The great kabbalists of the past thousands of years kept this wisdom with the foresight that one day it would serve as a catalyst for personal and global change. My hope is these words awaken your heart to improve, to elevate, to be better today than you were yesterday - so we may all come closer to a world with no more pain, no more suffering, and even as the Bible and the Zohar promise, no more death.

The Spiritual Ecosystem

Posted: March 4th, 2010 | Author: MICHAEL | Filed under: Tree of Life | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

The Light to fulfill your needs always exists.

The only reason you may experience lack in your health, finances, emotions & spirit is because you have caused a spiritual blockage - either in this incarnation or in a previous one - that needs to be cleared before you can receive the blessings and fulfillment that is meant to be yours.

This raises an interesting question - Where does all that abundance of blessings go? There are millions and millions of people in the world with differing degrees of lack. One might think that all the blessings, as yet unearned, remains somewhere in the spiritual realm, un-manifested and hidden from this world.

This is not the case.

Everything needed by everyone in this world already exists in this world. All the food, money, health, emotional and spiritual support needed by any one of us is here, right now. But it’s in someone else’s possession.

For different reasons, we each receive abundance beyond what we need. It is not ours, but rather an overflow that belongs to another person who, at this time, is not able to draw that blessing to themselves.

This understanding, when you really get it, can completely shift how you view the abundant gifts you have. When you have more of something (patience, kindness, physical abilities, abundance, etc.) it simply means there is another person in the world lacking in this area, and you are holding their blessings for them until the time comes when they can ask for it.

If, for instance, you are someone with great wisdom in emotional matters, then it is not about whether or not you “choose” to share your time helping someone in pain. The real understanding is, this abundance of wisdom you can give another person “belongs” to this other person. It isn’t yours, you don’t own it - you are simply the custodian of it until they ask for it. Their action of coming to ask for help clears their blockage and enables them to receive from you what is actually theirs.
When you internalize this understanding, you realize you never “give of yourself,” but rather, you give back to others what is rightfully theirs.

This leads us to a fundamental understanding of our lives and actions. The Kabbalists speak of a spiritual ecosystem referred to as, The Tree of Life, from which all blessings, protection, inspiration, joy & fulfillment originate. There are two ways to interact with this amazing world.

One way that most people follow is thinking of their gifts as their own. When they share, they think they are being spiritual or doing a good thing by sharing with others less fortunate. They think it’s their choice whether or not to share, and how much and how often.

While it is true that such a view will bring Light and blessings into their lives (because every positive action reveals Light), this way of life is limited in its blessings.

Profounder still is when we understand the existence of the spiritual ecosystem and that our abundance is not ours alone. We are simply holding gifts for others. It is no longer our choice to give, but rather our duty.

When we view our gifts in this way, we start to share because we are doing our part in the ecosystem. This consciousness creates a greater opening to receive from others and taps us into an unending flow of abundance.

It’s not that we “earn” the great blessings that will come to us – we “open up” to them, allowing all the supernal angels, Light and abundance to flow into us unimpeded. The blessings, joy and fulfillment that become ours when we take part in the spiritual ecosystem are great.
Be honest with yourself. See how you view your gifts and why you share. As you endeavor to change from the “My Things” view to a “Spiritual Ecosystem” view, you will open yourself up to a new level of protection, blessings and fulfillment that may be far beyond anything you have ever experienced up until now.


Blessings Flow Down

Posted: July 2nd, 2009 | Author: MICHAEL | Filed under: Humility | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Perhaps you have experienced moments in your life when, despite doing all the “right” spiritual work, the results still do not manifest. Why is this? Is it because we do not deserve them? Or perhaps we have not done quite enough to earn them? These are questions we have all asked at one time or another, and the answer is simple. Quite often we have earned the blessings, but they cannot flow into our life simply because we have left a barrier between ourselves and those blessings. This barrier is called ego.

Allow me to explain. Just as water flows to the lowest level, so too, blessings flow to the lowest level. This means that when our ego is elevated, we are in a different place spiritually than our blessings, and, therefore, they cannot permeate our lives.

Now, let’s discuss this word “ego” for a moment because we use it all the time but we do not always know what it means. Ego means we think we are better than someone. It means, therefore, we can become angry or annoyed at this person and treat him or her poorly. It means, therefore, we can be jealous when someone has more than we do, and we can talk badly about them and wish them ill. It means we can dismiss people we deem insignificant and unworthy of our time or love. These are all the tell-tale signs of ego.

Ego is what enables us to treat another human being without respect and human dignity.

This is why we want to be involved in a constant process of diminishing our ego. We can work day and night to reveal Light and blessings through our sharing and work, but in order for Light to flow from above down into our lives (i.e., prosperity, clarity, healing, and peace), we must lower ourselves and treat everyone with care and decency.

Every day when we awake, the question we want to ask of ourselves is, “What will I do today to enable my ego to be diminished?” When this is a real priority, the blessings that are ready to come will come. There is no doubt about it.

I feel compelled to address this now because it pains me to think how often we sabotage ourselves. We work so hard to awaken blessings only to block them from entering our lives because of our silly ego.

This week, focus on how you treat people. Notice when you are being dismissive, or mean, or jealous. Work on being kinder and more considerate and offering every single person that crosses your path a modicum of human dignity. But please do not do this because it’s “the spiritual thing to do” or to be “a good person.” Do it because you know in your heart that it will remove the barrier between you and the blessings you have created.

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Strengthening Our Blessings

Posted: November 19th, 2008 | Author: MICHAEL | Filed under: Our Blessings | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

For most of us there is a disparity between the blessings we have and the joy we receive from those blessings. The question is, what causes this disparity?

The Zohar (foundational text of Kabbalah) reminds us this problem has been around for a long time. It surfaced in one of the earliest biblical stories, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. At that time, according to the Bible, Adam and Eve were able to eat from any of the trees of the Garden except for one, known kabbalistically as The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

It is written that the snake (representing the dark side of our nature), approached Eve and began planting seeds of doubt in her mind, “So you can’t eat from any of the trees?”

“No, no, no,” responded Eve. “We can eat from all the trees except this one.”

The snake continued to badger her until her lack became her only focus.

Kabbalah teaches that this process is one many of us go through – although we have many blessings in our lives, we seem to focus on the one or two areas in which we believe we are lacking. When we start to focus away from the blessings we have, it’s as if a veil is drawn, blocking out the blessings and Light we can draw from what we already possess.

This week, we first have to understand this reality. There is a constant voice or force that’s going to try to get us to focus away from all the blessings we have and to focus us only on the areas we are lacking. This voice is coming from the dark side of our nature.

Second, we have to understand that it is our responsibility to fight this tendency. This means telling ourselves, “I am going to forget about that one area of lack, and I am going to focus even more strongly on, and reawaken even more appreciation for, the blessings I already have.”

Spiritually, this consciousness awakens more Light, blessings, and fulfillment to flow from all areas of our lives.

You can attain this consciousness by refocusing on the blessings you do have. Doing so allows them to shine and fulfill you in newer and greater ways. The underlying idea is that the blessings you already have in your life can give you so much more fulfillment than they currently give because you will appreciate and focus on them that much more.