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Light exists even when it is not seen. I have always been comforted by the teaching that we help bring light by first gaining some increased measure of it ourselves, and then sharing with others it just by being alive and around. Second to this is seeking to be a good example rather than...

My understanding is that the Hebrew Kabbalah is not too accessible either nowadays without either being born into one of the Chassidic groups, or following on from a study of the Torah and Talmud at yeshivah (dedicated school) level. Personally, and without too much evidence, my belief is...

Beliefs. (apologies) The personality - and NLP - seem restricted to swapping one limiting belief for another (which hopefully will be more useful for the circumstances presenting). I haven't examined this bit, but NLP seems a view from the bottom up, as it were, and we are evolving to a...

Well, I believe I have a solid understanding, but there you go :D . I did a master practitioner course ten or so years ago so I may be a little out of date. I do agree that beliefs can be altered to support a chosen way of doing life: I remember doing a process to inculcate a belief that the...

Absolutely. Alongside that goes the essential spiritual technique of "Fake it til you Make it." It's amazing how many people just don't get the importance of that for the westerner. The western path does not involve annihilating (thank the lord for spell checkers) the personality, but...

Taking the NLP model originated by Dilts and Bateman, beliefs come between "Identity" and "Capabilities". Dilts' Logical Levels | SkillsYouNeed If I allow my beliefs to affect my capabilities and skills they are going to encourage the development of some capabilities , but be a limitation on...

I was unable to answer most of the questions. I don't find my beliefs very helpful, actually.

My friend and teacher DC Vision - who used to post on here under the name "pseudonymous" - said that he was a spiritual atheist, and he had plenty of experience of spirit, having practised as both a healer and a medium. He came to believe that each one of us was on a path which would culminate...

Thanks. Carl Rogers used to say that when we come across evidence, even experiential bite-your-butt-and-leave-teeth-marks evidence, that is contrary to our deeply held beliefs, our brains distort and deny - just don't see - that evidence. This is to protect us from shock, rather than put us...

Precisely so. To the best of my belief there IS a way to know. Many, who you do not believe, have followed a way and know. Beliefs are just a way of limiting our experience, unless chosen wisely and by looking at the evidence c.w. what we would like to achieve. Obviously, if I want to continue...

There are levels of intuition: from the reasoned guess, to the vague hunch, to the crystalline insight. At the level of the crystalline insight, I know for certain. Now. I'm not at all certain if this life on earth is anything other than a matrix-like subjective existence, however, but that...

Yes, you can KNOW it for certain. Not by belief, which is a taught (taut?!) intellectual construct which may or may not turn out to have some basis in reality, but by intuitive inner knowing. However you will never be able to convince anyone else who has not come to the same intuitive...

1. Everyone I know has a differnt answer, but they don't seem short of one. For what it is worth, here is another: from the top down - I am - life is. Sometimes in incarnation, sometimes out. from the bottom up - the essence moves on to another body (although that will also be determined by...

I hope this isn't connected with Nick the Pilot's remark about men not wishing to sit down and confront their issues. That's interesting. Why not? My favourite books indicate that both this life and the after-life state are structured to bring us to enlightenment - one reason why suicide is...

Dikaios, seriously, if you cannot look this up really you have much of life to conquer before tackling the, ah, opaque writings of HPB or the symbolic language of much of the Kabbalah.

There are many different approaches to spirituality which one might classify as Kabbalistic. Even within Judaism there are several different strands, which are quite different. Even the ways of mapping the tree of life across the four worlds can be done many different ways. As with all...

My wife is a BACP accredited counsellor and psychotherapist (as am I) as well as a Relate trained couples counsellor (as I am not) so opting out is not really an option -- although we would not have it any other way. We are senior citizens, and have changed physically as well as every other...

I'm afraid I filched this one off the radio -- youtube haven't got it yet, so keep it to yourselves. It is by a well-known Irish group of cabaret artistes. I'll be deleting it in a few days. It's a 3.27 MB mp3 but worth every second. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32237578/itr.mp3

To me, all his writings and his ontological system are founded on what is, to him and to me, the truth of reincarnation. DC believed that the evolution of a Self involved a progression through more and more evolved bodies. I think, for instance, it is implicit here: This one makes it...

And would our judgements of a living Jesus be valid, based on our interpretation(s) of such a being's behaviour and, well, aura? I suspect not. I do like the way this quote's meaning has morphed with the passage of time. Mad has probably passed the time when it meant mentally ill or insane...