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The more we perceive outside of our physical limitations, the more we can not only answer questions that we have about ourselves and life, but we will also gain the ability to ask questions we were never able to conceive/perceive beforehand.
Opening my perception to new possibilities– new ways to look at my journey so far and my journey to come.
That is an interesting question, and in many ways depends on the specific definition of “our life” being used. In my perception at this time, living life to the fullest means being utterly true to who you are at your particular point in time. If you are true to who you really are — no matter where your spiritual growth may be — then you are exactly doing what you are meant to be doing. For me, at this time — this life — living my life to the fullest means two things and have since childhood: one, gathering knowledge/wisdom of all kinds, and two, bringing love into this world through its various manifestations (kindness, compassion, understanding, respect, empathy, and more) for every being, every soul — person, plant, animal, the Earth, the universe, energetic beings, and myself. My belief is that if I live my life learning and experiencing knowledge and wisdom, and I combine that knowledge and wisdom with the practice of true love, I am living my life to the fullest and will have at least some understanding and experience of being part of Source, eventually moving back to energetic oneness.
I have always felt that reality and what most people call truth, is simply a matter of perception. Even as a child I believed this. I remember as a young teen watching Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film, RASHOMON, and being utterly fascinated with how each person’s telling of what happened were correct based on their perception of the murder, yet reality was beyond each individual’s “truth”. I even used to get into a bit of trouble in my science classes, because I would insist that scientific laws were “true” only in the world we are able to perceive, which means things like the law of gravity, etc are correct as we perceive the world, but isn’t necessarily “reality” in its truest sense. I was absolutely thrilled when I started reading books on quantum physics! Needless to say (with the exception of my mother and grandfather), everyone thought I was a very strange child.
There was a time I believed that the proof of free will was the fact that we can choose to learn or stay ignorant. With the amount of knowledge and wisdom that is at our fingertips with the internet, it would seem that those who are in “the dark” so to speak, have willfully chosen to do what is simple and comfortable — stay in ignorant bliss. Now, I can see that there are factors outside/beyond ourselves that influence if we are ready to receive knowledge and wisdom. It doesn’t make one better than others, it just means for that person, it is time. And if these influences (sometimes referred to as serendipitous connections) come at the proper time (“when the student is ready, the Master appears”), then it isn’t really a choice at all, and my so-called proof of free will falls by the wayside.
What was new to me was more what Kabbalah is not. Mostly, I’ve been very happy to learn that Kabbalah is not a religion and does not anthropomorphize Source, something I’ve always had issues with when dealing with most religions and one of the reasons I have always been drawn to philosophical Taoism — as soon as you “name” Source (i.e. make it anthropocentric in any way), you are no longer talking about the true Source (Tao) but really just layering it with something comfortable and relatable, which can lead to only having a surface, intellectual understanding of something so much greater that should be intuited and felt, rather than intellectualized.
