Path #11-Kether-Crown to Chokma-Wisdom

Here I'll be addressing the Cabbalistic path in a different light than most commonly presented.

You'll also notice, by looking at the image on the card that the Path11 appears to be at the right side of the body. 

No, this image is backed into.

So it shows as a mirror image.

Actually existing on the left side of the body.

The paths and exercises of the Cabbala can be found in a vast multitude of books that are available in almost any bookstore that carries a wide variety of subjects.

Within these works (information) you'll find the stage for any given path.

Describing the sights, sounds, smells, colors, trees, alters, lamps, plants, animals, stones etc that you'll encounter on each paths individual journey of meditation.

Called path working.

This will be partially addressed here but for the most part I'll say that you should see these spheres as energy centers. 

Not unlike chakras.

You should look at your body as a large battery. Having the capability of generating energy and storing it for use.

Not to mention the actual use of developed abilities to direct and expel the energy that has been generated and stored.

Here the comments feeling drained and someone taking a nap to recharge my batteries are actually well put comments.

This first information of the cards can be seen as the beginning of preparation of that battery.

 Its directed/focused/intended energy will be determined, by the user/battery/self: You. At some future point, that you are not only ready, but also capable of using it.

Kether-Crown and Chokma-Wisdom are united as spheres located at the left side of the brain. (see card image).

Left-brain function.

Scientific research has informed us that the left side is the side that handles the functions of analytical, verbal and logical.

This has been determined by witnessing stoke victims and others with damage to this side of the brain and then comparing the loss of functions thus abilities.

Although the brain is also capable of transferring a portion, say if a part is damaged, it can transfer an ability or function to another area to continue.

So it's in fact a bi-lateral mechanism, which has shown these capabilities when these things have actually happened in lab operations.

Recorded data throughout medical and psychiatric history has shown little more than similarities and much exaggeration has been given to this issue.

Here just the basics are to be considered and little more.

It's interesting, though, that the Cabalistic mystics of more than a millennia ago had it nearly as correct as the advanced scientists and psychologists of today do.

It's also important to understand that while focusing on one area of say, the nose of a human body.

To keep in mind that this is ONE area only and while you can see and investigate the importance, function and vitality of this nose.

While focused on the one you are unable to oversee the entire body. 

This is all a part of evolution of the spirit.

Using relationships in the consciousness to form an interconnected system of symbols whose meanings create reactions in the greater consciousness or the sub-consciousness.

Each of the paths has a related meditation concerning this area of consciousness.

As mentioned earlier this is process called path working. 

This meditation.

In the art or practice of meditation, itself, one begins by calming the body and mind through deliberate breathing and focus.

The initial calming alone or even holding perfectly still may seem difficult, in the beginning, if you haven't attempted meditation before it is commonly quite a task to silence your

self, mind, thoughts. Not to mention keeping the body still and relaxed.

We are conditioned throughout our lives to think constantly.

To ramble in our minds, thinking constantly. 

Your thoughts can be directed to one area or another but it's uncommon to STOP thinking, in our day-to-day lives.

Minute by minute, day after day, year after year, with the exception of that time in each day that you're about to fall asleep.

Then the day that you decide that you want to try meditating, in your first attempt you'll notice that it's not so easy to be and nothing else.

Just being.

Nothing else.

First and foremost you will need a quiet location, where you'll absolutely not be interrupted. 

Move the ticking clock. Unplug or turn off the phone.  Do not play music. 

Get as close to absolute silence as you possibly can. Now assume the position (The Asana).

The position of the body (asana) is important.

Comfortable and relaxed but not a position that you assume while sleeping. 

You don't want to fall asleep. There's no great danger if you do.

But it's not the point of meditation or this beginning exercise. The breath is used, commonly, to focus upon at the start of meditation.

Counting (silently) is used as well, as you breathe to a count slowly and steadily.

A four-count is suggested.

This counting thing gives your mind a focus to begin with.

Once the counting, or timing, becomes more automatic then you can release the mental use of the numbers and just use the timing without thinking 1-2-3-4.

You breathe in to the count of four. Hold to the same count. 

Then out to the same count and then hold out to that same count, and then repeat. 

As you begin to settle into a calm and relaxed state then you continue the breathing while, at the same time, clearing your thoughts of any other

thoughts at all, than just the breathing and the breathing only.  No other thoughts.

Also it's important that you set a predetermined amount of time that this exercise is going to happen. 

I suggest no less than ten to fifteen minutes, to begin, as a basic period of exercise.

You'll find that in the beginning it's not easy. Oh I forgot to return that video. 

Maybe I should light some incense. There's a bird chirping outside the window, a neighbor's dog barking, children playing down the block.

Whatever happens. An itch, a twitch, a wheeze, a breeze. 

 The point is that commonly, your mind will attempt to focus on whatever it can focus on in order to keep it's regular routine.

 But you need to keep control for the amount of time that you set out for this control.

Here is why you need to consciously re-adjust your thinking habits to the point of total awareness of just being and nothing else. 

Just to be. In the total silence of thought. Without being distracted. Without being your body.

Just being and only being and nothing else, at all. It sounds a lot easier than it actually is.

In this way you'll develop a better sense of self. 

It is a developed awareness of your own being as opposed to anything that is outside of you.

It's an area where many people are confused.

It's real easy to assign your own thoughts to an exterior being.

This is where you'll hear the sociopath/psycho say that it was a message from God or An angel told me to or The voices in my head.

It's because of this lack of personal development that we find so many confused people on the planet that are claiming to be receiving messages

from an outside source.

When it's actually, more commonly or likely a self created voice.

If you notice the outcomes are always destructive and self-serving. 

Then they'll say "God made me do it!" as their being hauled away in a straight jacket. 

This is all mentioned here because of the Path that's shown on this card, Path 11.

There are twenty-two paths.

These paths combined are referred to as The Tree of Life.

This reference as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil can be found in a bulk of the world's religious texts.

I'm not going to argue semantics here or how things were and are deciphered. 

The facts remain as they are and that's all.

If these trees aren't mentioned specifically, which most are, they're stated in symbolism.

Each of the items listed on the card are the experiences that the traveler (you) in the meditation will see, hear, smell, taste or in any way sense.

Then, once you have conditioned yourself, it happens that another or external entity is encountered along the way or during the meditation.

The details that are listed here in this book, about any given card, are then used to test, check and verify the thing you're encountering during the show.

It's not the only value of these cards but one that is used in this way by some .

Also the information and details of the other cards come into play as testers and gauges or guidelines to make determinations concerning the point of origin from whence this thing

arrived.

Where did it come from? How is it composed? Why is it here? What did it say? Is it factual or self created?

To my experience an actual entity can give great insight and within a second or two convey so much information that it would take hours to write it all down on paper.

Because this has been my experience and it comes from my own personal observation. 

I've taken hours to write what was relayed in a few seconds.

Entity and energy are nearly synonymous at this point.

A simplistic view of ANY energy/entity is that if the information that was related/received was negative/destructive then it's a demon or demonic

type and if the information was creative or positive then it's the energy of an angel or angelic energy.

One could also assume the view that they are all angels with different jobs that relate to their amount of light.

So we have the dark angel and the light angel. 

I'm using this word lightly because it's easier than entity or being but their all one in the same.

One could also view all of this as the Self (Higher nature) communicating to the self, (lower nature) and that ALL OF THIS is a self-created situation.

In the final analysis the value is WHAT was received. 

No matter where it came from.

What are its consequences, effects, rewards, deficits, actions required.

Is it positive or negative? How will this information help or harm? What is its value?

This work takes minutes to read, hours to practice, days to test, weeks to record, months to witness, years to understand.

As for myself, up until now, an entire lifetime to figure out and actually put into basic terms.

As I have just stated. What's the real value? Does the end suit the means?

I am forced to conclude that the outcome of this work is a positive outcome.

That the awareness level of those who are willing to attempt the consideration will be somehow enhanced.

The chain reaction created by an enhanced awareness level can only result in a higher intelligence level. In my opinion.

As reflected in so many of our colloquialisms such as; dim bulb or bright, acting sharp or being dull. All of this is located now, here, in the beginning of this book.

Ironically this card's path is actually the final path that one would take when working with the Tree of Life in the realm of path working.

You may ask why this (reversal) is the case.

I'll answer as simplistically again. Because you are here, starting from planet Earth. 

On Earth. In a body. Lucky you.

So you start from the ground and work your way up.

The ground is the last chapter in this book. 

No, you do not need to read the book backwards. 

You most likely will, however, need to read it again.

This is not a rule or requirement. 

But it's a probability. 

Something you may gain.

Creating items that you continue to reflect on within your own personal thoughts.

Consider the word reflection.

It is a reversed truth but only from your point of view.