[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Cyndi,
I’m so happy to read your story and your questions.  I hope this response finds you well up there in the Arctic.
So now we have students on all 7 continents! :))
Let’s start with prayer.  We are kabbalists so we study and speak about all of these things according to the wisdom of kabbalah.  So what is prayer, what is good, evil, sin, etc.  all of these things have left a lot of impressions in everyone.  However here we need to understand them according to the wisdom of kabbalah.  If we bring our definitions from other places we will get very confused.
Prayer is the desire of the heart.  That’s it.
If we are dressed very modestly and we are holding an ancient prayer book and reading beautiful, ancient words composed by the sages and all the while we are thinking about what we will have for lunch, so our true prayer is about lunch.
On the other hand, if we are let’s say in the arctic somewhere and we can’t connect to the internet and we have these feelings that we need to be connected, we need to feel, to understand, to be whole, so this is our prayer.

There is much we need to go through in this preparation phase to understand ourselves, the forces operating on us and the system we are in…how for example by saying words, a prayer for example with our mouths even if we don’t feel it yet in our feelings, but by this we can accustom ourselves to starting to feel.  For example to speak to the Creator during the day and say, I want to be connected to You.  Guide me to greater connection to You.  Open my heart to love….all of these kind of habits help slowly, slowly to guide our emotions.

Regarding rejection.  You discovered this already through your experience.  Specifically through the “left rejects” it builds in us a desire.
If we feel fulfilled, then we don’t have room for prayer.  We do have room for thanks and gratitude, but not an empty desire.
So we advance according to two legs.
On the left He grows … or we can say nature grows our desire and on the right the light fills the desire, we give thanks for it and then the next degree opens before us and we feel that the darkness is shining even greater.  And we draw the light and the light shines in it.
As kabbalists we accostom ourselves to move through these changes quickly.  On the other hand, you can see someone in the world who holds a grudge for decades or who wants revenge for 3 generations but for us, between the kabbalists..and keep this in mind, we are doing this work at first between the kabbalists, we go through all of the changes quickly and advance through many “generations” in one life.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Rae,
This is not faith above reason.
Faith above reason is a spiritual perception that is called faith…it is not a blind faith, it is not imagination, it is a spiritual perception called faith that is above our reason, meaning for example our head.  So the body has a head that determines what the body will do and the corporeal head has a spiritual head, we’ll call it faith here for ease of understanding that is above the corporeal head that perceives a spiritual reality.
It is named as “above reason” because as creatures of the earth, everything we measure is based on opposites.  Cold is only in reference to hot.  In is in relation to out.  Up is in relation to down.  Without this we cannot feel anything.
So nature gave us reason and then from that we can develop something above reason.  The reason stays, it still exists and above it there is another sense that develops called faith…above reason.  Specifically not below reason and not within reason, but above reason.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Scott,
First of all, be prepared to understand that you are not prepared 🙂
At the end of the day you will stand before yourself, after all that is what we are given to work with and the ego is very crafty, he doesn’t want to give up his domain, he will let you work for the others, to love the others as long as he is getting paid in the form of honor, respect, pride, etc.
There is nothing to do about that.
But examine it all, watch it happen, understand what is happening and how the ego works as you start to work to be able to love others, see how the ego allows it only as much as he is getting paid and how otherwise he doesn’t give you the power to work.
We are not going to fight the ego.  That is not our work.
We will only grow the importance of love and bestowal, that is how we ride on the big waves, above all the disturbances, constantly adjusting our balance.
Good luck and have patience,
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Sara,
This is a very good question and right on target.
The more we advance in the wisdom of kabbalah, the more our desires grow!
Yes, it’s true.  The Creator wants to fill us with endless delight, for the time being we only have corporeal desires and they are growing and growing, soon we will also have spiritual desires and they will grow and grow too.
We have in us desires on 4 degrees
Human/Spiritual
Animal
Vegatative
Inanimate
So, make a line between animal desires and spiritual desires.
The lower 3 degrees of desires are your life as you’ve always lived and as you will continue to live, food, sex, family, money, honor, knowledge, power.
So live with those like a normal person in this world.  Redo your kitchen.  Have a good dinner.  Go on vacation.
Be a regular person.
And regarding spirituality, develop your inner world so that regardless of whether you are at work, in the car, on the beach, on the mountain, in the grocery store, your heart is more and more in love with the Creator, more and more desires love and connection and slowly slowly you’ll see how all of the transformations happen gradually, naturally and comfortably.

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Otienodhek,
When we speak of spiritual light we are talking about the light of fulfillment that emanates from the Creator and enlivens all life.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Rae,
You can say that.
Seth@KabU

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