Thursday, December 04, 2008
My Journey
I've gotten a lot of emails lately that brought me back to this blog. I didn't realize that many of the graphics were no longer working. I was able to fix that, but left the rest of the blog as it was almost 2 years ago.
I thought I had made one final post in early 2007, but now realize that I left everyone hanging. So, here's where my journey's led me...
All of my seraching and studies, my obsession with finding the root of the root of the root, finally led me to what I had been looking for. It's definitely not the end of my journey, by far. If anything, things just got a lot more ineteresting. I feel as though everything I wrote about in this blog was preparation for the journey I was about to begin. So, here I am.
What I found is more ancient than Judaism, and isn't even a religion. It's what "Ancient Judaism" was, it fits perfectly into what I studied about 1st Century Judaism, and it's far from being a religion or mysticism. It's a science. Here's one of many videos of a good friend of mine, who describes it much better than I can...
Yes, Kabbalah. But as you can tell from the video, it's not the silly red string, new-age Kabbalah that hollywood made so popular. It's completely different. For those that know a bit about highly respected Jewish teacher from the past, my teacher/rav was the personal assistant and student of Rav Baruch Ashlag, son and first student of the great Kabbalist, Rav Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam).
I cannot say enough about how incredible this has been. I have my beliefs still, but these studies are outside of belief systems altogether. There are fellow students and instructors from all walks of life, all different religions, and even Athiests. The most incredible thing about it has been the feeling of unity. I can't describe how amazing it is to be in a room of over 500 other men that I've never met and feel like they're all family and best friends that I've known from birth.
But to each his own. The above makes it sound like a joy-ride. It has been quite the opposite. I never realized just how big my ego, my "what's in it for me", was until I began to study Kabbalah. But that's where our work is at. Not suppressing the ego, the desire receive for self, but rather changing it's intention into the desire to receive for the sake of the other. But I'll let you see for yourself.
www.questionyourreality.com
www.laitman.com
www.kabbalah.info
This will be the last post on this blog. The title of the blog no longer applies to where I am. But I still plan to leave it up, as I have gotten many emails from people that were helped in one way or another after finding my blog.
As for what else is going on in my life, my friends have my myspace address, and my business is online as well...
www.rockstarmindset.com
B'Shalom
