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Future

#other

My journey began knowing there was an Other, so much greater, so much more than any ‘I’ or collective of ‘I’s. This Other, this greater of all ‘I’s—even if every little ‘i’, that lives and that has lived, collaborated and united in harmony—this collective ‘I’ would still be minute in comparison to the totality in which it existed.

There are certain pillars upon which all life experience resides. One of them is that we are all sourced from a Will that is far greater than anything we could ever imagine. Knowing this, we must conclude that within this vastness, the future is where we go—not because it is Divinely ordained—but because, within this realm possibilities, there are an almost infinite possible futures also possible—but only a small amount of them realistically probable.

Random existence

Either we believe in a divinely ordained existence, or we accept that the cosmos and our existence are just improbable events that occurred by random chance. This cosmology can open the probability of acknowledging a humanly ordained one, as preferable to the darkness and chaos of a seemingly randomly occurring one.

#tol{.tag .is-dark} Either our lives are to be determined by human created AI, or by divinely created AI. It is our choice.

We also know that divine AI contains an element of (true) creativity, whereas I am not sure we have a word to describe what the human AI is “creating”, and the best I could come up with is “creative plagiarism”.

Included Middle

#middle/included

All basic 2d analysis has 2 variables. What is the 3rd element that is necessary for a 3d analysis?

It is the included middle. It is the future that either expands or contracts according to the choices that are made, which the narrative manifested through words and actions. They either open up the future to greater possibilities, or close off possible avenues… It is the place from which the new seeds sprout, while other’s perish.

Form

#energy/form

The only true change is the one which makes no sense!

Form is memory – which is trapped energy, It generally “forms” around a central point, the moment, and is contained by “angular momentum”, and is thus circular. Consciousness is awareness of what has just occurred, and the ability to retain – and use – it. Thus the partner of consciousness is memory.

Time

#time

“The mystical path is a path that is focused on mystical encounters that lead to a mystical union, with time as energy.”

One could divide one’s experience of time into mundane time and sacred timelessness.

Mundane Time:

• Hold time (captive). Keep position. Control change.
• Actually a spiral, due to “angular momentum” of memory.

Sacred Time:

• Actually is “out of time”, timeless
• G!dhead exists in sacred time

External Quotes

Short quotes

The Meaning of Relativity

“The only justification for our concepts and system of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond that they have no legitimacy.”

## R’ Y”mba’s quotes ### Mystical > Mystical is not how the world is, but that it is! ### Food > Our bodily food changes into us, but our spiritual food changes us into itself. ### Be ready > God will pour into you the moment He finds you ready. ### Language > If richer and fuller languages for redemption are to evolve, fantasies that fetishise the past must be relinquished. ### Symmetry > In order for there to be an outcome, the laws of symmetry must be broken. ### Divine Desire > Every object, everything that exists in the Universe is a manifestation of **Divine Desire**. ### Ego > If we are meant to be servants of G-d, then our ego's cannot rule. ### Spiritual Lab > A spiritual laboratory is where you carry out carefully crafted experiments learning how Spirit responds. ### The truth > The truth will set you free — to do good, or to do evil! It is your choice. ### Your Gift > During the growing phase, your gift is your tool. If it becomes a weapon, then you will live and die by that weapon. ### Topology >If one is of a specific shape, then that defines one's topology which will determine one’s relationship with the world around one. ### Meditation >Meditation that does not lead to clarification of commitment and action is entirely ineffective.

Natural world

G-d speaks through the natural world. Nature is G-d speaking to us. Not G-d Itself, but through It’s actions!

Idols

G-d is the expression of the natural universe. Idols are man-made representations of said natural universe.

The Creator

The G-d I speak of is not man-made, but exists before the universe was created. In fact, G-d is the universe (and more). Thus we say “G-d created the world.” When there was no cosmos, whatever existed before produced what has become our world.

Our hunger

Just as we wake in the morning hungry for food to nourish our bodies, so we need to awaken with the same spiritual hunger to sustain our souls.

Loss

“Nothing left to lose” implies that you had something to lose and then were placed —or forced — into having nothing left to lose.

Nature

Most of us are spiritually uplifted by being in nature.

Centre

The centre is a position relative to the space of the containment. And is defined according to the limited language of measurement.

A human experience

As the eyes and the ears, the nose and mouth, the heart, legs and arms of HaShem having a human experience, is where you can begin to embrace and embody the truth of your existence.

Infinity of meaning

#judaica/torah

If the Torah is an expression of the G-d, then each letter, each word, each line and each sentence, must have an infinity of meanings. In fact, everything does…

My people focus on Torah as the portal to that understanding.

Birth

The impact of spirit entering the body, and encountering the constraining environment we are born into, is traumatic. This is what creates the spaces of forgetfulness, the places of cognitive dissonance. For how could such a limited space contain the full wisdom of Torah.

Change

If Ha’Shem is the Source of everything, then true manifestation can only extend from this Source. Therefore we must direct any and all desire, any and all prayer, and every request to Ha’Shem - for only He can cause real change to occur.

Love

Love what you have. You can only desire what you don’t have. (Therefore love is not desire!)

Hate what you have, then you will love something that you don’t have. That which represents the counter to that which you have.

Perception

#neshama

All perception takes place in a straight line between the recipient and source of the observed event.

Is the response a straight line as well? No. It radiates in all possible directions—almost like a beam of light.

Sexual

The intention must be pure (תהור). ֺOne has to rise above the material which inspires the sexual. If that becomes the raison d’etre of your connection, it will quickly become awash with it.

If there is a lie, or a hidden agenda, then that will become enmeshed in the relationship, becoming an integral part of it. And eventually cause a crack in the foundations of your relationship.

You appear

#m_f

Man empties, woman is filled. Through the man opening, the women is fulfilled.

In the midst of the peacefulness, you suddenly appear. I know that once having touched your core, we are forever chorded. Having known you, I will always have the knowledge of you inside me.

Devotion

Devotion consists of:

• Prayer (words)
• Movement (dance)
• Music (sound)

Spiritual Gym

A spiritual gym is a place where you

• raise concepts deeper than you would normally
• carry a concept further than usual
• refine your techniques of exploration

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Medium length quotes

Wild Nights (David Deida)

“Mykonos said: ‘Everyone occupies their time while they wait for the big fuck, the thing they hope will finally make them happy, and all the while they are clamping down their pus-sack bodies, enjoying a few minutes of pleasurable dribble in an otherwise utterly boring day, holding back their hearts while they wait for a mommy or daddy who could save them and make them feel loved, denying God's fuck with the dumb, relentless churn of their doubting mind, resisting the Great One's love, the ever-present Big Bang of God's love exploding as everything they see and don't see, missing God appearing now while absorbing their terror in work and kids and whatever people do.’”

Ultimate Good

#ymba

The Supernal rests only on what is surrendered to It.

This is an expression of the ultimate Good of the Divine. For Good will always give us a choice. Thus G-d does not force us to experience Him. Yes, it is true, that we reap our karmic rewards according to our actions, but one could say that that is inherent in the system. It is an expression of the very laws, whether physical or spiritual, that are the dynamics of the experience (Universe) we exist in.

This also introduces the concept of the will of G-d.

Think of it as a game. You have been invited to participate in this game. If you do decide to join, there are certain rules you have to obey, otherwise you are “punished” by being given a red or yellow card which contains some temporary restrictions on your play. But if this misbehaviour continues, you will be suspended from the game, and eventually, if you are egregious enough, will result in banning you from participating in the game.

Similarly, it unfolds in the spiritual realm. Thus, instead of being the victim, ask what can you adjust, what can you do, to return to the game.

Spiritual foundation

A spiritual tradition that exists on a solid foundation, one that is based on a dynamic and spirited synthesis between the complimentary dynamics that oppose and the opposing dynamics that compliment. The process being one of thesis, antithesis and synthesis; declaration, opposition and resolution.

Kab: It could be interesting to view Tiferet as synthesis, which is an aspect of balance, in that it has harmonised the two chords, Chesed, as thesis, and Gevurah, as antithesis.

Revelation

G-d’s revelation – Its Revealing of ItSelf – depends on one’s ability to see It in the Text.

#judaica/torah{.tag .is-dark}
There is a serious concern with Judaism relegated to seeing G-d within the script of an ancient text, and not within life itself, forgetting that creation is G-d’s expression of ItSelf and the Torah is the blueprint for our lives – but not the actual manifestation thereof.

Inner Shape

The superior man is one whose words and actions are coherent.

It is one in whom the inner and the outer are congruent.

Many teach you about external movements, how to deal with outside forces. However, it is the inner forces that are most important. It is through the inner shape, that is formed from these forces, that we experience the outer. Here we have choice in shaping the inner.

Superiority

A major motivation for religious endeavours, it seems, is the feeling of superiority that it engenders, and is, in many cases, encouraged. Thus humility is a principle of all teachers of the mysteries. In fact is a requirement for anyone on the journey of authentic faith. It is one of the primary ways of discerning one who has encountered the flame of truth, and one who claims to have, but has not.

Outside - Inside

I prefer rent

Eldership

Eldership is attained/ordained when you gain the wisdom of your gift.

Which is expressed in gratitude: “I have been granted my portion.” That is, “I have been blessed with the gifts of …”.

Context

#judaica

Abulafia (for instance) could not speak of it other than in the context within which they were all steeped (both him and his audience). Just as a mathematician can only use mathematics to express what he sees, so the Rabbi’s spoke in the language of the Torah.

Static

A static world view cannot envisage change.

In fact, change is anathema to the absolutist world view.

Nothing is absolute, nothing is immutable — everything changes. That is the only “thing” that is constant. Thus, the only thing that we can be sure of, is the dynamic, living aspect of the Universe, El Chai.

Dark Inside

The darkness is inside, so, whenever we are alone, we are in darkness. There is only light outside of us. Thus when we are with others, we are in light. Only when we look outside of ourselves are we seeing light. Thus we conclude that outside is real, whereas inside—where I cannot see what I am experiencing—is thus unreal as opposed to the outside where I can see what I am experiencing.

Forced

If you are expected to uncritically accept something, then it is very likely that you are being force-fed a line of mysticism and superstition whose sole aim is to control you, possibly humiliate you and, in rare occurrences, cause harm to you. You are being asked to believe – in the absence of all evidence – that what some stranger is telling you is the truth just because that person says so.

Message

One can seek the material in the material, or the spiritual in the material.

We awaken into a material world, a world of “real” things — which we refer to as “reality”. We need these material things to exist, and the natural goal is to accumulate enough material to sustain oneself. However, when one has ensured one’s basic material security, what is one’s subsequent drive? This is where we have the choice whether to take the high road, or the low road. The lower would be to seek more material, and the higher would be to seek the spiritual in the material — the message, rather than the messenger!

Circular Journey

#math/circle

Everything is circular. The beginning is the end, and the end the beginning. These are two points that mark a transition, from one state of reality to another state (of unreality?) - even if it is to be “extinguished”. This circular journey becomes a spiral in time — perhaps itself a journey — which in turn inevitably becomes a return to the place from which you started.

The wheel (Samsara) turns and we turn with it. Our lives are bound up in this cycle. There are angels in the angeology of the ancient middle east named Ophanim, which means wheels, and it is upon these Ophanim that the Throne of G-d moves.

Spiral in time

#math/spiral

Every journey is circular.

As we live and grow, the goal is to gain increased awareness of the immensity and complexity of the world we live in. However, each one of us is only able to perceive it to whatever depth he or she is capable of.

The extent of your vision is dependent on how far you can “throw” your dream body. If you can’t even imagine it, how will you even be able to receive it, or fashion it. If you cannot envision another way, you will just work on more of the same, extending in a certain direction. This is breadth. It is horizontal expansion. How wide is your vision; how broad is your outlook; how large is your “sphere” of influence?

Length speaks of power, of will, of decisiveness. How far can the vision go? How much energy am I willing to invest in it? What is the length of the river, speaks also of how much water flows down it, i.e., the power of the river.

Linear

#math/line
Note: What about depth?

A linear representation is incomplete, always an approximation. It is often represented by a vector, which assumes it has a specific direction. It is reductionist in that there is only one straight line between any two points, whereas there are an infinite amount of curved lines that connect said points. In addition, it is separatist, creating distinctions, and distinctly illusionist in its description of anything of the world around us — except for the manufactured things that are useful to us in our lives. But nothing natural has straight lines (which would be an approximation, or ideal representation thereof), nor does anything natural travel in straight lines.

Energy of life

#nefesh

Energy that does not have form cannot be represented in this world.

[!quote] Wisdom of the Zohar, Isaac Tishby: 2:809-12
"When a person climbs into bed, his soul leaves him…
‘This soul fills the body, and when a person sleeps she ascends, drawing down life from above’ "  - R’ Me’ir

If there is energy, it must have a source.

If we are Divine, and can think any thought, feel all feelings, imagine anything possible, it then becomes our choice which to embrace and which to reject – thus creating our own internal reality and influencing our external reality.

Without us thinking the thoughts we think, or feeling the emotions that constantly arise in our beings, or the sensations with which the created world speaks to us, G-d would be unable to have this experience – except in potential.

Stasis

#energy/life
If it is dead, this stasis is relatively stable, with a very small amount of energy being transferred to and from its environment.

However, if it is “alive”, there is a more active interchange – which could even be judged by measuring the energy of these interactions. In other words, one could even judge whether a “thing” is alive or dead by the amount of energy that is being transferred between it and its surroundings.

As a result of this it requires a specific and ongoing energy input. In order to survive, the form needs nourishment from the surroundings. Thus to be alive has an inherently destructive aspect that is seldom taken into account as an important aspect of the full energy interaction.

Thus it is inevitable, in a purely commercial situation, that eventually anything alive would become a liability. Anything that wished to live an autonomous existence would be looked at as useless. That is why there is the continuous destruction of the ancient, of the environment, and now of people themselves.

Free will

#free_will{.tag .is-dark}
Why is following the Torah so onerous for so many? If it is indeed the blueprint of Creation, is this blueprint so flimsy, so delicately put together? If Ha’Shem is omnipotent, why is there so much difficulty in following his commands? Why do we have to be cajoled into obeying His Holy Word? Would we not, especially those who have seen His miracle, just follow them naturally?

Is it because we have been granted some of the Divine essence, or power, that we call “free will”? This free will can only be expressed as a negative – that is to go against the “Will of G-d”.

To have any choice in the realm of the omnipotent perfection, I would have to have the ability to negate the existence of such omnipotence—a contradiction in itself. Perhaps the only way to express this is through taking a position of denying the existence of G-d, declaring myself part of the tribe whose structure is build around the belief that there is No G-d. This attitude becomes an action in the world and the members build a system around this core belief, explaining the universe and our world in terms of this belief. This line of thinking inevitably ends up at the question of first cause. “In the beginning”, then speaks of a state or unfolding of effects, but avoids the question of how did the space and the configurations that make these effects possible, arise in the first place?

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Like a crystal

#crystal

Each organ is a recording and playback mechanism, blood is the recording tape with metal filings, cells are the components that make up the living crystals, and bones are the crystallisation of this information.

This implies that we are like a radio, just like the crystal, which receives and transmits according to how it has processed what it has received. For there is also a crystallisation of information that occurs as time passes. Enough to influence the response (i.e. transmission) from the living being.

Destination

To live a “big” life takes “big” energy, not only from you, but from your environment. Think of moving a skateboard 1 km., versus a car, or an 18-wheeler…

We don’t look for a religion. I have a destination, and I will take the path that will best lead me to my destination, not taking into account the influential effects of my movement. Like a river that flows down a mountainside, not relating to the effect it is having on its environment. Though that is an anthropomorphic perspective, for perhaps the river, as an embodied body of water, is very aware of everything that is happening in its environment. And is receiving—and transmitting—between all the various objects and living beings that abound in and around its life-giving waters.

If I manage to overcome all obstacles that stand in my way and achieve my self-vaunted goal, a tyrant of some sort will emerge from that, unless the constraints within which I have been placed are sufficient to keep that in check.

For the rest of us, some point of failure, or frustration, might just be the impetus to look elsewhere, and begin to seek what is hidden, what is that that opposes you? If you follow the truth, you will find at the end of the rabbit-hole, your own visage staring back at you. Failing that, there will be an external enemy upon which you will rain all your angst and frustrated energy.

Natural Laws / Divine Laws

#todo {.is-hidden .tag} Use this as a starting point.

“Laws of the solar system as derived from the five regular solids… was the result of divine law interpreted not just as a geometrical but also as a mystical harmony…”
—Mystic, Mysticism and Magic – Joscelyn Godwin p148 – Johannes Kepler

brought me to the following:

All laws, even those that are “scientific”, are expressions of divine law.

For instance, the laws of gravity, are divine laws.

What a gift it is to look at one’s life in that manner, seeing that one is contained in surroundings filled with G-d’s laws, and that every action is a dialogue (a negotiation) with these Divine laws.

That is how science co-opted religion so completely. Because these were mystics who penetrated the secrets of the universe, under the banner of science, and not under the banner of being mystics, i.e., exploring the mystery of life. They never for a moment thought that they were not penetrating the mind of G-d, which was, to their minds, a holy quest. But the consequence of this was that the “laws” that they “discovered” were accepted scientifically, and not mystically, though many, if not all, are actually quite mystical.

Examples:

• e = mc2
• Work on the magen david, and the flower of life (deriving the tree of life) [leanora leet]
• numbers
• infinity & 0
• 1
• brings in math as a symbolic language of the imagination
• operations (4)
• 4 levels, 4 worlds,
• leads to 4th dimension,
• the realm of the imagination
• $i$ - the imaginary number
• the next step in evolution…
• G-d is hidden in the world. We can only encounter Him in the realm of the imagination.
• compare math to mystical language
• through the Torah, and the Hebrew letters… one could say the same regarding Mathematics!
• to realise the cliff edge upon which we stand.
• the one who will “win” in this next epoch, will be the one’s that can journey easily into that realm.
• if it is done in service to life, it will produce a world of abundance. If not… all the curses that have been written will descend upon us. A time when the father will sacrifice the son, and the daughters will be sold like chattel.

My Pain

Our eternal pain is not that we are bad (as the site of the eternal battle between היצר הרע, the will to evil, and היצר הטוב, the will to Good, but that the will to evil might be residing within us. If we consider ourselves co-creators, in constant interaction with the Divine, I have to accept the fact that we have the Evil Urge imbibed in our very cores. This is where the doctrine of forgiveness becomes so necessary, so healing. It states that I start our healing from the place of forgiving myself for being aware of evil. For if I am part of Creation, then I am creating some evil in the world just by my very existence.

Does this feed my evil side(s) in any way? By the acknowledgement of evil, I am in some way, creating it, giving it energy. On the other hand if I cannot admit that I have the urge to evil in my very being, then how can we ever forgive ourselves, and heal? For what is there to forgive if I do not even admit to the evil urge existing within myself.

How can we enjoy ourselves without being bad? If God is all loving and does not care what we do, just that we love her, then how come we need to accept all these other rules that have been made, that make us so unhappy. So unhappy as to have the need to kill one another, and often in the name of the self-same god of love and peace and harmony.

{message: mess-age, mes-sage
messenger: mess-anger, mes-sager}

Suicide & Judgement (170506)

Perhaps that soul needs to have that experience. Nothing to do with drugs, depression, or anything else, including “voices”. Those are all just pathways to that particular experience. As the ultimate denial of faith, the only truly “unholy” act is that of the negation of life which, inherent in it, is a denial of G!d, the Divine. It is nevertheless and perhaps something that the soul needs to experience on its journey through this realm—which may not take only one lifetime. As it is said, “We can either take the long road of suffering or the short, sweet path through Torah”.

To propose that G!d punishes, or abandons us, if we commit suicide, is perhaps not true. It is a valid experience in the realm of human experience and as such is not “judged” in the same way. For G!d’s Judgement is not the same as human’s.

Think of this “Judgement” as you would think of the “infinite” number that sits at the end of any endless line of numbers—already we are in the paradoxical world of higher space. This “endpoint” that doesn’t exist also contains all the numbers in existence—plus all of those that aren’t too. Thus we ask is infinite a number? Is the set of all sets itself a set? Similarly, is the Judgement that contains all judgements itself a judgement? All we can really do in response is to capitalise the first letter. Just as we use capital R to designate the set of all real numbers, and then call it an “infinite” set.

In conclusion:

“The good and the evil of this realm is not the same as that of the spiritual realm”.

Heaven

Sex in Society

Society can only, and perhaps needs to, operate in a sexless environment. Once sex enters the picture, it introduces all the emotional trauma and baggage that a person (people) carry and their relationship with power and money.

This is an example of the connection between the internal and the external. The actual event, coitus, is not what affects the person long term, but the subjective, inner, experience of that act.

Even when coitus has not taken place, the influence of the sexual upon the behaviour of the people can still be significant. It can be exploited in many ways, both good and bad. If the ultimate goal of the usage is material it will result in perversion. If it is used for love, it will enhance all, especially those who are in relationship with the participants—it is an act of love.

Spiritual $\leftrightarrow$ Physical

#ymba
If we are truly spirit then the physical world is a delusion, a projection, which we are constantly creating and maintaining. Thus our spiritual energy is dispersed in maintaining an illusion of ourselves that is incorrect.

The question then is whether you spend your energy in ensuing that your physical being—which is a delusion—is comfortable or in ensuring that your spiritual—where your true essence resides— being is nourished.

If it is the former, and all your spiritual energy is dissipated in material pursuits for the comfort of physical being, then it will diminish one’s spiritual being until it will/may eventually be extinguished altogether.

Possession

Is it possible for the soul of one person to “occupy” the body of another?

Most tales of possession speak of an entity, generally demonic, that takes possession of another. These encounters generally come from another realm. In order for this not to occur, you have to call to the Divine protection of your space and your creation—which is the body that your soul has “breathed life into”. Remember how breath enters your body and the spreads and enters every cell of the body, so spiritually there is a breath or spirit, that vivifies every organ of the body.

We do have the choice whether to allow another power over us, whether to “give” one’s power to another, or even more extremely, to a material goal or object–a drug, a woman, money, false idols, or some other form of material addiction. We are of an addictive nature, and need to direct, or constrain, our addictions appropriately. If we become addicted to positive things, like studying Torah (mental), worshipping G-d (emotional), practising random acts of kindness and chastity (physical) (tzedakah), that is the practice that we refer to as religion.

Mysticism, on the other hand, is a call to the unknown, by the unknown itself—which is referred to as the mystery itself. Through faith, the alchemy of the unknown, the dark, and mysterious, produces gold.

Prayer

Come to terms with my … nature. Emerge from the closet, so as to say. Live fully expressing the truth of who and what I am, in order to fulfil my purpose in service to my divine nature and my fellow humans.

To spread my wings and fly.

To be able to balance my masculine purpose and feminine desire for union.

To be free of the constraints of the programming of my past (ancestors). To release the constraints that prevent me from being who I really am and express the love and light of my inner being.

Focusing on joy in my life, letting G!d take me to the shalom.

Darkness & Light

The darkness is inside. So whenever I am alone, I am in darkness. There is only light outside me. Thus when I am with others, I am in light.

Only when I am looking outside of myself, am I seeing light. Thus we conclude that outside is real because I can see it (see the light), whereas inside—where I cannot see what I am experiencing—is thus unreal. Or one could switch this around, and conclude that inside is real, and outside is just an illusion.

Like the sun, which radiates light and heat that is essential for life upon earth, yet none of its light shines on the sun itself. It is dark inside the sun!

Choice

Assuming that we are faced with the choosing between a spiritual and a material option, if you choose the spiritual, then it is a spiritual path that you will embark upon. If, however, you choose the material option, it is a material path that you will find yourself upon. Both are filled with challenges and blessings, and both are valid. It is a life (existential) choice; and one can choose the other at any point. Though we say choose the spiritual, and fall into the material.

Note on language

What has astounded me is the fascinating way in which language has developed. If one looks at these interesting coincidences, it becomes quite mysterious. For example, let’s look at the two words sacred and scared in English.

Let’s lay some groundwork. The consonants are the letters of form. In our case they are ‘SCRD’, which is the form of both SaCReD and SCaReD. They cannot be expressed without the vowels which, in this case, are ‘a’ & ‘e’. Vowels represent the feminine, and require the breath to be spoken, else they remain silent. ‘A’, the first letter of the alphabet, also represent the alpha, the divine.

Sacred then has first the ‘a’, representing the sacred and then the form ‘C’. Whereas scared first has the form, and then afterwards we have the divine represented by the ‘A’. In the first, sacred, we place the divine before the form, whereas in the second, scared, we have placed the form before the divine. When we start with the divine we have ‘creation’ during which the ‘creatures’ were created. So we derive ‘sacred creation’ populated by ‘scared creatures’.

• ‘ED’ is that part of the word that introduces the aspect of time.
• ‘SCR’ are root letters (consonants) and ‘AE’ are the vowels representing the feminine, breath & the divine.
• “C”, a hard consonant (the only one), comes before ‘a’ in scared, - ‘a’ comes after ‘s’ in sacred.

So, the creature that accepts the Divine before form accepts the primacy of the sacred, whereas the one that believes that the form is primary, will be scared.

Faith

Where knowledge ends, faith begins.

It is through faith which transcends comprehension that one can feel true closeness to G-d.

My intelligence and the root of my soul are of too limited a capacity to constitute a “chariot” or abode for His blessed Unity in Perfect Truth. Since my mind cannot conceive nor apprehend Him with any degree of certainty in the world, nor even one iota of that of the Prophets and the Patriarchs.

What is faith then? It is the belief/Knowledge that we are only a small part of the greater whole, and that what constitutes the totality is far greater than anything I can imagine. A large part of life then consists of an exploration into this greater mystery.

“We know that human vision assimilates only a small fragment of the spectrum; as far as our senses are concerned, the rest of it does not exist.”
— Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

It is more than likely that as far as all our senses are concerned, the rest does not exist. We cannot know what we don’t know; we cannot comprehend the incomprehensible. Most of us have a survival mechanism that keeps us safe in what we know and is very reluctant to experience the unknown—a dark and terrifying place, filled with all sorts of monsters that we may not be able to handle. Even scarier is the possibility that it, the unknown, or something in it, equally unknown, might cause a complete reassessment of your current life, shaking the very foundations upon which it stands, causing a pivotal experience that could change the experience you are going through.

The process reality of being is beyond our cognitive reach (Henry Bergson)

N: Processist, processuality, processism. All processes can be viewed as modifications of substances (material bodies).

Evolution

#tol

You can only be freed by someone/something from the outside.
You can only be freed by someone/something that is itself free!

• Revolution: if it is from the inside, it will only produce another version of what was. Often the same design. Even the same inmates – just a different location, and perhaps guards/wardens with different faces.
• Evolution: All evolution occurs due to outside force(s). However its disruptive effect is relative to the inner coherence/harmony of the body/society that is evolving/changing.
• All evolution is built on the previous iteration, and
• there are always those left behind [[Noah’s Ark]]

Here & now

• Absolute: here & now

The only absolute is that you are alive, and aware. This “point” of awareness we call “Now”. And the place that you experience it, is called “Here”.

Even though the “now” of your experience is not simultaneous with the Now of the occurrence. It has to become the anchor upon which your life is tethered.

• Relative: past & future

The past is like sight. Depending on the perspective/the line upon which you gaze, you will see your past—which is the only real past you know. All the rest, that we call history, are narratives (generally told by the victors) and guesses as to what actually occurred. But the only true experience you have of the past, is those you have had, that you have lived.

And those experiences morph and change as time goes by, till they become vague discordant memories of a time long gone.

• Absolute/Relative

To know, to experience, to perceive of something as relative, there needs to be an absolute frame of reference. Even if that frame is relative to some greater system, it becomes the “absolute”, fixed point of reference. The Axis around which your whole world turns. In order to change my life I have to change this Axis Mundi (the central pillar) upon which my whole life stands.

This is like the compass which needs one fixed foot in order know where the other is directed.

Pleasing the Creator

Bestow להנאת הבורה - for the delight of the Creator. Same as a parent/child relationship; or perhaps a teacher/student; or, best, a mentor & a novice.

Think of the first time a child “gives” something to its parent. How the parent delights in that gift. Whether it is the smile of a baby, or the scribbles of a young child, most parents value it for years. Think of a student that passes his grades, how proud is the teacher. Or a novice that understands the teachings, and the teacher knows that he is on the right path. So it for our Lord and Master, the Shepherd that bore us.

It seems that the constraint that holds most of us, is around our lack of giving towards our parents, and thus our ancestors - upon whose shoulders we stand. We seem to lack in compassion and forgiveness even for those who bore us, and sustained us, until we were able to make our own decisions (even the bad ones). We have forgotten about honour, and respect and decency - which implies, nay requires, some sort of code or covenant. In the same way, and I think this is the root cause of much of our disease — we no longer pay respect to our Creator. Like spoilt children, we even resent what we have been provided, always looking at and desiring, what we don’t have — but seldom taking responsibility for the mess we ourselves have engendered.

Shamanically: “Magic of their Alchemical Union”. Not personal. Shitty parents. Need to enter spirit, connect to your soul-purpose. As nothing can come into being without spirit, which working through each one of us, enabled us to manifest. It is all spirit. Do not be lulled into thinking it is literal, material or empirical — imagining that you are the real deal, the full package. That is foolish. There is so much more than you in this world…

Temple

Rise up and overcome the idol worshippers. Destroy their idols, not by blowing them up, but by starving them of attention. For there is no physical (or geographical) escape, like the Israelites did from Egypt in the story of the Exodus, which has exerted its influence on us throughout the ages.There is no more room for horizontal expansion. The only other direction to expand is vertically—as the horizontal/geographical options seem to already be occupied (as much as we are able). Though there will be other hidden mysteries that will be revealed when we have eyes to see.

So naturally, we begin to explore and “occupy” space, the heavens and speak of exploring the solar system. That is one vertical.

The other, that would open up other spaces equally as exciting, would be that of other realms. Through that exploration we will encounter the spiritual or upper world(s), producing a whole new way of expressing and exploring that world that our grandfathers believed in. We have to explore this space in a relevant manner in order to survive and thrive. Else the alternatives would be hellish, whether we survive or not.

Because, unless we initiate a deeper investigation and exploration of these “spiritual” or upper world(s), one of the more likely alternatives is for there to be a decimation of the population, thus making space for future geographic expansion!

Mathematics might make this a bit clearer. It is simpler if we begin with two dimensions, $x$ and $y$. The basic axes that we are used to from school. Now, if we want to represent three dimensions, we need to add another axis at $90^0$, or orthogonal, to the other two. As this would cause the 3rd axis to rise vertically off the page, we represent it by a diagonal dashed line.

The idea would be to fashion, and occupy, a holy land. Determine spaces where the idol-worshipers and the child-sacrificers are removed from our midst, and from which they are excluded. In addition, the ethics of these spaces has to be such that there will be no fertile ground on which these weeds will be able to grow.

This need needs to start in our minds. We need to be able to visualise/imagine that place. Thereupon we will be able to begin building the space we wish to live in, by upholding the principles necessary to lay the foundation of the temple that will enable that space.

Together we build, divided we suffer.

Do you know the Truth? Will you give your life to hold the Truth as your guiding light? Will you follow those who know and speak the truth?

“How do I discern what is the truth” you might ask? I say — “if you have experienced It, you know It. The fear will disappate.”

Always the Truth speaks, though it always speaks quietly, never shouting. It is referred to as that quiet inner voice. How often do you listen?

Relationship

Thoughts on why we need a sacred ritual to focus the sexual energy that the feminine is the recipient of:

The masculine collects all this "sexual – creative energy that needs to be made manifest. For his direction is transformation from the spiritual to the material – from the crown chakra down to the sexual chakra, from Keter to Shechinah. The feminine, the receptive, awaits this energy to enter into her and she is the medium in which the spiritual is made manifest. So, sexually, she accepts the gifting of the masculine into her very being. What should emerge from this is a child, but now that we have sex for other reasons, the creative energy will need to find another outlet. This often manifests in possessive emotional energy. She needs to be able to move the energy from the material to the spiritual. This is why we need the sacred ritual. The Kundalini snake that will unwind the energy from the base of the spine into the heavens. The arrow that will fly unerringly up the central pillar, never deviating, to experience a moment of Grace.

Thoughts on nutrient absorption being a metaphor for male/female dynamics, or why we believe in the perfect partner… just as we seek the perfect diet.

The cell needs certain nutrients. It creates a protein receptor, a huge, macro-molecule, which then emerges from the cell wall. Its roots in the primal fluid within which the cell lives, its head in the universal fluid that surrounds the cell. There it waits, a receptor, listening to all the sounds, all the calls, all the music of the spheres that surrounds it. It gets enchanted sometime. But if it is healthy, and in alignement, it will recognize the sign it is listening for, and then it will morph, and change itself, to begin to send out the vibrational energy to pull this nutrient into it’s being. It does not know from anything except the musical vibrations whether it will fit or not. Assuming, balance and perfection, it will fit like a glove to a hand, the key that opens up the doorway to the core of the cell. There it will be consumed and in it’s giving aid the cell in its life and journey. It is why the masculine seeks annihilation, for through that there is transformation. And the creative journey is one of annihilation, transformation and creation.

A moment on the cell that is a little off centre – emotionally, or otherwise, then the protein will accept a substitute, perhaps something that is close, and bring it in. This will provide some nutrition, but there will be a side effect. Thus needing more than is healthy of this nutrient, you will have an allergic reaction to it, or it will hurt you.