or is it that we are just dropping down to an early stage then? And the same with „corrections“… if you have corrected a specific state / egoistic trait… do you have to go through it multiple times before it lasts? I once read to correct a specific human behaviour you may need up to a 1000 times of practice… (depending on what you want to correct, of course, and on how high the resistance is)… but how lasting are corrections? And actually, do they have to be lasting or is it like lighting a match, that lights a piece of wood, that lights a fire…?
Kabbalah is enriching the quality of my spiritual life so very much. I am going beyond some boundaries; but the ways makes so much sense. Faith over Reason: The Wisdom is drawing me. Thank you for teaching the teacher. I have been teaching faith and practice for many years. This is taking me deeper— where I have always known I would be going—requiring adjustment and correction.
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