When was the first time you sensed existential questions within you, and what did it take for you to listen to their call?

[Gil Shir]

When was the first time you sensed existential questions within you, and what did it take for you to listen to their call?

[peter]

i questioned as a very young child and only got meaningful answers in my 50’s

[matthew shifflett]

observed

[martin]

I guess it’s always been there. Through good times, challenges and some not so great times, there has always been a thought that “there must be more than this.” It was my introduction to Kabbalah that awakened the why and how and the motivation to embrace the concepts fully.

[Martina]

Don’t remember.

[Annmarie]

I also was a child when I dreamed that there must be more. I was reared in the Catholic environment by Nuns. The nuns didn’t like my questions. I always had more questions. My mother had a unique psychic gift and would answer many questions, but she didn’t have all the answers that I needed. At age 17 I had a life and death incident where I was saved and this incident created another surge of curiosity for the need to learn more. That drive to find something more brought me to this level. Now, I hope to learn more through Kabbalah.

[Rune T. A.]

As a child I asked those questions a lot and read many books of “super natural phenomena” and I rember clearly two times I had a feeling of connection with Nature/spirit/something greater than me. The first time I was about 4 or 5 and stared at a butterfly for a really really long time and I sort of drifted away from myself and felt I was one with butterfly and the place we came from. This happend again when I was 21 and had given up the search for answers, I was leying in the grass lawn, belly facing down and my head resting on my hand looking to the left, I realized that there was no way of telling wich blade of grass was the most important one for the lawn as a whole. Again I got a strange sensation of unity and belonging. It took me other people with similar experiences to begin to take those experiences seriously and start exploring “the spiritual”.

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