Gaia: KABBALAH

Re: "IHVH: Writings of an Hermetic Student"

http://telesterion.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:00:01 GMT

So, what do you say in your hermetic student book?

"IHVH: Writings of an Hermetic Student"

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Re: authentic kabbalah

http://lightofhope.gaia.com — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:13:49 GMT

I have a question, first about the comment about fire and earth, if the Kabbalah is about that then where does the other elements, Water and Air (which on earth seem to be life giving and life destroying)? And one initiated must know their postion in the universe correct?

One

http://lightofhope.gaia.com — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:04:59 GMT

I am just one amidst many. I will see how I shine.

Re: Zohar Reading 4: Portion of Noach

http://lightofhope.gaia.com — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:38:18 GMT

In my understanding that story does express the power of unity and the power of "the word" on either side (Balaam is a good example) but one must remember that noting compares to the One Indivisible Unity (Hear O Israel Adonai Elohim Adonai is ONE). So in my understanding because they were going against the One Indivisible Unity in one respect they wanted control but in actuality in their heart they were saying the wanted the world destroyed because they proved that through their actions going against the One that sustains the world and if allow they would have destroyed the world but not the One Indivisible Unity. Because to Hashem the fact that they would try to build a tower to heaven to get to Him like you can pinpoint Him is laughable but for the world's sake that tower had to be destroyed because if people rally like that again it is like having WW2 x100 this whole planet would be in cinders in the least aspect. Again this is my basic understanding.

Re: Weekly Kabbalah Tune Up Jan 4-10, 2009

http://lightofhope.gaia.com — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:35:25 GMT

Those are good words. I will just say that everything in life is a step process starting with the awarness and understanding of self in the positive and negative aspects. Once one know this then it will be a easier to interact with family members because they understand and hopefully conquered the negativity in themselves, then they will be able to see and understand the positions that father, mother, brother, sister, cousin, uncle, aunt , neice, nephew, son, daughter is in, and even venture further to friends and even people they don't know. These are one of the ways we learn from each other because the basis of those letter that you have up there tell me this that you have to know yourself and keep yourself open to whatever has to come to you in order to make a link to others. Because you in it together so what effects one does affect all because it all connected. Put out a positive vibration and you will see and get one. Put out negative and you will see and get one.

ברך אתה השם לאצ הים

Weekly Kabbalah Tune Up Jan 4-10, 2009

http://princesamwise.gaia.com — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:44:13 GMT

January 4 - 10, 2009

A Family Affair

“

... a spiritual umbilical cord forever links parents, children and siblings.”

72 Name of the Week

Hey Yud Mem

48. Unity

With these letters, I pass the true test of spiritual character: I can now see all sides of the problems that come before me. My focus is upon unity and soul as opposed to division and my selfish desires.

A fter the dust has settled from the holiday dinners and family occasions, I thought it an appropriate time to offer a kabbalistic understanding of the nature of family.

Each of us comes into this world with a specific set of spiritual goals that must be achieved over the course of our lifetimes. These changes take place within the individual, but are not limited to the individual. Kabbalistically, children not only inherit our DNA, they also inherit a portion of our consciousness. In fact, DNA, molecules and atoms are all really different levels of consciousness.

Thus, each time a parent changes, changes are also taking place in their children. Likewise, when children embrace spirituality, beginning at the age of twelve and thirteen, any transformation they undergo will also influence their parents. A spiritual umbilical cord forever links parents, children and siblings.

When one boat rises, everyone experiences a bit of that new elevation; when one falls, everyone in the family sinks a little bit. The purpose of a family is to create an opportunity for constant interactions that allow us to discover those places within us where self-centered desire governs our behavior.

Family members have the annoying talent of triggering reactions within us, thereby giving us an opportunity not to react. Each time we forgo a selfish desire and choose selfless behavior - each time we choose our response instead of reacting - we make a change in our lives. And with each change, we receive a little more Light.

As we've seen, our efforts benefit our families as well, giving them additional strength to identify and transform their own selfishness. And as a family experiences the power of spiritual transformation and connects to the world of Light, those benefits extend to its friends, neighbors, and community.

As people throughout the world succeed in moving away from the dictates of the ego and toward selflessness, the entire planet is transformed into a paradise.

For the beginning of this new year, let us all realize that one great way to bring about peace on earth (and in our minds) is to be conscious and proactive at home. The more compassion and tolerance and self-awareness we show our family, the more we will see that reflected in the world at large.

Happy New Year to Everybody!

All the best,

Yehuda

Kabbalah and Einstein

http://poeticinterconnections.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:27:20 GMT

Hello! I'm a new member of Gaia, and of the Kabbalah group. I author a blog called "Poetic Interconnections: Exploring Spirituality and Science" and I thought you might be interested in one of my posts, entitled "Kabbalah and Einstein". Here's a direct link:

http://poeticinterconnections.org/2008/11/16/kabbalah-and-einstein/

Happy new year to you!

Adam

Poetic Interconnections: Exploring Spirituality and Science

www.poeticinterconnections.org

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Re: .seeking input. thank you samme for giving a "push" to write!

http://capreycorn.gaia.com — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:55:13 GMT

hi,

maybe you`re refering to nonphysical entity in kabbalah terms..or your perception of those nonphysicals...looks like you have "the matrix vision"... what i call non physical entity might be a other dimensional being as well ..some seem blunt enough to manifest themselves in plain sight .. .but as long as it`s noisy and can`t be locked in a closet..it`s a nonphysical entity in this dimension..to me.(maybe it`s just alien life forms fooling us)

of course all that we see is subject to what our brain makes of the visual signals..example when the south american indians first saw white people (thought they were gods) they didn`t see the spanish ships simply because they weren`t used to that sight ..only their medicine man used to seeing unusual things saw the big ships.

so in a nutshell : through learning the kabbalah you`ve enhanced your "matrix vision" which is really awesome..(by "matrix" i mean all is just energy be it physical or nonphysical)
"memory garden" sounds similar like what castaned describes in his book "the art of dreaming"

cheers :-)

Re: .seeking input. thank you samme for giving a "push" to write!

http://telesterion.gaia.com — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:48:18 GMT

I don't have all that much of an opinion on those things.

I agree that a person can use objects and clothing as cues to help with "energy" training and things like orientation and "energy" hygiene - which can be very important at certain stages in self-development, and also a lot of fun as well. (referring to jews and their secialized clothing choices and talismanics)

I don't really believe in "nonphysical entities", despite having met many hundreds of them and having drawn out and complex visionary interactions and conversations with such things.

Since I'm so familiar with them, I know too much about them to still continue to think of them as actually existent seperate entities.

Instead, I have what I call the "entitying theory" which is about the human mind, and it's tendency to model things as entities.

But, if I hadn't gone thru the process of conversing and interacting with so many entities, I'd still probably believe that entities had an objective seperate existence, in some form or another.

One of the things qabalah is good for is stimulating entitying experiences. A basic qabalah training exercise, for example, involves creating "memory garden" scenarios in the imagination that often revolve around conversations with entities like angels.

Fun exercises.

Re: .seeking input. thank you samme for giving a "push" to write!

http://capreycorn.gaia.com — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:15:53 GMT

hi bill,

kabbalah is a very complicated subject..
i need to think a little more about it, but from a distance....
i would like to shift to some other questions, that just came into my mind....
the jews wear big hats or have a little cap on their head...
could that be a protective measure to protect the "body energy fountain?"
now this may seem far out , but these are questions i ask myself..:

"why does nothing stick to teflon but teflon sticks to the pan?..just kidding. :-)"

a martial arts teacher taught me that lying "naked" in the morning sun is only energizing when lying on the stomach and draining energy when we face the sun..could this have to do with the body`s energy-field-flow-direction or direction of attention?
..i never had a obe while exposed to sunlight..maybe others had..have you?

..it is said that nonphysical entities mostly roam in the dark (rarely in plain sunlight) - this doesn`t have to mean that they`re dark-sided/evil entities...could this mean, that the spirit/astral body is vulnerable to sunlight radiation (thinking in terms of physics..the astral body could be made of elements/particles (maybe already known to physics) that are vulnerable to the sun`s powerful discharge (radiation) of these same elements/particles besides photons and the sorts....and the sun is as a matter of fact a extreme force probably not only capable of harming the physical body (if it is overexposed and not protected/shielded) but could also be dangerous/lethal to the astral body)

..what do you think.?
cheers
rey

Re: .seeking input. thank you samme for giving a "push" to write!

http://capreycorn.gaia.com — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:47:08 GMT

hi bill,

thanks a lot for the "input"
i`m still contemplating ...........

thinking about information not being at least a subtle energy form, is hhmm....(does that have to do with non-locality?)
does that mean the tree points don`t have to be accessed through the bottom spot you could go smack in the middle and then do "crosscountry" instead of using the energy/info highway?. have you ever tried that? (or is this the thing that makes advanced energy-kabbalah so dangerous?.to overshoot the runway?...how dangerous can it get?)

it is strange to see all those jews walking around in their black wardrobe now and thinking....hey, he might practice kabbalah magic.....or is that just for hardcore rabbis?.

i understand exactly what you mean by becoming metaphysically more advanced and the mind-processes going "michael phelps"....
seems that kabbalah training is also a key to accessing all the unused parts/potentials of the brain....i could really use that...
is that "boost" in your opinion also of great benefit towards experiencing more extensive OBE`s as well?

have a sensational weekend. :-)
cheers
rey

Re: .seeking input. thank you samme for giving a "push" to write!

http://telesterion.gaia.com — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:40:09 GMT

>>> so cool that you`re into qabalah-magic

well, all three streams practice "magic". That's one of the characteristics of Q/K/C-ab(b)ala(h) - it's an 'operative' system. It claims to be able to 'do' things.

What I trained in is magical/hermetic qabalah - which means the system that was worked on by the european hermetic tradition and it's inheritors, the late 18th and 20th century magicians.

Why the hermetics and magicians took up qabalah during a period when the jews had pretty much suppressed it is an interesting story. As is the story of how kabbalah came back into vogue. As is the story of why the different streams use different letters.

By 'stream' I mean cultural streams - that is, traditions, or patterns of cultural usage kept alive by various people or groups.

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>>> i don`t know if i got it right...energy might not be dimensional but it transcends(?) dimensions right?

Not energy, information. The tree is a flowchart of information and transformations and operations of information.

It's actually very common to see these two different things treated as if they were the same - and viscerally they often seem the same. This is a complex topic so I'm just going to touch lightly on it.

Like all mysticisms, qabalah has it's own systems of "energy training". That is, exercises that teach the mystic how to feel "energy" and alter consciousness and experience with that feeling of energy.

This gets a little complicated. "Energy" is a kind of information, but information is not necessarily energy. However, that's kind of advanced, and only really matters when you've gotten good enough at the energy exercises that they start getting dangerous.

In any case, the idea that was critical for me, was thinking of the tree as a flowchart of information. Keep in mind, I think of this as a very advanced idea, and when I started, I thought of the tree as a flow of energy too.

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>>> what kind of impact has the magic kabbalah had on your life so far?

The magical/hermetic qabalah.

Other people here are into kabbalah - I practice qabalah.

Well, I think of it as 'effects', not impact.

The effects I value the most might seem odd. They are, a significant improvement in memory, dramatic increases in visual creativity and multitasking and what we might call 'multidimensional' thought capacity. In effect, a radical transformation in the organizational structure of my mind.

That alone is so striking and worthwhile that it makes the effort I've put into qabalah training worth every hour a thousand times over.

It's radical enough that I've compared it to learning how to read and write. If you look at two people from the outside, one literate, the other not, it's hard to see a difference. But the richness of the inner life of the literate person makes that person almost a different type of human being, compared to the illiterate.

Qabalah training is like that.

Then there's all the other stuff - a new model of mind and 'self', changes in the orientation of the person in time and space, improved self-knowledge, yada yada yada.

Re: .seeking input. thank you samme for giving a "push" to write!

http://capreycorn.gaia.com — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:25:11 GMT

hi,

hat is really challenging.....3 different ways of "qabalah"

so cool that you`re into qabalah-magic.

that is a awesome concept.that tree. describing the process through which nothing becomes reality so shifting the main focus of attention from one point of the tree to another could lead to altered states.....could change the human energy field and maybe even the physical structure? i only have one book with the kabbalah tree...it is from choa kok sui "universal kabbalistic meditation on the lord`s prayer" ..it depicts the tree`s points as chakra vortexes...but doesn`t go much further than that...

thinking that the shapes in our universe , for example the spirals, are found in the micro cosmos, the macro cosmos as well as the "greater? cosmos".....leads to thinking that the same counts for the kabbalah tree...(streams).

i don`t know if i got it right...energy might not be dimensional but it transcends(?) dimensions right? it has no real boundaries but it could have peak power points and directions of flow and form dimensional bridges/doors and a lot more..so the tree might be a key therefore in finding the path from micro to macro to greater cosmos and back in terms of streams?!.superstrings of some sorts?? the key to shift to other realities /dimensions without having to disintegrate?
ahhh...(do you get what i`m trying to say? because i`m lacking the words...)

ok..i am thinking of the qabalah-tree-shaped vogel-crystal . which must have the qabalah shape to be stable in itself. (to be a energy constant? ...nothing getting lost/escaping and nothin intruding/disturbing..a failsafe energy structure applicable in any dimension?). i just can`t resist thinking about the tree in 3d(like a crystal) and placing the david star with it`s hebrew inscriptions horizontally right under the standing 6-sided tree/crystal and on top of it and then see what can be made of it. ( it would be cool to know what is written on those 6-armed stars and find out if they could give any further clues in terms of energy (points/flow/pathways/short cutts ) of course it`s tempting to imagine the david-star in 3d as well and maybe put it in the middle of the 3-d tree.( i haven`t got a clue...just playing "lego" in my mind) :-)

what kind of impact has the magic kabbalah had on your life so far?

cheers.

rey

Re: .seeking input. thank you samme for giving a "push" to write!

http://telesterion.gaia.com — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:26:52 GMT

>>> i am just guessing that the qabalah tree is a kind of flowchart and the interconnected points could be visionary states and their different intensities, different dimensions, frequency states, astral realms of some kind , attention and energy spots of the aura, a residence map of gods and spirits...or all of it and more?

Yes, a flowchart. I think of it as a flowchart of the process by which 'nothing' becomes 'reality'.

Or, said another way, the process by which 'consciousness' draws the world we experience.

Or, said another way, the process by which the brain generates the bubble reality we occupy at any given moment.

Of course, the ancients (and not so ancients - qabalah, especially the otz chium, the tree, arguably isn't THAT old) thought of it as the process thru which god creates the world.

>>> ..the qabalah tree is shown mostly as a 2-d image of something that maybe should be 3-d/ holographic? with at least 4 sides to it or more? is that far fetched ?..

Lots of people talk about a 3d tree. I'm not sure thats not just an aesthetic conceit. I think of the tree as an information flow - not an energy flow - and information is not dimensional, altho the mediums thru which it flows can be.

But, I like to turn the tree on it's side, as a thought experiment about heirarchy, so I'm just a heretic no matter what.