Who stole the Lightning?

The Lightning Bolt path vs the Middle Pillar path

You told me at the beginning of our study that balance was one of the things in which was THE most important thing to you as we did this. You expressed that although you wanted to do this apprenticeship, you also had responsibilities as a father/husband and provider. As the person overseeing this study, I have a DUTY (and responsibility) to keep you balanced and functional.

So, I made the decision with great thought, care and meditation to go directly up the middle pillar.

We will spend as much time as you need to develop the understanding and deep appreciation for the sephora’s on the ‘branches’ of the tree (Hod, Netzach, Geborah, Chesed, Binah, Chokma). We will do it by securing tightly to the trunk and reaching out, and not necessarily walking out on the branch. Between each session of ‘reaching’ we will spend time back on the middle pillar to re-group, re-balance and gather our energies before moving forward.

I think this middle pillar path will serve you in ways you have yet to experience in your other previous Kabbalah study. It will give you a perspective in which maybe you didn’t have with the sephoria’s before, Which is also the point of an apprenticeship.

Above all in this journey, stay balanced.

It is important.
As for the ‘path’ we are taking….
The lightning bolt path is a very common way of teaching Kabbalah, and there are pro’s and con’s to do it that way. It is usually the one referred to when reading about Kabbalah or doing Kabbalah study. If I were to be in a weekly coaching setting where I could sit across from you face to face and do an apprenticeship that way, I would take the lightning bolt path.  The lightning bolt path is – like lightning.  It is strong, fiery, fierce, and only the strong survive a strike.  When traveling that path it is EASY to get off balance, burnt out, and especially get energetic overload.

Those things are not balanced.

Instead, since you are so far away and I have no way of monitoring or mediating the energy, (or doing hands-on healing if you get too off balance), AND you told me up front that being balanced and functional is #1 Priority.  I choose to take you directly up the middle pillar. By slowly stepping up the middle pillar, you will be able to maintain a high level of balance (and any imbalances will show up immediately and be able to be addressed immediately). As compared to going the lightning bolt path, you are ‘off-balance’ THE ENTIRE TIME… (which is the point of that path of study – to find and live the imbalances).

Does that help?