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What most inspired me in the course? The kindness. the feeling of being welcomed as a traveller who is returning home. The way the words touched my soul and enlivened and calmed me at once. And the Hope. That if I continue to build my practice and engage with the community, I will gain what I most desire in this lifetime. ♥️❤️🔥♥️
My name is Tamara. I grew up in Israel and was fluent once upon a time. The love of my life is Israeli and my heart belongs to Israel. I am looking forward to deepening my relationship with my loved ones through this incredible language. Thank you.
I’m nothing even close to what people would call religious. But I’m fascinated by the stories we create and how they shape us individually and collectively.
I began to call my healing journey Healing Eve, which just meant (to me) restoring the correct relationship with myself, with others, with nature and with the Creator. I wondered what life would be like if I was to do that.Years later, When I was doing my Eco- art therapy course, I wrote a paper entitled: The Eden Hypothesis. The premise is that Eden is the world we experience when we are in a state of perfect alignment within ourselves, with Nature and the Divine (a state of union, or what I called Bio-Communion) and that our ‘expulsion’ was simply a matter of us telling ourselves the story of separation.
I have since been granted endless insights and images that bring this hypothesis to life.
I woke up a few months ago, with the clear thought that Eden is when we recognize the Creator in all creation and behave accordingly.My whole life, I have had a question, received the answer, integrated and then embodied it. Then found a new question. I called this growth.
because I’ve been doing this for a lifetime, I live in two worlds. The spiritual and the mundane. The other day, I was faced with a challenging situation. I decided to try something radical. I said to myself: I ‘see’ this with my senses, but it is not really there. There is only the Creator. This transformed the challenge into a mirage-like image that held no power over my mood or mind. I was able to ignore the turbulence of the mirage (what I normally interact with as life—what my senses tell me) and rest blissfully in the calmness that is the Creator. Blissful Detachment, we can call it
the next day, the challenge in question was literally gone and has not been back.
this is how I know.My best experience from the first course:
1. to learn that there is indeed a framework and language for the things I’ve been sensing. And what appears to be infinite opportunity to keep going.
2. There are others like me. I can be part of a community.
3. I found a spiritual home.
I am so excited to keep going.
Good morning 🌼
I’ve learned that I’m an accidental Kabbalist.
I’ve had a very interesting few years. Since I was a child, I have been asking the same questions: what is the nature of existence? What is the meaning and purpose of life and of being human? And is it possible to ascend fully in human form. In other words, what is the potential of humans?
These questions have led me to some pretty amazing places. I would get to a certain level of understanding driven by particular questions and desires and then I’d be stuck and develop new desires and find new frameworks that helped me move forward. But a few years ago, I started getting insights and visions that I realized there was no language for in any framework I knew of. Yet, I knew these insights to be true and I was delighted by them. I was just craving community and belonging based on shared desires and understanding of life. I also wanted to go further. As far as it’s possible to go as a human. I quietly and privately declared my singularity of desire to become one with the Creator and embody the light of source. My curiosity has been insatiable but I have had no one to speak to about things. No words. No framework through which to grow and evolve, no teachers and no companions.
I went to the Kabbalah centre in Toronto almost 30 yrs ago. Someone spoke with me and told me that while I was called, I wasn’t ready. A few months ago, I stumbled across a book about the Zohar by Rav Laitman and I knew I found what I have been looking for. A spiritual home. Although the words were different, I knew their meaning. They were describing exactly what I had been ‘seeing’ and sensing and recording in my journals in drawings and stories.
so I signed up for this course and I have learned is that there is an ancient language for the things I have been experiencing over the last few years that I was unable to express. I have journals and journals of attempts to describe the things that my meditations and insights reveal. I haven’t shared them with anyone ever. It is balm to my soul to know that I’m not crazy, which I was beginning to question. I learned that I am not alone in either my desire to know and with Life/God/Creator/Love, nor in my understanding of life.
I have learned that I am part of an ancient lineage of wisdom and community and that while I felt lost and alone this whole time, I have been unknowingly on this path for my whole life. And for that I feel grateful for I know I am not alone. Having said that, I am still learning to translate the words I’ve been using to describe my insights and experiences into Kabbalist language of Kabbalah, so while I deeply resonate with the teachings, I am still having Trouble articulating my thoughts to the group. In an attempt to relive this, I have begun to do art projects to explore the weekly lessons and that’s helping. If anyone wants to join me on that, I’d welcome it. Feel free to inquire and I’ll share my process.
I Wish for my fellow students the realization of their desire to equalize with the creator and restore the world to a state of Eden. I’m honoured to be here with you all. ♥️
