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I don’t find any of this “mind blowing” but rather filling in the gaps and adding more detail to what I have already attained through my Eastern practices.
The more I am learning the more I am hungry to learn more.
For example, I can’t wait until I get to a level that I could begin to reread the Torah and make the connections between the science of Kabbalah and the somewhat confusing stories that we have been told since we were children.
One question in relation to the Torah…
When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge it would appear to have a relationship to the four phases of light.
In my “freshman Kabbalist” brain I am associating “eating from the tree of knowledge” with either Kochmah or phases of light 1-3.
And Malchut the 4th phase of light being the “fall” of mankind.
Am I correct that this story of Adam and Eve in Genesis has a relation to the four phases of light?
And if I am correct about this, could you please elaborate on this with more details.
I’ve been watching quite a few of the Kab U videos as well as going through the lessons. So I may be getting ahead of the lessons in some ways. I recently completed Lesson 2 and was watching the related materials. I’m a bit confused by some of the examples given by Markos and Chris in their video on desire. Part of why I’m confused is I viewed videos on the same topics by Tony which seemed to contradict some things and express other things a bit differently. To begin with, Tony clearly explained the stages of human desire in 5 stages: food, shelter, sex, etc – wealth – power/prestige – knowledge – spiritual. Markos and Chris combined power/prestige with knowledge (which didn’t make sense). Then it appeared that Markos and Chris superimposed two different concepts: the stages of creation (still…vegetative…animate…conscious) with the states of human desire. It would appear to me that these two “stage models” are not overlapping but rather a continuation. Creation went from “big bang” through the four stages of creation, and then once human consciousness was achieved, then humanity as a whole and humans as individuals go through the 5 stages of desire. Are there 4 or are there 5 stages of desire? Are the stages of creation and the stages of human desire overlapping or totally separate concepts or consecutive as I believe them to be?
Hello.
I was raised in a culturally Jewish family that lacked any real spiritual significance. My spiritually anemic upbringing drove me to Eastern studies of Buddhism and Hinduism. In recent years I took up Judea-Christian Biblical studies including Deutroconanical and Apacyphal books which gave me a bit of inspiration but which I found to be marinated in misinterpretation, embellishment, dogma, and doctrine. As soon as I started to learn about the Kabbalah and the Zohar I knew I was in the right place. Finally a theology grounded in my Jewish heritage that addressed the true nature of reality and our relationship with the Universe. A bridge between the Eastern and Middle-Eastern theologies.
