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The First Tenet

🌑 Matrix of Golus / Lies: (Disconnection, distortion, exile)

  1. Fear-based obedience“What will they think?”Example: Silencing your voice online to avoid backlash.
  2. Scarcity mindset“There’s not enough…time, money, safety.”Example: Not sharing your true gifts because you feel unprepared.
  3. Self-doubt disguised as humility“Who am I to say this?”Example: Minimizing your role when speaking about truth.
  4. Passive suffering“This is just how it is.”Example: Accepting physical pain or illness without exploring deeper causes.
  5. Splitting the sacred and the real“I can’t bring holiness into this part of life.”Example: Thinking your physical enjoyment – pleasure, abundance, joy – has no place in spiritual leadership.

🌟 Matrix of Geula / Embodied Truth: (Union, presence, redemption)

  1. Co-creative courage“I speak because I was born for this.”Example: Going live to share Divine truth, even if trembling.
  2. Abundance of presence“I bring wealth when I arrive fully.”Example: Teaching not to impress but to awaken.
  3. Sacred self-trust“Hashem chose me. I agree.”Example: Making a decision without external validation.
  4. Redemptive responsibility“If I feel it, I can help heal it.”Example: Tuning into fear in the collective and speaking a higher timeline.
  5. Wholeness in the body“My body is a sanctuary of prophecy.”Example: Letting pleasure, rest, and beauty be part of holy work.

So, allow me to add context and texture to what you just read. These are the notes from my most recent teaching session of the group I meet with every Monday morning. This group is led by Shifra Hendrie. She has a website and during our next Monday evening contemplation/meditation session I will show you her website. We will also do a guided meditation she recently did that is very powerful.

Have you heard the phrase……”As Above so Below???

Arguably, the first “tenet” of Creation is that The One became two. Spirituality, Spiritual inquiry, spiritual understanding, spiritual wisdom, spiritual anything must start with exploration of this tenet. It’s like playing Monopoly; everyone starts on GO! “As Above so Below” is a powerful metaphor for understanding what this emerging duality may look like. The Below represents the unseen, mystical and spiritual world. The Above is the seen, physical and material world. The water is the spiritual “world”l. The land is the physical “world”.

Now, go back to the beginning of this post and read through the five characteristics of the physical vs the spiritual. The physical world is Golus or exile. The spiritual world is the Geula or redemption. As spiritual seekers we often express the goal as oneness or unity. The journey back home both begins and ends with a patient, persistent willingness to confront, explore, understand, become illuminated and celebrate the relationship between Above and Below;

We will discuss on Monday. Until then….

Its Not Complicated but It is Complex

Oh boy! We are certainly at an interesting point in humanity’s journey back to Source. You may have heard Terrance Mckenna talk about this before, however, this video is really well done. It integrates the times of the day with what he was saying over 25 years ago. What a prophet. Please listen/watch this to begin to create context for what is next.

I am auditing a course on an introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Here is a really good visual which breaks down where we are with it. I am not going to go into it much in this post. I am working on juxtaposing AI with The Tree of Life. AI is basically a learning model. So is The Tree of Life..

Look at God

“If you look at the at the world you will be distressed. If you look within you will be depressed. If you look at God you will be at rest.” Corrie ten Boom

The following is part of a lesson from my teacher Michael Berg. Every week is a Torah portion that is studied. The Kabbalists see each week as a unique window of opportunity to connect to the spiritual path. …..In yogic terms….reaching Samadhi – Union with Source…We are engaged in The Hero’s Journey….The Road Back Home….

As we walk down the road of life, we are offered many paths to choose. We may find ourselves arriving at a crossroads where we must make a choice which direction to proceed. We may be looking ahead at a single path, a path horizontal like a timeline in which keep moving forward. Sometimes, however, the path before you is a vertical one. This is the path of spirituality where advancement occurs in areas, often in areas unseen by the naked eye. 

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Access Levels

The purpose of this life is to awaken, to grow, to transform, to know and to establish sovereignty! We are here to remember, to return and to redeem by embodying our True Essence. Born a caterpillar, eat like a caterpillar, form the Chrysalis, awaken to the butterfly, and in the end,….Be the Butterfly; A Metamorphosis.

The question of life’s purpose is the abstract. How have you addressed this question? Most of us have, at least, thought about it a little….Right?

Let’s first talk about human development. This area of inquiry is not woo woo. There is a ton of empirical study and evidence pointing to an evolutionary path of human development with stage levels. Each “stage” offers increased access to what the world has to offer. I can point to Piaget or Maslow, for instance. Piaget’s stage hierarchy starts at birth with sensorimotor. The next stage is called pre-operational. Then around age 11-13 many humans move upward into operational. Finally, a few of us evolve and move into a stage called formal operational.

Back in the day I helped create and develop a software application to process business work flow. This application spanned the spectrum from lead generation to sales – to customer service. Most everyone, nowadays, is somewhat familiar with how these Client Management Applications work. One of the most important aspects of an application like this is the different access levels. At the highest level is the code writer himself/herself. He/She is the creator of the application. Below this are, let’s say…Owner/CEO level then management level, then sales representative/ customer service rep’s access level and, finally, customer/client access level. As you move down the chain the access is limited or narrowed.

Now, allow me to try and bring this inquiry ‘home.’ In The Master Template of The Creator are five levels of access. Access to what you may ask? Simply put…access to The Light of wisdom.

The first level is the level of physical manifestation; The Physical World. The world of space and time. This is the customer level. You are a consumer of the apparent world of things and events. Most human beings live in this world all of the time.

Now, before moving on to the next level it is important to understand where we are today as a collective. This video is a way of “seeing” it. In order to move out of the physical and cross over into the metaphysical one must understand that the choice is binary. You either believe that man can rule man or that there is a Divine system in play.

The second level is the first awakening to something beyond the physical world. The mind that seeks is awakened. One begins to explore through inquiry of what others have found by reading books or listening to others. You are no longer a customer/consumer. You have shifted into an exploration of what lays beyond the physical.

The third level is a testing of practice and dogma of “maps of the territory.” Perhaps one attends a church or a synagogue. Or one goes to a retreat and learns and engages in processes. You are engaged with the process of Creation.

The fourth level is discovery of secrets. It is revelation of what has been concealed. One begins to awaken to the architecture of the “application.”

The fifth level is a partnering with Creation and its purpose.

Now, dive deeper and watch this video……You are here to awaken to who you really are…….