{"id":3987,"date":"2017-06-21T05:29:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T05:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2019\/08\/15\/1595-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T03:26:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T03:26:42","slug":"mutes-echoing-prayer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2017\/06\/21\/mutes-echoing-prayer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mute’s Echoing Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial notes<\/strong>:
\nThe title suggests that a person who is unable to speak (such as a seeker for truth or reality or God who cannot articulate just what is being sought nor where it resides), nevertheless emits a deep prayer that \u201cechoes\u201d and thus can be heard in some sense. The text of this essay is that prayer. <\/span>\n\u201cPart 1\u201d is unclear. <\/span>\n\u201cPart 2\u201d is more comprehensible. \u201cThe Book of the Spirit Ladder\u201d apparently refers to the \u201cSeder Hishtalshelut,\u201d i.e., the Order of [Cosmic] Unfolding (or Chain of Being), as described by Lurianic Kabbalah, which is also mentioned in the later essay \u201cHowl\u201d (from August of 2017). That \u201cOrder\u201d embraces the cosmological\/cosmogonic levels of the entire universe, from its emerging from God\u2019s primal Creation, through its sublime spiritual levels generating powers and energies, to the material universe as we know it, all as symbolised in the Kabbalistic schema of the four worlds and the ten sephirot governing each. The schematic diagram of these levels that is generally presented in Kabbalistic texts is often termed \u201cthe Tree of Life,\u201d or as \u201cthe ladder of being\u201d that undergirds and produces this world, up which the mystic can ascend in ecstasy to the Throne of God itself. But we also travel this \u201cladder\u201d in our everyday life, in the course of which every mitzvah gives an illumination of God\u2019s presence and elevates some part of our world and us with it. This more everyday \u201cladder\u201d is what Shai refers to here. Because it underlies the experienced world, if it is to be brought to consciousness it requires some awareness of the deeper symbolic levels contained in the mitzvah acts of sanctification. So at least two perspectives on everyday behaviour are needed to grasp this embodied symbolism, that it is always \u201cmore\u201d than it seems, that God the Eternal is present right now in our moment of time. The \u201cunfolding\u201d therefore can be conceptualized as both short-term, in regard to everyday experiences and deeds of loving-kindness, justice and sanctification that must involve actual people and things, and long-term, in which all this is linked to deeper spiritual foundations of reality. <\/span>\nIt is pointed out that the material world and encounters with people in it sometimes entrap \u201cthe seeker of the wind\u2019s birthplace,\u201d i.e., the seeker for the Spirit\u2019s source, Ruach, \u201cwind,\u201d \u201cbreath,\u201d also denoting \u201cSpirit\u201d as such, which has its origin in God. The entrapments of the moment and self-interest pull the seeker down into immediate concerns and goals. So the seeker must learn how to avoid these traps. Three major meditational methods for doing this are listed: \u201ceye meditations\u201d (which may refer to being mindful of everything that you see and engage in, constantly seeing them as unfolding from their divine source), \u201ccourt\u201d (which may refer to assessing constantly what you are doing, holding yourself to high standards and reproaching yourself for falling short), and distracting your mind from crude self- referential thoughts and behaviours by \u201cvarious yogas of oral law study,\u201d i.e., restraining and elevating yourself through Talmud-study. The essay concludes with the affirmation that it is important to observe the annual festival cycle in order to experience \u201cKedusha Plus,\u201d i.e., the direct experience of holiness. The festivals also can perhaps be seen as a metaphor for the journey of the soul through life [EZ*<\/sub>]. <\/span>\n*Many thanks to Dr. Evan Zuesse for providing the commentary for this essay.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"{Part 1 -19\/05\/2017}<\/p>\n

How to use Omer\u00a0meet Anais Nin[I]<\/sup><\/a>
\nTo cycle life
\nAnd love<\/p>\n

Aka Why Armageddon was a tower of love<\/p>\n

(see otiyot<\/em> of Gog<\/em> next to Magog<\/em>. 1 is a level of tower 2. Ancestors vs children.<\/p>\n

\"\"{Part 2 – 21\/06\/2017}<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Judaism on many more legs than just one; or, The Book of the Spirit Ladder<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

What is the meaning of life? Too broad question, be more specific.<\/p>\n

Ditto, according to Judaism, using the metaphor of a ladder to centralize narrative? Better question.<\/p>\n

To be explained: We ascend “Jewish superpower” class [Is in Israel] via a ladder which unfolds like a side-scrolling video game, demanding instantaneous reactions to unfolding events. The events are every moment, although most humans are not conscious of that part of their being, instead of focusing on feelings and thoughts. To understand the ladder is beyond a single perspective, which is why two is a minimum. Here will use short-term unfolding, and long-term unfolding. Thus it will be shown that Judaism is about finding the best swiss-knife through the jungles of reality (it teaches that the Torah is), which are instantaneously responsive (so that life can be lived side-scroll style) and at the same time creating growths that transcend iterations of “now”. If you were asked to design such a system from scratch, most would never succeed in any coherent systematic relationship of pertinent ideas. Thus perhaps it is a freebie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brainstorm:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Let’s imagine a “year” as a cycle of any human’s life story<\/li>\n
  2. Let’s have a model for seeing the calendar year as a metaphor for a “year”\n
      \n
    1. Need this<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    2. Then understand the vagaries of our ontologically pre-ordained entrapment into prisons. I emphasize by quoting, “understand the vagaries.<\/em>” [Aka there are so many traps everywhere, and no one else seems to notice me walking through walls. If you aspire to be a Windwalker like myself (seekers of the wind’s birthplace), then I recommend you find a way to advance to a stage where you stop admiring your number of broken chains and discover a state of walking when you no longer see any chains ever.\n
        \n
      1. TL;DR If you seek freedom, seek the meaning of “truth to oneself”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      2. Then learn to practice courts:\n
          \n
        1. Three main strategies I used to explore improvements here:\n
            \n
          1. Eye meditations<\/li>\n
          2. Court\n
              \n
            1. E.g. Self-dialogue at repeated junctures within day designed to simulate internal courtroom proceedings<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
            2. Finding a safe fire to purify your wisdom against its limitations\n
                \n
              1. E.g. various yogas of oral law study<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                —<\/p>\n

                Q: How important is it to do the festivals if want to experiment with J-Kit (Homebrew Edition)?<\/p>\n

                A: For Kedusha Plus, vital and essential. But even if doing K+ will be implicitly repeating cycles on different scales (both regular and irregular, e.g. the week as year, or rejected fear as Purim).
                \nFurther reading: Thoughts on seeing the festival-calendar as a metaphor for the structure of life at varying stages, regular and irregular.<\/p>\n

                <\/div>\n

                [I]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0“Angela Ana\u00efs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, known professionally as Ana\u00efs Nin<\/strong>, was a French-American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of composer Joaqu\u00edn Nin and Rosa Culmell, a classically trained singer”. For further details see\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                Editorial notes: The title suggests that a person who is unable to speak (such as a seeker for truth or reality or God who cannot articulate just what is being sought nor where it resides), nevertheless emits a deep prayer that \u201cechoes\u201d and thus can be heard in some sense. 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