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In regards the Eyn Sof, what does Kabbalah teach regarding the attainment in consciousness upon return from the many to the One? My attention in stillness leads me to a merging with no longer any sense of separateness and relationship. In other words, I am no longer a part of, but rather the entirety of One Being.
Yesterday, out of the blue, I attended a school choir performance, a school to which I have no familiarity (I was going to say connection, but that would not be true). At one point in the performance I found myself “blessing” all the students in a manner that awakened a deeper level in me of the power of bestowal. I must have let out a sound as I felt tears well and my wife, sitting next to me, wondered if I was okay. I had never been better! I wish for all my fellow students to experience a regularity of bestowal experience. It feels rather God-like! We will build the collective soul and, together, become a vessel for the light in only one manner…a deep heart-felt yearning held clearly at the front of our awareness with greater and greater consistency.
Having studied so many path over these last 5 decades, it’s challenging to determine precisely what is different between Kabbalah and so much of the others. I think what has happened is that my genuine desire has led me to Kabbalah because I see a more direct path to correcting what remains to be corrected. I have become very sensitive to change and entry into the spiritual realm. I see Kabbalah as the essential teaching that might very well be my path on through my remaining years. I already have a deepening level of perception of what is real and what is illusory. It’s not new. It’s taking on a greater, more consistent reality. I must say, however, I’ve grown quite fond of shedding skins which leaves me quite open on the path to attainment. I live the Path of Light and so look forward to week 3.
As my consciousness has awakened and I find myself in a most blissful state, I have found that my perception as I survey my environment takes on a new sense. It’s as if space and objects aren’t really there as my senses perceive, and I sense more brightness that I do not see with my senses behind, within, and around my environment. My inner state changes the perception of my outer world. I would like the study of Kabbalah to enhance and clarify the senses that are awakened. I wonder…what will it be to have fully awakened perception within the spiritual worlds. Though glorious now, I often wonder just how much more glorious can it be when unbounded? I was at a store yesterday and noticed the Power Ball, which I haven’t played over a handful of times, must have been won by someone. I mentioned that to the cashier, a young man, who said that the $500 million was almost too much. I said, yes, but imagine the good you could possibly do when you take receiving the money altruistically (I didn’t use that word). The same is true of reception and development of perception. How much more we have to bestow as we awaken our perceptions and live more and more fully in the spiritual world!
Hi I’m David. I’m 67 and have been on a spiritual path all my life. I discovered authentic Kabbalah very recently. I feel I’ve entered finishing school. I’m not sure how that works as eternity awaits. “Slay dragons daily,” I’ve always said. There’s been this one ever-lurking fire-breather awaiting a final blow! Let’s kill it together!
The question and the answer are amazing. What I would like to add is that if you have ever truly been silent and still, there emerges a recognition of Oneness and an identification with that Oneness. The question suggests it feels like a lie. It appears the Kabbalist explains our nature is to receive. Yes, this is our Nature as we identify with this level. However, the truth is we are not this level. I loved Albert’s answer. I have found that playing pretend awakened in me awareness of my Being and it is unbounded. So it can’t be a lie. It’s true. It only seems like a lie. We want to move beyond seems. There is a truth to our Being. Pretend it. Human nature dissolves. Divine nature reveals.
