Re: Kaballah

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: : : Anyway with relation to Kabbalah, I think there is a danger in the secrecy. What is on the surface is really cool. What they actually seek, I don't know. But I do know that in practice it ends up like a secret society trying to dabble with powers far beyond their control. At this point if spiritual talk creeps you quit reading because I have to touch on it now. Kaballah is very much like dark witchcraft in that it seeks to effect personal power in the unlocking or invoking of powers that are supposedly controlled by these runes (ancient Hebrew is really a runic language) and processes. The reason I caution against Kaballah is that i used to dabble in these kinds of arts and honestly had quite a bit of success getting things done for me in the psycho-spiritual sense. The problem is that eventually you realize that your guide is really only toying with you until it can get you in a place to devour you. Now in the terms of Kaballah, it invokes some extremely powerful names which i won't even mention. and when these names are invoked they are present immediately. Now I know from experience even feeling these things coming will make you lose control of your bodily functions. I don't think anyone wants to chance using Christianity as a spiritual bungee against that kind of weight. I say this because nothing can harm us because Christians are higher than all of these things spiritually by virtue of Jesus and the holy spirit which has restored us to the level of priests... that is if you can hold on to that knowledge in the face of such intimidation. I spent years getting out from under it. It's flat out bad news. That is the danger of the Kaballah... it is real. It's a whole different game than playing with tree spirits or taro cards and the like. : : WOW now that is a post! jeez, what can anyone say to that? : : personally my interest in kabbala has largely been via these pop culture sources i mentioned, i am certainly not a practioner or even really a dilletante. paula and i were talking a bit this afternoon about it. it seems like whenever i picked up this book on kabbalah we have lying around, whatever i read really just seemed really shallow. like they were sort of picking up ideas that have been more beautifully and thoroughly expressed in other places and kind of tossing them around. it sort of struck me as possibly well meant, but rather lame. like the thing that paula posted, i kind of had the same reaction. so even though kabbalah has been <b>theoretically</b> interesting because of other things i'd read or seen about it, i've never really seen anything that was <b>actually</b> interesting. i wouldn't really be interested in the black magic part anyway, that is just plain dumb dumb dumb. while we were talking paula said that the thing she posted felt "hollow" to her. i'm still not exactly sure why she posted it. : : that story about the golem has always been very fascinating to me, as has the tale of frankenstein. i think because for a long time i've been interested in this question, What is man? we've all gone round and round about lots of other questions like Who am i? and Who is God? and perhaps What is God? and stuff like that, but for me there has been this question kind of haunting me for a long time. I want to know WHAT i am. lately i've been uncovering some interesting things, some of it having roots in the upanishads by way of a guy named Allan Watts. i think one of these days i might start working on an essay or something to try to get all of these thoughts down. anyway i think that is why the golem thing has been interesting to me, its like there is this mythological thing in there somewhere hinting at something, this little bell goes off somewhere in my brain. : : oh well i got to git back to the family... maybe i'll write a little more another day. : : :-) : Hmmm. What is man... that is a great question. Off the top of my head, without really thinking it through...I guess a sort of impression of the question is that man is half-spirit, half-flesh. The two beings merge together. I think the spirit side is veiled by our sin and won't fully be unlocked until we are perfected again. But I think this culture, the post-modern post-scientific onehas lost all sense of this side in any coherent way. Most of the old traditions which teach us how to use it were persecuted to extinction by the religion of rationalism, and the church that was flooded with it for centuries. Or else mangled beyond recognition until the only thing left was a phrase here or there giving rise to new-age where they just mush everything together and try to make sense of it...if that isn't chasing winds I don't know what is. Perhaps we are living in the dawn of the renaisannce of majik (refering to the real wonder and power of existence, spelling is my note to distinguish from the slight-of-hand trickery) I think man has truly killed God as Nietzche observed. We have, in this culture anyway, dislodged ourselves from the center and set out spinning in space like Dark City. So for us God is dead. Or is he? Perhaps there is something far beyond any of this which we can't even really know... something hidden by a dark cloud of unknowing. Something so complete, beautiful, simple that we only get flashes of it when we are close to the right place, like a breath on the wind and we realize that it was something we understood all along for a fleeting minute and then lose it again. Perhaps it is in a place where we can only go when all our house is laid in quiet rest. Perhaps this is the thing that completely ruined the lives of all those I am quoting and alluding to. Those poor souls who caught a glimpse of something and spent the rest of their lives trying desperately to tell anyone what it was they were pining to regain. Perhaps it is this that the shaman understands when he sits quietly and smiles. Perhaps it is this that Black Elk saw when he realized how his vision was not fruitless, ut had actually come to pass in spite of him. Perhaps this is truly our God. Perhaps this is what we need to learn as we shed the crap that has been taught to us by mother culture and learn to see with eyes unclouded. : So what is man? I think man is a beast... an animal removed from its environment and disconnected like a caged bear. Lost and wondering if the trees in his dreams are just fantasy, or actual echoes from a genetic past long forgotten. I think man is a union of the spiritual with the physical. The place where two dimensions cross. And lastly... I think man is far less than he fancies himself to be. : I think these things can be rediscovered if we talk to our children and learn to see what they see and communicate on their level. and the same with wild animals, and our environment. I could be worng, but I'll let you know in twenty or thirty years after I have learned to run with the dogs and climb like the squirrels. After I have talked with the fish and become completely comfortable to sleep with other creatures walking across my toes. See, how can we truly know what we are without asking someone that is not us? As objective as we get, we will never be able to step that far outside of ourselves. That is why i want to leanr how others see me, us, humans, and leanr how I am like them. Sort of like cultural exchange on a species/environmental level.

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