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I was thinking about the description of the “box with 5 holes” that represents our senses, and about modern science techniques. And it made me think about how almost every instrument we use, including our senses, has this receptive structure of receiving a particle, or a light wave, radiation, etc, and then analyzing what it got. And how anything structured that way will intrinsically give the wrong data.
If everything that exists in reality is just us and the Upper Force, than the only thing we can perceive with these instruments is our own current state. Since the instruments are receiving and they have equivalence of form with reception, they cannot measure anything else, and this is the mechanism that hides the Creator from us in our reality.
I have understood before that we must bestow, radiate, give out, emit… in order to perceive the Upper Force. This always made sense. But it didn’t occur to me until this week the obvious consequence of that law in our world: that every device we create is only measuring itself.
There is a big difference in what and how to pray and I was so surprise that in Kabbalah to prayer is more an altruistic one far much different from what we usually do. The Kabbalistic way of praying is a way to connect and attract the Upper Force to help us improve things and to also correct ourselves. But there is a requirement for an effectual prayer. We must resemble that force meaning our intention, our desire should be to be in equivalence in form to Him and that is bestowal not for our own pleasure. When our desires are like His, our prayer will be answered for as we say,”like attracts like”.
We can also seek the help of the Upper Force by seeking help to see things through his eyes that we would be able to have the wisdom and understand the Truth behind every challenges we have and reveal his purpose of goodness for us to develop spiritually.
The concept that opened my mind in this lesson is that most of our “prayers’ are requests for God to change His mind about our circumstances–which is both egoistic and impossible. The Creator is the force of Good that does Good, which means what happens to us is a bestowal of the Creator’s Goodness. It is our perspective that needs to change. I mused about the internality and externality of the Soul–that what I want to perceive as “other” is actually also me.
I feel very much in those two environments or worlds at the same time now- the spiritual one and the corporeal one. And the more I learn about connection and prayer and the upper force, the more I feel or sense how different they both are. It’s a big change in my perspective to actually feel those differences and it challenges my perception and concepts. It’s challenging, too, to give both its place and not muddle it up…especially now, when it’s all still new and undeveloped, but still so strong.
In a way, in terms of spirituality, all of this is mindblowing, and so beautiful, but to think of working in a group also challenges my need to trust. After all, it’s all about humans, and while maybe nothing is coincidental and even conflicts are great to learn, I feel a bit insecure about what working in a spiritual group will be like.
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