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I’m dying to apply the wisdom i gained from this course practically.
I want to connect with others of a similar mindset and with desire for equivalence of form with the Creator.. is there a discord group for the students or something similar?Hello,
In the video : Spiritual worlds, what are they?  Could the different ‘perceptions’ of the same reality also be what Kabbalah calls revelation?  Do these perception changes come in feeling different about someone or something, or just more “detail” is revealed of the same situation?
Hi Steph,
It won’t be called a World if it’s just further details of the world I’m in. No, the birth into the spiritual world is as dramatically different as the birth from the womb into our world. First I develop senses with which I start to hear and feel and even see that there is – though it’s concealed from me still – a world beyond my black bubble. And then, dramatically, I get born into that new world. All other little prior discernments are just psychological understandings about the black bubble I’m already in. That’s not to disregard such discernments – those are what all the sciences and psychology are engaged in – they’re just not yet belonging to the Upper World that Kabbalah speaks of.
Julian quoted so many famous alchemists and as we go forward in the study of kabbalah it is starting to sound lot like alchemy (my basic knowledge of it anyways). Jung was heavily affected by those guys and this makes me wonder if what we are aiming to do here is to merge unconscious mind (upper worlds/force? behind the barrier) with our conscious lower functions?
Hi Toni,
Kabbalah is unrelated to alchemy. It’s also unrelated to psychology as it’s normally understood, as all those mystical approaches to conscious, unconscious…and literally anything else around it, even if we could say that there was something that all could agree on what it actually is – all that, however mystical, belongs to the corporeal world, and not to the spiritual world. This mind, that mind – it’s all part of one’s ego, the will to receive – more known to him, less known, it’s still that same ego. And Kabbalah is above the ego. We can’t even imagine something that is above the ego since we’re immersed in it, never having experienced anything besides it. And so Kabbalists are compelled to inform a person that Kabbalah has nothing in common with any other path or method – nothing enters the center of the Venn Diagram. “But what about…” no ‘buts’. As we advance we see for ourselves that it has nothing in common and no relationship to any philosophy or method whatsoever. The fact that we are very confused in the meantime, that’s OK. All will be sorted out by the Upper Light and we’ll see where all methods fall in relationship to the thin line that is the path to the Creator.
Een kind opvoeden. De antroposofie heeft er zicht op. Waldorf. Ieder mens wordt geboren met het verlangen om te ontvangen. Hoe om te gaan met een kind dat graag zelf een knuffel wil? Ik vraag me af hoe het onderwijs anders zou kunnen zijn? Het heeft ontwikkeling nodig om ervoor te kiezen altruïstisch te zijn, maar niet met geweld, toch?
Translation: Raise a child. Anthroposophy sees it. Waldorf. Every person is born with the desire to receive. How to deal with a child who wants a hug himself? I wonder how education could be different? It takes development to choose to be altruistic, but not by force, right?
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Education should be through a group, in circles. There’s a method you can read about in this book in Dutch. That’s more practical exercises while this English book is more of the theory side.
In context of: Kabbalah teaches that the No. 1 issue humanity will face in the near future will be our inability to connect to each other above our growing ego.
Does destiny hold more power than free will? I ask in regards to the spiritual desire within me pushing me to seek the Creator. This led to connecting with groups from different paths. I experienced deep connection in a group, this connection brought (as I have learned from the Kabbalah courses) insights of Kabbalah concepts, but when shared connection turned to rejection. Path and group, one after the other connection, insight, rejection.
The spiritual desire was bringing Kabbalistic insights but finding this path took over 30 years. I now have a lot to unlearn. If I would have truly had free will I am sure I would have chosen the shorter path instead of the path of suffering endured.
As the wine skin parable goes, I am an old skin filled with old wine (old to point of vinegar), I cannot hold the new wine (current Kabbalah teachings) until I become empty of old wine and develop a new skin to hold the new wine (10).
Was the connection in those groups real as they did bring insights from the light?
What was the purpose of the insights that brought rejection and took a life time to reveal the Kabbalah path?
Is there purpose in growing my ego in rejection fear that has distorted my perception and by projection to the world as a whole?
And again, does destiny hold more power than free will?
Does destiny hold more power than free will?
There’s no free will like we think of free will. That’s a complete illusion. Specifically thanks to this illusion there is free will, which is only with regard to choosing the authentic path of Kabbalah, including the recommended group method, etc.
So, you’re right that there was no real free will. That’s only within the path of Kabbalah. And the free will becomes something deeper than what I’ve mentioned. At each moment I have to realize the free will more deeply. It’s by constantly adhering to There Is None Else Besides Him, as in Shamati article 1. And then, to what extent do I respond back to the Upper Force as recommended by Kabbalists.
As to what comes before Kabbalah, it’s purpose, and it’s very important, is to show me what is not true. But before, I so much was immersed in falsehood, not intellectually but in all those desires of mine, that I could not advance in the truth, even if you would present it baldly before me. I hate the truth, truth disgusts the Will to Receive, because it means I have to totally rise above the Will to Receive, to a new evolutionary level. And that’s like death to the Will to Receive who is now as-if like some loser friend I used to hang out with but now I’m at Harvard med school and he has no real place with me now, so will he support me in that? But still, he did develop me at the stage I was at. He wasn’t worthless, even though he has fallen into irrelevance. However, in this case, he will later become extremely important, the center of my life. But not right now.
Here are my impressions and questions about the points raised in this course.
1. I get a sense that kabbalah is addressing the disparity between the upper whole in the diagram and the lower disjointed one below.
2. Also I feel this is an organic process that will happen inevitably.
3. Is there a connection between Kabbalah and the teachings from Atlantis? Pythagoras seems to have been in touch with that too.
4. Although I wish I had encountered Kabbalah earlier in this life, I feel incredible appreciative for finally getting started here. Although this is my first year and I am struggling with the theory and practice, I sense changes around and within me.
Kabbalists used to share parts of the wisdom with anyone who wanted to learn. It was written that Pythagoras translated the word Kabbalah into the Greek philosophia, as all his teachings were in externalization of what he was able to understand from the Kabbalists. Anyway, there’s no time to go into all that research, but if one becomes a Kabbalist he sees how prior to the first man who had an inner inclination to reveal the Creator, called Adam HaRishon, people lived almost as beasts, practically in yards. From this person spread all the wisdoms, inadvertently all the religions, culture, languages even. Whatever is written in the history books, all will reveal this for themselves, plain as day. Hence, the wisdom of Kabbalah encompasses but also transcends all the sciences, all the wisdoms, and in it is a straight path through this reality to the Creator of this reality.
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