There is a certain proscription against hearing a woman’s voice in song among the Orthodox Jewish Community.
First of all for the sake of this discussion it is very clear that since this proscription against hearing a woman’s voice is grounded in orthodox halachic tradition it has become dogma.
This is what is most disturbing. As we have seen when the Ba’al Shem Tov of blessed memory first came on the scene he had to come up against the particular dogma of the times wherein the spirituality of the Jewish religion was becoming less and less while its center was becoming increasing halachic and as a result making it difficult for the average person to tap into their Judaism.
While this issue of women singing in front of men may not be the same kind of restrictive all around thing that occurred in the BSHT’s time it speaks of a similar mindset that now without the benefit of an enlightened master Chabad may become increasingly distant from the very thing that sparked its inception.
The argument or reasons for this proscription are not logical nor as may be pointed out in Torah in various places consistent with the general spirituality that is at the heart of Torah.
At the center of this proscription is the assumption that men are weak willed, sexual predators, and thoughtless to the point of being helpless against…the powerful voice of a woman.
So essentially what is being said is that because of a woman’s voice a man might sin so therefore it is forbidden.
It is well documented that man does not need to hear a woman’s voice to sin. Wars, depravations, holocausts, injustices, etc. all attest to man’s lower nature.
A rapist upon appearing in a court of law says ‘she made me do it by acting erotically.’ Our laws thankfully do not buy this argument. A german sociopath claims that all the ills of mankind are the fault of the Jewish people and kills as many as he can get away with. Once again thankfully he was stopped. His reasons were simply not taken as truth by the world.
The center of the matter is simply this. In psychology it is called projection. Projection is when we attribute our mistakes or sins to another. “he made me do it,’ or “she made me do it.”
A child strikes his sibling because his parents have taken a toy away. A man kicks a dog because he had a bad day at work. The list goes on and on.
Projection is never the answer for a person’s sin and does not work to keep that person from sinning again but only sets up a chain of sin whereby he may keep projecting ad infinitum.
The story of the Jewish people is a classic story of projection as nation after nation took out their national anger or inadequacies by projection upon Israel the reason for their pain.
Now the Jewish people have an especially sacred duty to not only refrain from this kind of projection upon an innocent other but to also provide inspiration in fostering self responsibility through Torah study that instills a rock solid faith in the Eternal and does not seek to use device such as projection to assuage its collective guilt. We are a light unto the nations.
Just to be clear…when you ascribe a man’s sin to a woman’s voice singing or otherwise this is projection and in a stronger sense it is betrayal.
A Jewish woman is a sacred trust meant to be honored as a mother, cherished and respected as a wife and nurtured as a child. The problems that arise with men is their mishegas.
It should be noted that you cannot legislate a man’s thoughts. He will think what he will regardless of what you forbid him to with overt proscriptions. However, through Torah and mitzvos you may change the man and therefore change his thoughts from lurid, to holy. This is the substance of what Torah study and what the Rebbe’s of blessed memory have always taught us.
If Torah study and mitzvos are not enough to make this change in the man then the proscription of ‘not being allowed to hear a woman’s voice in song or in the synagogue ‘ will not amount to a hills of beans in the changing of that man’s basic nature.
The Shechinah in Kabbalah has always been associated with the coming of Moshiach. We say speedily in our time or that we are waiting for the Moshiach along with the bride Shechinah.
Now think about it this way. If your wife was away for a long time and you yearned for her and knew she was at the end of a long road would you wait to see her or would you run to meet her? You would of course waste no time in running to meet her. The same is true for the Jewish man in regards to his wife. Instead of placing barriers between one another the Jewish man has the responsibility not only to meet her halfway but to make the extra effort to greet her speedily and as soon as possible.
You see it is said that the time of Moshiach all of these barriers will be removed. Why not start now and move in the right direction this very day wasting no time and yes no more waiting. B”H
This political season like any political season is filled with minefields. The problems of the country are debated and now we are at a stalemate of sorts. As usual the power struggles are taking place and what is not usual is that somewhere along the line the American people seem to prevail. Not this time. There is a mean spirit afoot in the land. A rogue entity that seeks not the common good but rather the special advantage for those who find themselves on the right team. Throughout this fracas one question remains unasked and it is the key to the entire picture we watch each day.
What can we do for one another? How can we help those less fortunate. How can we ensure the well being of all to the best of our collective ability. How strange that these questions remain on the sidelines in a land known for its generous spirit and yet now the selfish interests of the few are overshadowing those good intentions.
How is this possible to submerge the most incredible people whose generosity has fueled countless saving graces all over the world? When we think of America we think about our largesse and a nation where the people are really wonderful.
How does this generous spirit get turned into a mean spirit? The answer is simple. Anger. It really doesn’t matter who or what you are angry at. In fact the more vague the anger the better it may be manipulated for the end of masking that American spirit and turning it against the very people who are embracing it making them do things in the name of that anger even to the point of working against their own self interest.
How strange to watch people speak about taking away Social Security, healthcare, and education as if they did not realize that the very ground they were standing on was going to be pulled away. We rely on an economic system that all participate in. Businesses cannot stay where the people are broke, have no jobs, and the government has gone on holiday.
This spirit of anger turns many to fear, to hate, to uncertainty and to closing up their hearts. Those who are angry then must cling to their guns as if any amount of ammunition will protect you from financial ruin no matter how much money you have. When the monetary system breaks down the more you have the more you lose because it becomes worthless.
Money is based upon an agreement. When countries begin to default on those agreements banks are sure to follow and FDIC or no FDIC there goes your money whether it be in banks, stocks, bonds, or property, even gold will become worthless in a world that stops cooperating and seeks to grab for itself at the expense of others.
Let’s face it the money is being siphoned off now in the form of jobs that used to be here but are now farmed out overseas, money that used to be real estate siphoned off by bankers, hedge fund managers, and government officials whose complicity let the rules slack so that thieves could enter the henhouse at will take their booty and hightail it out all the while making payoffs left and right to whomever got in their way.
Corporations too are holding on to record amounts of money that could be spent in the form of jobs, research, expansion and what have you. Why are they holding on to their cash? The answer is simple. Those at the top have figured out that he who controls the money also controls who gets the money meaning themselves. This is why bonuses and raises are also record breaking in a time of high unemployment and tight money.
Yes there is a big problem but it is not with the corporations, the bankers, the government or the people. It is with everyone combined. It is the mindset of I have mine so forget about you. It is the attitude that the end justifies the means especially when that means you get to profit from those ends at the expense of others. Some will say that’s just business or that’s just the way things work. They are wrong because no matter how much you speak of business as soon as it becomes corrupted then it begins to decay, break down, fail. This corruption is also a mindset as if by blocking out those in need we may somehow ignore them or blame them for our guilt.
The answer is a national imperative to return to that spirit of generosity where each of us recognizes that we are indeed there for each other. In such a general awareness of giving those who hold back, are selfish, or are blatantly trying to get over on each other then stand out ostracized from the crowd. They become the exception rather than the rule.
All of this is happening in a country where religion is supposed to be a very strong force and yet taken from the Torah which both Christians and Jews alike ascribe to is the idea of doing what is right. Everyone knows the right thing to do but then because of the anger that is sown they choose to do something else entirely. It is like in the generations of Noach when the people were corrupt and they corrupted the land. Noach was the only righteous man. Here in America however there are many who continue to do what is right and the spirit of generosity rests upon them.
Those who have taken the bit of anger into their hearts have a bitter pill to swallow since there is no assuaging that anger no matter how it is directed or projected on others. The fact remains that anger once indulged in cannot be placed in the form of hate upon another since in doing so the anger is then replaced by guilt which eats away at the soul until it becomes shallow and coarse.
Anger begins with blaming others, speaking ill of others and doing harm to others. This is a classic projection of anger but the news is that it doesn’t work. The more you project, the more you blame, the more you harm others with your words the stronger that anger digs its roots into you. The irony with anger is that it is fueled by repression, something you did not say, or a relationship that isn’t all you expect it to be, or life’s disappointments that ask you to own up to yourself instead of projecting your fears and hatred upon others.
Once again the answer is to let go of that anger so that a common sense approach may take hold. Find ways to work together for the good of the people. The people come first. Everything else that exists to serve the people comes second.
Those who are wealthy need to come together in a millionaires club to seek ways to promote the common good not just with charitable donations but with a spirit of generosity that extends to actually caring about this country and its people.
As one people we need to resist the anger that politicians stoke their fires with in order to win our votes. Tell us how you can help the people first, put this country back into a spirit of generosity and achievement and stop the anger merchants from clouding every issue for their own financial gain.
America has to let go of its anger and seek leaders that understand the generosity of spirit that has been the hallmark of America despite forces to the contrary throughout the years and more importantly you have to let go of your personal anger and direct your attention to helping others everyday you live and breathe on this shared universe we live. Then the light will dawn and that new day spoken of in so many prayers will begin to shine.
Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Tea Party? If so you may not find the humor and the seriousness of what we have to say.
We are the COFFEE PARTY. That’s right we love America too and have decided to band together for our rights as coffee drinkers, aficionados, and people who want to start saying yes to America and no to anarchy.
Our platform of course includes daily trips to Starbucks, et al. It can be your local coffee shop but we will not we repeat will not be denied our coffee. Call us the antithesis of the Tea Party. We are hearty coffee drinking men and women as opposed to well think about it, a tea party? Really? Images of cucumber sandwiches holding fancy cups with weird pinkies poised for who knows what. Anyway you get the picture. We want none of that. We never knew we needed our own party but with the mess that’s going on in Washington it’s time someone threw some humor on the situation and in return bring Washington and the country back to its senses.
We are liberal socially and conservative fiscally. Basically this means sure have your coffee but in moderation. We say yes to just about anything that promotes America including clean energy, jobs, health care, social security and education.
What we stand for is the promotion of individual ingenuity paired with the team effort of working together for the greater good. In short we are here to help each other and believe that no step is too far to take in this direction. We are of the opinion that yes we are our brothers keeper especially if he is in need and we have the wherewithal to offer that help.
We believe in government by the people for the people meaning we can work together for the common good. This includes middle class, poor, corporations and the very wealthy. We know we can make all of this work together if we all share this purpose of working together for the common good. We think that politicians have to be accountable to the people they represent and that their (the people’s) overriding interests far outweigh the special interests regardless of lobbies and large sums of cash..
We say that if there is government then it must do its job. Less government leads inevitably to anarchy possibly monarchy and most certainty to a lot of malarkey thrown in along the way.
We are the people you see everyday holding our coffee cups, mugs, glasses, lattes, Frappuccino’s filled with our favorite brew attached to us like we were born with it in our hands. Never we repeat, never mess with us when we are getting down with our coffee. It is the central plank of our platform and will not be denied.
The COFFEE PARTY has been founded with but one purpose and that is to unify like-minded individuals into a coherent speaking voice that will take advantage of the one thing that Americans can be most proud of and that is our love and sharing of our good for those who are less fortunate. This isn’t an act of charity but rather one of saying, ‘there but for the grace of God go I.”
As COFFEE PARTY members we are saying that we are living up to the grand traditions of our founding fathers that recognized that this country was born in unity and cannot thrive amidst division.
While we all have different tastes; some like a skinny latte with or without foam or others dark roast or light roast while still others drink it cold or with an intense shot of espresso but none of these differences matter. The main ingredient is coffee. It is our common interest no matter what way we take it.
America shares one common interest as well a dream that has stood the test of time and is admired throughout the world and that is our taste for freedom and fairness. Therefore we cannot let our voices be drowned out by anger, irrational bursts, finger-pointing, calls to stop the government, or theories that the earth is round or the sun is not really yellow.
We suspect that there are so many of us in this country that given the catalyst to rally around we can become a force much more conducive to the greater good for all Americans and show that through humor in pointing out the Emperior’s nakedness we can restore sanity to our nation, our government and then go on and live the lives that our parents dreamed we could have.
All of this comes at a price and that price is a commitment to helping each other. That’s as simple as it gets. Nobody gets handouts but no one goes hungry or sick or even sad for that matter. No it isn’t a perfect world we seek that is in heaven’s hands. It is a focus on sharing our good throughout this land and having everyone get into the act. We will even welcome tea drinkers since we do not object to the tea per se but to the idea of the Tea Party which says no to America, no to those in need and no to helping each other. That is just wrongs whatever side of the street or railroad tracks you were born on.
This is America where our lives are only limited by our dreams. Let us help each other to fulfill those dreams but bringing back that spirit of sharing and of ‘can do.’
I am Mark Siet the founding member of the COFFEE PARTY and I approve this message.
Now this message may seem to be part goof and part sermon and yet out of such crazy wild ideas bridges can be built which is why with your help, your ideas, your support and your good wishes we can build this COFFEE PARTY into a legitimate force for good perhaps not as a political party but as a watchdog for both parties keeping them honest and making them toe the line so that our voices are heard.
Please leave a comment if you also approve this message and think the the idea or a COFFEE PARTY is just the thing to counter the insanity we are now facing each day. Who knows perhaps we’ll organize have a convention but we will not elect a candidate since that is one sure way to take away from the fun of this!
You have to show us something. We are looking for a cause to rally to. This has always been true in hard times you give the people hope. Forget about the other side. Do what is right for the American people. Forget about 2012 – Now is when we need your help.
It seems like you are giving in and giving too much while waiting for the intransigent to come around. They won’t. You cannot give up on someone who is beating up on you all the time. You have to call them on everything. The Tea Party – question their patriotism for wanting to bring you and your administration down. This is so basic. Your weakness emboldens them even if you think you are right you are enabling them to walk all over you and letting them destroy America.
Please do the right thing for us. We need you. Who else can be our advocate? Who else can fight the forces of chaos that seek only their own insanity. Please President Obama America needs you now.
Make this thing happen in exactly the way it is supposed to happen by coming through you as you and in connection with everything that is good above. Become a part of this flow creatively opening you to its influence and listening for the realms of its discovery. There cannot be any other moment in which this takes place than this perfect now.
Thoughts are congruent within themselves offering points of connection much like the gears of giant automated factory pressing out thousands of objects each day. In the same way you press or engrave thousands of images each day and yet how focused are those images? Are they a part of your own central plan for fulfillment or simply a part of your passing through without touching the mold letting yourself be shaped by outside influences? Direct your attention then to shape the mold.
The accumulation of abundance has to be filled with the certainty of abundance allowing this certainty to follow the pattern of all things that come to be through you. As with anything that you have ever focused upon the natural thing is to go deeper into this making it happen then on all fronts.
It is the harmony of the One of Being that allows your thoughts to take place in the order in which they have been sent. This order is determined by your particular intention. Case in point: You begin to think about something and find yourself becoming immersed in that something. At first you are probing the unknown but then gradually as things become known you are able to reach a higher plateau.
Advance along the plain of this plateau by putting aside all other distractions that may arise. These distractions are necessary due to the sensitive nature of mind but this does not mean you have to listen and follow through on each as it comes through. Think of this as a radio station that you tune into recognizing all the channels that are broadcasting but remaining tuned to just a single channel. It is this single channel of which your thoughts begin to emanate from and continuously grow stronger so that what you are bringing in now is manifesting itself it higher measures of quality the further along you travel.
The truth is you have to be wise to be aware. The wisdom takes place due to your recognition of the events that go on in your life and then being able to pinpoint their significance vis a vis the thoughts you were or are thinking. By this time you realize that some effects are immediate and others long term.
You have to be able to move forward in the flowing of your purpose. This is akin to making the road ahead of you as you are walking. The phrase, ‘when the student is ready the teacher will appear’ comes to mind. Thoughts live in multiple dimensions. They are both a part of time and a part of space as well. Your touching of these varying dimensions result in the understandings that take place. This touching is really all about your higher connection, which means your connection to the Unity that absolutely ties all things together.
Strangely enough it your sense of inner touch that places you into contact with this unity on a continuous basis so that you may feel its flow and become a perfect vehicle for its expression. Listening for all things become the One Thing there in the moment as it flows through you.
You do not need to look for this place of being. It is there residing within you expressing itself through you. What can you accept about yourself? It is that much that you will experience. Wherever your attention is that is where you are expressing yourself into being.
Kabbalah seeks to uncover and make available the observer within Consciousness. It does this by providing a map via the Sephiros, and the underlying structure of the concepts, which it discusses. Torah is the template for all such discoveries operating as channel through which many doorways may be found into this inner world of awakening. Our journeys of discovery may be compared to an amusement park.
Imagine an amusement park with a myriad of rides all enticing all fun but there is one ride that surpasses them all. It is the reason why you come to this amusement park. This ride contains thrills, chills and excitement beyond compare and when you are finished this ride you dream about the next time you will take it again.
Compare this to finding the One Voice and experiencing all that it has to offer and then you realize that life spend anywhere else is simply passing the time waiting for that experience of Unity that results when you are listening deeply to the One of Being. Therefore the most important aspect that Consciousness offers is the direction to which it is taking you. When you are caught up in the flow of that direction it is as if you were being carried along following and agreeing within to the journey especially and the destination in particular.
The life of Consciousness is in its flowing which is continuous and everlasting; drop in any time you will be welcomed… It is in this movement of thought that we can begin to recognize certain properties such as the jumping of points that are where our thoughts take shape in order to provide the feedback loop that strengthens our inner awareness of our connection. When you come to witness Consciousness from the standpoint of the observer in action then you learn its dance and move in concert with the harmony of its flowing.
The Tree of Life Consciousness that is promoted by Torah and all subsequent commentaries all point to this rising up within so that we are actively awakened to our place in the continuum seeking and finding unity with the Creator and opening the inner doors to more fully participate in this creative journey within and without.
In order to insure your active participation you must be given both brush and canvas as a means of expressing that, which comes through you. The brush in this case is your intention and the canvas is the world upon which the causes placed into actions by this metaphorical brush then form themselves into the expressions we see upon the canvas called life. Kabbalah hones Intention through the usage of replacement symbolism to organize and strengthen the will which is the agency that is our higher connection with the source of all things. In Kabbalah it is Malchus that is the canvas that takes the colors of our impressions and gives meanings to them. Here is here it works going through the Ten Sephiros now using this analogy of brush and canvas.
Keep in mind that as we go through these Sephiros we are speaking about Consciousness in its various aspects and that on the most basic level Consciousness is defining as what we both thinking in the moment and what we will be thinking in the moments to come. And so we begin with Keter, the crown of the Tree of Life.
Keter is the highest of the Sephiros directly connected to source. In our terms here it is how you hold the brush that allows your freedom to create in any way you choose. When you hold the brush in a certain way you are able to then translate what comes from above into what you are planning to place upon the canvas. Therefore the first operation of Keter to make a sketch of the image that source is sending through to you. This sketch is called Chokmah or Wisdom.
Chokmah takes the image and engraves it upon the canvas sans color simply outlining it making the right determinations for what is to come using broad strokes but also setting up the spaces where the details will naturally flow into being. This is the first step in the transference of the image from above to below. Now within those spaces set up by Chokmah we find the details coming into play. These details are Binah located directly across from Chokmah on the Tree of Life.
Within Binah there begins the work up of every detail conceived of thus far and the reflection of the engraving that began in Chokmah. An idea may only be seen in terms of its reflections. Here these reflections are becoming self aware in that their purpose is clear and their direction inevitable. The energy of Binah is all encompassing in that it retains the engravings of Chokmah while at the same time transforming then making them ready for their active phase of being symbolized by Chesed the first of the six midot called Zeir Anpin (Chesed, Gevurah, Tipheres, Netzach, Hod and Yesod).
Chesed represents the transformation of emotion that has come through Binah. The thoughts are grooved now and have become interrelated in such a way as to produce the quality of Mercy or Kindness. This is the unrestricted flow of thought allowed to seek its own level. Thought knowing itself now recognizes its own abundance and seeks to share this abundance unremittingly. The natural check to this abundance comes about through the energy center called Gevurah which acts to restrict the abundance to the specific engravings that have come through Binah.
Gevurah called Strength or Judgment then is the counter to Chesed all the while keeping the thoughts focused on the objective sent from above. Gevurah may be likened to a road through a mountain where only certain vehicles may pass through. It does not restrict passage completely but only allows through that which fits in the context of the overall reflected picture emanating ultimately from Keter.
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The mind takes on the appearance of the thoughtful approach of unity through its piecing together of the various disparate pictures that are presented throughout each moment. Thoughts flow together much like molecules of water. Individual thoughts make up the overall stream while the broad picture that presents itself is full of substance and complexity. What we have then are the different ways in which mind interacts within itself. Once you become aware of these processes you will begin to recognize the flavor of in accordance with the movements that taking place.
Chesed and Gevurah represent the operations of expansion and contraction. Were either process to overwhelm the other the system would be inefficient causing chaos however what happens is something else entirely. The energy of Chesed is placed on top Gevurah much like a carrier wave occurs in electronics. After all Gevurah acts to restrict and would not come into play were it not for the expansiveness of Chesed. These seemingly opposite flows are then harmonized by the awakening of the next step in the Sephiros that are awakened being Tipheres.
Tipheres represents a unique place in the unity. It represents stasis. The expansiveness of Chesed and the restriction of Gevurah have been transformed into the expression filled energy that raises and reaffirms the divine purpose prior to sending it on its way through to Netzach and Hod.
Be mindful that every step along the way involves a specific type of transformation. These transformations are indicative of the name of the particular Sephiros we are discussing. Now because Tipheres is one of the central Sephiros (the others being Keter, Daas, Yesod, and Malchus) its transformations are not simply right to left or up or down but are also radiated in a diagonal and a somewhat spherical fashion. This is because the energy here is gathering much as a battery will recharge itself while simultaneously giving off its charge. This gives Tipheres and those other central Sephiros some rather unique properties.
Unique to Tipheres is its association with the divine name YKVK. In Torah this name first appears here …
Genesis 2: 4 These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.
The Name appears at first in conjunction with Elokim and is translated as Lord being presented as Hashem-Elokim. In this case the composite name does not represent two separate deities but rather shows for the first time the dual aspects of Hashem working through Elokim. In the context of our study with Tipheres then it is Chesed and Gevurah that are joined together to work through this central Sephirah. What we are speaking about here is the essential relationship that Consciousness has within itself and this is demonstrated perfectly in Tipheres
Have you ever thought about two things or more at once? For example you praying and mundane thoughts appear or perhaps you are working at something and your stream of Consciousness is reflecting upon something else. Both of these examples illustrate the complexity of thought as it makes those internal associations needed for meanings to arise. In Tipheres the ‘meaning’ of Chesed and Gevurah is made clear so that in passing through the energy either below or on the return trip back to Chesed and Gevurah a clear energy composition is transformed by the actions of Tipheres. What happens is a kind of extension that provides both the substance for passing through and the channels through which this substance flows.
Just as an electrical current maintains a uniform rate of flow through various resistors and amplifiers so too does Tipheres act in the same way to regulate the flow of thoughts that make up those connections between above and below. Tipheres is placed in exactly the right aspect in order to harmonize these thoughts to achieve their perfect aim, which is to do the will of their Creator.
When you think about Tipheres think about the holy connection that must take place each moment simply because this is the way things are supposed to work. This connection is the spiritualization of thought orienting thought towards it holy direction as the flowing of Intention continue on its way to demonstration in Malchus. Up to this point the energy has been the ebb and flow of ideas testing themselves by the tension that is set up between Gevurah and Chesed and then suddenly becoming resolved through Tipheres. The resolution of this energy then becomes the resolute focus that is found next in Netzach.
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In Netzach begins the work of the grounding of Intention.
Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
Up until this point the projection of Intention has filled the Intellectual spectrum to point where the harmony of Tipheres now reigns and shines its example for the sharing of or explanation that must follow. Once a thought is written it takes on its initial form by becoming inscribed within the boundaries of the letters it encompasses. It is this inscribing that is both proof of the conception that began in Keter and the ongoing progression of thought that finds itself in form beginning with Netzach.
Netzach gives the sense of eternal life meaning that what we think about lasts forever and shows itself to us in the forms that our imagination is taking the shape. Every time you make a note of your thought having found a form this is an example of Netzach. It is the victory of the soul over the short term consequences that would overshadow that greater picture in which Hashem is continuously revealed.
Consider the example of Netzach being likened to a batter who plays his every plate appearance prior to the game. Balls and strikes, hits and outs and once in a lifetime hits are contemplated. The point at which the batter is finally up to the plate represents the moment of Netzach where the fruition of his pregame meditations will now be played out. The moment the bat hits the ball is the moment of Netzach where fruition meets contemplation and thought meets form.
Thoughts reach a point of folding in amongst themselves much like what happens to the dimensions that we contemplate within string theory. It is this folding in upon themselves that produces the transformations that are seen in their various perspectives as thoughts, forms or somewhere in between.
There in that instantaneous part of being that is the interface between contemplation and action we find Netzach already undertaking the thought forms that are driving its impetus forward. It is the sense of the eternal in terms of continuously bringing forth all that is that fills Netzach with its essence of confidently coming to be.
Netzach can be said to be brimming forth with confidence and this is analogous to exactly how Chesed directly above Netzach on the Tree of Life also transmits its energy. It is this overflow that is channeled into the next Sephirah, Hod.
Hod fills itself then with the brightness or splendor of the overflow of Netzach, which really turns out to be a kind of celebration of the flowing of the Tree of Life Consciousness. Hod then is the establishment of this Consciousness in physical form just prior its being generated or reproduced with Yesod next in line on the Tree of Life. Hod then is the proof of the eternity of Netzach just as Endurance is the proof of Victory.
Each Sephirah becomes the proof of the other. This follows the divine paradigm set out when Elokim made man as the proof of the image of Creation. You cannot know a thing until you become aware of it and understand deeply its inner workings. An idea however brilliant, must be proven time and again in order achieve the purpose of Endurance or Splendor that is found in Hod.
This study of the Sephiros is a study in the relationships that Consciousness has within itself. It is how we are able to navigate within Consciousness without becoming subsumed by the flood of thoughts and information that impinges upon our being constantly. Kabbalah gives us the methods by which we may choose to focus upon those inner workings of thought that will define where are in any given moment. These definitions then in term become the jumping off points for further discovery. What happens is that by going through the process of discovery of defining and refining these ideas we are in effect refining and defining our own Consciousness improving its operation and spiritualizing its outlook.
At just this point where we find ourselves within Hod the glow of awareness becomes such that the reflective nature of Consciousness is once again invoked producing the Sephirah of Yesod the mirror that will bring forth the spiritualized form of Malchus. It is this mirror which is after all representative of the template of Creation as evidenced in the image making that takes place both in Torah in terms of man being the image of the Eternal One and in the making of the sacred laws that are inscribed in fire by Hashem in the first set of tablets and then chiseled by Moshe at Hashem’s direction. We also find the engraving of the image in the Sepher Yetzirah demonstrating this most important facet of being that is constantly becoming. Now in Hod there is the piercing transmission of Intention through to Yesod, which then generates the substance that appears in Malchus.
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Before we proceed to study Yesod, a note about the way in which the central, right and left columns work in this Tree of Life Diagram. The Sephiros of the central column, Keter, the invisible yet ever present Daas, Tipheres, Yesod and Malchus all act as collecting stations along the way. The energy that reaches them contains a world of opposites that must be resolved. All of these Sephiros in the center act spontaneously to pass along the Divine Will.
In the case of Keter it is the highest of the Sephiros receiving from above the totality of expression bursting with potential. In order to proceed with flowing through the rest of the Tree of Life this energy must be harmonized by taking on new meaning while still retaining all of the initial impetus that has started this Intention along its way; specifically as a thought comes into being it flashes with brilliance that awakens the sphere of Keter which then projects that thought through to the place of resident meaning there in Chokmah.
Daas the Sephiros of Knowledge must harmonize the inner realms of Chokmah and Binah opening up entire passageway through to Malchus by recognizing the end in the beginning. Daas turns out to be the verification of thought. It collects the ‘will to be’ passing it along eternally through to the certainty of being well before the sequence of outer Sephiros are engaged.
Tipheres collects the pair of opposites found in Chesed and Gevurah as explained about the overflowing and restriction that must take place for the energy of Intention to become harmonized as it flows into becoming.
Finally then it is the collection of the realized Intention that flows through Netzach and Hod just prior to entering form that there is this passing through to Yesod, the collector of forms just prior to the appearance of forms.
Thoughts are arranged in harmony prior to their actions becoming the image of the original Intention realized as a deepening overflowing of the Divine Will at the moment Keter the crown is engaged. In this way the relationships between the various Sephiros while being distinct in their own descriptions are all really a part of the same operations of the One thing. This corresponds the concept of the folding of reality that takes place through the intersection of the multi dimensional awareness that Kabbalah seeks to uncover, teach and demonstrate.
Now the actions of the left side of the Tree of Life are piercing in that their flow is regulated like a laser to produce the exact measure of projection. Binah takes the overflow of scintillating thought in Chokmah and refines it and gives it direction. Gevurah as explained takes the overflowing of mercy and restricts it into the strength of keeping to the original Intention. In turn Hod takes the unbounding energy of victorious overflow and teaches it the colors of splendor that give it the shape and substance to make it ready for Yesod.
In this way we learn that the left column shapes while the right column builds up to overflowing causing the momentum that is life in its reflection of Creation. The way in which something comes into being is just as important as the actual being is in its representation. It is the quality of holiness that ultimately we wish to promote all throughout Creation and it is in this promotion forward that Yesod plays an integral part.
Yesod is the structured chambered pathway that evolves the level of Malchus as a final check of the Divine Will that has been shaped by all the previous Sephiros. Yesod it could be said is the proving ground prior to the demonstration of Malchus. It is the final mold of realization and the certainty of becoming that will be the deciding factor in bringing the initial thought form into its physical embodiment.
Up to this point of Yesod the image has existed as an ever increasingly theoretical construct being added to as these constructs expanded and took on their own reflective aspects. What makes Yesod unique is that it represents the highest aspect of reflection, which is the point of being where the object becomes objectified.
Yesod then becomes where the active force becomes the force of action transmitting all the way through to Malchus, which is the demonstration of the action. There is a dual purpose to this active-action paradigm. Since the Sephiros may be considered as flowing down from Keter or rising up from Malchus this two fold nature is no where more apparent than in Yesod
On the one hand Yesod is the vehicle through which the seed is germinated that is on the downward consideration of the Tree of Life. Rising up from Malchus however, Yesod then takes on the reflected image acting to produce yet another seed of fulfillment that reaches all the way through the pathways above through to Keter. By studying this twofold nature here of Yesod we are able to perceive beneath the veil of Consciousness itself.
Using our analogy of what happens when the bat meets the ball a feedback loop is created causing adjustments so that we learn now about what it feels like and how we need to present ourselves in order to repeat the same experience time and again. We learn about a level swing and timing and put all of this together inside of a unity of being that is repeatable across a wide range of behaviors.
The same experience is always present whenever we learn something new. The reflected image is shown to us and we suddenly have the power or facility to make this image happen again and again. In this way through Yesod and the active force there we come to realize something ultimately revelatory. Knowledge comes from above while learning takes place through the Sephiros and their various aspects and finally mastery occurs right there in Yesod where the ability to reproduce the entire chain of causation and back again is now within our realm of accomplishment.
It could be said then that the purpose of Consciousness and indeed all that we may conceive of as Creation is simply the unity of thought and action taking place simultaneously to promote the Divine Will in expressing itself however that may be.
The key though is here in Yesod where the expression of that Divine Will becomes the perfect mirror of manifestation solely for the purpose of reminding us that nothing takes place in Creation unless it takes place through us. What this means is that recognition requires the observer to pay attention and acknowledge the source at all times. Then and only then is there a unity of being that manifests itself in the created image that appears. B”H
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This created image is then manifested through Malchus the central Sephirah at the bottom of the Tree of Life. Consciousness is refined in this way from above to below. All along there is the thought Malchus in the making so that when it comes time to become that which was being thought of it turns out to be the most natural thing in the world. All of this happens as a matter of certainty as one thing becomes another via transformation.
Malchus derives its center directly from the reflected image perfected through Yesod and mirrors that image back to Keter in a single amazing feedback loop of fulfillment. The pathways of Consciousness are multi-layered containing pieces of each other that intertwine like a vine on a tree. Relationships are cast and then recast always with the uppermost Intention in mind for connection with the Creator.
Malchus is considered to be holy Sephirah since it is at the level of greatest refinement as mentioned above. This refinement is primarily in the awareness of the Creator in all things. In a sense Malchus is the end contained in the beginning and as such is the reflection of that beginning. Consciousness, our thoughts mirror each other producing the effects that we experience. Each thought contains within itself the revelation of the initial thought that produced it in the first place.
Within Malchus are contained each of the previous Sephiros just a Consciousness contains all the thoughts that produce the next flow of observance or new thought related to the prior becoming. The overriding factor in Consciousness as well as amongst the Sephiros is the presence of Hashem the ultimate in transformative influence. As a being caught up in between what comes to be and then what has been sent into being we have but one task to fulfill; that is to be cognizant of the Creator in all things.
Psalms 74:12 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
The transformations that occur always take place in the midst of Malchus changing one state of being into another instantaneously. While Malchus is associated with the earth in that it is the end result of the series of transformations beginning with Keter, it is also associated with the moon. This two-fold nature gives us some insight into how our Consciousness operates. The pattern of awareness that takes place is as follows:
We go through our thinking process meditating on whatever and finally reach a realization about this subject. The realization of our meditation then serves as a stepping-stone for the next part of this realization, which is its transformation into something else. Therefore we have the realization, the earthing of the idea and its transformation into something else, i.e. the moon in its phases presenting various levels of luminosity.
Such is nature of Consciousness that it can be both here and now and then becoming all that is while at the same time evolving into its antecedent. B”H.
There are always changes taking place. These changes are especially noticeable the more you are thinking about and subsequently experiencing your good. For some this can be a confusing period as the very fabric of your existence appears to be taken apart and then put back together again. Go the distance with these changes. This is the part of your good, which watches over you along the way. It rides with you to ease the bumps in the road. When you are on the verge of the most incredible good you’ve ever encountered it will seem as though worlds are sundered. Such is the power of your good as it comes down the road like the father who goes to meet the prodigal son. The symbolism is exactly the same. You speak your good and it comes to meet you halfway shortening the distance between your thought of good and the good you can taste and touch.
165) Imagine the totality of your good. Here is how. Look out at the world around you but first superimpose your good as in a thought you would like to see appear before you in form. See every form in every way but see this form reflecting this totality of your good. Every molecule in the world around now will have the glimmerings of your good. In no time at all you will see your good before you because there is nowhere in this world that you haven’t looked to see your good in all of its radiations of glory. Gradually in this practice of superimposing your good upon the world you will match up your vision with the reality of your seeing. Then the most amazing thing will happen to you. You will realize that you and your good are one. There cannot be any separation because of this unity between your good and your perception of your good. You see, this is what we’ve been trying to do all along.
164) You can find yourself in everything that you do. The realization that is central to you is central to your good. It is where your good comes from and the inspiration for every expansion that you experience within. Make yourself available in terms of the attention you focus on your inner development. Then you can expect results that are all filtered through your good.
162) There is a story told about the wisest man in the world. Every answer he knew in the blink of an eye. People would come from miles around just to hear him pronounce his words. After a week of listening and giving forth the wisdom of the ages he disappeared. Many years later in a marketplace in a rural town somewhere in the world he was seen again. Someone who had known him as a child remembered him and marveled that he should be selling fake designer watches at ten percent of the real watches price. When asked why this should be he answered:
“Years ago I had every answer but no one knew what questions to ask. The questions were always about who shall live and who shall die, or how can I make the most money here or there. These were easy questions. I told them to paint a picture of what they wanted and to hang it up inside of their heads and then to change the frame daily. In time they would see the money or whatever they wanted come to them. Everyone was astonished but no one listened. Nothing changed. I however was constantly changing which was good because a man should always follow his own path. Right now on this path I am selling these watches. Enlightenment I gave away for nothing. These watches I can make you a deal on. What will it be the Rolex or the Timex?”
Your good cannot remain unnoticed. Seek it, find it and use it. That’s the lesson here. Oh stay away from those knock off watches. They always break down sooner or later.
163) Perhaps you’ve heard of pyramid power, or the power of crystals, or holy water, or even the power of faith, hope and love. All of these work because of one greatest power. That is the power of good. Good is creation taking its place in your mind through the energy of your thinking. Like the magnifying lens focuses light into a burning beam, so too the lucid awareness of your thinking, hones your thoughts into your images of good. Cease to wonder what, when where or why. It simply works. This is enough to be certain that in every moment you have the opportunity to experience your good.
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I imagine by now you might be needing a lift of sorts or at least a far out diversion. Listen to this excerpt from Thought Into Form.
There are three states of consciousness.
One is called the Initiating Force.
Two is called the Maintaining Influence
Three is called the Quiescent Harmony
Negative Space.It is here and it surrounds you. You activate it through your awareness by letting go and tuning in. It is the inherent unity that consciousness takes in form. It is therefore the unification of who you are with what you are. It is the normal state of being even though most will not become aware of it as such because of their focus on outer things, which interfere with the net of convergence.
What is this net of convergence? It is the connection between what you think you are and what you are becoming in each moment. It is the process of awakening to the unity of your personality with the emergence of the all meaning that you are akin to an appendage of the all. In this way the all or the Eternal expresses itself through you. Since this expression is limitless you must also assume a posture of limitless acceptance and this achieved through Negative Space. The only thing absent in Negative Space is your need to be something you are not. What is eliminated are all of the superimpositions that you may have picked up along the way.
Through Negative Space the pure effulgent undeniable you is revealed and in this revelation the Eternal, the Creator, the Perpetual One is expressed. In Negative Space the flow of spirit moves freely and confidently without blockages. This thing or concept called spirit we may we refer back to as the net of convergence. As you become more and more aware of your place in this concatenation of experience things now happen to you from a frame of immediate reference. The terminus of this immediate reference is a cessation of time as a meaningful referent. Thoughts carry you even though other vehicles may transport you.
Think on this now as these ideas find their place within and act to coagulate the necessary tendrils of spirit into the unified net of convergence appearing as one all throughout Negative Space.
Negative Space exists and is brought into existence by the process of unification that has been in place since before the beginning of Creation. It is the fuse upon which the spark of the big bang was promulgated. Even though a created being is far removed from a point in conception that is prior to creation there is always a spark of this a priori knowledge of that concept. It is the thread within that links us all. Like a black light will illuminate specially designed painting so too will Negative Space illuminate this a priori thread opening up the possibility for the unification that is always the purpose of Creation.
Why think about these things at all? We think about them because they are a bridge to our understanding. That understanding in turn takes us inward to our core where the knowledge of unity forever resides. Many are the attempts to describe deity in one way or another all falling short because of the infinite nature of all that is. However through Negative Space instead of describing what we are attempting to understand we have a direct experience, without words that leaves us incontrovertible evidence as to what our purpose for being is and how to ride these waves of connection we are being turned on to. Constantly awareness is being seeded with impressions however, without a filtering process confusion and illusion prevail. We live our lives but do not live out the inward focus that drives us to seek meanings in order to make connections both above and below. Negative Space is not something that you seek or even find. You would not say “if only I were in Negative Space everything would be okay.” It isn’t like that at all. It simply comes to you one day. Perhaps today or when you least expect it.
The point is that Negative Space comes to you. These words are but seeds for your awareness. You know this is true because nothing passes away. All that you experience, think about, or go through must become one. You’ll know it when you are there in Negative Space or remember it having experienced it in the past. More and more will be revealed as this process develops within you. Today is just the beginning.
I’ve been thinking about light and how the connections of light are an integral part of our being. I relate this light to the will of creation that flows through us taking forms of love, compassion, forgiveness, joy, sharing and giving. The Course in Miracles says, ‘remove the blocks to love’s awareness.’ Yes remove-clear the opacity of your soul to let the light shine through. This opacity is the main cause for illusion and misunderstandings. Another word for this removal is to forgive ourselves from the things that bind us to our status quo or ordinary conventional thinking. Today I concentrate on this light in this season of light. A few references to light come to mind that reveal more…you guessed it, light.
The primary symbol of Chanukah is the Menorah.
Commentary: It is the eternal flame. The light that shines forever without any visible means or reason for continuing to do so it just does and that is the miracle that is celebrated here. This is the light of holiness that each of us may open ourselves to. Yes this time of year is perfect for the return of the light since it coincides with the Winter Solstice where the sun returns the days grow longer the light is more in our face.
Ex 3:2:And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Commentary: Translate this as the thought of holiness appeared to the opacity of man revealing his own inner light in the form of a bush that was not consumed. Of course the eternal flame that resides within us does not consume us because we are the result of this flame. It is the clothing of this light in form that gives us our personality and purpose for being. When we are off our game remember this light to reawaken everything that you are and to recharge those batteries of connection.
Gen 3:24 So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life.
Commentary:
This is curious passage here. Man is driven out of the garden. What is man? Man is the opacity of form that obscures our way to the garden to the perfection of our lives. This flaming sword is a reminder that are we to return to the elegant state of being that we are descended from this sword will cut through our illusion which results in a return to this tree of life. What is the tree of life? It is our source that we are never separated from the well of light is where this source emanates from taking the form of life, which is the form of man learning to be transparent to light instead of resisting the light. Do not fear that which would make you joyful, courageous, prosperous, giving, etc. because this is your birthright. This tree of life is the template that you may return to in any moment.
Ez 21: 3 and say to the forest of the South: Hear the word of the LORD: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree, it shall not be quenched, even a flaming flame; and all faces from the south to the north shall be seared thereby.
Commentary: Especially here this is referring the magical properties of unification that reside within you. The South is where magic or transformation comes from. You are awakening this sense of ability that you have to transform your environment, your thoughts your life experiences everything is included here. The faces from North to South refer to the template of your being and this is saying that this fire within consumes all that is not perfection.
Ez 21: 4 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.’
Commentary:
Once again what is being kindled? It is the Eternal Flame. The LORD translate as the holiness of connection that rises up from within you due to your proximity and the sense of merging with this tree of life as your awareness grows through the unity of this connection. Again that which comes forth from you is eternal and cannot ever be taken away.
Gen:1: 3 And God said: ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Commentary: Here is the first day. Let’s call it the open awareness. The first moment then when consciousness became aware of itself as an entity of projection. What did consciousness become aware of this first day? For one it became that it could see. Perception was established. What could it see? Everything. Light is full spectrum. What else? Ah that the light was good. What does this mean? Consciousness not only awakened but awakened to the fact that it could envision and be satisfied with that vision. There is more. This is what consciousness figured out that in addition to that which it had already discovered about itself there was more to be revealed. That which was revealed was light and that which remained unrevealed was darkness. In this way the paradigm was established. You have an inspiration and follow through with all that can become out of this inspiration. Then when this inspiration runs its course there is evening when the revelation is no longer new and you are ready for something else. All night long you await what is to come which is of course morning when it all begins again. Recognize here that there are four states of play, light, darkness, evening and morning.
Gen: 1:14 And God said: ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.’ And it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Commentary: Look at all of these lights. From a simple let there be lights all the lights in our universe were formed. We are connected to all of these lights as coming from that which resides within us. What is the earth? It is this form the eternal light resides within taking its cue from the tree of life that is the culmination of the thought of light passing in and through us.
Isaiah 60: 1 Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but upon thee the LORD will arise, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. 3 And nations shall walk at thy light, and kings at the brightness of thy rising. 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all are gathered together, and come to thee; thy sons come from far, and thy daughters are borne on the side. 5 Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall throb and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee. 6 The caravan of camels shall cover thee, and of the young camels of Midian and Ephah, all coming from Sheba; they shall bring gold and incense, and shall proclaim the praises of the LORD. 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee; they shall come up with acceptance on Mine altar, and I will glorify My glorious house. 8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their cotes? 9 Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee. 10 And aliens shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in My wrath I smote thee, but in My favour have I had compassion on thee. 11 Thy gates also shall be open continually, day and night, they shall not be shut; that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations, and their kings in procession. 12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress, the plane-tree and the larch together; to beautify the place of My sanctuary, and I will make the place of My feet glorious. 14 And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee, and all they that despised thee shall bow down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee the city of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings; and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour, and I, the Mighty One of Jacob, thy Redeemer. 17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron; I will also make thy officers peace, and righteousness thy magistrates. 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20 Thy sun shall no more go down, Neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. 21 Thy people also shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land for ever; the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, wherein I glory. 22 The smallest shall become a thousand, and the least a mighty nation; I the LORD will hasten it in its time. {S}
Commentary: This one is just about the most awesome affirmation I’ve ever seen. It is a prayer for abundance and the certainty that the light, the everlasting light will continuously shine forever. Here it says ‘the LORD shall be unto thee and everlasting light.’ What this means to me is that our awareness of our innate eternal flame is what we must be attending to each moment. Put aside if you will all descriptions of LORD or G-d and recognize that what is inside of you is eternal and a part of the unification of everything. That is the light that always shines.
Hi welcome to our show tonight, this eon, perhaps morning where you are or maybe even we could call this a zolapine of winsome which is the moment between one reflection and another in the Tlarhabian syntax black hole.Any way these next few words open the way in your present becoming in order to unlock the gates of imagining yes but also to set up the straight and narrow silver road for you to flow into your heart’s desire whatever that may be.All I assure you will become clear or not.In any event I promise it will be interesting for that is my job, which you find out about later.Okay here we go.
It is not permitted to speak about Will but I can allude to some of its qualities.It is not permitted because knowledge without understanding can be a dangerous thing.I could tell you exactly what you need to know but it is the nature of Will that you find it out for yourself.I can tell you that finding out is the most awesome experience you will ever encounter.There are some who are not ready for this so I would advise reading no further.
Of course you just have to see what comes next after that mini buildup.Why? It is because one of the properties of Will is a questing after the unknown.It seeks to become that which is not.
What is Will for?It is to move you from a place you don’t want to be into a place you have set your sights upon.When it moves the entire Universe is transformed.
Will operates through thoughts, words and actions.
All this is well and good and now on to our feature story.
Nontika is a being in the over dimension called Simply Wonderful.She is not sure of what she wants to be when she undergoes her next transformation.Her thoughts and visions of what this could possibly be are supporting seven hundred million nether dimensions that happen to be at thirty degree angles to one another.While the degree of their orientation might appear to be insignificant on further analysis you will see the vast insights that brings into focus.Because of one of these insights Nontika is almost ready to make decision.This is a momentous occasion. Once she has even the inkling of a decision she is already on her way leading to a whole cascade of events some predictable and others entirely outside of the box of anything anyone anywhere could imagine.
I am a reporter for the Galactic Interface Continuum.The fact that I am here at all is another story perhaps one day I’ll share it with you but for now I mustn’t even blink otherwise I’ll miss the entire thing.One thing I can tell you is that it is a lot like giving birth; something I have a great deal of experience with.I must tell you that this very assignment is the result of my last birth.You are confused perhaps between giving birth and my last birth.It is like this.In order to travel between dimensions with your consciousness intact you undergo a series of births, awakenings from one dimension to another.The giving of birth means that your birth inside of the awareness of a new dimension is for you an extension of your awareness but it also makes possible and this is the giving part the possibility for another entity to pass through into the realm of being you have just arrived from. Let just say that the universe has an open door policy.
Nontika stands.She is radiant full of the colors of transformation.Once begun the process is irreversible.Simply Wonderful swirls around her slowly at first and then ever more quickly until she stands motionless in a blur of blissful awakening.Let me share a personal note. I am crying.It is a sight and a feeling of such absolute clarity that I feel myself pulled towards this event even to the point of becoming absorbed by it completely.Because I love my job and do not feel myself ready for such a massive transformation I maintain my objectivity, which is of course why I became a reporter in the first place.With regret I turn away slightly.It is enough for me to continue my observations.
Nontika turns slightly nodding my way although it isn’t to me that she is gesturing to.It is her acceptance of the new vistas that are arising before her as seas on a moonlit night catch the reflections of light and then are once again lost in the darkness where no light may reach.This is what is happening to her as Simply Wonderful is being subsumed.Whatever could she be looking at now?Her face is beaming.I don’t think she would be mind if we went in for a close up.
Where is she going to become what she is feeling in this moment as the transformation begins to settle in upon her?Can you imagine the most amazing things that are occurring to her?Breathlessly I approach furiously reporting simultaneously translating into a multitude of transdimensional feeds.I move carefully now for I mustn’t get too close.Yes this feels really particularly intense.
I can’t believe what I am witnessing.This is a first.As I live and breathe once again I witness the full horizons of the Perfect Day.This is where she has set her first steps upon the mythical Perfect Day.
I wish I could get closer but then I would be…Oh no it is already too late.I am flowing right behind her.I apologize to my audience but I think my days as a reporter are over.Indeed at last I have lost my objectivity and become attached to the story I was reporting on.
Still and this will have to be my final tagline; You know it really isn’t so bad being stuck on the Perfect Day.You should try it sometime.It couldn’t hurt. Besides.Things will be looking up from here on in.
Listen for that which is you and yet not a part of the din of noise around you. Listen carefully and know that what you are is more than words may describe yet take my advice it is well worth the effort to do so simply because the unfathomable loves to be taken at face value. This means describe the indescribable for in the attempt all of creation is waiting to come through and blow your mind like nobody’s business.
Setting before me that which was to be I recognized the similarities between what appeared to be and what already was. There is a distinct feeling of stepping outside of time. It is an attitude of acceptance. There is no waiting. There is a passing through the membrane of what is into what is to be.There are no hard or fast rules here. Motion is fluid as are the thoughts that come through. Yes there is a presence undoubtedly so. It moves and is self-aware. This is all we need to know. It only reveals itself through a series of awakenings, revelations, inspirations that come all of a sudden usually in the middle of ordinary affairs. It may appear that the catalyst is from without however, this is never so. It is always an internal wave of connection that opens up wherever there is darkness and replaces it with light.
In what is being called a quantum leap in the field of advertising Fortune 500 companies are now partnering in a new winner take all advertising campaign that aims to saturate the workplace with strategically placed ads. Melvin Hoople of Cuad (Cubicle Advertising) says the following:
“The advertising dollars are limitless and the payoff is phenomenal. Imagine if you will having posters placed in cubicles for products ads. Even more cutting edge than this would be the running ad screen based upon digital picture frame technology that would stream ads all day long. ”
Thomas Linard has already been approached by JC Penny’s to host their Spring Fling Campaign. Thomas has a cubicle strategically placed on the corner with both N-S and E-W traffic flowing by him all day long. Apparently he is being offered a contract to host their ads for a one year term. One of his coworkers, Edith Marson is miffed because her cubicle is right the middle of the aisle and not well placed at all. She says, “Why should I suffer and be economically disadvantaged simply because of where I sit?”
Major advertisers are bypassing upper management locations simply because no one really passes by there without looking away.
Agreements are being worked out in corporate meetings throughout the country after the first of the year permitting unilateral product placement across the board. CEO Brad Johnson of Technofly gave the following,
“You know one hand washes the other and everyone pitches in to drive sales. I think this will be good for everyone. The workplace does not have to be so sterile. Advertising would spiff it up don’t you think?”
The application process for obtaining a product placement must be accompanied by a picture of your location, how many people pass by each day and whether or not you will agree to wearing product placement materials as a tie or jacket label at least three times a year.
The typical agreements that are being offered range from seasonal placements at $1000 to year long campaigns valued from $1000 to $150,000. Cuad advises getting your applications in early as they think initally this will be very lucrative but due to saturation may turn out to be another Internet bubble.
Mary Wonkins however has a very dim view on all of this. With her tongue placed firmly in her cheek she had four words to say, “I don’t think so!
In the North she lives and yet she is warm.
Her heart knows him by now ever they are one.
In one look each soul took flight to the other.
This was how it must be and yes how it turned out.
Yes I can see you he tells her across the spaces.
Know that I can feel you she tells him without speaking.
In their silence there grows a light that is shared.
They embrace even though apart they remain together.
As I rise through each day you spend your nights
And when I shine from my heights my darkness your light.
Did you think I wouldn’t notice you ever again?
How could I forget when you are bonded forever to my heart.
There in my morning and there past mid day
Remember to dream and be together these moments.
It is enough then to know that love overflows.
And yes it is real my love he says, she sighs and travels on.
I am moved by unseen forces.
There the ways are continuously revealed.
My music so much a part of me cannot be stilled.
It is the flow of life through me and the reason for all of this to be.
Understanding awakens peacefully.
An open door leads to another.
I make this scene letting go of illusions
I find myself inside and laugh as with the best of friends.
What a mirror this life has become
And how welcome the souls connection.
Reaching up with all of my heart
Hashem flows below and says be who I am.
The sense of all of this spirals around me.
It moves a mountain or rather dissipates the clouds.
So close to who I am and yet to have to turn the corner
There now thats better on the other side.
A whisper from the purr of my cat
A simple wondering who is that.
A fluttering leaf dancing by
While melodies breath and sigh.
All of this to know for sure
The child in the man and more
The mystic reveals each level complete
And then opens new worlds for a better seat.
And oh this moment so sublime
Richness and fullness begin our climb
Knowing no end to our glorious ascent
We look up in surprise at what is meant.
Hey I was looking for you, You say.
Well what took you so long? Your answer.
I was afraid you see of your unknown, I reply
Silly all you had to do was ask, You say.
I thought I found you so many times and then, I cry.
There now its okay. All to keep you wondering why.
You tell me this and so much more
My heart is bursting with your love secure.
Home now in such a remarkable way
With you holding your arms out as if to say,
Reach up and within in your own way,
And make what you will out of each special day.
And it was morning the day yet begun
And it was time to greet the joyous sun
All around my feet tickled the grass
While skitterings were flitting by exceedingly fast.
So tell me Bochur do you make this up as you go along,
Is there any other way as in writing and singing your song.
Youve got me there I must confess.
Of course thats the point now to all the rest.
A symphony is in order with cymbals and strings
Dancing to the mysteries of love that happiness brings.
This is so good does it ever have to end,
No not ever that is my message to you my friend.
These words their symbols sometimes are lost
Not to worry dear child for a pittance is their cost.
What matters most is what you will find in your heart
That your journey continues ever loving from the start.
I like I say. Thats how it should be.
I knew you would for this sets you free.
Thank you for this gift and for opening wide
And you to love for listening so deeply inside.
As threads come together so too the soul touches above
Weaving patterns of awareness and cradles of love.
What joy there is to come closer to thee
And what purpose there is that youve chosen me.
Yes I feel the connection complete and whole.
Awaken the woman who rides upon your soul.
Let her know the beauty of all that
And when she touches you please tip your hat.
All of this comes in a vision so clear
As I prayed for your voice within to hear
And now that you answer my eyes fill with tears
Its all good now here forever all through the years.
What must I do to maintain this focus?
More of the same eternal upward locus.
The something else that cannot be denied
Makes its way through the darkness that opens light inside.
Use the entire playing field.
What is the playing field?
Everything you perceive above below all around.
Nathaniel came to a gorge spanning several hundred feet. His hunger was intense and then he saw on the other side of the precipice fruit dangling tantalizingly from the trees. He reached out his hand and in an instant he was across tasting the object of his intention. No this couldnt be you say. How is this possible? Dont worry about the how just become what it is you are seeking and all will be as one.
This story takes place in El Jadida, on the western coast of Africa, in Morrocco. This is where a little known Kabbalist by the name of Napu Naidu Apasaid took up residence in the 14th Century. They called him the Moroccan Menorah. A tale is told about his travels during the time between Passover and Shavuot. One morning Napu awoke under a tree filled with colorful leaves. He had paused there the night before to rest and so hadn’t noticed the colorful leaves.
“Is this miracle I see before me. Never have I ever seen a tree with such beautiful colored leaves.” He walked away from the tree and the leaves became a normal shade of green. He walked back under the tree and the leaves turned marvelous shades of blue, gold, orange and red. At first he thought it must be a trick of the light but then he verified that the sun had yet to fully rise over the hills beyond the forest.
“I must give thanks for this wonder that I do not know.” The instant he said this out loud the wind blew and causedthe leaves to blend together all in a shimmering white light. The white light highlighted a corridor where Napu could see people laughing and beckoning to him.
“Here goes nothing,” he said plunging into the vortex formed by the white light. At the other end he met men and women who were all scholars of the Torah. They were laughing and talking loudly to one another. One moment there was silence and then everyone clapped their hands for the wonderful revelation which was given.
Looking around Napu looked for all of the famous sages and prophets including the forefathers and Moses. He was led to a stream by a woman of timeless beauty. As he refreshed himself, he asked, “Where are all the famous sages of the Torah?”
“Oh they are here only they don’thave to show themselves any longer. Here we are all equal in Torah. In fact I think I met one of them once, Elijah I think he was called but he didn’t stay long enough to get to know him. Everything is different here. We don’t have to worry about rules orwhat something means. Torah is revealed here in every moment. There are no arguments and no reputations to be made. That is for another world. All all souls here participate and study Torah. Perhaps you would like to see our Torah?
“Of course,” he said as he was handed a Torah. It was a book much shorter than the one he was used to. “What happened here? Where is the rest of the Torah?” He asked now standing up by the clear stream he had taken a drink from.
“It’s all there. You see we just took the good parts. Everything else we left out.
“Can you do that?” He asked incredulously.
“Look around you,” we can just about do anything here. Napu saw people floating past him, some slowly and some so fast their forms were blurs againstthe background of the forest. “Remember to become that which you are seeking and do not lose sight of the one.”
The lights grew fainter and then Napu was back inside of the forest by the many colored tree. Her voice faded. She was no longer there when he turned to look. From that moment on, he knew how to travel weightlessly through the air. There were many things that he learned as well as many stories about his travels. This was one of those stories.
There he focused his attention. It started out in a wide arc and then in cone like fashion reached the apex of concentration. His entire being rode along filling the cone like aura with intention. It moved with him in concert unifying both step and direction. The energy increased exponentially. He became an electron inspired by light that would soon switch from one level to another. The feeling was imminent. The world kept calling and yet his attention kept refining its efforts reaching pinpoint accuracy. Then just as he reached the pinnacle of perception and could think no more he let go entering the vision of no thought in one giant leap of faith. It carried him over the top this time and everytime.
Change of State:
At first all is light nothing has individuated. It is like having your insides cast in every direction knowing all seeing all but understanding nothing. This next part is tricky. He recalled a particular feeling careful not to impress upon it any outpicturing of form. It must come of itself. Past experience had shown this to be true. There in the distance as it always began the horizon appeared.
Dawning:
There the plants and trees awaken and here the foreground shows everything in perfect harmony. Yes this is exactly as it must be.
Growing Feeling:
The framework is in place. The ground fit to walk upon. Something is missing. The landscape is static. A moment or two passes and then everything comes to life. There is expansion and transformation and we go through an entire cycle. Now that’s more like it. The feeling is back. Without this feeling there would be nothing to walk inside of or to walk beside either. It comes and it goes and then there it is. Practice this feeling. Yes this is it.
“It’s such a schlep why do we have to go there?” Rose says to Harry
“Please they are expecting us.Every year it’s the same with you.Let’s go, go, go and then at the last minute you have cold feet.Come on I’ve got schpilkas let’s get out of here,” Harry impatiently responds
“Well can we stop along the way like we always do along the way?” Rose asks.
“Of course that’s part of the trip right?”
“Okay we’ll go.How do I look?”
“What you’re asking me I see you everyday.You look wonderful the life of the party.”
“But my shoes do they go with this outfit?”
“Shoes you’re worried about?When your aunt cooks everybody is a Frescer. They don’t have time for anything else.”
“I know but what if you know there is like a moment and somebody say’s something about my shoes?”
“Don’t worry just give me the high sign and I’ll dash over.”
“You always were so romantic.”
“Don’t get me started we’ll never get out of here.”
They exit the house
In the car driving there.
“You missed the turnoff.” Rose says.
“Turnoff.No it’s farther down the road,” Harry looks up and shakes his head.
A few minutes later.
“I missed the turn off,” Harry sheepishly tells Rose.“I think I know a shortcut from here.”
“Okay you know what’s best but the last time you did this we ended up in Canada.Stubborn you are like nobody’s business,” Rose chides him.
They drive some more and then miraculously arrive at the house.
“I can’t believe you found your way here.How did you do it?”Rose smiles.
“I don’t have the slightest idea.I thought I was lost and took a chance.Oh well all’s well that ends well,” Harry says as they get out of the car.
“The house is dark.It’s supposed to be a surprise party.We’ll just knock and they will let us in,” Rose and Harry walk to the door.They knock.No answer.Harry goes around to the back of the house, the side and looks in the garage.
“Their car is gone.Say what day did the invitation say?”Harry asks Rose.
“Day they just said come Saturday night,” Rose answers.
“Which Saturday night?” Harry asks.
“Good point Harry.I’m sorry.Do you think you know the way back?”She asks
“Don’t worry I forgot something too.Remember we bought that GPS?”
“Yes.Do you know how to use it?
“I’ll figure it out,” Harry tells her.
They are back driving.
“Call your Mother it will give her Nachas.Tell her we’re coming over,” Rose tells him.
There is only one will. There can be no other. It isn’t your will or my will or their will or some will. It is the one will. Everything revolves around this one will and there are no exceptions. The one will by its nature is a unified will unitary in its presence and absolute in its purpose. The one will cannot be denied since it is ever present and indeed in every respect all powerful.
The one will is a rock in its resolve and yet it is tranformative in action becoming all things at all times and places. There is no paradox in the one will since it is complete in its comprehension of itself every answer has already been given and every question revealed the same. The one will is ultimate in its focus and certain of every outcome. As a statement of purpose the one will overrides all subservient purposes. They in effect become as nothing passing away like wisps of clouds before the one will.
The one will cannot be contained or bound, nor may it be held on to or even directed for any other purpose other than what the one will has described and continues to promote according to its own sense of being. This sense of being runs through all things. As it does so it transforms all things according to what its purpose is revealing moment by moment.
The one will is all powerful and can make anything possible from the most miraculous to the most mundane. It doesn’t take much to extrapolate this concept along the bands of spirituality to attach the meanings that are most familiar to you.
In some ways the one will may be thought of as a state of mind but this doesn’t allow for the infinite expression that the one will must be able to carry out. Rather think of the one will as a state of being and as such recognize that the life you experience is but a fraction of what the one will experiences through you.
Sounds and crashes and whee ooo noises electronic blinking lights and then the manical laughter of Newman.
NEWMAN: Ha Ha. Finally my dreams will be realized. I will have my revenge. This device here will give me control over the minds of any and all who enter here. I’ll invite all of them over and then simply flick this toe switch while they think I’m sleeping and then they’re mine to do with as I wish. Torture, mayhem, oh what fun. (laughter echoes in the distance)
INT. SEINFELD’S APT
Elaine, George and Kramer are all there and each is holding an invitation from Newman.
ELAINE: So what do you think of this. Newman has come into some money and wants to give us each a thousand dollars.
GEORGE: Sounds fishy to me. You never know with that guy.
KRAMER: I say we should go and get the money. Let’s do it.
Kramer turns to leaves slips and catches himself on the couch and then falls down again. All three look quickly his way and then back again as Kramer becomes instantly upright.
SEINFELD: How does he do that. Listen if know Newman he is cooking up something. Did anyone one else get a crisp new hundred dollar bill?
Jerry holds up the bill. The others pull out their hundred dollar bill and compare it holding it up to the light looking at the back and front.
GEORGE: Does anyone know what counterfeit money looks like?
SEINFELD: Haven’t a clue. What’s the deal with this money anyway? We should just go spend it and not go there at all.
ELAINE: Oh come on Jerry we’ll humor him. Act like we’re his friends maybe there will be something extra after all. We can
leave at the first sign of trouble or if we get bored.
SEINFELD: I think I’m starting to get bored already. Have we been over there already?
GEORGE: What could he do anyway? He’s a postman.
They all look at each other as a horrifying thought occurs to each simultaneously.
ALL: Postal!
SEINFELD: Nah. It couldn’t be. It would take too much imagination.
KRAMER: Well what are we waiting for.
GEORGE: All right all right. Has anyone seen my gloves?
ELAINE: It’s Summer George what’s with the gloves.
GEORGE: I think I left them here and wanted to find them before it gets cold again.
ELAINE: Whatever.
They all exit together
INT. NEWMAN’S APT NYC NIGHT
Newman is testing his device attaching a button to his toe. He carefully opens his door a crack and then goes and lies down covering himself with a blanket. Seinfeld and company appear at the door.
EXT. HALLWAY NEWMAN’S APT NYC NIGHT
KRAMER: Who’s gonna knock. You know it is customary to knock.
GEORGE: All right Mr Polite I’ll knock.
SEINFELD: Wait. Don’t! Look the door is open.
KRAMER: Something terrible must have happened.
They look at each other, Kramer, Seinfeld and George back away from the door. Elaine looks back at them and shakes her head and then opens the door and peeks inside.
ELAINE: Shhh… He’s sleeping. (whispering)
SEINFELD: Sleeping? He invites us over to watch him sleep?
INT. NEWMANS APT NYC NIGHT
They all walk in careful not to make any noise Kramer shuts the door. Newman is sleeping peacefully or so it seems. Kramer walks over to run some water and then pours it in a glass and walks over to Newman.
ELAINE: What are you doing?
KRAMER: You know you take his pinky and put it in warm water and then he, (Kramer holds his face as he laughs) you know he…wet’s himself.
ELAINE: You are so demented.
SEINFELD: I don’t think we need a demonstration Kramer we’ll take your word for it.
KRAMER: Okay but you don’t know what you’re missing.(Giggling)
ELAINE: You know sleeping like that he looks kind of you know…
GEORGE: Just stop please I’m leaving.
ELAINE: I was just saying maybe there is another side to Newman.
Newman opens one eye slightly smiling and clicks his toe. The room wavers slightly.
SEINFELD: What was that?
GEORGE: I don’t know but really can we go now?
Suddenly Newman wakes up.
NEWMAN: Hey Elaine would you like to join me. (evil laugh)
ELAINE: Newman you are unbeliveable. What the heck are we doing here?
NEWMAN: Yes you would ask that. Oh nothing. I thought I could buy your friendship for a few moments but never mind now you can all go. Come on out the door. I’m through with you. Yes, yes thanks for coming. You can keep the money too, ha, ha.
Newman pushes all of them out the door and Elaine George and Seinfeld try and leave at once and find themselves temporarily stuck in the door. Kramer falls into to them breaking the logjam. The Kramer tries to come back in and Newman pushes him out as well.
EXT. HALLWAY NEWMAN’S APT
GEORGE: Can anybody tell me what that was all about?
SEINFELD: (Raising an eye brow) I don’t know but knowing Newman it can’t be good. (Sinister Music)
INT. SEINFELD’S APT NYC NEXT DAY
George is buzzing to come in.
SEINFELD: What do you want? Always bothering me. All right come on up see if I care.
George storms into the room.
GEORGE: All these years you never told me about this spot on my forehead. All these years people have been pointing and you never warned me. Some friend you are. Well you know what I don’t like you. Yeah that’s what I came to tell you.
SEINFELD: Oh yeah well I’m glad you came because I think you are a…
GEORGE: What’s happening to us? I’ve been feeling strange all morning
SEINFELD: Newman!
GEORGE: Newman! He did something to us. I’m telling you he is playing mind games here and I am going to get to the bottom of it.
Kramer walks in and attacks Seinfeld and George and all three are fighting when Elaine walks in.
ELAINE: Guys stop fighting please. I think I’m in love.
A tangle of bodies ceases their struggles breathless as they listen.
ELAINE: That’s right. Newman called me up and I am going out with him.
SEINFELD: No Elaine you can’t. Newman did something to all of us. We’re not like this. He must have done something to you too. You don’t like Newman remember?
ELAINE: Newman! But I can’t help myself I am obsessed with him, I want to…
They all hold their ears.
SEINFELD: No don’t say it or think it. We have to stick together.
A knock on the door. It’s Newman.
NEWMAN: Everyone feeling okay, ha ha.
GEORGE: What did you do to us. Make it stop.
NEWMAN: Never you are my puppets to do with as I like.
KRAMER: Please Newman I never liked any of them. It was always you.
NEWMAN: No fickle person I see through you. Now all of you walk over to the window and lean out and then jump…
SEINFELD: No, no…
They all walk as if they are Newman’s puppets.
NEWMAN: Not you Elaine you will be my plaything.
Elaine stops as Seinfeld, George and Kramer are now leaning over the window. A chorus of no’s screams and really horrible sounds come from them.
INT: NEWMAN’S APT NYC NIGHT
NEWMAN: (sleeping) No, No, No.
SEINFELD: Newman wake up we’ve come to take you out for your birthday.
NEWMAN: Huh. Birthday? Oh yes of course.
GEORGE: That must have been some dream. We could hear you out in the hall. Good thing you left your door open.
NEWMAN: Yes wasn’t it.
KRAMER: We’ll miss the show come on let’s go.
ELAINE: Hey Newman what’s all this junk in the other room? Are you becoming a nerd?
NEWMAN: Oh nothing. Nothing at all
They exit the door shuts the last shot of the mysterious equipment humming and crackling.
The first thing that you will notice when you begin to pay attention is that all of a sudden you are connected to something else that is very much aware of you in more ways than you can imagine. This is a two fold process. The adage as above so below applies completely in this case. Your awareness is only as complete as you allow yourself to become noticed. The revelation is a totality of being. You seek connection and yet just as fervently connection seeks you. Imagine that you are attaching yourself above while simultaneously you are being beckoned from this same above.
When you reach up it reaches down. Keep this in mind in your prayers since it is all too easy to ignore the connecting link by going too far along while never noticing the downward flow of questing that touches you along the way. It cannot be explained further than this except for elucidation of these main points endlessly. That my friends is how it works.
Your understanding seeks the undefinable and the undefinable seeks expression as defined. You can keep asking the same questions but sooner or later you’ll need to have the answers revealed to you. This sooner or later is exactly the moment of connection and as it occurs all things are revealed above and below. That is why you make the attempt in the first place so that you will recognize the unity of your asking and the corresponding response of the answer at first a feeling and then the feeling sheds itself around arising all through you to bring about the pathways of enlightenment. These pathways are guides for your feelings to flow into all through your body and yes everywhere inside of your worldly experiences.
Your thoughts are a mirror of its expression and like a mirror they aren’t quite exactly the same but with concentration and letting go you are able to become the expression and cast the mirror aside living for the unity of purpose that bring you and that connection together. We speak about it as one and the other but in reality they are really a part of the very same thing.
Watch with interest then this up and down flow of who you are. See this with an open heart for it is here that every connection is verified and witnessed as the truth of your being. It is this truth that stays with you throughout each day and defines the kind of person you have chosen to be.
All of my pathways are peace.Return to me now.The No-Mind Zen answer is the secret of becoming.Relax.Fulfillment comes naturally then.Life through love manages the transformation of thought from below to above and then back again.It is this back again that we too soon forget.Nothing moves until you let it go.Let it go and then become what you will be.No questions now about time or method simply with everything you have release and let go.Errant thoughts, negative feelings send them packing on their way and as they go they are transformed.In stillness meditate.Experience no thought to become higher thought where thinking is being.
It’s okay.All of it is working as designed.Let yourself become as clear as the water in the brook that washes noisily over the rocks running free dancing along my pathways of peace.As it goes so are you.
That which is within me comes through me and tells me exactly what to say in order to express itself in the way in which I would want to be expressed. Can you see in these words the interweaving of subject and object and then postulate their synthesis in return? We are conduits for creation facilitating the flow of its expression by being open to that expression.
There is the place within where all is connected especially so the electric sensation of connection that unifies the awareness each time we seek out the mystery that is nothing and then everything. It flows through me and yes grows through me.
The thing is that you never know what or where it is going to manifest or in what proportion. The moment you call upon it you will find yourself awakening. This awakening is exactly like what happens during the transition from dreamtime to awaking normally except that this awakening is to a whole other dimension of you.
You always have the choice of going along with the status quo or of making the quantum leap into the next level of awareness. These subsequent levels all expand via the expansion of light directly upon the area of your connection with all that is.
It is difficult to speak about all that is simply because you will never be able to wrap your mind around the entirety of what this means. You will however, be able to touch it and become transformed by the essence of what you come into contact with.
A story to illustrate.
She was the Queen of space and of time. Tall angular in form flowing dark iridescent hair full bodied her face a picture of perfection with peace and fury mixed together she walks gracefully amongst the heavens sometimes known but more often than not her passing a mystery both above and below. Why do I know all of this? It is because I met her one-day traveling seeking a treasure to bring back to my beloved.
The journey was more intense than I could have imagined. Many times I was near death but pressed on guided perhaps by stubbornness but mostly by love. I would see my beloved’s face when I placed the precious object in her hands. It was at the crossroads of earth and heaven that I happened to meet her. I turned one way and then the other hesitating my steps for once unsure. It was there she appeared and there that I was transformed.
I cannot say what she said although she spoke of worlds upon worlds with end. It could have been that I spent lifetimes through her. Yes through her because what she is not something you could address directly but more like an experience that you won’t ever forget. Yes of course she is as I described her but what she is inside of herself I couldn’t begin to tell you. She held nothing back her words so awesome that my mind could not keep up and I must have fallen asleep at some point because when I woke up she was gone.
It was just after that I found my treasure and when I took it to my beloved she asked what I had for her. I held out my hands and told her she was the most beautiful of all women in the world and that I was in this moment holding my dearest treasure of all.
She told me that she understood and felt the same. She saw that I was transformed and that she by touching me that day was also transformed. I never told her about the Queen of space and time. I didn’t have to because she has never left me and one day my beloved will meet her and understand all there is to know. For now our love takes us through the remainder of our days where wishes become raindrops and miracles form in the pools of water in the gardens of our home.
It’s this moment where creation meets the will to become and there is a unity of expression both above and below.Somehow it is a universe away as if the light was too bright to take in all at once.I never understood that principle until yes just this moment.This is what may be called a simultaneous inspiration where both the information received and the information asked for turn out to be the very same thing.It is like watching a movie all the while seeing the end there in the distance coloring every scene like some computerized graphics program.I’ll stop for now the light is becoming piercing and everything that is to be there has to be an abstract understanding veiling the light and therefore giving it a form in which it may be beheld.(Don’t think I’ve ever used that word before – beheld – now there is another source of wonder)
Anything can happen at every moment of time. We are never bound by what has come before nor by what we expect to come after. In a sense we roll the dice each moment in order to determine the outcomes we experience. This is but one gotcha here in this equation. Since we are both the roller of the dice and the receiver of the experience we cannot help but be affected by both our actions in setting forth our expectations along with the ensuing results of those expectations. Just like the experiment cannot be separated from the observer so too our consciousness cannot be separated from itself in bringing about the nature of the reality of our experiences.
In Quantum Physics the smallest of particles have been known to do very strange things such as appearing at time intervals that weren’t predicted or morphing into something else entirely new. It is this principle that we may also apply to consciousness in that what we are thinking and thinking about colors all of our actions and reactions to those experiences that occur. There is an overriding design that is in place that at first defies description but then as we grow accustomed to this everflow of information and experience we begin to see connections via what Carl Jung called Synchronicity. It is this Synchonicity that establishes a baseline for our thoughts. When we combine Synchonicity with memory then all at once we are suddenly noticing connections between our thoughts and the deeds that take place regardless of the timeline. This is the Quantum nature of consciousness to spring back upon itself in order to know itself and indeed express itself in the fullest way possible.
The key to all of these observations is to listen to your thoughts as they are flowing so that you will then be able to make the connections as they occur. Sometimes you’ll think of something while a thing is happening and the feeling will be so intense that you will begin to realize how connected those thoughts you were thinking are to the events taking place. At others times you’ll repeat a thought from a few days before just as the experience is happening and you’ll experience the same connection.
The Quantum nature of consciousness is an ongoing awakening from a state of random thinking to a program of unified thinking that seeks the answers within to the events taking place without. We are ongoing then in our efforts to make the connections more meaningful each time they occur.
There are so many adherents to this kind of thoughtful introspection. Take for example the feeling of deja-vu. The feeling of already having experienced this emotion or thought or situation. This deja-vu is one of the markers of Quantum consciousness that once you begin to notice the way that this works you will take it as second nature that you are connecting to the source of those feelings which turns out to be the initial thoughtform that produced the waves that you are now becoming aware of.
Conceive of consciousness as what you know according to what you are thinking about in the now and also what you will be thinking about in the then. In addition Consciousness also contains all thought so that we could say that at any given moment each of us embodies a particular degree of thoughtform that is in harmony with the intention of our thinking. If we have a problem we think about that or if we are lost in reverie that is where we go. All of our thinking depends upon our awareness of the same.
Quantum consciousness then is the awareness of thinking that takes place as we move along through the endless experiences that move within and without. Our thoughts may be compared to those ultra tiny particles that are considered by quantum physics that seem to move inside and out of one dimension after another. The same holds true of our thoughts according to the degree of our awareness and the facility with which we are able to let them go to seek their highest level.
Some would say that Quantum consciousness is an outgrow of this New Age of awareness yet it may also be said that this New Age of awareness is directly a result of our collective Quantum Consciousness. What this shows is that what is defined is affected by the entity that does the descriptive analysis. In other words we cannot separate the thinker from the thought. Therefore we may say that Quantum consciousness is continuously redefining itself according to the way we are thinking about it.
This brings up one more point of discussion. As our awareness grows so too does our ability to influence the flow not only of thoughts but also of their outcomes. Imagine traveling in a river where the current is swift but you have control over where in the river you are positioned. This control isn’t exact by any means and yet you are still the master of your destination using the oars of your intention to propel you forward. This is quantum consciousness in action. It isn’t quite what you think but think again and perhaps it actually is what you think.
Seinfeld is driving, George is in the shotgun seat, Elaine is sitting behind George, Kramer crunched and hunched in the middle and Newman with a vicious grin is behind Seinfeld.
SEINFELD
So we are finally going out to dinner the five of us.It’s quite an occasion don’t you think?
GEORGE
I don’t know why we couldn’t go to the Italian Restaurant.We need more Jewish food like a hole in the head.I’m already burping.
SEINFELD
Now George this is for Newman.It’s his favorite restaurant, The Knish and Knack.It’s only one night.I’ve brought plenty of antacid.We can pop the pills before we eat.Now I haven’t had a good cuggle since Rosh Hashanah.I can still taste.
KRAMER
It’s all good we’re going to eat like kings tonight.
Kramer leans forward bumps his head moves around and hits both Newman and Elaine with his elbows.
ELAINE
Hey watch it you’re going to knock us out.
NEWMAN
Kramer just try and relax.I would have sat in the middle to be next to…
SEINFELD
Kids stop fighting now we’re almost there.
NEWMAN (LOOKS OFF IN THE DISTANCE)
Yes we are aren’t we?
A dream sequence just like the opening scenes of Newman ordering everyone around taking guilty pleasure in his conquests.
GEORGE
Finally.We’re here
KRAMER
I have to get out of here.
Kramer moves and turns and Elaine and Newman get their door open just in time but Kramer swims out of the car almost getting the door shut on him by George as he leaves the car.
SEINFELD (TO ELAINE)
This should be good.Nice car swimming Kramer.
ELAINE
Yeah I’ve never seen a better breaststroke.Oops did I just say that?
GEORGE
Come on let’s go I can already taste the Pastrami.The things I do…
INT –NYC – RESTAURANT – KNISH AND KNACK – EVENING
WAITRESS
Oh my it’s Jerry Seinfeld.Oh you don’t remember me and now I am waiting on you.How about that coincidence?
SEINFELD
Hi Gloria.You know the gang.I’ll have my usual.This is George, Kramer, Elaine and Newman.It’s Newman’s birthday we called ahead for some bobka for dessert.
WAITRESS
Yes it is waiting for you.So what’s new?
The waitress Gloria sits down squeezing in the booth.
WAITRESS
Just like old times Jerry me and you almost like a date.I am glad you came tonight.Oh boy what’s a girl to do?
GEORGE
For starters could we have our menus?
Gloria gives him a dirty look and gets up and gets the menus and stomps away.
SEINFELD
You had to get her mad? She is bringing us food. There is nothing I hate more than mad food. No matter how it looks you’ll never know if it’s been tampered with.
NEWMAN
Stranger things have been known to happen, heh, heh.
ELAINE
So what’s the deal with your girlfriend here?She seems pretty chummy.
KRAMER
Oh I like chummy.
At that moment Kramer who is the only one in a chair at the end of the booth has his chair knocked by a passerby who gives him a dirty look as he struggles to stay upright.
No one pays any attention to him
SEINFELD
Well it was kind of personal and happened so long ago…
KRAMER
You can’t just leave us hanging.Come give it up.
SEINFELD
They told me Gloria was one of those girls who put out so I started paying attention to her.She isn’t half bad either that helps.I didn’t know about her idiosyncrasies.
GEORGE
Idiosyncrasies.You don’t hear that word very often.
ELAINE
Continue
NEWMAN (LOOKING FAR OFF AGAIN)
Yes do.
We see Newman in a fantasy scene picking up the fork and moving to strike a blow to Seinfeld’s hand as he is gesturing telling his story.
SEINFELD
This is going to be strange I warn you.I finally walked her home from school one day.She stopped by a tree and motioned for me to come over.I thought here it is.I moved over with my best swagger and then she starts kissing the tree and rubbing against it all the while eyeing me.Then abruptly she stops and we move on.I mean what do you say to someone after that?What’s up with the tree thing?I thought maybe this was a fluke.
GEORGE
A fluke.You are calling this a fluke.Oh this is classic.I love it.
ELAINE
You would.So what happened?
SEINFELD
There were a lot of trees on the way home.I couldn’t believe how many.It was dark before I arrived at her door.I thought okay this is weird but maybe she’ll invite me in and I’ll get lucky.I could endure the trees if it paid off.
NEWMAN
So what happened then?
SEINFELD
We’re at the door and she smiles and is about to go inside when I ask if she wanted company.Oh no she says this was so exciting today we’ll have to pick up where we left off tomorrow.You see when she said tomorrow I felt like I had been used.I felt cheap.Imagine me witnessing those unspeakable acts of erotic tree hugging.I felt so unclean.
KRAMER
As you should.The next day you walked home with her.
SEINFELD
No we took the bus and when we got off she asked if I wanted to walk in the woods with her.Now normally that would have been an invitation but how could I compete against all those trees?
GEORGE
I see your point.Still you know maybe the whole tree thing was just an act to turn you on.You may have missed out.
SEINFELD
Perhaps but in this case discretion was the better part of valor.As a footnote to this she married a park ranger a few years back. He disappeared last year while they were on vacation in the Smoky Mountains.
ELAINE
It makes sense.He was the only man for her until she found another tree.
KRAMER
Ah love it just sings.
Gloria comes back and takes their orders and Kramer puts his hands over his head and moves back and forth.Gloria looks strangely at him and then as she walks away she sidles against his chair.
ELAINE
You always were the sick one.
KRAMER
How lovely is a tree…
EXT – NYC – RESTAURANT STEPS – EVENING
They are standing around as waiting for George who forgot something and then he comes back out.
ELAINE
I have to admit this was lovely.Newman I didn’t know that about you that you were a Merit Scholar and decided to chuck it all for your love of the USPS.Your dedication is admirable.
NEWMAN
Well Elaine I had to choose something that would pay it forward and the mail was my calling.I dreamed of becoming a postman ever since the day …Um let’s not go there…ever since the day I found a letter that my carrier dropped.I hand delivered it to my neighbor and it was apparently such good news that she gave me five dollars.I’ll never forget that day.
GEORGE
That’s quite a story.It explains a lot about you.We had you all wrong it seems.
SEINFELD
I would have been the last to admit it but yes your story was very touching.
Kramer is out at the curb thumbing for a ride.
SEINFELD
Kramer what are you doing?I have my car.
KRAMER
I am just practicing you never know when you need a ride.
Someone stops and Kramer is bending low talking to the driver who pulls off giving Kramer the finger.
NEWMAN
You know I just feel so good about tonight maybe we could go back to my place I wanted to show you something I’ve been working on.It would really mean a lot to me.It won’t take long.I have some beer, chips, scotch whatever.Please let me reciprocate.
GEORGE
It’s okay by me.Reciprocate all you want.I’m in.
ELAINE
That’s very nice Newman sure we can come for a while.
SEINFELD
To Newman’s then.
Newman smiles and then turns away.The scene of his domination of the group comes back to him and he staggers as he is going down the steps Kramer catches him.
KRAMER
Are you okay man?
NEWMAN
Fine.It must be the Cuggle.
Newman and Kramer walk away.George, Elaine and Seinfeld follow.
ELAINE
Did you just see that?He’s been doing that all night?Is he sleep walking?
SEINFELD
Yes I did notice.He is just mugging for us trying to freak us out.
GEORGE
Well it’s working.Maybe we shouldn’t go.
ELAINE
It’s too late now.We’ll just stay a few moments and beg off.
SEINFELD
Okay it’s a plan.
They walk off together as sinister music plays in the background.
In a corner of spirit began the new day
The skies were clear clouds out of the way
Wherever I walked the sun touched me warmly so
I slowed my pace pulled back a bit and then let go.
I prayed here within for a blessing from above
At first a few sprinkles fell filled with their love.
And so I paused to see what this wonder could be
Then I moved further within as the rain became like the sea.
For so long I’ve wanted to know what direction to take
And where should I run to and what should I make
But now by the by these meanings become known
That exactly where I am is everything to be shown.
The lesson is how and it is now just who you are.
No need to journey to forever to see your inner star.
It waits for you so lovingly expressed
To embrace your every moment joyfully caressed.
There is nothing more than to say I am this.
To share to give and to send in an ever eternal bliss.
The perfection of each moment is realized by the intention present therein. This intention may then be unified with the thing itself so fulfillment becomes a unity of purpose, design and the out workings of the plan. Take into consideration here that it works for everything and not just for some special cases. Pour everything into this moment like no other and reveal that which is hidden and that which has come to be just because you have opened the doors within your own consciousness. Do not look for results but rather continue to work in the area of causes as a drop of water continuously dripped into a lake causes ripples far reaching even to making the waves upon the shore of your fulfillment. The dynamic is simple cause produces effect which then in turn becomes cause raised to a higher level of awareness. In Kabbalah we speak about the four worlds of Aziluth, Briah, Assiah and Yetzirah. We could define these worlds and then simply move on however, it is important to have more than a theoretical knowledge of these four worlds and their interactions. First let’s define them and then see where that takes us.
Atziluth is the world of emanation. Creation in this sense proceeds from the Divine source mysterious and undefined and yet the place where everything is revealed initially. By world we are positioning this conceptual reality as everything that comes from what has yet to be and then must become. It contains a whole host of connections throughout the Hebrew alphabet and throughout the Tree of Life. This is definitely a topic for continuing discussion but for now just consider that Atziluth is the source of Divine emanation. Basically it is where we get our marching orders from.
Briah is the world(s) of Creation. It represents the process of coming into being. Directly it is related to our own connection with spirit, the divine self or the conscious awareness of what is to be. This is where we tether our thoughts and the intention behind those thoughts. The mystery is revealed through how we think about it and for Briah each moment then provides this vehicle for creation.
Yetzirah or the world(s) of Formation contains the plan that is to be placed into motion throughout your experiences. These experiences include both conscious and unconscious thoughts, dreams, visions and inspirations. Yetzirah is where the synchronicity of thoughts combines with experiences to tell us we are on the right path. Here is where we must pay attention to even the most subtle cues. In this way we become co-creators in consciousness.
Assiah encompasses the world(s) of Action or Deeds. The thing itself is revealed as the culmination and unification that has been taking place all along throughout all four worlds. We say a resounding yes of recognition here as the connections at first filled with mystery have gone through the emanation of creation seen with recognition is the actions of our experiences.
There can be no connection without unity. These four worlds illustrate a template of unity that is after all the purpose of Kabbalah and of all Torah study. We unify our understanding with what has come before. We unify our lives through the recognition that a higher sense of purpose works through us that by our intention and understanding becomes the life flow that is who and what we define ourselves to be.
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The entire purpose of reaching up for higher thought is to be connected on high. It is this connection that at first we strive for and then we become accustomed to. In a very real sense we first ascend in our intention and then transcend the limits of every day thinking. The way in which we do this is by recognizing that all along the way the light that shows the way is always there for us to tread these ancient pathways of discovery.
The Mind can know no limits. We hold both the reins and ride the horse simultaneously holding on and letting go. In turn our emotions fuel the those thoughts we hold dear as our intellect moves to organize and make sense of everything going on all around us. While it is true that sometimes we may only react to what we see and hear it is also possible to act with purpose and intention to promote those thoughts and feelings that are ascending and destined for connection on high.
The study of Kabbalah gives form to the formless. Through the use of various abstract symbols we learn to paint the pictures in mind that serve to unify our awareness not only of our immediate surrounding but also of the greater picture seen from the vantage point of an inspiration that is never ending. The concept of the Sephiroth for example as energy centers of awareness allows us to shine our attention on an area of unfolding thought that we otherwise would not pay attention to. It isn’t simply a matter of learning everything you can about what each of these ten energy spheres represent in all of the four worlds. What you must keep in mind all along this study is that its purpose is to awaken your thoughts into a state of self recognition.
In the Yoga sutras of Patanjali 1.17. Cognitive meditation is accompanied by reasoning, discrimination, bliss and the sense of ‘I am.’ Meditation does not begin only when you decide to do so. You are in a constant state of meditation that may only be improved by your inner awareness that this is taking place. When you look within it is with this sense of study, satisfaction and the knowledge that ultimately you are finding connection through this process. At every turn you will proceed from what you know towards what you are aspiring to learn.
It’s a rainy day in Southern California. This song just about captures the mood where the waters move elegantly within to produce the wonderful flowers of spring and summer. Everything is as it should be and all is right with the world.
These showers flow do sweetly forth
Beyond the veil the ancient north
that sees everything ahead of time
and watches all who seek to climb.
We arrive before we meet
to find the soul all will keep
and soar into the skies above
where flowers are envisioned with love.
Still there are no words quite right
to serve to give all to this light
even so in some very small way
this serves this spirit of this day.
In every song and every sending there is a purpose that achieves itself by directing our attention to that which must be. There is no other way to describe this state of mind other than by experiencing it in the moment. Every reason for listening is so that understanding may increase and the energy of connection be released. This connection establishes itself within us according to both our attention to its presence and our innate ability to disregard the illusions that would hinder or dampen the experience of listening. This is something we face everyday.
We live in a sea of sensation and for the most part are overwhelmed by the complexity and sheer volume of images that reach us. However, we may learn discrimination that is the purpose of open up ourselves to learn about the types of energies that are out there. We then start to become conscious of these energies and use them for the good of all including ourselves. What does it mean to use them for the good of all? Simply put we learn to filter these flows using our creative imagination. Lyrically here is an example of what we are talking about.
There upon the mountains or across the inner sea
I watched the waters flow by wanting what would be
There in your eyes so high in mind so much to say
Aware that every moment cast will find its own way.
The next thing that you think of oh may it be love
Sent of course from heaven that place up above.
The perfect kind of moment is when there is light
Shining there in between so wonderful and bright.
Yes it is take care get in the groove
For everything depends on this move
Playing for time won’t get you anywhere
So stay to climb that uppermost stair.
Here is something that perhaps you did not know
You can sift through the sands and filter the flow.
Build yourself the web of everlasting delight
By seeing what you’ll find there freeing the light.
The moment comes and then it goes and here it comes again
It watches you watching high to make yourself my friend.
Reach on high. What is your best thought? How would you know it in the first place? This is where discrimination takes place. Your highest aspirations are only as high as you make them to be and then you only go as far as you allow yourself to go. What is it that is in your hands to shape and mold your own future? There is only one thing and that is your thoughts and the accompanying emotions that these thoughts produce. Try as some might you will never escape yourself. Especially you cannot get away from your highest inclinations. Some would hide their light and then face sadness because ultimately no matter what projections of blame are placed upon the world it is our own filtering process that make the difference as to whether or not we are able to reach past our own misgivings.
If we make the continuous choices to accept our good, our highest aspirations as the truth of ourselves then we built within a template for higher awareness that is the foundation stone of all connection with the Eternal for what else could the Eternal be but an eternal seeking of good. If you don’t see this you are by definition still hiding your good for whatever reasons. Today this moment as you read through these thoughts know that they truly emanate from you. Consider me the messenger in the same way as I consider my own highest thoughts as the messengers of that which is eternally most high.
I see that over the course of days my thoughts do expand themselves and then express themselves accordingly. This isn’t something that happens only once in a while. It is predetermined by design to be right on consistently. Remember that the certainty of each moment is determined by placing before you as an established action all that you wish to occur. In this way you end up walking into the next scene filled with light. Try this sometime. Then as you begin to experience your thoughts in full consciousness recognize that you have moved up a level like an electron bursting into its next level of awareness so too is your recognition but another form of the quantum light that is given off by your awakening awareness.
Everyone is standing outside of the door as Newman opens the door and then turns to them.
NEWMAN
Please a moment I left some things laying around let me clean up just a bit beright back.
GEORGE
I can just imagine what is going on in there.I don’t know about this.
ELAINE
Come on.You’re the one who said to reciprocate.
SEINFELD
I hate that word it’s like everyone expects you to do something for them like making a deal.
GEORGE
Just to have a drink and then I’m out of there.I can’t believe we’re having
drinks at Newman’s apartment.How the mighty have fallen.
INT – NEWMAN’S APARTMENT – BACK BEDROOM – NYC – EVENING
Newman is turning on all of his devices scrambling back and forth and finally through he opens the door.
INT – NEWMAN’S APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – NYC – EVENING
NEWMAN (ALA GLEASON)
Welcome to my humble abode.Please join me friends.
Kramer in back rushes forward and slides through the tripping falling and landing in the easy chair.
KRAMER
Ah my favorite chair.It’s very comfortable.Want to try.
GEORGE
That’s quite okay.I’ll just stand for a while.Nice pictures Newman!
NEWMAN
Yes my favorite mail carriers each month a different hero.
SEINFELD
I thought you stopped working there.
NEWMAN
Oh you never leave to postal service.It’s a lifetime commitment.
SEINFELD (ROLLING HIS EYES)
I see.Sounds like a religion.
NEWMAN
Oh but it is it is.Let me get you some drinks I have a tray here. Elaine?Where isshe?Drinks.
ELAINE
I thought I would check out your kitchen.Very clean.Good for you Newman.Interesting.Didn’t know you were a nerd.What’s back here?
NEWMAN
Nothing to concern you.
INT – NEWMAN’S APARMENT KITCHEN – NYC – EVENING
Newman rushes to the kitchen squeezing past Elaine to shut the bedroom door.Elaine meanwhile returns to the living room.
INT – NEWMAN’S APARTMENT LIVING ROOM – NYC – EVENING
NEWMAN (FROM THE KITCHEN)
Drinks are coming right up.What a treat.My special blend.
ELAINE (IN A WHISPER)
You should have seen.Computers. Test tubes.Wires and pipes.
SEINFELD
Test tubes?Now this is getting serious.What do you think he has cooking.
ELAINE
I don’t know but I flipped a few switches to see what was what.You know me I’m tactilely curious.
KRAMER
Tactilely curious?I like that.
ELAINE (HOLDING A SMALL BOOK)
I also took this.
SEINFELD
Interesting.You pushed these buttons?
ELAINE
Yes just those
SEINFELD
This changes everything.
Newman walks in carrying a drink tray each takes a drink.Newman very carefully sets aside a drink for himself.
SEINFELD
A toast then to Newman a greater friend hath no man.
ALL
To Newman!
They all raise their glasses and drink.Newman gets a glazed look in his eyes.
KRAMER
You know I missed my calling.I filled in one day and no one knew.
GEORGE
And how did that work out…
INT – NEWMAN’S APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – EVENING – MIST
NEWMAN (OC)
What have I done these are my friends and soon they will suffer a horrible fate.They were being kind to me.I really felt like we were bonding.Oh no I can’t stop it now either.I must go through with it.
SEINFELD (LOUDLY)
Newman!
NEWMAN
Feeling strange about now Seinfeld?
SEINFELD
Am I?Nope feel fine.How about you George?
GEORGE
Couldn’t be better.
Newman sways and is becoming rigid.
NEWMAN (TURNING TO ELAINE)
What did you do?
ELAINE
Oh nothing just flipped a few switches and turned a couple of buttons.
Newman gets a look of horror on his face and then stiffens completely.
SEINFELD.
So you planned to do us in make us your slaves but now the tables are turned. What shall we do with him?
GEORGE
Make him walk off a bridge for all I care.I told you we should never have trusted him. What does the book say.
SEINFELD
It says here that the subject Newman will obey any and all commands completely for a period of eight hours and then have no memory of those eight hours.
KRAMER
We could send him out pimping.I have a hat he could wear.
ELAINE
You would.
GEORGE
Wait a minute I have an idea.You know that mail he brags about never delivering?What if we make him deliver it now in the middle of the night>
SEINFELD
I like it.I like it.
KRAMER
Sounds like poetic justice to me.Let’s do it.
SEINFELD
Newman show us the undelivered mail.
Newman walks over zombie like to a closet where five postal bags are filled with mail.
ELAINE
Can I try to command him?
SEINFELD
Sure happy commanding.
ELAINE
Take all of this mail and deliver it to the last letter to their rightful owners and finish before the night is through.Hurry you have no time to waste.
Newman grabs the five bags of mail struggles to leave the door and then is gone.
GEORGE
He’ll have no memory of this right?
SEINFELD
That’s what it says
GEORGE
Good enough for me.I’m out of here.
SEINFELD
Meet me tomorrow for breakfast
KRAMER
Breakfast it is.
They exit Newman’s apartment.
ACT FOUR – NEWMAN’S REVENGE
INT – LUNCHEONETTE – NYC – MORNING
Elaine, George, Kramer and Seinfeld are sitting at the table.Mail is littered covering their table.As we look around a similar scene is taking place at the other tables with people bewilderingly opening letters some as long as five years ago.
GEORGE
Look at this season tickets for 2006.Remember I was all mad at Steinbrenner for not giving me tickets.He kept razzing me all the time about not showing up and throwing good money after bad.
KRAMER
I won the Publisher’s Clearing House in 2005.I’m rich but where’s my money?
ELAINE
Love letters from Puddy.I thought he didn’t care was too self involved.
SEINFELD
I had a movie offer from Steven Spielberg from 2004 for a spin off of ET’s club dates.
ELAINE
Here he comes.
Newman walks in head low hiding his face.
SEINFELD
Newman!
NEWMAN
Seinfeld!I sense your evil hand in all of this.The last thing I remember were having dinner and then this morning I woke up and all my mail is gone.I walk around and everyone is reading piles of mail all around me.If anyone were to find out…
GEORGE
Don’t worry Newman we’re your friends.How could you do this to people?Look at them they are crying pulling their hair.It’s terrible.Although I could really do without these invitations that I never received.
ELAINE
You get the good with the bad.Think of it this way Newman.
You can’t mess with the mail.
SEINFELD
The mail always goes through no matter what.It’s a miracle.
NEWMAN
I don’t know about a miracle but I’ll be watching you Seinfeld.
SEINFELD
Go right ahead watch away.
Newman starts to leave and just then Kramer jumps up.
KRAMER
It’s him.He did it.He delivered your mail late to you.
People in the luncheonette turn around as Newman tries to hurry out the exit but there is an old man with a cane twirling it in the way.
PATRON ONE
I remember him he used to be our mailman.
PATRON TWO
Yes he was never on time. I always thought there was something funny about him.
PATRON THREE
Let’s get him.
Newman breaks past the old man and the entire luncheonette including waitresses and cooks chase him down the street while Seinfeld and Company remain seated.
SEINFELD
It’s too bad really but it had to happen.
GEORGE (SHAKES HIS HEAD)
Had to happen.
ELAINE
Well you know Kramer you could have gone easier on him.
KRAMER
Hey I could have been rich.Tough love is what that boy needs.
Sounds and crashes and whee ooo noises electronic blinking lights and then the maniacal laughter of Newman.
NEWMAN:Ha Ha.Finally my dreams will be realized.I will have my revenge.This device here will give me control over the minds of any and all who enter here.I’ll invite all of them over and then simply flick this toe switch while they think I’m sleeping and then they’re mine to do with as I wish.Torture, mayhem, oh what fun. (laughter echoes in the distance)
INT. SEINFELD’S APT
Elaine, George and Kramer are all there and each is holding an invitation from Newman.
ELAINE: So what do you think of this.Newman has come into some money and wants to give us each a thousand dollars.
GEORGE: Sounds fishy to me.You never know with that guy.
KRAMER: I say we should go and get the money.Let’s do it.
Kramer turns to leaves slips and catches himself on the couch and then falls down again.All three look quickly his way and then back again as Kramer becomes instantly upright.
SEINFELD:How does he do that.Listen if know Newman he is cooking up something.Did anyone one else get a crisp new hundred dollar bill?
Jerry holds up the bill.The others pull out their hundred dollar bill and compare it holding it up to the light looking at the back and front.
GEORGE: Does anyone know what counterfeit money looks like?
SEINFELD:Haven’t a clue.What’s the deal with this money anyway?We should just go spend it and not go there at all.
ELAINE: Oh come on Jerry we’ll humor him.Act like we’re his friends maybe there will be something extra after all.We can
leave at the first sign of trouble or if we get bored.
SEINFELD: I think I’m starting to get bored already.Have we been over there already?
GEORGE: What could he do anyway?He’s a postman.
They all look at each other as a horrifying thought occurs to each simultaneously.
ALL:Postal!
SEINFELD:Nah.It couldn’t be.It would take too much imagination.
KRAMER: Well what are we waiting for.
GEORGE: All right all right.Has anyone seen my gloves?
ELAINE: It’s Summer George what’s with the gloves.
GEORGE: I think I left them here and wanted to find them before it gets cold again.
ELAINE: Whatever.
They all exit together
INT. NEWMAN’S APT NYC NIGHT
Newman is testing his device attaching a button to his toe.He carefully opens his door a crack and then goes and lies down covering himself with a blanket.Seinfeld and company appear at the door.
EXT. HALLWAY NEWMAN’S APT NYC NIGHT
KRAMER: Who’s gonna knock.You know it is customary to knock.
GEORGE:All right Mr Polite I’ll knock.
SEINFELD:Wait.Don’t!Look the door is open.
KRAMER:Something terrible must have happened.
They look at each other, Kramer, Seinfeld and George back away from the door.Elaine looks back at them and shakes her head and then opens the door and peeks inside.
ELAINE:Shhh… He’s sleeping. (whispering)
SEINFELD: Sleeping?He invites us over to watch him sleep?
INT. NEWMANS APT NYC NIGHT
They all walk in careful not to make any noise Kramer shuts the door.Newman is sleeping peacefully or so it seems.Kramer walks over to run some water and then pours it in a glass and walks over to Newman.
ELAINE:What are you doing?
KRAMER:You know you take his pinky and put it in warm water and then he, (Kramer holds his face as he laughs) you know he…wet’s himself.
ELAINE: You are so demented.
SEINFELD:I don’t think we need a demonstration Kramer we’ll take your word for it.
KRAMER: Okay but you don’t know what you’re missing.(Giggling)
ELAINE:You know sleeping like that he looks kind of you know…
GEORGE:Just stop please I’m leaving.
ELAINE:I was just saying maybe there is another side to Newman.
Newman opens one eye slightly smiling and clicks his toe.The room wavers slightly.
SEINFELD:What was that?
GEORGE:I don’t know but really can we go now?
Suddenly Newman wakes up.
NEWMAN:Hey Elaine would you like to join me.(evil laugh)
ELAINE:Newman you are unbeliveable.What the heck are we doing here?
NEWMAN:Yes you would ask that.Oh nothing.I thought I could buy your friendship for a few moments but never mind now you can all go.Come on out the door.I’m through with you. Yes, yes thanks for coming.You can keep the money too, ha, ha.
Newman pushes all of them out the door and Elaine George and Seinfeld try and leave at once and find themselves temporarily stuck in the door.Kramer falls into to them breaking the logjam.The Kramer tries to come back in and Newman pushes him out as well.
EXT. HALLWAY NEWMAN’S APT
GEORGE:Can anybody tell me what that was all about?
SEINFELD: (Raising an eye brow) I don’t know but knowing Newman it can’t be good.(Sinister Music)
INT. SEINFELD’S APT NYC NEXT DAY
George is buzzing to come in.
SEINFELD:What do you want?Always bothering me.All right come on up see if I care.
George storms into the room.
GEORGE:All these years you never told me about this spot on my forehead.All these years people have been pointing and younever warned me.Some friend you are.Well you know what I don’t like you.Yeah that’s what I came to tell you.
SEINFELD:Oh yeah well I’m glad you came because I think you are a…
GEORGE:What’s happening to us?I’ve been feeling strange all morning
SEINFELD: Newman!
GEORGE:Newman!He did something to us.I’m telling you he is playing mind games here and I am going to get to the bottom of it.
Kramer walks in and attacks Seinfeld and George and all three are fighting when Elaine walks in.
ELAINE:Guys stop fighting please.I think I’m in love.
A tangle of bodies ceases their struggles breathless as they listen.
ELAINE:That’s right.Newman called me up and I am going out with him.
SEINFELD:No Elaine you can’t.Newman did something to all of us.We’re not like this.He must have done something to you too.You don’t like Newman remember?
ELAINE:Newman!But I can’t help myself I am obsessed with him, I want to…
They all hold their ears.
SEINFELD: No don’t say it or think it.We have to stick together.
A knock on the door.It’s Newman.
NEWMAN:Everyone feeling okay, ha ha.
GEORGE: What did you do to us.Make it stop.
NEWMAN: Never you are my puppets to do with as I like.
KRAMER:Please Newman I never liked any of them.It was always you.
NEWMAN:No fickle person I see through you. Now all of you walk over to the window and lean out and then jump…
SEINFELD:No, no…
They all walk as if they are Newman’s puppets.
NEWMAN: Not you Elaine you will be my plaything.
Elaine stops as Seinfeld, George and Kramer are now leaning over the window.A chorus of no’s screams and really horrible sounds come from them.
INT: NEWMAN’S APT NYC NIGHT
NEWMAN:(sleeping) No, No, No.
SEINFELD:Newman wake up we’ve come to take you out for your birthday.
NEWMAN:Huh.Birthday?Oh yes of course.
GEORGE:That must have been some dream.We could hear you out in the hall.Good thing you left your door open.
NEWMAN:Yes wasn’t it.
KRAMER:We’ll miss the show come on let’s go.
ELAINE:Hey Newman what’s all this junk in the other room?Are you becoming a nerd?
NEWMAN:Oh nothing.Nothing at all
They exit the door shuts the last shot of the mysterious equipment humming and crackling.
ACT TWO — NEWMAN’S REVENGE
INT:NYC – SEINFELD’S CAREVENING
Seinfeld is driving, George is in the shotgun seat, Elaine is sitting behind George, Kramer crunched and hunched in the middle and Newman with a vicious grin is behind Seinfeld.
SEINFELD
So we are finally going out to dinner the five of us.It’s quite an occasion don’t you think?
GEORGE
I don’t know why we couldn’t go to the Italian Restaurant.We need more Jewish food like a hole in the head.I’m already burping.
SEINFELD
Now George this is for Newman.It’s his favorite restaurant, The Knish and Knack.It’s only one night.I’ve brought plenty of antacid.We can pop the pills before we eat.Now I haven’t had a good cuggle since Rosh Hashanah.I can still taste.
KRAMER
It’s all good we’re going to eat like kings tonight.
Kramer leans forward bumps his head moves around and hits both Newman and Elaine with his elbows.
ELAINE
Hey watch it you’re going to knock us out.
NEWMAN
Kramer just try and relax.I would have sat in the middle to be next to…
SEINFELD
Kids stop fighting now we’re almost there.
NEWMAN (LOOKS OFF IN THE DISTANCE)
Yes we are aren’t we?
A dream sequence just like the opening scenes of Newman ordering everyone around taking guilty pleasure in his conquests.
GEORGE
Finally.We’re here
KRAMER
I have to get out of here.
Kramer moves and turns and Elaine and Newman get their door open just in time but Kramer swims out of the car almost getting the door shut on him by George as he leaves the car.
SEINFELD (TO ELAINE)
This should be good.Nice car swimming Kramer.
ELAINE
Yeah I’ve never seen a better breaststroke.Oops did I just say that?
GEORGE
Come on let’s go I can already taste the Pastrami.The things I do…
INT –NYC – RESTAURANT – KNISH AND KNACK – EVENING
WAITRESS
Oh my it’s Jerry Seinfeld.Oh you don’t remember me and now I am waiting on you.How about that coincidence?
SEINFELD
Hi Gloria.You know the gang. I’ll have my usual.This is George, Kramer, Elaine and Newman.It’s Newman’s birthday we called ahead for some bobka for dessert.
WAITRESS
Yes it is waiting for you.So what’s new?
The waitress Gloria sits down squeezing in the booth.
WAITRESS
Just like old times Jerry me and you almost like a date.I am glad you came tonight.Oh boy what’s a girl to do?
GEORGE
For starters could we have our menus?
Gloria gives him a dirty look and gets up and gets the menus and stomps away.
SEINFELD
You had to get her mad?She is bringing us food.There is nothing I hate more than mad food.No matter how it looks you’ll never know if it’s been tampered with.
NEWMAN
Stranger things have been known to happen, heh, heh.
ELAINE
So what’s the deal with your girlfriend here?She seems pretty chummy.
KRAMER
Oh I like chummy.
At that moment Kramer who is the only one in a chair at the end of the booth has his chair knocked by a passerby who gives him a dirty look as he struggles to stay upright.No one pays any attention to him
SEINFELD
Well it was kind of personal and happened so long ago…
KRAMER
You can’t just leave us hanging.Come give it up.
SEINFELD
They told me Gloria was one of those girls who put out so I started paying attention to her.She isn’t half bad either that helps.I didn’t know about her idiosyncrasies.
GEORGE
Idiosyncrasies.You don’t hear that word very often.
ELAINE
Continue
NEWMAN (LOOKING FAR OFF AGAIN)
Yes do.
We see Newman in a fantasy scene picking up the fork and moving to strike a blow to Seinfeld’s hand as he is gesturing telling his story.
SEINFELD
This is going to be strange I warn you.I finally walked her home from school one day.She stopped by a tree and motioned for me to come over.I thought here it is.I moved over with my best swagger and then she starts kissing the tree and rubbing against it all the while eyeing me.Then abruptly she stops and we move on.I mean what do you say to someone after that?What’s up with the tree thing?I thought maybe this was a fluke.
GEORGE
A fluke.You are calling this a fluke.Oh this is classic.I love it.
ELAINE
You would.So what happened?
SEINFELD
There were a lot of trees on the way home.I couldn’t believe how many.It was dark before I arrived at her door.I thought okay this is weird but maybe she’ll invite me in and I’ll get lucky.I could endure the trees if it paid off.
NEWMAN
So what happened then?
SEINFELD
We’re at the door and she smiles and is about to go inside when I ask if she wanted company.Oh no she says this was so exciting today we’ll have to pick up where we left off tomorrow.You see when she said tomorrow I felt like I had been used.I felt cheap.Imagine me witnessing those unspeakable acts of erotic tree hugging.I felt so unclean.
KRAMER
As you should.The next day you walked home with her.
SEINFELD
No we took the bus and when we got off she asked if I wanted to walk in the woods with her.Now normally that would have been an invitation but how could I compete against all those trees?
GEORGE
I see your point.Still you know maybe the whole tree thing was just an act to turn you on.You may have missed out.
SEINFELD
Perhaps but in this case discretion was the better part of valor.As a footnote to this she married a park ranger a few years back.He disappeared last year while they were on vacation in the Smoky Mountains.
ELAINE
It makes sense.He was the only man for her until she found another tree.
KRAMER
Ah love it just sings.
Gloria comes back and takes their orders and Kramer puts his hands over his head and moves back and forth.Gloria looks strangely at him and then as she walks away she sidles against his chair.
ELAINE
You always were the sick one.
KRAMER
How lovely is a tree…
EXT – NYC – RESTAURANT STEPS – EVENING
They are standing around as waiting for George who forgot something and then he comes back out.
ELAINE
I have to admit this was lovely.Newman I didn’t know that about you that you were a Merit Scholar and decided to chuck it all for your love of the USPS.Your dedication is admirable.
NEWMAN
Well Elaine I had to choose something that would pay it forward and the mail was my calling.I dreamed of becoming a postman ever since the day …Um let’s not go there…ever since the day I found a letter that my carrier dropped.I hand delivered it to my neighbor and it was apparently such good news that she gave me five dollars.I’ll never forget that day.
GEORGE
That’s quite a story.It explains a lot about you.We had you all wrong it seems.
SEINFELD
I would have been the last to admit it but yes your story was very touching.
Kramer is out at the curb thumbing for a ride.
SEINFELD
Kramer what are you doing?I have my car.
KRAMER
I am just practicing you never know when you need a ride.
Someone stops and Kramer is bending low talking to the driver who pulls off giving Kramer the finger.
NEWMAN
You know I just feel so good about tonight maybe we could go back to my place I wanted to show you something I’ve been working on.It would really mean a lot to me.It won’t take long.I have some beer, chips, scotch whatever.Please let me reciprocate.
GEORGE
It’s okay by me.Reciprocate all you want.I’m in.
ELAINE
That’s very nice Newman sure we can come for a while.
SEINFELD
To Newman’s then.
Newman smiles and then turns away.The scene of his domination of the group comes back to him and he staggers as he is going down the steps Kramer catches him.
KRAMER
Are you okay man?
NEWMAN
Fine.It must be the Cuggle.
Newman and Kramer walk away.George, Elaine and Seinfeld follow.
ELAINE
Did you just see that?He’s been doing that all night?Is he sleep walking?
SEINFELD
Yes I did notice.He is just mugging for us trying to freak us out.
GEORGE
Well it’s working.Maybe we shouldn’t go.
ELAINE
It’s too late now.We’ll just stay a few moments and beg off.
SEINFELD
Okay it’s a plan.
They walk off together as sinister music plays in the background.
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ACT THREE – NEWMAN’S REVENGE
INT – OUTSIDE NEWMAN’S APT. NYC – EVENING
Everyone is standing outside of the door as Newman opens the door and then turns to them.
NEWMAN
Please a moment I left some things laying around let me clean up just a bit beright back.
GEORGE
I can just imagine what is going on in there.I don’t know about this.
ELAINE
Come on.You’re the one who said to reciprocate.
SEINFELD
I hate that word it’s like everyone expects you to do something for them like making a deal.
GEORGE
Just to have a drink and then I’m out of there.I can’t believe we’re having drinks at Newman’s apartment.How the mighty have fallen.
INT – NEWMAN’S APARTMENT – BACK BEDROOM – NYC – EVENING
Newman is turning on all of his devices scrambling back and forth and finally through he opens the door.
INT – NEWMAN’S APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – NYC – EVENING
NEWMAN (ALA GLEASON)
Welcome to my humble abode.Please join me friends.
Kramer in back rushes forward and slides through the tripping falling and landing in the easy chair.
KRAMER
Ah my favorite chair.It’s very comfortable.Want to try.
GEORGE
That’s quite okay.I’ll just stand for a while.Nice pictures Newman!
NEWMAN
Yes my favorite mail carriers each month a different hero.
SEINFELD
I thought you stopped working there.
NEWMAN
Oh you never leave to postal service.It’s a lifetime commitment.
SEINFELD (ROLLING HIS EYES)
I see.Sounds like a religion.
NEWMAN
Oh but it is it is.Let me get you some drinks I have a tray here. Elaine?Where isshe?Drinks.
ELAINE
I thought I would check out your kitchen.Very clean.Good for you Newman.Interesting.Didn’t know you were a nerd.What’s back here?
NEWMAN
Nothing to concern you.
INT – NEWMAN’S APARMENT KITCHEN – NYC – EVENING
Newman rushes to the kitchen squeezing past Elaine to shut the bedroom door.Elaine meanwhile returns to the living room.
INT – NEWMAN’S APARTMENT LIVING ROOM – NYC – EVENING
NEWMAN (FROM THE KITCHEN)
Drinks are coming right up.What a treat.My special blend.
ELAINE (IN A WHISPER)
You should have seen.Computers. Test tubes.Wires and pipes.
SEINFELD
Test tubes?Now this is getting serious.What do you think he has cooking.
ELAINE
I don’t know but I flipped a few switches to see what was what.You know me I’m tactilely curious.
KRAMER
Tactilely curious?I like that.
ELAINE (HOLDING A SMALL BOOK)
I also took this.
SEINFELD
Interesting.You pushed these buttons?
ELAINE
Yes just those
SEINFELD
This changes everything.
Newman walks in carrying a drink tray each takes a drink.Newman very carefully sets aside a drink for himself.
SEINFELD
A toast then to Newman a greater friend hath no man.
ALL
To Newman!
They all raise their glasses and drink.Newman gets a glazed look in his eyes.
KRAMER
You know I missed my calling.I filled in one day and no one knew.
GEORGE
And how did that work out…
INT – NEWMAN’S APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – EVENING – MIST
NEWMAN (OC)
What have I done these are my friends and soon they will suffer a horrible fate.They were being kind to me.I really felt like we were bonding.Oh no I can’t stop it now either.I must go through with it.
SEINFELD (LOUDLY)
Newman!
NEWMAN
Feeling strange about now Seinfeld?
SEINFELD
Am I?Nope feel fine.How about you George?
GEORGE
Couldn’t be better.
Newman sways and is becoming rigid.
NEWMAN (TURNING TO ELAINE)
What did you do?
ELAINE
Oh nothing just flipped a few switches and turned a couple of buttons.
Newman gets a look of horror on his face and then stiffens completely.
SEINFELD
So you planned to do us in make us your slaves but now the tables are turned. What shall we do with him?
GEORGE
Make him walk off a bridge for all I care.I told you we should never have trusted him. What does the book say.
SEINFELD
It says here that the subject Newman will obey any and all commands completely for a period of eight hours and then have no memory of those eight hours.
KRAMER
We could send him out pimping.I have a hat he could wear.
ELAINE
You would.
GEORGE
Wait a minute I have an idea.You know that mail he brags about never delivering?What if we make him deliver it now in the middle of the night
SEINFELD
I like it.I like it.
KRAMER
Sounds like poetic justice to me.Let’s do it.
SEINFELD
Newman show us the undelivered mail.
Newman walks over zombie like to a closet where five postal bags are filled with mail.
ELAINE
Can I try to command him?
SEINFELD
Sure happy commanding.
ELAINE
Take all of this mail and deliver it to the last letter to their rightful owners and finish before the night is through.Hurry you have no time to waste.
Newman grabs the five bags of mail struggles to leave the door and then is gone.
GEORGE
He’ll have no memory of this right?
SEINFELD
That’s what it says
GEORGE
Good enough for me.I’m out of here.
SEINFELD
Meet me tomorrow for breakfast
KRAMER
Breakfast it is.
They exit Newman’s apartment.
ACT FOUR – NEWMAN’S REVENGE
INT – LUNCHEONETTE – NYC – MORNING
Elaine, George, Kramer and Seinfeld are sitting at the table.Mail is littered covering their table.As we look around a similar scene is taking place at the other tables with people bewilderingly opening letters some as long as five years ago.
GEORGE
Look at this season tickets for 2006.Remember I was all mad at Steinbrenner for not giving me tickets.He kept razzing me all the time about not showing up and throwing good money after bad.
KRAMER
I won the Publisher’s Clearing House in 2005.I’m rich but where’s my money?
ELAINE
Love letters from Puddy.I thought he didn’t care was too self involved.
SEINFELD
I had a movie offer from Steven Spielberg from 2004 for a spin off of ET’s club dates.
ELAINE
Here he comes.
Newman walks in head low hiding his face.
SEINFELD
Newman!
NEWMAN
Seinfeld!I sense your evil hand in all of this.The last thing I remember were having dinner and then this morning I woke up and all my mail is gone.I walk around and everyone is reading piles of mail all around me.If anyone were to find out…
GEORGE
Don’t worry Newman we’re your friends.How could you do this to people?Look at them they are crying pulling their hair.It’s terrible.Although I could really do without these invitations that I never received.
ELAINE
You get the good with the bad.Think of it this way Newman.You can’t mess with the mail.
SEINFELD
The mail always goes through no matter what.It’s a miracle.
NEWMAN
I don’t know about a miracle but I’ll be watching you Seinfeld.
SEINFELD
Go right ahead watch away.
Newman starts to leave and just then Kramer jumps up.
KRAMER
It’s him.He did it.He delivered your mail late to you.
People in the luncheonette turn around as Newman tries to hurry out the exit but there is an old man with a cane twirling it in the way.
PATRON ONE
I remember him he used to be our mailman.
PATRON TWO
Yes he was never on time.I always thought there was something funny abouthim.
PATRON THREE
Let’s get him.
Newman breaks past the old man and the entire luncheonette including waitresses and cooks chase him down the street while Seinfeld and Company remain seated.
SEINFELD
It’s too bad really but it had to happen.
GEORGE (SHAKES HIS HEAD)
Had to happen.
ELAINE
Well you know Kramer you could have gone easier on him.
KRAMER
Hey I could have been rich.Tough love is what that boy needs.
Enjoy this song based upon a three week meditation on the 72 Names of G-d taken from Exodus 14:19-21 using the Atbash Cypher to generate the three letter combinations. Pay attention to the bird chorus who joined me one day in May for a rich and inviting experience.
It is early evening and they have finished clearing the table and cleaning up after dinner.They move outside and sit in their accustomed places next to each other on the couch watching the hills aglow with the coming sunset in the distance the ocean shimmering with sapphire green beauty.The light at the end of the day was soft and gentle casting rims of sparkling brilliance on the edges of everything a border to the sunset a frame to the evening yet to come.As the sun draws nearer the horizon they hold hands unspoken love on a holiday passes between them.Quickly the sun sets bursting now oranges, yellows, reds soon turning into magentas, purples and finally indigo before the first star appears.Soon more follow and the night is full upon them.The weather is mild.It is always so although now a cool breeze blows as he runs in to get her sweater and a light coat for himself.They linger for a while and turn to go inside when a star appears golden yellow pulsing where nothing had been before.It is the birth of a star something they’ve seen countless times before only this time something is different and then he remembers.
“That’s it,” He tells her.
“It? You were expecting this?”
“Don’t you remember?I told you I would love you for a thousand million years and you asked me how would I know when a thousand million years would be up” He said.
“Yes,” She answered, “You said a golden star would appear where none did before.How about that after all this time?Seems like only yesterday,” She said and they both laughed.“What happens now?” She asks.
“Good question you know I really never had time to …,” He starts to say and then both are laughing again.
“I guess it doesn’t matter,” She says.
“No it never really did,” He tells her holding her hand as they walk inside for the night.In the distance a song is playing as it always does when they go back inside.
I can see through you
You can see through me
One by one the stars they do appear
And you and I grow close so near
There are many ways of love
Coming from heaven above
In a fairy fountain meadow filled with miles and miles of clay
We’ll spend all day, for a thousand million years.
The question is constantly posed. What are we going to do with the banks? Let’s start out getting beneath the surface of this problem and shining the light of truth upon it. Okay first of all why are there banks in the first place? The quick answer is that banks help to finance the economy providing money in the short and long term for folks who are building a business or a life. Then we pay back the banks with interest which is how they make their money. Then there is the other reason for banks and that is so that we can place our money there for safekeeping instead of hiding it under the mattress which by now everyone has figured out that this is the first place a thief is going to look for it. For us placing our money in a bank used to mean making interest on that money in a sense we were partnering with the banks to make money. The bank loves to make money from our money. They lend it out and make their own investments and so the economy rolls on. What happened to this paradigm? Why isn’t it working anymore?
First of all the banks and their officers decided at some point that they were no longer investing our money but instead that it was their money to do with as they pleased. Because of this they thought they could gamble get around the rules and make new ones all for the sole purpose of enriching not their investors but their own pockets. This is why these bank officers and CEO’s of the large investment corporations take such huge bonuses. They think that here is all this money that waiting to be gobbled up and why not dip in for a little bit of that cash? After all there is so much of it no one will notice in the long run. Their boards of directors then vote to approve these bonuses knowing full well that they are next in line for the cash grab since after all the guy at the top got his so why not take ours and so on down the line. All the while this is going in the cash reserves are dwindling so that money for the actual operations of the bank and investment companies starts to run out meaning that everyone who wasn’t in on the cash out was left out of luck.
Now seeing the money running dry these same CEO’s and boards of directors, investment managers, et.al. say uh oh we’re in trouble and then they come to the government saying we can’t operate our business anymore see no money and if we have no money then there won’t be any money to lend of invest so too bad the economy goes in the tank. Give us more money they say otherwise doom. The people who they can’t pay they just fire because let’s face it we’ve all been there; that is the corporate way.
What do we do about the consciousness of entitlement that makes these corporate bankers, managers, investment board of directors think that they are entitled to our money? We prosecute them, take their money, and make an example of as many as we can find to put away for as long as we can. Isn’t that what we do with someone who embezzles money from their company, or steals from those same banks, or even robs a grocery store. The same principle has to apply and it has to apply directly now.
Those who are fighting to keep the “capitalist game” going are fighting for this entitlement for those that are able to steal the money. These bankers and investment people are crooks just as low and mean as someone who would rob a little old lady of her purse because you know what there are several little old ladies out their who lost their purse, their homes and their life savings.
What my heart speaks in the silence of the early morn when love begins to bloom
This is something new something rare indeed Call it April if you will. Paint the lights upon the way for every flower that sings in the melody of spring for every uplifted heart reminds me so well.
One day I met a traveler it was late afternoon
He asked directions on the road of life
I told him it was just around the bend it was easy to get there,
he asked should he turn to the left or turn to the right
I told him not to listen to the salesman on the left
No matter what he tries to tell you
Even if he says its much shorter that way
You’ll end up traveling for a lifetime come back here again one day.
So listen carefully now to what I say
There’s gonna be some folks who’ll need your help along the way
Make sure you do everything in their power to help you get going
You’re not far from knowing the road is straight ahead singing,
Take my hand I will take you there
To the Promised Land
We will share all our good times together
No more cloudy weather I can hear the garden calling
Love thy neighbor as thyself
Always keep this in mind
I used to be just like you but I came back one more time
to help you find your way find your way singing
Take my hand I will take you there
To the Promised Land
We will share all our good times together
No more cloudy weather I can hear the garden calling
The more that we can give of ourselves
The more the light will appear
Always be kind yes the time is near
There’s just one more thing let go of your fear
Take my hand I will take you there
To the Promised Land
We will share all our good times together
No more cloudy weather I can hear the garden calling
There an angel did appear
Surprising me to come so near
Sent from heaven by the light
Almost I did not see this wondrous sight.
The words silent spoken from the heart
Where gentle spirits live to play their part.
Yes to give thanks for such a thing
So natural like dancing in the spring.
Always to be with me now to feel the glow
With praises always above my thoughts will flow
And time has stopped in such a moment now
No reasons to wonder whether why or how.
It is enough just to be
To run and soar setting free
The joy that lives inside of you
For this is where all love becomes true.
Think about where you are in this moment and this is where we will begin.If you are caught up in climbing a difficult mountain don’t worry.The next step takes you all the way to the top.Perhaps you are walking along a deserted shore.Spin around in a circle and be exactly where you need to be.Life becomes about taking the steps necessary to awaken and arrive at your destination in the blink of an eye as if you were meant to be there all along.This journey today is about the sudden awareness of the totality of your being all at once recognized and grooved to the point where you are getting it continuously; the idea of a unified awareness.
Here are some images to take with you now in this wake up call to consciousness along the way.
The forest ended suddenly, the line of trees now receding into the distance as she walked through a narrow path with tall grass on either side.Every once in a while butterflies would appear and disappear barely able to contain their joy at being in such a place where the abundance of flowers overwhelmed the senses.The path gradually grew wider until it became a meadow at first and then a large open plain.In the distance snow capped mountains framed the horizon offering a fine contrast to the warmth of the day and gentle breezes that coursed through her hair.She laughed and spun around dancing.She was where she wanted to be and this was enough for her.
Your thoughts will move everywhere that you direct them to.This is something that has been known since before even our conception of time.Where we think there we travel.The opposite is also true.Your thoughts trap you if you let them, which is why every exercise of awareness also has to be one of letting go of the status quo in order to experience the world to come.In Kabbalah the ‘world to come’ refers to an after life on the surface that is.In truth this ‘world to come’ represents exactly the very next moment and all such moments that are derived simply from our intention to make it so and our connection to the unified awareness that always supports all of our efforts.
Enjoy another series of images that illustrate this concept.
Two sages walked down the road praying for rain in a land long dry from months of drought.They met a small child who asked what they were doing.The two sages explained about the rain, the creator and why they needed to pray.The child thought about this for a few moments as the sages moved on their way.When they turned back it was raining where the child was jumping and dancing in the puddles that were suddenly formed.It was still dry over their heads.They waved to the child and as they did so the rain also fell upon the heads of the sages and all the land felt the relief of the drought.
Believe as a child or have your belief become as a child.When this happens there is no delay between what you ask for and what you receive.It becomes the same, which after all is how it was always meant to be.
Begin in this moment all that you are.
Stay close to this vision near or far
Let go of all that seems to be
Become everything your child’s heart can see.
For a moment Levi stood transfixed by the scene. All thought left him. Gentle golden light streamed everywhere. He looked at his hands and the rays of effulgence were passing through him as well. The green surface upon which he now suddenly began walking upon could have been grass but all things here were seen in a transparency of perception.
He wondered briefly how it was possible to even stand or walk in such a place even as he moved forward in spite of the paradox this presented. In the distance a tree of such immense proportions loomed steadily closer. It’s branches reached into the heavens and as he pondered this he chanced to look below and saw that the roots formed a network of vines passing through the clouds entering the earth and then wrapping itself around the earth like a vast neural network of unfathomable density and complexity.
As he walked the sense of solidity became enhanced almost as if once he grew acclimated to the porous nature of the substance he trod upon it became more real for him. The Tree now took up the entire horizon.
The spaces that were made by its arching branches seemed to contain portals to others worlds, times and places. He heard singing now as the pathway became a series of corridors leading endlessly beyond interconnected intricately by stretches of heavens filled with stars whose light was filtered by many veils. Two men were having a discussion in an area cleared of green in a circle that only revolved when you looked at it. If you were the reach for the edge of that circle four doors would appear.
Each door had a Hebrew letter engraved upon it and an angel with their chariot waited guiding the way through. He wanted to hear what they were speaking about but also did not want to disturb them. In an instant there he was sitting next to the two men a bit disconcerted by this sudden change in perspective.
“Don’t worry. You’ll get used to it. Just remember to look before you leap,” The one said smiling disappearing suddenly and then returning just as fast.
“What was that?” Levi asked the other.
“That was Eliyahu. Every time there is a mitzvah he is there to witness it. We take turns every few hundred years or so,” The man smiled as he was working on some sandals.
“You are…,”He asked.
“Moshe. Yes of course I look familiar. Every Jew knows me from Sinai. It is good to see you, B”H for the miracle of this meeting,” Moshe said as Eliyahu returned.
“How was it?” Moshe asked.
“You have to ask,” Eliyahu said jokingly. “It was of course wonderful. Another Jew has decided to put on the tefillin. Ha Kodesh Baruchu is pleased of course.”
“Yes,” Moshe said. “I thought it was something like that,” Moshe turned to him as he shook Eliyahu’s hand. “We were just discussing the living letters and their connections with creation.
Ezek: 36: 9 ‘For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;’
“The secret of creation is that all proceeds according to the permutations of these living letters. Hashem Elokim is continually with you residing within moving as you move speaking as you speak and growing as you grow,” Eliyahu remarked motioning for him to sit and join them.
“Yes the land that is sown and tilled is the garden of your consciousness which is stirred as you study Torah. This is why you join us today,” Moshe said his form becoming transparent.
“Don’t be alarmed Levi. Look at your own form or lack thereof,” Moshe assured him. You have to expect that here. The nullification of form simply means we are residing more and more with Ha Kodesh Baruchu.”
Job: 14:2 “He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”
“It should not surprise you that those of us who seek on high should be successful and when we are then we are not, understand?” Eliyahu asked.
“Yes I think I am beginning to. Perhaps the principle is the same as Hashem in his creation i.e. something out of nothing,” Levi pondered.
“Excellent, let me explain further,” Eliyahu said.
Levi marveled at this conversation he was having with Eliyahu and Moshe here in Gan Eden. He waited for Eliyahu’s exposition of “something out of nothing,” a divine principle of creation. The air was full of golden speckles brilliant twisting turning sparks that assumed shapes as he peered closer.
“What are these wondrous beings?” He asked seeing the forms of men and women clothed in golden robes soaring through a portal above.
“They are the members of the holy assembly, torah scholars, sages, righteous ones, those whose lives were filled with mitzvos while they walked the earth. Three times a day they convene to absorb the three daily prayers. They are the proof that what happens below also has its counterpart above,” Moshe answered before finishing repairing his sandals and then disappearing altogether.
“Don’t be concerned he’ll be back. He goes to meet with Moshiach to plan the redemption and the unification of the name. Now where was I,” Elijah said as Levi relaxed and grew more accustomed to the fantastic events around him.
“You were taking about “something out of nothing,” Levi reminded him.
“Oh yes. Consider the following verse by Yishayahu,” Elijah then spoke the verse out loud.
Isaiah 41: 4 “Who hath wrought and done it? He that called the generations from the beginning. I, the LORD, who am the first, and with the last am the same.”
“Ha Kodesh Barachu is within everything. The is no where that he may not be found and yet all we have is a feeling for the most part that he is there. Moshe who has spoken with him directly will attest to his awesome and fearful nature. I have known him as well and yet neither Moshe nor I may encompass his being. That’s why we say we know and do not know. Oops excuse me another mitzvah,” Elijah said fading and then disappearing completely.
As Levi pondered these things he felt himself moving away. He did not want to leave this place. There was so much to learn. He recited the prayers before the SHMA and then the SHMA itself. It steadied him and he stopped moving. Elijah once again came into view only this time a distance away. He waved to Levi who then concentrated on saying the Amidah prayers. As he davened he found he could walk back and join Elijah. When he reached the Alenu prayer he once again sat with Elijah.
“Very good Levi! What a mitzah I just witnessed. I’ll have to tell you about it sometime. I see you are getting to know your way around. I thought we lost you for a moment there. It would have been okay too because here in Gan Eden it is all good. I was thinking about our discussion and I remember saying in the introduction to the Tikkunei Zohar,
“And You are He Who binds them together and unites them…; and apart from You there is no unity among those [attributes] above….,”
“I was speaking there about the sephiroth and their attributes. There is a unity of purpose and design that can never be denied. It is inherent by definition within and through everything,” Elijah paused to give thanks as the holy assembly once again passed by.
“We can apply this to Torah as well. Anywhere we happen to be in Torah is the center of our universe indeed of our complete continuum since Hashem is always with us a doorway is always open through the infinite,” Levi said not quite understanding at first and then as his words reverberated above the meanings became clearer. At that moment of realization he heard a ringing. Elijah picked up what looked like a cell phone.
“It’s Moshe. He says to come on over and meet the Moshiach. I have to go. It’s Chabad wedding below. Lot’s of simcha’s to kvel over. We’ll talk soon no?” Elijah faded and was gone.
The area immediately around Levi began to swirl obscuring his vision. There in Gan Eden transformations were taking place as the souls of the righteous were rising level by level endlessly within Ha Kodesh Barachu. It was a compelling sight filled with soaring brilliance and revelation very much equal to Ezekiel’s vision. He almost became enveloped in the flow but then remembered the summons by Moshe and thought to himself, now what.
The floor beneath was becoming transparent. He had the sensation of falling briefly and then rising quickly and flowing through one of the portals formed by the latticework of branches of the Tree. Then Levi found himself walking on desert sand directly on to a vast oasis of palm trees and clear sparkling pools. The landscape was arranged in a dizzying array of terraces rising past the field of his vision. A young man in a white robe carrying a shepherd’s staff approached him smiling.
“I see you made it. Good for you,” The boy said.
“Moshe?” Levi asked.
“Yes and no but we’ll get to that later. Don’t mind the form. As you will find out these things are relative around here. Please come and rest with me after your journey. Let me offer you the hospitality of this abode,” Moshe motioned for him to ascend to a level overlooking the entire oasis.
“What is this place?” Levi asked.
“Gan Eden still but on the level of Malkuth of Yetzirah. The pools give it away. We were just speaking from Malkuth of Briah. I know it can get confusing but only for a moment,” Moshe told him.
“Where is Moshiach? I thought…,” Levi began.
“Oh right here slightly to my left. Let me move,” Moshe said his form fading blending somehow into an older version of himself yet somehow different.
“I don’t understand. Are you Moshiach?” Levi asked as the form in front of him wavered and then coalesced before him.
“It is a bit more complicated than that. Listen,” Moshiach said.
‘I am sleeping but my heart is awake.’- Song of Songs 5:2
‘I shall pour forth my spirit upon all flesh.’ – Joel 3:1
‘I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will place within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will place My spirit within you.’- Ezekiel 36:24-27
“I don’t understand,” Levi said as the form of Moshiach changed back to Moshe as a boy. Elijah appeared beside him as sparks of light rose from the various pools and ascended on high.
“That my dear Levi is what happens to mitzvos below gathering up the sparks of holiness to return to Hashem and the unity above. Well it was a busy day but now its Monday, a slow day for mitzvos. I was thinking of having a Mitzvah Monday and announcing it to the world maybe even on Youtube? I see you’ve met the Moshiach,” Elijah said standing and stretching. “You have questions?”
“Of course. First what is he waiting for? How come he hasn’t come when we so desperately need him? Levi asked now walking with Elijah and Moshe.
“I understand your longing but that isn’t enough. Do you see those sparks rising above each one separate but all rising together?” Elijah asked.
“Yes the mitzvos redeem these sparks so they may ascend,” Levi answered.
“You see them as sparks and yet when you view the sun’s rays the light is continuous right?” Elijah asked again as Levi nodded yes. “When there is one continuously flow of mitzvos then you will all be able to have the nachas of seeing the Moshiach with you always. There is no deed too small, no kindness insignificant and certainly every favor you do for another is returned in abundance on high.”
“But how can such a thing take place it is an enormous thing to ask?” Levi pondered out loud.
“One mitzvah at a time. Imagine if you will an entire country that assumes this as their national anthem. Herein lies the destiny of Israel spoken of long ago,” Elijah spoke as these shining words appeared.
‘They shall build for Me a sanctuary and I shall dwell amongst them.’
Exodus 25:8
‘It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mount of the house of G-d shall be established atop the mountains, and be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall stream to it.’ Isaiah 2:2
“I understand I think but what can I do?” Levi asked and heard these shining words within.
For Moshiach is not merely the reward for our fulfillment of the mitzvos, but their result: when a person does a mitzvah, he draws down a flow of divine light into the world, to be suffused and integrated into the material reality…
–Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (Tanya, Chapters 36 & 37)
“Do mitzvos,” Both Elijah and Moshe said before fading away. The entire scene began to disappear and for a moment there was nothing and then he awoke under a tree next to a country road.
How strange he thought. He had been traveling along with his donkey thinking about the following verse:
Ezekiel 31: 8 ‘The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the cypress-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.’
What had happened? How did he get here? He did not remember stopping or falling asleep. Strange indeed because he felt like something wonderful had just happened. He couldn’t remember anything.
A traveler riding on a cart was passing in front of him when all of a sudden a cart wheel broke. It was a man frail bent over with age who slowly climbed down off the cart. He looked at the cart raised his hands to heaven and then sat down despondently in the middle of the road. Levi rushed to his side.
“Please let me help you. Rest under the trees here and share a cool drink with me. Don’t worry about your cart I can fix your wheel while you are eating,” Levi said feeling a sense of familiarity about their meeting. “Do I know you?” He asked.
The old man replied, “Oh I’ve traveled many years so yes we may have crossed paths before. Thank you for your kindness and hospitality,” The old man said.
“Of course I…, ”Levi began to say and then he remembered everything about being in the Garden of Eden. This old man before him was none other than Elijah. He looked at Levi now with a twinkle in his eyes as Levi reset the wheel and helped him back on to the cart.
“Thank you Elijah for helping me to remember,” He told Elijah.
“No thank you Levi for allowing me to witness another mitzah,” Elijah said laughing and riding away.
Levi packed up his belonging and began walking along the road thinking, ‘where to next?” The answer came quickly, ‘on to another mitzvah.’
The following is a meditation specifically for kidney stones or any other kinds of blockages within the body. It also refers tangentially to spiritual blockages. Reading this orients your intention and opens you to the divine healing that is ever present.
Everything is moving easily now flowing perfectly along to its intended destination. There is a smooth series of subtle openings that ease this progress steadily and surely and irrevocably raised to the highest level of unfoldment. This holds true in body and mind, as well as heart and soul. If there is anything that we are holding on to we release it completely without regret and experience a sense of becoming in the process going forward. The vessels open and relax and allow the light to spread intentionally and directionally perfect. All of this takes place within the framework of the body yes but also within the outward ethereal realms where the substance of things to come issue forth from. These openings are progressive relaxations of muscle and surrounding tissues returning to a sense of harmony and well being within.
Breathing becomes deeper as a result of this intention and this further moves along the easing process whereby what is being held on to is now released completely and is let go. There is no sense of effort in any of this allowing mind to reach its own state of fulfillment through the awareness of the reactions of the enclosing forms.
The water helps to maintain the fluid nature of the body that is now connected in a network of freely circulating fluid moving all obstructions to the side or dissipating them in their own way that goes beyond what we may think about them. There is both an expansion and a return to the natural form. This takes place instantaneously as well as continuously throughout this day making a harmonious place within.
All of these changes are promoted first by the consciousness of the change within and then radiating outwards covering an expanse both immense in spatial as well as spiritual dimensions. This process in its initial inception may be known as the reporting of the field as it becomes within and without the shape of its container. Its container is the intention that focuses these thoughts in the directions into which they may become most accustomed to as in a calm relaxed state of perfect attention.
It is a curious phenomena that prior to the birth of anything there is at the culmination or gestation process a marked period however long or short of intensified holding on so that in effect at the end where birth takes place the holding on transforms itself entirely into a period of equally intense letting go. Plus those thoughts that do now appear are harbingers of the birthing coming about as signals to consciousness in general that it is indeed time to let go completely in order that the next level may live and thrive in their existence.
Consider this then as stage one of letting go. We will now go deeper and see where this takes us. To begin with deeper in this case means both inward and outward. The outward sense of consciousness is its unique connection to all of those thoughts everywhere. In order to narrow the field somewhat to our specific interests we are visualizing thoughts that have come and go imagining their linkages in a favorable manner in order to free up the trapped energy or klippoth of energy. This is accomplished in the following manner.
Here we must rely on the gentle realm of suggestion. We may speak in terms of that which is encompassing and that which is encompassed round about. This is most definitely the spiritual realm and it has the maximum effect on the body since it is intimately tied to the body in every way.
Now there must be persistence of effort along equal lines of inquiry. This means that thoughts are directly and intentionally linked together both in minutiae and in the greater universal macro sphere. Everything you hear and all that you see may be thought of not as mere sensory impressions in and out meaningless in their own way but rather as energy for the fusion of the creator aligned thought forms.
This brings us to the force or power behind all of this, which is of course Hashem. That which we refer to as Hashem is the all abiding presence of the principle of divine reflection known otherwise in many descriptions including, ‘as above so below,’ ‘man created in the image of Elohim,’ and similar attempts to describe the unknown. All of these descriptions are pointers to the real thing that will never be totally understood. And yet still these descriptions serve a very important function. It is to direct our thoughts with the power and imagination that we have been born with to utilize to produce the divine connection. We need to be there. It is that simple.
Repetition brings forth added dimensions to the discovery within and without. Imagine that your thoughts take the shape of an ethereal mold that is simply waiting for the influx of creator flow or life-force in order to vitiate the connections causing the fulfillment of those potentials in reality constructs. The very word fulfillment gives a hint as to what is taking place here. Quite simply it is to be filled to fullness or in essence overflowing. When there is this overflow it subsequently promotes all kinds of good aspects including the release of that which it has been holding on to.
The spiritual essence behind this sort of promotion is in the nature of a deep breath that nature sometimes takes in the springtime where everything seems to stand still or is in movement rejoicing in the moments just for themselves. This is also akin to waterfalls that cascade endlessly below splashing their abundance creating pools of massive energy that quickly turns into the currents that run sidewise down the mountain slopes.
All throughout this letting go there is the sense of a wind that is at your back. This wind is the connection of Hashem that flows through all things including these inspirations that occur in these moments of intentional reflection.
Two things make it easier for the water to flow. One is the widening of the channel and two is the dissipation of the granules in the water that impede the flow. It is to this dissipation specifically that we will now turn.
The granules in the current may be compared to thoughts that do not line up correctly within the harmony of the intention being visualized. We could call these Yetzer Hara brought upon by a number of conscious or subconscious influences. Still no matter what they are called there is in place a definite method for their dissipation both in reducing their effects and in completely assimilating the decreased granules so that either they are passed or put to use. Most of the time they will be passed becoming a part in general of those concepts that will never see the light of day again. These granules may break apart into pieces small enough to pass through the river without impeding the flows or they may completely be erased particle by particle from within with a laser beam like spiritual light. This light operates to diminish these granules as a result of the operation of the spiritual letting go that works from within this time to release the bonds that bind to make them into the very tiniest grains of sand like substance. Once reduced or moderated in this manner these sand like substances pass into oblivion and indeed entirely out of the system. Now in addition to these actions taking place within there are also outwards effects brought about through dissolving agents. These dissolving agents become so in direct response to their application. They are transformed into dissolving agents by meditating upon the holy name Hashem. In this way we ensure that there is spiritualization all along the way of the letting go of any blockages that may be present however they may appear.
Persistent effort makes everything possible because without it the template for expression is diminished even though a good start has been promoted. There is a certain point at which the overflow is enough to be self-sustaining but until that point efforts must intentionally be made.
In order to loosen blockages imagine similar situations to provide corollary examples. Imagine the clouds disappearing before you. Imagine the water on the windshield drying with the wind. Imagine the natural healing that takes place within you. Wounds close up they dissipate they transform and new skin appears. The same is true in any kind of healing. Whatever else it may be when there is a blockage it is a precursor to transformation and that is where the mind body laser like works ceaselessly to reduce and remove these blockages at once and continuously thereafter.
This process is grounded in the now taking place immediately. Time sense is not necessary here because all it takes is the appearance of the thing itself and then time is declared irrelevant once and for all.
When the mind queries or seeks answers within it doesn’t stop at the confines of mere experiential data although that is certainty a good place to begin. It also recognizes that the entire universe is responding to its call via the mechanism of divine connection. Expectation is the key component throughout. It is the pro forma groundwork happening in the moment to setup every answer that comes in response to any and all queries in whatever manner they have been asked or offered.
Look to the west where the hills flow past sunset
Golden glows fill the valley where two rivers once met
And how the shadows deepen just before the dusk falls
As the willows start weeping hear the nightingale’s calls.
A whisper is heard now almost like the wind
Angels open heaven’s doors prayers to ascend.
Transparent veils fade away the holiness appears
Yes it is always there in the moments and the years.
Rise up they say and behold oh so much more
Let go of earth bound cares fly and then soar
Move within there as you find and listen
Reside only where there is true intuition.
Everywhere you look you will see
The infinite nature of what it is to be
It cannot escape you so don’t run away
All while it has been seeking you even here today.
Oh the moonlight so soft and enchanting
Sparkles along a brook sloping and slanting
Quick rushes of water splishes and pops
Before reaching the falls where everything drops.
The night creatures gather their clitter and patter
To discuss the almighty and the things that matter
A branch falls slowly unto a pile of leaves
Startled a sleeping bird tenses then breathes.
A narrow pathway takes you from the sound of the water
Stones on either side frame the way all of them in order.
Voices in the distance and then further along you are there.
Inside of an apple orchard are sages, a ladder and a stair.
Which way is best they ask each other with a smile
To travel straight up like Jacob wrestling each mile
Or to hold on while climbing stopping to see the sights?
One answers that each way leads above to the lights.
She tells them that love is both ladder and stair
Climbing rung by rung or step by step takes you where
The secrets of Torah are spoken like the rain
Falling filling fertile ground knowing full of gain.
Entering closer you feel what you see.
Your feet start to ascent quick as can be.
Soon you are floating already there
For Hashem surrounds you everywhere.
Inside a corridor wide
Questions and answers reside
They are the very same thing
Wow you are wondering.
It isn’t such a stretch
All this wisdom without a catch
So this is how it is meant to be
To flow with Hashem in all you see.
Onward more openings arise
Leading to a sloping plane vast in size
Two triangles intersect in reverse symmetry.
Their pathways rivers of angelic harmony,
Forms filled with light they are taking
The shapes of many worlds in their making.
Universes amidst spiral arms of nebulae
Intertwine with choruses that play.
Closer the secrets come into being
The zimzum of inspiration we’re seeing
This six pointed star leads above and below
Repeating itself endlessly eternally to know.
Looking up all is light
No forms are here all is bright
And yet to sense these warm subtle glows
No one can explain what the heart already knows.
We are raised now above Zeir Anpin
Inside of such holiness all may begin
The supernal light close but infinitely far
Connecting worlds with brilliance like a star.
Higher still where words cannot explain
Meanings are clearer like horizon to plain.
Included even above this is awesome choice
Emanating the radiance of perpetual voice.
No longer able to continue thought comes to rest
In silent contemplation it turns into a nest
Quietly at first and then bursting to the floor
The forest once again appears the sages debating once more.
It is like that when you travel to and fro
One moment you are there and then time to go
So be ready any second now to disappear
Take notes along the way crisp light and clear.
Some say your thoughts stay with you
Others believe they leave but what is true
That in each moment wherever you may stay
Hashem within and without forever each day.
Let’s take a look at the Haftorah section for this week’s Re’eh parasha.
Isaiah 54:12 And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones.
Each action that you choose to take sends ripples of experience all around you. When you adhere to, make yourself one with and reach for Hashem you are choosing the very best of life. Everything around you becomes imbued with treasure as the above verse suggests. It is the constant lesson and message of Torah that our unity with Hashem body soul and mind makes our world a better place and prepares us for the wonders of the world to come.
Isaiah 54: 13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
In Kabbalah there is the concept of Hishtalshelus – or the chaining down of the worlds. When you have Hashem as the core of your being all of your experiences therefore emanate from here. In the above verse ‘children’ refers to what follows this type of contemplation whereby Hashem is what we begin with and expect to end up with along the way.
It is the focus of prayerful meditation that orders the chaos within coming from the central kernel of Hashem bringing therefore the mystery into continuous being through your kavannah or intention.
Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established; be thou far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear, and from ruin, for it shall not come near thee.
Hashem is the source of all harmony and perfection. Your prayers are meant to link up with this harmony. The resultant is a freedom from chaos simply because this is not what you have turned do and indeed have verily turned away from.
It is the substance of all Torah study, the backbone of every revelation and the continuing nature of our evolution as spiritual beings. What is this? Hashem.
Contemplate. Meditate and act always with this in mind.
The way up needs to become a part of each step you are taking. Each action and therefore every thought is directed accordingly.
Since time is discarded as a factor both past and future events are on the table as both corrections prophecies accordingly. It would have to be so once you recognize that something from nothing takes place outside of the realm of time. Once you begin this process you realize that certainty is what you build into this yourself. Your perception becomes global in the sense that you are looking from above into the heart of your being.
It is the final parsaha of the year which is immediately followed by starting the Torah again to symbolize the circle that we are partaking of. This parsha is called V’zos Habracha or ‘this is the blessing.’
This is the blessing of Moshe before he leaves this world. For forty years Moshe has led Israel and been their intermediary with Hashem. Like no other he has received and transmitted the divine will. And now Israel must go on without him.
Before he leaves Moshe blesses each tribe giving them the same strength as the spokes of a wheel must each be strong in order to support each other.
Devarim: 33: 29. “Fortunate are you, O Israel! Who is like you, O people whose salvation is through the Lord, the Shield Who helps you, your majestic Sword! Your enemies will lie to you, but you will tread upon their heights.”
This is the key to everything that Israel symbolizes. It is a people that follows Hashem in all their ways. Moshe gives Israel their formula for success as a people and as a nation. If we consider that these are Moshe’s final words how much more so must we pay them heed.
He is asking us to lift up our hearts and minds to center it upon Hashem. Here is the eternal dynamic;the interplay between the without and the within.
It is Consciousness that determines what you see. Your choice is orient your thoughts in the right direction. Salvation occurs when you truly have Hashem as your guiding lamp through every apparent darkness. Then you can raise the Shield of Hashem when troubles begin to brew protecting yourself from the chaos allowing you to slice through that chaos with your majestic Sword to reveal the truth of your being which represents the height of your aspiration unity with Hashem.
This is the legacy that Moshe has left us with before departing this world. It is ours to live up to and to embrace throughout our lives.
A long time ago in a world in which we did not merit to become a part of a curious thing happened. There was a revolution of value.
It was totally unexpected and at first bitterly opposed. In this world the civilization had become extremely technological harnessing numerous innovations that had tremendous value in terms of making widespread communication commonplace throughout the world. Money was being made at an unprecedented rate while poverty proceeded at an equally unprecedented rate. In those times what people valued were things.
Shiny things, new things, old things, my things, your things, extending this concept as far as it could possibly go until even the very health of a person became a thing along with their well being and sadly it became all too clear that freedom was just one more commodity.
Things (pun intended) moved along like this at a rapid demoralizing pace. Governments began to be run by those whose main focus was to increase their own ability to purchase things for themselves and their progeny. They sided with the large corporations that made those things happen and produced or provided these things in abundance yes but for an ever increasing cost.
One day the inevitable happened. The people who had been mesmerized into buying things and services were little by little priced out of the market. Massive unemployment and malaise set upon the entire population of this world. It happened so fast that those who marketed the things and services were faced with a quandary. How do you get people to buy something when you already have all their money up front?
It was a simple solution, time honored, a little in bad taste but overall seemed to be the only way. The people would no longer participate in the buying of things because those who had everything decided that they now wanted to make the people become one of their things. Slavery it wasn’t called but you get the drift. People found themselves faced with the prospect of losing forever their freedom just so they could have handouts of more things that their owners were willing to give them along with feeding them and housing them.
The people at that time did an amazing thing. They put their trust in Hashem and said no. In a very short space of time they decided that what was more valuable than anything was their own freedom and their caring for each other doing everything that Hashem wanted them to. And so…they stopped buying, paying, charging, and finally most of all wanting. At that time a leader appeared who claimed to know what they wanted. The people said no thanks, Hashem was enough. It seemed they were tired of leaders too. They followed Hashem themselves and everything just worked out.
Martial law was declared to enforce the consumption of goods, however when millions simply don’t care and would rather live in the woods for example than participate in this system of accumulation run wild then it was clear that short of killing everyone the people could not be coerced.
Those who were in charge were mad. Laws were made compelling slavery and consumption but somehow the people worked it out amongst themselves.
Their basic needs were taken care of as several of those who had accumulated everything became embarrassed and opened up the grocery stores so the people could eat.
The funny thing is that with their new system of values everyone only took what they needed. They knew exactly the right thing to do. There was talk of a system of barter but for the most part people just took real pleasure in doing things for each other. This whole ‘kindness’ thing took off. Everyone had the sense that Hashem was with them too.
It took off to such an extent that whereas before people were willing to hurt one another in order to get ahead and get more stuff they turned one hundred and eighty degrees around and were willing to help each other make a good life for themselves.
It really is too bad the records from that world never came through because it really was remarkable what one simple act of love can accomplish that act being love for Hashem unconditionally. Multiply that by a whole population and you have something so wonderful that it can hardly be imagined.
The folks who were in charge held out for a long time playing their game of credits, balancing the books, taking advantage of each other, buying all the stuff that was still there or trying to purchase someone the stuff someone else still had. Still when they looked around at all the fun the rest of the world was having they began to think that maybe, just maybe they had missed the boat. The moment they had that thought Hashem entered their lives.
Then one by one they divested themselves of their interests by giving away all their stuff.
You might think this would have been easy but now that people really did not care about stuff it took a lot of begging and pleading to get someone to take a brand new car, or yacht, or a chalet or villa in France.
Happily all of that was worked out and of course you can guess what the side effects were. In a world where competition for stuff is absent wars became meaningless. Live and let live or let’s work things out became the bywords of each day along with Hashem is amazing.
You might think that people had a lot to lose by giving up their stuff but a curious dynamic came into play. There was more stuff than ever without striving for it simply because the people weren’t attached to their stuff; they were attached to each other by their love of Hashem.
We choose the world around us moment by moment by what we choose to focus upon and what we choose to let go off. We may only become adept at these two processes through experiences that teach us the way to go and what we carry and what we leave behind.
We cannot all be Madonna or Shaq or even Spiderman but we can be ourselves a most satisfying experience
156) You have to know, grow it, be it, feel it, see it and be it. Every time is an opportunity to come back to it. As you return to it each time you grow within it and understand more. The depth of your commitment to it also allows you to feel it more deeply. What is it? It is your good.
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157) Everywhere you look it touches you there in the moment. What is it? It is your good. Choose that moment and envision all of your hopes and dreams coming true.
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158) The place of becoming good is recognizing that good
Listen here is the deal. You cannot be something that you are not looking for. You have to create the atmosphere of expectation within so that you learn to see what is without.
Life then becomes a matter of perception each step of the way seeing through the eyes of that expectation. Common sense says that you will tune yourselves to that good seeing what
your heart desires and seeing that it is good.
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159) How about in each moment which is like no other where you find your good speaking to you in the voice that is always there. The difference is in your listening. You hear the meaning through the words whereas at other times the words simply spun off into space and did not take their hold. Live now this life full of meaning. This meaning is everything you put into and gain out of your good.
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160) There have been times when you’ve placed things before you as a test as to the mastery of this subject or that. All of these subjects were symbols for what you were really doing. What you are really doing is finding your good and then naming it by the application of the knowledge you’ve learned in a specific area. The way to the center of your good is by starting at the center and continuing in a straight line towards that center. A paradox you say? No this is how all beginnings come forth. There is the self-existent moment that is your good. Accept this and move on.
161) Thoughts move sometimes in circles and go out of bounds. Confusion gives way to doubt if left too long untended. You are the master of your good. Take care of your good and see that you return to your good more than once a day in passing. Pay attention to your thoughts for they form the guiding light shining on your good. Transparent is the way to look through the minds eyes. In this way you are at the heart of this something while you still have the presence of mind to appreciate it. This is more than about moving on. It is about finding yourself and keeping yourself by defining yourself in the moment.
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