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The Kabbalah of Transformation: To Turn Darkness into Light
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." Quote from Albert Einstein.THE KABBALAH OF PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION: "In the sixth century of the sixth millennium, the gates of supernal [heavenly] wisdom will be opened, as will the wellsprings of earthly wisdom, preparing the world to be elevated in the seventh millennium." Quote from The Zohar - a source text of Kabbalah.QUESTIONS So, who are you? Are you a mother, father, child, friend, spiritual seeker, doctor, lawyer, teacher, business person? A husband or wife? And what kind of person are you? A good person, a not-so-good person? Smart or stupid, graceful or clumsy? Are you talented, bold, wimpy, fearless, fearful, articulate, shy? Do you enjoy taking risks, or are you afraid to try new things? Do you like to let it all hang out, or are you shut up like a clam? Whatever your answers, you most certainly have a good number of definite beliefs and opinions about yourself. Those beliefs and opinions, whether expressed outloud or not, will limit and define you as certainly as if they were made out of concrete and steel. Here is a short story: Several years ago, a magnificent young tiger was imported from India and shipped to a local zoo in the United States. A beautiful and expansive habitat was built for him, complete with waterfall, trees, rocks, valleys and caves. While the building was going on, the tiger was housed in a small temporary cage, approximately 30 by 30 feet. It spent its days continuously pacing the cage from one end to the other. Originally, this cage was intended to house the tiger on a very temporary basis, for a couple of weeks. But the building took much longer than expected. This young tiger remained in the cage for several months.
When the habitat was finally complete, the cage was lowered into it, opened, and removed. The tiger almost immediately resumed pacing - 30 feet forward and 30 feet back. It no longer needed the small cage to limit and confine it. This cage, which once surrounded the tiger, had been transplanted into the tiger's mind. And even though it no longer physically refrained him. The tiger was defined and limited by his past. And by his belief in what the world was really like. A similar phenomenum is untilized by people who train elephants. When the elephant is young and small, it is strongly tethered to something large and heavy - a strong stake or a tree. The elephant pulls and tugs, but cannot free itself. Eventually gives up and confines its movements to the length of the rope. As soon as this happens, the trainer no longer ties the elephant to the strong tree, but instead uses a small stake to refrain the elephant. The now larger elephant could easily pull up this stake in an instant. Only it doesn't. Stake, rope, and confinement have become indelibly associated in the elephant's mind. He believes that the rope and stake will hold him and it does. Does this ring any bells for you? Do you ever say to yourself: "I can't, I'm just not that type"? If you answer 'no', look harder, because in one self-defined arena or another we all do. Some people can't parachute out of planes. Some of us can't keep our houses organized. Some of us can't stop overeating or overdrinking. Some can't talk about our feelings. Some can't get ourselves to work, and others can't stop working. And we almost always think we know, in any given area, whether we have what it takes, or not. Just like our zoological friends, the ties that bind us are almost always thicker, stronger and more real as they exist inside our heads, than they are in the actual physical world. The way we react to our beliefs about ourselves, life, other people, and what we can and can't do is no different than the tiger's reaction to his months in the cage or the elephant's to his rope. We don't start out life with fixed ideas about who we are and what we can and can't do, but we begin to develop them pretty quickly. As we grow older, we continue to reinforce them. If you decide as a small child that your ideas are not important, chances are that throughout life you will continue to act on that belief. You will avoid sharing your ideas with others, and thus, have little influence on the people around you. This pattern of behavior, of course, will continue to ensure that very few people will seek out your opinions or advice. This feedback will continuously provide more evidence for your original belief. And you are now in a vicious cycle where belief turns into experience which makes your belief even stronger. However, this does not make you unusual. Virtually every human being, no matter how functional his upbringing, has some fixed ideas about who he is - and who he isn't. The Kabbalah explains this phenomenon in a metaphorical way. After being caught in the act of eating from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden, humans were exiled into a world of hardship, pain, death and the struggle for survival. Since then, we have been imbued with feelings of fear, insecurity, shame, guilt, self-consciousness and failure. These emotions have been coupled with a pervasive sense of being exiled from home. A good portion of our lives consists of trying to deny, overcome or compensate for these feelings. At first glance, this may seem like an enormous problem. Doesn't it take a massive amount of time and effort to be constantly fighting to overcome our inner flaws and fears? In fact, this seminal event, with all of its challenging consequences, is neither a problem nor a mistake. Our struggles have a Divine purpose. Kabbalah states that God first looked into the Torah (the Bible) and only then created the world. That means before God even created the world, He foresaw the entire course of events in the Garden of Eden, including the eating of the forbidden fruit and the exile that would follow. It may seem paradoxical, at first glance, but this scenario is actually fundamental to creation itself. Let me explain. Part of the intent in Creation is that we should not remain passive recipients of God's largesse. Rather, God gave us the greatest gift of all... the potential to become true partners in creation. This is a gift that was not given to even the most holy of angels. It was reserved for us, specifically because we are souls in very physical bodies. Only because we are finite and disconnected from the truth do we have the ability to exercise free choice. And only those who are gifted with free choice have the power to create something new - to transform darkness into light. Childhood is intentionally designed to reactivate and give a personal flavor to the limiting emotional states that were imprinted in human psyche during the exile from the Garden. Your particular experience and predispositions combine to create your ego-based identity, your persona. This part of you tells stories, gives opinions, makes judgments, has reactions, and is programmed to reinforce and defend itself in exactly these ways. It is, on the one hand, part of what defines you uniquely as you. On the other had, this is a highly restrictive, limiting structure, like a piece of very dark, even opaque glass superimposed over a clear window. It is the most external, surface layer of who you are, which conceals all of the more internal layers. Because it's the most visible, it appears to be the most real... But there is a truer you. And the purpose of each and every obstacle in your life and all of your reactions to those obstacles is to allow that truer you to shine through. Now is the this time, when, as prophesied, the Divine wisdom of Kabbalah has become accessible to the average person. Every Olympic athlete has spent thousands upon thousands of hours testing and expanding his limits: Jumping hurdles - or the equivalent - in order to access a latent power that would otherwise never be expressed. The athlete pushes to break through the barriers of what is assumed to be possible, over and over again. Whether or not you are an Olympic athlete, you have the same power to break through barriers in your own life. In the game of life, we face hurdles almost constantly. Often these hurdles seem just too high. Each time you run across a hurdle that seems just too high, you have a choice to make. You can stick with your familiar old story about who you are, back away from the hurdle and resign yourself to a smaller life. Or you can reach beneath and beyond the concealing glass into the unbounded potential of your truer self. There, you already have the untapped power (God's gift) to jump higher and farther than ever before, and in doing so, expand the very boundaries of the person you've assumed yourself to be. Any time you do this, you've taken a piece of darkness, whether your own limiting stories, your fear, resignation or self-doubt - and used it as the impetus to draw more light, power and aliveness from the essence of who you are. That's one of the reasons that you're here. Next time you hear yourself saying or thinking something like: "I'm just not the type", "I can't", or "I'm afraid", think of the tiger and the elephant. Knowing that you're creating your own cage is the first step in breaking free. Then, just as an experiment, ask yourself what you would do if you were the type, if you could do it, or if you weren't afraid. If you ask yourself this question, you may be surprised at how clear and available the answers are! Then, as a bonus, even though it 'just isn't you', even though you're scared, try taking action based on these answers and see what happens. It's time to turn some darkness into light. *Authentic Kabbalah is not magic, spiritual tricks, or a new age self-help technique. It is Jewish
mysticism based on the deepest level of the Torah - the Divine communication given to Moses at Mount Sinai.
It is the ultimate mission statement and owner's manual for the human being. Learned and applied properly,
authentic Kabbalah will help you to reach your highest potential as a human being created in the image of
God. It will give you access to a life of joy, purpose, power and passionate aliveness.
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