{"id":92,"date":"2012-01-31T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/majusjournal.wordpress.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2012-01-31T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:56:09","slug":"who-stole-the-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalspellbook.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/31\/who-stole-the-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Who stole the Lightning?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lightning Bolt path vs the Middle Pillar path<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

So, I made the decision with great thought, care and meditation to go directly up the middle pillar.<\/p>\n

We will spend as much time as you need to develop the understanding and deep appreciation for the sephora\u2019s on the \u2018branches\u2019 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 \u2018reaching\u2019 we will spend time back on the middle pillar to re-group, re-balance and gather our energies before moving forward.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Above all in this journey, stay balanced.<\/p>\n

It is important.
\nAs for the \u2018path\u2019 we are taking\u2026.
\nThe lightning bolt path is a very common way of teaching Kabbalah, and there are pro\u2019s and con\u2019s 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. \u00a0The lightning bolt path is – like lightning. \u00a0It is strong, fiery, fierce, and only the strong survive a strike. \u00a0When traveling that path it is EASY to get off balance, burnt out, and especially get energetic overload.<\/p>\n

Those things are not balanced.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0I 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 \u2018off-balance\u2019 THE ENTIRE TIME\u2026 (which is the point of that path of study \u2013 to find and live the imbalances).<\/p>\n

Does that help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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