One of my biggest struggles in presenting information about working with Spirit is how abstract the information becomes. We live a world where everyone is taken literally and everyone is used to thinking of either/or.
The thought process of most people is, "If you have what I want it means I can't have it." I've had numerous people tell me, "I don't know what you're talking about. You're smart. Explain to me what that means." The words used sometimes, especially in certain spiritual groups, are down right confusing. Trying to translate abstract ideas into something people who are used to thinking linerally is not easy. Then what people do with the information is all up to them. Some people use the information to grow into a better human being. Some try to use the information to enrich themselves. Some simply lack the ability or desire to comprehend it and still others consider it magic when it's not that at all. There is a scientific framework and a very analytical way to approach Spirituality. However, before people are capable of approaching any of it from that view point they have to give up a lot of limiting ideas and beliefs. In general, most people have a very romantic, superstisous and fearful approach to working with immaterial forces. That has a lot to do with domga and how immaterial forces are depicted in Pop Culture. I used to like watching those depictions myself but have no interest in them now a days because they just irritateme with how wrong they are and how they breed fear into people. Spirit Is Feelings As Rav Michael Laitman explained in his book The Path of the Kabbalah...once you start working with Spirit it's all about feelings. There are feelings and symbols...that's the heart of working with spiritual forces. In the immaterial realm matter doesn't exist and neither does time...or depending on what you're working with time occurse at a diffrent rate. In order to understand Spirit you have to have an imagination. Spirit is always very funny. Spirit loves puns. Spirit doesn't take things so seriously...because Spiritual forces, including our souls, are eternal so there is no press for time. There is knowledge that there is eternity to get things right. All things that come into existence in the material world first exist in Spirit...this is a key Teaching of Edgar Cacye that is very true. Take for instance the fact that you decide to darw something. The image doesn't exist on the paper to start with...first it exists within your minds eye. Then, you think of how to transfer the image that exists in your mind eye onto the paper. Then the drawing exists where everyone can see it...but at first it started off as an image that existed solely in your head. Spirit is the essence of consciousness and it meets us within the minds eye. There we interpert the information we receive from Spirit and bring it into the material reality. Those who are completely fixated on material reality...or trying to conform material reality to their thinking...can't perceive Spirit. Their mind is too full of their own ideas, thoughts, and desire to change the world around them for them to hear the subtle quiet voice within. To Each Is Given Their Measure I can usually tell where someone is on the spiritual path by talking to them for a short amount of time. These are just general categories. Some people may be a mix or they might fluctuate through the different categories at different times in their lives. There are the material minded, usually athiests, who's only goal is material gain. They do not possess a bone in their body that desires contact with the One Creator. Their only focus is money, owning material possessions and their next aquistion or conquest. They have no time to consider intellectual pursuits let alone develop a taste for spirituality...all of that is just superstitous nonsense that they cannot weigh or measure. There are the closed minded ones who only accept one defintion from self proclaimed authorties for anything spiritual. Incapable of opening their minds to ideas or possibilities beyond the religous ideas they have memorized they do struggle to be better people to their neighbors trying and I always failing to live up to the incredibly unrealistic of perfection they told they must reach in order to gain entry into heaven. They only march in tune with established religious teachings demonstrating they are very good at memorization but not believing they can apply what they have learned to their daily lives aside from asking or trusting God to provide for them what they desire. There are those who are curious but scared. They believe that something is out to get them and if they delve too much into spirit they will bring bad things upon them and their families. They believe in witches and warlocks that can manipulate the world without being punished that exist outside the One Creator's control. They usually use Spirit for material gain. The majority of people who put themselves out there as 'spiritual' fall into this category. They know enough to put some things into action for themselves but genrally mislead others. These people might not even believe in the One Creator. Then there are the people who are more open but they are looking for a guru or teacher. They want someone to give them all of the answers instead of stepping onto the Spiritual Path of the Seeker. They lack the ability to discern what practices will benefit them and too easily fall for those who will use them spiritually. They lack the desire to be individuals and are more comfortable in a Group Think environment. Finally, there are those Seekers who step onto the Path alone. They may join in groups for a short time, listen to many teachers, and continue on becasue the real goal is to seek companionship with the One Creator. They do not allow others to tell them how to work with or interpert the One Creator but seek within for that connection always measuring those who proclaim themselves as experts, spiritual, or teachers against the still small voice within that connects them directly to Spirit. When someone in the final category talks to those in the first category...their words might sound like nonsense. If I put the book The Path of the Kabbalah into the hands of a strict church going Christian they would not be able to comprehend even a tenth of that book. I struggled to understsand parts of that book but it was only through knowing my own experiences with Spirit that I understood what the author meant which makes it ring as authentic to me. There is a certain point where the Work of becoming a Seeker becomes so abstract and so based on feelings as well as very personal messages...that it fails to have a general application or even the need to be said with human words which are so limiting. That might be why any attempt to make a generalized spiritual system fails...because each of us is unique and our path to the One Creator is unique...it is never the same as anyone else. Also, you come to know that most people aren't aware that they are sleeping and disturbing them from their slumber will just generally upset them. I hae learned that Spirit only allows people to comprehend wisdom on the level they have chosen to operate. If they come upon information that is not within the realm of what they have worked towars spiritually they will fail to comprhend it. There is no judgement in any of these categories. These are just the ways the people I tend to interact behave. The Troubel With Teaching You learn to trust Spirit. At first, when I started to gain insight and have all of these awesome Peak Experiences I wanted to share them with everyone...especially those who were suffering. I wanted to help everyone to learn how to suffer less! I wanted to tell them how I did it in the hopes we would have a mutual experience. However, like Moses on the mount who came down to find that the people had resumed their normal activities...you find people are slow to change. In fact, in Psychology you'll find that people will only change when they want to change and usually it's because their pain has become so acute they have no other option but to reach out to a Higher Power. Even then, they may change just enough to alleviat their suffering to a more tolerable level. You could perform amazing feats for people...but then some would try to tear you down as a fake, perhaps even kill you for blasphmey, and others would elevate you as existing at a level above themselves and still won't reach out to have the experience for themselves, so what would be the point? Spirit is working through all of the categories of people I have mentioned above to various degrees. Spirit does not intrude when it is not welcomed- which is mostly in the first and second categories. Spirit is gentle, paitient, kind and loving...it doesn't intrude but waits to be acknowledged. Why Is There Suffering? One of the things the media uses to their advantage to make more money is the explotation of Suffering. Why, do they say, do some people suffer and some do not? Shouldn't we try to eliminate the suffering of other people? Shouldn't we take care of everyone else? Isn't that the loving human family thing to do? If I saw my brother break a family heirloom would I volunteer that I broke it so that he didn't receive the correction for it? Would I be helping my brother by accepting his responsibility? The answer to that is no. No, it is not the neighborly or loving thing to suffer in the place of someone who has made a mistake. This material reality and the souls that exist within it, for all intents and purposes no matter what obscure religion that you may study, is always the result of a 'mistake.' Call this reality an illusion (Hindu, Buddhist) or the Fall (Judaic, Christianity, Muslim) it amounts to the same thing...there was a mistake at the start of this part of the creation and all of us are working towards correcting that original mistake in perception. One of the funniest statements in The Path of the Kabbalah is the idea that the people who have smooth lives and obtain everything they want...are those who are not called by the One Creator. You might sit there and think, why do I want to be called if it meansing Suffering? A materially minded person would laugh at that and not even try. Well, suffering is how you are pushed to make the adjustments to your belief systems and your ideas. That's how you are pushed to grow. At first it seems rough because you're more aware of why you are suffering and you're trying to figure out how to stop it somehow...and because of certain genrally accepted beliefs you may feel you're being punished for some reason or attacked by some outside force. Suffering is not punishment, setbacks are not punishment from some outer force...it's instruction from a Higher Power. If we just accepted that in the general population there would be a lot less suffering. Further, one cannot correct ones self and then try to transfer it to another person. No one can do the work for you (unlike what the churches would like you to believe). Grace is something you have to earn and ask for...it is not just given, although, it is always at hand should you ask. You have to make the corrections for yourself because it is an adjustment of your perspective that needs to change. Not neccesairly behavior. Behavior changes only after the perspective of the individual changes. That's why, much to my horror at first, when I hear someone else is suffering I don't feel sorry for them. I have realized that each person is the cause of their own suffering and even if I can try to shoulder their burden it's not my place because I would be interferring with their development. I don't try to take on their pain or solve their problems. I will offer advice and encouragment but if they demonstrate they are not intrested in changing their ways I stop. I trust Spirit. The right people are guided to this blog. There is such a beauty in that and it is so wonderful to see how just reaching out to others in love by being an example you can watch people transform themselves. I have seen miracles. I have seen people that were on a self-destructive path pull themselves out and transform their lives. Free Will The Buddhists call it Detachment. That's not like the Psychological bad concept of Detachment where you can't form relationships and you're detached from reality because you're unable to deal with the pain. What it is, is not being attached to material goals, material outcomes or material gains. Most of us are born into this world with a Will of our own. We try to force our will on our parents, on our environment, and on others. Of course, it's not healthy to try and control others. As we grow up we learn to use our Will in a more constructive way. We use it to learn how to draw, paint, make lattes, fix cars or any other amount of things that humans have applied to their mind to and created. Some people suffer something traumatic, then they go out form an organization and try to change the world. While that is applauded in our modern world...it is not a good thing. The outer world, other people, cannot be changed or controlled deep within their being just because they heard a story of heart break. Those people, who have a little bit more insight into human suffering, didn't learn compassion from it...they became warriors trying to force their will on others, but of course, they would argue...for a good cause. They became attached to an unrealistic outcome that they will be able to change everyone...when that traumatic experience was only meant as a personal wake up call to them. The Promise The other easier option is to let go of your Will to be Archtect of your Universe. To turn that over to the One Creator or whatever Higher Power you are comfortable believing in...and then just going with the flow. The promise has always been that once you surrender to that perfect Archetect that knows what's best for everyone is that what you will need will be poured out upon you. There is no effort but it is not without an exchange. By practicing and providing that loving compassionate example to other people the opportunities to positively affect others lives come to you naturally. You develop discernment about what to give, to who and when to give. The other people around you don't have to accept or change their behavior because of your example...although, it is guranteed they will be affected on some level by it. Hardly anyone can deny that their has been a transformation. Their is a confdiene and a gravitos about people who are working with the Divine Will insetad of trying to enforce their own Will upon others. Yet, once Spirit has seen that you have surrendered the path becomes smooth. Things fall into place and the people you need to encounter simply appear on cue. Communication with Spirit is slippery and abstract. Somtimes you get clear answers once you comprhend the language...and sometimes your left on your own because Spirit knows you've got this handled. There are many tests as though Spirit is asking, "Do you really understand? Are you really faithful?" Yet, the clues just continue to add up, things continue to fall into place, the seemingly unlikely or impossible happens...until it's undeniable that a Higher Power does exist and wants a very personal relationshp with you. Conclusion Well, I think I went a little off topic. Hopefully, though, this gives you a little bit of an insight into the Abstract quality of the Path. How much of a leap it is for us to trust but how big the rewards can be...I mean what is a sweeter reward then Inner Peace and A Knowingness that everything is exactly as it should be? The Egyptians describe our world as, "Upside Down." What that means is that we are in great error...that we believe that is false is true. We have created this false material world and we want to declare, "This is All-That-IS!" Yet, the rest of creation, including the One Creator, is sitting there waiting ever ready for us to invite them to join us...but not until we can learn how to play nice and not force our Will onto the rest of Creation.
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