History of Religion in 90 seconds

Posted by Mark Zimmerman Jan 5, 2007

ANIMATION: See 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds !!!

Now internalize this map, and start to ride a totally new process that exists right now, in an opposite direction to the process you are currently in. What does it mean, to "internalize the map"?

At www.kabbalah.info it is explained that ancient Kabbalistic texts only speak in terms of layers of perception, desires, forces operating reality, and they don't say a single word about this world, the "physical" world.

At the time of the first Kabbalists, everyone was in the perception and sensation of the higher world. Over time, the egoism within people grew, and people lost their sensation of the higher world, of spirituality. Since then, all terms in Kabbalistic books have become interpreted in physical ways, as nations, people, wars among people, etc. when Kabbalists themselves only used these terms to describe forces and inner processes taking place in an individual's inner attainment of spirituality.

"Israel and the nations of the world" is commonly misinterpreted as meaning a physical nation of "Israel" with its agenda, and a physical manifestation of "nations" as meaning other countries that aren't Israel, with their agendas.

Kabbalists intended these words only in terms of desires: "the nations of the world" are the desires for goals aimed at directions other than the attainment of life's source, and "Israel" is the desire directly for the source of life (stemming from the Hebrew "Yashar-Kel" literally meaning "straight to God"). Only when one begins engaging in inner work can these definitions start taking on a whole new meaning, when one sees that the only thing that truly exists in reality is one's own perception, and starts working on one's perception in order to include reality's complete picture within it.

This inner work is available to all today, because more and more people will come to want that connection straight to life's source, after becoming dissatisfied with the multiplicity of other goals that stand before us in abundance today. The method is called "Kabbalah" and has been around long before any identification of an Israeli nation or a biologically Jewish people. Kabbalah belongs to anyone who feels a yearning for truth, for working to better oneself and better the state of the world. It belongs to one who is confused because he or she sees every other goal in the world as short-lived and simply not good enough to remain fulfilled in.

It belongs to one where the "point in the heart" has manifested; an inner point that wants to feel a new reality because this one isn't good enough anymore. That point, called "Israel" in the ancient Kabbalistic sources, needs a method to guide it directly to life's source, and to get past all the things designed to distract it from this goal.