Author: @dmin

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?

The Beautiful Surrender. (In Netzach)

Surrender is a beautiful movement in which you gracefully, willingly, languidly fall, only to find midway that you have been gathered into some unimaginable embrace. Surrender is letting go, whether or not you believe the embrace will occur. It’s trust to the hundredth power – not sticking to your idea of the outcome, but letting go in the faith that even the absence of an outcome will be the perfect solution.

Surrender is diaphanous and fluid. It’s the giving up of rigidity of every kind: rigidities of the mind that design outcomes to occur in very specific ways; rigidities of the body that refuse to receive the touch that could heal, the passion that could transform; rigidities of the soul that congeal and congest the spirit, causing it to imagine it has a life apart from the body and mind.

Surrender is meltdown of every rigidity we’ve ever been committed to, the conscious and unconscious dismantling of how we though things should be, to make way for the way things will, in fact, occur. It’s a kind of being surprised by joy, of happily swimming into greater consciousness that’s always operating on our behalf. Just as a child, learning to swim, discovers, amazed, that the water does hold him up, so surrender buoys us up, supports us for the fulfillment of our destinies.

Surrender requires purity of intention. In the absolute freedom it grants in response to our letting go, it requires an absolute commitment of holding onto nothing. Whatever you thought you had – the idea, the expectation, the plan, the hope of how things should be – you must let go of it fully. Surrender is stepping away from the certainty of your categories into the no-man’s-land of all possibilities.

And it is in surrendering, in letting go into the void – into the mysterious, unnamed, mystical, formless future, into the arms that are invisible – that we become finally ready to receive it all. Surrender is the giving of your all to the All, the waiting with an absolute absence of expectation for the totally perfect thing to occur. <3

~Daphne Rose Kingma

The Void

As we prepare to move up and out of Yesod, I have an obligation to prepare you to step into the void.  The void is like nothing we have experienced yet, and yet, this is where our bodies will be as we stand on Yesod while reaching outwards to touch Hod and Netzach.  The void is a place we will again visit after our time in Tipharet. And the void is a very powerful place to be.

Everything is created in the void.

Everything.

It is the womb of the mother, the silence before the blueprint.  When stepping into the void, there is no room for any attachments, no room for any thoughts. it is the blank slate of creation where the energy gathers before it flows out.  It is the moment between the in-breath and out-breath. It is the point of light between the yin and yang, it is the moment in the midst of polarization.  If the law of the Universe is to create perfect balance, the void is the moment of balance.

The void is the law.

Who are you in the void? Who are you when everything else is gone?  What is your truth?

1.  What is the truth about your mother?

2.  What is the truth about your father?

3.  What is the truth about the relationship with yourself?

4.  What is the truth about your relationship with the Universe/God/Energy/Ensof?

5.  What is the truth about your career?

6.  What is the truth about your finances?

7.  What is the truth about your health?

8.  What is the truth about the relationship with your spouse?

and on and on an on…. what are your truths? Where do you stand with yourself when you are naked to the rest of the world?  Who are you when you stand naked in the void?

The void existed before anything and will exist after everything is gone.  The void is everywhere and no where at the same time. When you touch it, you will know, yet it is hidden.  It is nothing and everything, no time and all time, brilliant light and infinite darkness, silence and sound all at once.  It is you. within you. and outside of you.

The void is real.

How do you know when you have touched it?

Parting thought: “Reverence is a more holy place than power.”

Why?