The Maharal Etz Chaim and the GOLEM

This was brought to our attentiion by the Maharal of whom I will introduce in a later post.

The path to the tree of life is guarded by the ethical behavior in this world and learned by observing the precepts of the eternal torah actually preceded the torah given in the 26th generation which took an extended expanse of linear time to prepare man and the world for the sublime Sinaitic Revelation. A foundation had to be erected carefully amid the confusion presented by the evil inclinations of mankind, a path that led to this and yet beyond the eternal law which was given initially and revealed in stages as the race could absorb and fathom it. The initial thrust took 26 generations as commented. All leaders, all religions, and the ascended masters had a role in unfolding its precepts for the perfection eventually of the race and the cosmos, so have I read.The preparation is a cosmic undertaking of vast proportions.

The Midrash comments on the verse (Gen. 3:24) "Lishmor derech eitz hachaim"
...to guard the path to the Tree of Life: Derech Eretz (ethical behavior,
alluded to with the word "derech") preceeded the Torah (alluded to by the phrase
"eitz hachaim) by 26 generations. (The Torah was given on Sinai during the 26th
generation after creation. There were 10 generations from Adam (1) to Noach
(10), another 10 generations until Avraham (20), followed by Yitzchak (21),
Yakov (22), Levi (23), Kehat (24), Amram (25), and Moshe Rabbeinu (26) in whose
generation the Torah was given. Derech Eretz, however, existed in the world from
the time of creation, 26 generations earlier.) I will begin with the Maharal's
introduction to Derech Chaim, where he explains why he called his work "Derech
Chaim" the path to life, or eternity. In this section, he elaborates on a number
of different issues.

Sanango synchronistic events manos Que Curan Leyter

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I have never heard of such a crystalline explanation of the spiritual dimensions, and crisis that causes energy to block and a web of trauma to form. I have read of how the ancients perceived disease and ailments of the physical body and their aphorisms and sayings resonate here. The restrictions of trauma are similar to what I have read of emotional paralysis, apoplexy, and dropsy,as well. Spiritual crippling and crisis, and the synchronistic events that follow are not occasional nor fortuitous. Synchronicity and all that term entails is an exact phenomenon though often has been connoted as beyond our understanding, our intellectual understanding.The compact Oxford p 1050 defines synchronicity as the occurence of events at the same time which appear to be related but have no obvious connection. This term was used by Karl Jung and referred to acausal events at their surface but arranged by connections with other worlds and spiritual entities beyond our intellectual comprehension.

have had a desire to write about what I feel creates a physical paralysis
for quite some time. Even more so, what does paralysis really feel like? I've
tossed around words, editing and deleting, completely stuck as I try to describe
not a spinal cord injury, but a spiritual crisis. So please bear with me, as the
only difficulty in a describing this circumstance, is the inadequacy of language
to transmit the raw and intense emotion that I have within.I am incredibly
tuned-in to each of my limbs and I have strength. Gratefully, I can actively
contract each muscle in my entire body. However, there is a heaviness and I've
seen its cause extend beyond a contusion, the bruise, to my spinal cord. I view
this heaviness as a cobweb, some funky gunk, corroding the paralyzed areas of
the body. It feels sticky, somewhat archaic and even scary. It is heavy and
unwelcomed. This 'cobweb' smothers muscles, tendons, nerves and cells, which are
otherwise very much alive and receptive. They are clenched with fear, sadness,
anger and all that dark shit that I still grieve. It is a web of trauma; and
with the body's ability to hold shock at a cellular level, trauma is absorbed
and the web begins. Overtime, an accumulation of emotional layers clings to the
body, restricting its light movement. Eventually it fell stunned into a spotty
silence. So in my deepest belief, this is not 'souly' a physical injury, but a
spiritual crippling and crisis, which then brought the body down with it.
So how do I, how do any of us, shed this cobweb of traumatic silence?Over
the past four years, I have ventured down avenues of psychology, process and
breath works (one I particularly favor is the Continuum Movement), acupuncture,
plant medicine and others, learning about trauma and it's toll on the body. Each
of these are incredible and powerful remedies. Yet, with the Amazon rain forest
currently in my backyard, I extend my journey with plant medicine
In a previous blog I quickly mentioned one particular
plant Sanango, which after some readings I grew curious to. It is only one of
the many thousands of medicinal plants indigenous to the Amazon. Sanango moves
blocked energy throughout the physical body. Taken orally as a brew, Sanango
runs hot and even painfully, pushing itself throughout muscles, tendons, bones,
nerves and all the rest, opening pathways previously closed for whichever
reasons.
Through a series of synchronistic events, it appears I have been gifted an opportunity to work with Sanango. Alesha and I will return to Iquitos next week, heading to Infinite Light Peru. (There is a bit more information on how this opportunity arose in the blog below.) This is a 10 day process referred to as dieta. This time is spent in spiritual reflection, intaking only the medicine and a small indigenous diet. I am incredibly curious and excited.

Manos Que Curan is still a profound element of my recovery. It is aiding my physical body incredibly, however it only addresses those physical aspects. The body moves as a web of expression and if there is a spiritual crippling within, no amount of physical therapy could alone, heal the body to its entirety. I view Sanango as an incredible tool to open up internal blocks, so that the treatments with Leyter, can be more effective externally.

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Pans Twitter and superficial modern "connections"

Pans Twitter and superficial modern "connections"

see my l;inked comments.

http://majorityoftwo.blogspot.com/2009/04/pdas-pans-and-twitter.html

Here is my quoted words

I love technology and gadgets. I'm the "go-to" person at work if anyone
wants something technical done. I enjoy it. But I also look forward to going
home at the end of the day, locking the door behind me, and turning off all the
connections to the outside world, except to those people with whom I want to
communicate. And if you really want to know what I'm doing, I'm off to watch the
final segment of "Life on Mars". *sigh*

You put the intrusions of our supposed progress as technology into its
proper perspective.We need escape,the escape, for me, is scholarship and
learning in a quiet atmosphere where I can contemplate and have cerebral
enjoyment. I could never savor that in this hectic madness of modernity, and
need the insulation from that plastic and superficial madness we chide ourselves
into believing as "modern profundity."The ancients had much more understanding
of medicine and the other disciplines. We could never,never build structures
like the Pyramids and cannot to this day count for the exactitude of their
construction. The wisdom of the ancients confounds us, because this "age of
modernity" has an abysmal dearth of what once existed in the world as true
wisdom and profundity now obscured by our tech toys. I shut my door on all
that, to be sure