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I really like the explanation of what prayer truly is. Many people I know, including myself, have prayed to God to help us through some “bad thing” in our lives. When I was young, I was at a youth group meeting from my church. The youth leader asked for prayer requests, and others began asking for prayers to heal, soothe, or some other good from God. The youth leader called on a young man to lead the prayer, which he did. In it, he said to God that He had heard all of the request from the others in the group, but he prays for God’s will, and not ours.
To me now, this seems more in line with correct prayer is not to change God, but that God will change us.
Most of my adult life has been spent in developing a numbness to everything, and distancing from this physical world. I only focused on seeking spiritual truth, but haven’t been satisfied. Now that I am a student of Kabbalah, will I not only learn how to connect with creation, but will I connect in a way that I won’t feel as numb? I want to connect with others, starting with those closest to me, on a deeper level. Will that happen in this study?
I really like that it is true that believing in God doesn’t make you spiritual. Belief isn’t being aware of the spiritual, it’s just our imagination of what we hope, so we don’t connect to the cause of reality. I hope I’m not being too confusing. I can “see” the difference between true spirituality versus religion, but I don’t know how to attain it fully. That’s why I left organized religion many years ago, but am still seeking the truth. I have a spark in me that is growing now, and I want to continue its growth.
My name is Tom Hughes, I live in South Carolina in the United States. I am a student of Kabbalah because I want to understand why I am here? What does my life really mean? Is there more to life than this?
I am Tom from the US, and I know that we are here in this reality for more than just to exist and die. That the Creator is real and that we can get to have an actual relationship with the source. I have spent my life in search of that relationship. My goal in studying Kabbalah is to transform myself so that I can become that which the Creator intended for me to be.
I don’t know how to do this. I’ve searched through studies of religions, science, mysticism, and occult knowledges. Along this path, I have had many dead ends, confusion, and also many moments of a glimpse of the truth.
This has led me to here.
