Somehow when a new threshold is overcome, I find myself in a foetus stage.
In total silence, just listing to the inner voice and cleaving to God, I
don't know how to express myself any more. It takes time to adapt in the new
environment of astral experiences.
I have heard of this oscillating consciousness or Sekhel Tenudah. I see it
as a kind of Zen koan. I think of a topic very intense, form all
perspectives. And then somehow my thinking is going to a dead end and from
an open attitude penetrating into the unconscious and receiving ….. well,
how can I said it….insights but not on a mental level anymore, it is an
incarnating process, touch in the heart and being present. To balance the
level of knowledge with the level of being is a mysterious journey. It needs
hard work by studying (I like books) and at the same time total surrendering
to the Eternal One.
Well said.
Dear Fabrizio, do you have more information on the abulafian technique of
"oscillating consciousness"?
I have many books that talk about it, but not I cannot remember any
specific reference. I found it interspersed in every abulafian book.
The concept is easy. We are Kelim (vessels) coming from one single big
Kli (Bina), before the Shevirat Ha-Kelim (crush of the vessels/fall
from Eden). All the Chayiot Ha-Kodesh (Living Creatures) actually are
born at the Bina level, and thus man also. As men, we can grasp
something of Chokma, but it is not exactly in our domain. And Kether
is definitely beyond our possibilities.
When we reach the vision of G-d face to face with Devekut at te Chokma
level, we are like in a dreamy condition. Abulafia describes it as
your thought becomes hyper-active, and 10 scribes would not be enough
to write down all the influx that flows on you. In Shaarei Tzedek, the
pupil describes it as a pot of hot oil thrown upon your head, and
flowing down through your whole body. And then, the letters and the
divine speech enters in you at an unbelievable rate, and you see and
actually grasp things things that you could never even dare to think.
The issue is that you are in a sort of hyper-lucid dreamy state. If
you just stay there, when you come back you forget all in one second,
because your mind cannot hold all that. So, the natural outcome is
simply quickly forgetting.
But, if we actually shift back to normal lucidity (Bina), when we
grasp something in Chokma, we can pull that something before it
becomes too overwhelming. We can write it down before we forget it.
Then, we can go back in Chokma and pull another bit in Bina. That's
oscillating consciousness.
When I practise those states, I use to write things down. When I read
them afterwards... I am really impressed. I cannot figure out how I
did that... but more specifically I wonder about the nature of those
revelations. And a fact that makes me wonder even more... is that I
don't remember that I heard those things... even if it has some sort
of familiar "smell".
Best,
Fabrizio
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