Mystic
Musings
“According
to this Jewish mystical viewpoint, everything and every 'non-thing'
that ever was or will be in creation is interconnected.”
Rabbi
David A. Cooper (God is a Verb)
The
Kabbalah is a practice in mystical Judaism. There is a lot to be
learned from Cooper's book, God is a Verb, if you are a
spiritual seeker. He writes of many ancient perceptions—dating at
least to the 12th century—and practiced long
before then. The one I'm trying to wrap my brain around at the moment
is the idea of the interconnections between all that is, all that has been, and all that will be. It's been described before by physicists like Fritjof
Capra, who presents the universe as a web in which one string
plucked causes its entirety to vibrate. The kabbalistic view,
however, is more personal than that. It holds that every move we
make, every word we speak or write, every thought we think, echos
simultaneously through the many levels of awareness “above and
below.” It is enough to make one want to remain perfectly still
long enough to figure out the possible repercussions of any thought
or action.
If
you knew that everything you say or do reverberates through all of
creation, that there is constant awareness of your every move, would
you think twice about that off-the-cuff sarcastic remark, or that
'snarky' observation about a friend or co-worker? Would you wonder how
your actions, words and thoughts translate into who you have been,
who you are, and who you will become? When you read this, does it
ring true for you? Past, present, future, one seamless whole,
simultaneously vibrating; just waiting for your next choice. Think about that today.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
1 comment:
Rising like incense, "Spiritually Speaking" appears a refined blog, spirit-wise. Of this fine entry it begs to be said, the mystic schools of the extant religions all honor the notice of interrelatedness. On that ground alone this blog is worthy of following.
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