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Hi Seamus, GE and AHP are another way of talking about the Ten Sefirot when we want to emphasize the clear division into the desires that can be used for Bestowal and those that can’t. For example, now I have just the beginning of GE, and that’s my Point in the Heart. Only in the activity toward it and toward others with a Point in the Heart I can work toward something spiritual.
We need to try, in addition to seriousness, to be in joy, gratitude, and so on. One only advances in joy.
The infographic has several mistakes and I’m also not sure about the practice related to graves, in fact it seems as something a Kabbalist would be especially disinclined to do (though they would visit a grave of a special Kabbalist) and I haven’t personally seen that in an authentic source. If there is some kind of documentation like that, we should keep in mind that Baal HaSulam warned in his letters against all of the spurious writings related to the Ari and his writings, in the form of either mistakes by students other than Chaim Vital who was the only one he permitted to continue his tradition, or by writers who wrote false things that were as-if about the Ari and the spiritual world but were falsified and not based on spiritual attainment of those things.
All Kabbalists, more or less, experience the same phenomena, as Baal HaSulam says that one who has been to London can talk to others who have been to London and they know what it is. One of those phenomena is being above spacetime, above the body, such that dying is, as Rabash says, like throwing your shirt in the laundry at the end of the day. The question is whether one’s students can feel the Kabbalist as present just as much (and even more than) as before. That depends on the student’s agreement with, equivalence with, nullification to the teacher, up to the point of having a shared Masach (Screen).
This is your calculation. I need to attend the retreat and I need to ensure that I ace my exams. Maybe you can attend some.
That’s not a phenomenon that I recognize. In any event, the best is to always move forward – away from the desire to receive, more toward connection – and not to pay much attention to any phenomenon, even seemingly highly spiritual phenomena.
Yes, reading is part of it, and it’s much more powerful if one studies with a group on the same path (as we do in the Graduate Program). We can certainly see the results and they are even more real than what we feel as ‘the real world’ now. However, it’s useless to describe the results as we’re built currently in a way that such a description will fall into the wrong vessels to understand it. We need a different mind and heart to understand it, and they have to be built in us by the Upper Light.
Yes, we attain a reality above timespace, an eternal reality that exists but we don’t feel yet.
