Class...Beyond Kabbalah

The following is an announcement by Rabbi Joel David Bakst about a new class scheduled from his classroom, City of Luz......Recommended, if...see my Amazon review of his new book, Beyond Kabbalah...

 Current Class Schedule for Wednesday Night:

 NEW CLASS

Beginning Feb 5, Wed 9 to 11 PM EST

Set Sail on a Cutting Edge Journey

Beyond Kabbalah

The Teachings That Cannot Be Taught

City of Luz is proud to present Beyond Kabbalah. This weekly on-line class presents all-level students of traditional Jewish Kabbalah with comprehensive, hands-on applications of the maps, models and methods found within the workbook Beyond Kabbalah - The Teachings That Cannot Be Taught. Through the study of the concepts and thought experiments explored in the book Beyond Kabbalah, the serious seeker can learn to experience life through the eyes of Torah based Kabbalah and experience a world filled with higher consciousness, deep spiritual experience and answers to conventionally unanswerable questions. Explore the secret of “What did Moses know that God did not know?” and learn how to “See your world in your lifetime.” Other topics covered in the weekly coursework include: Where does our present reality come from, and where is it going?, Space, Time & Beyond, Torah Cosmology, Mosaic Consciousness, and much more!

This class provides a life-changing introduction and overview into the ancient, yet futuristic wisdom of Jewish esoteric thinking, the ultimate key to personal and global transformation.

Class discussions correspond to weekly readings. Students must have the workbook Beyond Kabbalah-The Teachings That Cannot Be Taught.To view and purchase the workbook click here:  http://www.amazon.com/

A portion of each Wednesday session will be devoted to the weekly Torah reading or to the current festival being observed.

The Gaze

The Gaze

An exchange of
a gaze
a pause in time
to gain in-sight 
a slow glimpse of 
each the other's
singular light..
Sensing the light
splitting and offering
identity and worth..
Departing now
both carrying one
holy gaze
into their own
nearby time...

wake me in time 

wake me in time to look in your eyes
before we trapeze through our day
to savor the breath of connection
to merge into our reflection
to know who it is that we are in this moment
before we meet again changed

(by KMae on "Hello Poetry" website)

“In South Africa, a journalist friend of mine met an old Indian chief whom he would have loved to interview. The chief agreed, on the condition that they could have some time together beforehand.  The journalist presumed that they would meet and just have a normal conversation.  Instead, the chief took him aside and looked directly into his eyes in silence for a long time.  Initially, this terrified my friend; he felt his life was totally exposed to the gaze and silence of this stranger.  After a while, the journalist began to deepen his own gaze.  Each continued this silent gazing for more than two hours.  After this time, it seemed as if they had known each other all of their lives.  There was no longer any need for the interview.  In a certain sense, to gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life.”

Anam Cara by John O’Donohue

Non-dual science

Non-dual science

It is now in our time

That we find assurance

Of a dimension 

Quieting long history's

Externality proclaim..

Modern sciences are question

Question of dimensions 

Unseen and unknown

Whispering of One..

Our receptors now tuned 

Finding deep penetration

Resonance not explained..

Conversations express knowing

Knowing with confidence

Absorbing raw challenge..

What's more to say..!

Polarity in Play...!!

Light breathing

Light breathing

Vitality

A breath of air

in one cycle
inhale cleans

as exhale soils..
rising and falling
oxygen creates..

An alchemical shift:

Air to light

Light and color

now fulfill  our 

 breathing anew..

Imagining

the branching light

filling lungs

reaching each cell

bathing a Self

in healing light...

Strangers

Strangers

are new creations

which in our 

landscapes appear..

A new attention

on our walks..
Surprises declare:
see my difference

from dreary

familiarity..

Yet that familiar

lodged in memory

were once strangers

in our midst
declaring... 

“Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.” 
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Collateral damage

Collateral damage

An expressive phrase

causes concern

Indictment rises from

this battle term..

Yet other forms

connectedness brings..

Medicines cast their

side effects wide..

A butterfly's wing

in far Australia

in Texas arrives

as tornado terror..

It seems that

our living space

fills our lives

passing many sides

of collateral damage...

Innerscape

Innerscape

With inner neglect

Our outer remains

Flat and gray..

Imagination

Creates inner form

Dimensional connections

Moving inner surfaces..

New lenses

Exciting the outer

With inner joy...