So much information is coming out from science now that parallels what ancient texts recorded centuries ago. People are starting to realize that what we look for is not outside of ourselves, but has been inside us all the time. Gregg Braden discusses some interesting aspects of our natural powers.
Gregg Braden’s Book
Here are two more videos to challenge your concept of what reality is. My Kabbalah class will be going on for several months and though I understand what’s taught in the class, my mind is still trying to grasp the reality of the concept that is being taught. I think the classes are helping me with understanding, more than if I read the Kabbalah without the class.
I think that the majority of people, whether they are spiritual or not, understands that everything and everyone in this world is a creation. The question is, who or what is the source of creation, in other words, what or who is the creator?
Common religious names for the creator are God, Allah, Brahmin or Jehovah. Though I do believe there is a creator, I don’t use any of these terms when contemplating or referring to this force of creation. I think the reason for that is that though I’m on a spiritual journey, I am not religious and do not adhere to any particular religion. That is not to say that I haven’t studied certain aspects of the world religions, because I have. The difference is that I take the underlying truths found in each and discard what is not helpful to me on my journey.
Since the Kabbalah is mistakenly associated with Judaism, a Abrahamic religion, along with Christianity and Muslim, I was curious, yet hesitant to learn more about it. As odd as it may sound, at the time I enrolled in my current Kabbalah class, I was still hesitant to study it. What made me enroll anyway? I’m one of those people who believe that intuitive messages come not only from within ourselves, but can come through other people and sources. So when three different people, who do not know each other, sent me this Kabbalah course page, I knew this was something that was intended for me to pay attention to. So I enrolled and I have to say, their intuition was correct. I now sincerely feel the Kabbalah classes are the answer to my request for guidance on how to achieve my full potential and to contribute more to our world.
So what is the Kabbalah? The first thing that was stated in class was that the Kabbalah has nothing to do with religions and predates all religions. Also the Kabbalah has nothing to do with this world, it focuses only on the spiritual world. This is what I was looking for.
One wisdom discussed in class is that the Creator desires to give or bestow benefits to its creations.
The Creator is the desire to bestow, and the creature is the desire to enjoy the Creator’s bestowal. If the creature enjoys only because the Creator enjoys its reception, such an act is considered bestowal, according to its intention, and not as an act of receiving. This is regarded as the Creator’s desire and creature’s desire being equal, with nothing to separate them-Kabbalah For The Student
Sounds good, but why are so many of us struggling and suffering instead of receiving all the benefits that the creator has to give us? It depends on intentions; such as who’s benefit you are intending to fulfill.
The desire to receive for ourselves is our very nature. But in that nature, we are opposite in form from the Creator, since the Creator is only a desire to bestow, and does not possess a desire to receive. Hence, if we remain in the will to receive for ourselves, we will remain forever far from the Creator-Kabbalah For The Student
The example used in class was, two boys who were close friends grew up and went their separate ways to fulfill their life goals. One became wealthy, the other very poor. One day they met again on the street. The wealthy man greeted his childhood friend warmly and invited him to his house. At his house, he offered his poor friend food to eat. The poor friend refused. The wealthy man felt distraught because his friend wouldn’t accept his offering and implored his friend to accept. The poor man came to realize that by eating the food, he would give the wealthy man more pleasure than he would get from eating it. So the poor man ate.
The poor man changed his intention from one of receiving only for himself to one of receiving in order to give.
Perhaps now you can see how our natural desire to receive has lead to suffering. Receiving may bring us pleasure for a little while, but it doesn’t last. Have you heard the phrase, “give and take?” That’s what we need to practice, i.e. develop a desire to give that equals our desire to receive.
Since my enrollment in the online Kabbalah class, people have wondered when I might write about the Kabbalah. That’s a good question that at this moment I’m not able to answer. Not because I don’t want to share what I’m learning, but because I’m finding what I’m learning so profound. I’m understanding what is being taught in the classes so far. But that is not to say I have the experience as of yet, and Kabbalah states that knowledge is not enough, one must experience the spiritual world for themselves.
The video below gives some insight into the teachings of the Kabbalah. The video and the website it mentions, I found entertaining as well as informative and hope you do too. Links to the Perceiving Reality website, as well as the free online Bnei Baruch Kabbalah course that I’m taking, are below.
Perceiving Reality and Bnei Baruch Online Course
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