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Moses and the dancing light
A segue to how an awake consciousness
experiences the energy of Creation
The story - Moses and
the dancing light
Impacts
of this story on Kaballah mystical tradition
A line
by line review to segue into the world of energy consciousness
Some
related comments from a different tradition
There is a story the author
understands is reported to be told in the oral tradition of the
Jewish
mystical Kaballah that provides an exceptional example of both
how
creativity is the language of consciousness and the
metaphoric aspects of the experience we have. The story
describes an encounter Moses had with the
creative powers/Creative Powers of Creation. There is nothing
special about the Jewish mystical tradition relative to our creative
power for all traditions have similar stories. It is just that this
story provides an exceptional example for several related concepts.
Since all
mystical traditions tend to be somewhat closed or secret, the
story as related to the author may not be totally accurate as told
within the traditions. However, as to whether or not it is true
and/or actually told in the mystical Kaballah tradition doesn’t
really matter. What is important is the story reveals many of the
aspects of
energy consciousness, how consciousness views
localized and non localized energy, the way
mind characterizes the energy it experiences based on the
experiences it has had and the metaphoric aspects of any experience
in Creation.
The story
- Moses and the dancing light (Top)
The story, as the author
understands, it is as follows.
After traveling in the Sinai Desert for some time, Moses when up to
Mount Sinai. At the top of the mountain Moses encountered a white
light. The white light circled Moses. It can be said the white light
was attempting to dance with Moses. Within the light was the
teaching of the Torah - the five books of Moses. That light is
believed to have be sent to appeared to Moses to give him the
teaching of the Torah. But Moses did not understand the dancing
light. Moses did not know how to work with this light.
So, the Divine, being the creative resource that it is, created
another form of the understanding for Moses. The Divine send down
four symbols which are now letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Moses
looked at the four symbols but did not understand.
The four symbols were the letters Yod, He, Vau and He. Within the
mystical tradition of the Kaballah, these four letters are
called the tetragrammaton. They represent the name of God. It is
believed that within them like all of the teaching of Creation and
the Universe.
So, again, the Divine being ever so resourceful and creative sent a
whole stream of symbols. The steam of symbols came flying forth and
encircled Moses. The symbols attempted to dance with Moses. But,
again, Moses did not understand. He did not understand the symbols.
Yet the symbols were no more than letters, letters of the Jewish
alphabet.
So, again, the Divine becomes creativity. The symbols, the letters,
were then directed to form with breaks in between them. In essence,
they formed into words. It was at that point Moses understood. Moses
then record the symbols in the way they were presented. He recorded
what he saw and what he experienced. Out of what he saw and
experience came the written Torah.
Impacts of this story on Kaballah mystical tradition
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It was told the author that this
is the approach used by the old
mystical sages and sets the framework for the mystical Kaballah
tradition. It is believe that everything written in the Torah
contains hidden within it the spark or seed of all understanding of
Creation.
Today the “safe” Torah, the scroll used in the synagogue is written
only in consonants. There are no vowels. It is written in a way such
that the words can talk on different meanings depending on whether
or not the vowel changes within the world.
It is seen that on the simplest level of reading this “safe” Torah
there is the symbolism for Creation. There are many interpretations
of the Torah depending on how vowels are added to the consonants
that are written. It is Kaballah law that we are not allowed to
write the “safe” Torah with words. The intention is to keep it
ambiguous. With this approach it has been observed that there are
places where the way the letters can be broken up into words, there
are times one letter can be taken and moved across to an adjoining
world and change the whole meaning of a sentence.
It was also told the author that it is believed the ancient sages
put all their time, effort and energy into not only reading the
Torah this way but all the teaching of the prophets and the holy
scriptures. The ancient sages believed the Torah, as the teaching of
the prophets and hold scriptures were given to us through Divine
inspiration. By interpreting all of the different possibilities of
what might be said in what has been stated, there lies a way that
would reveal the structure of the universe.
It was believe by the ancient sages that all
mystical awareness would or could be available to us if we could
read or understand the gift from the Divine in the way it was
intended. Of course, they discovered that there were thousands of
ways of interpreting just the Torah. It is reported it was
calculated to be at least 600, 000 ways of reading and understanding
just the Torah. Of course, for the Torah to open up the secrets of
the universe to us the implication is we would have to read and
understand it all of these ways.
A
line by line review to segue into the world of energy
consciousness (Top)
The following discussion uses the
two sections above to introduce the concepts related and applicable
to accessing and releasing our unlimited creativity. In introducing
many of the concepts and principles of the
energy consciousness model
and the
creativity perspective
that govern our creative endeavors, this discussion provides as a
way to begin to see and experience
an alternative way to experience Creation than the way most of
us have been educated to experience Creation - a much more
creatively empowering way.
After traveling in the Sinai Desert for some time, Moses when up
to Mount Sinai. What is not discussed in the story is why Moses
when up the mountain. Although there are a variety of plausible
reasons that can be given, the issue is there was a reason. There is
a
cause effect relationship in all the experiences we have whether
or not we are consciously aware of the cause effect chain and/or
believe in its existence. It is nevertheless still there.
It can be said it was the Divine leading him. It can be said he was
following his intuition. There was either some
conscious or nonconscious intention pulling Moses to the
mountain or there was something he experienced that cause him to
want to climb the mountain. Within the
energy consciousness
perspective, our
creative life energy goes where we focus our attention and
awareness and the energy will mold itself into an experience of that
on which we focus within the environment in which we find ourselves.
The
environment and the unfoldment of any creation
are integrally linked. Whatever we experience, we agreed to
experience at some level within our being. Moses was on a path on
which only he could determine its outcome by the choice he made.
At the top of the mountain the Moses encountered a while light.
The white light circled Moses. The normal assumption and
interpretation here is the God sent the light. The light appeared to
Moses and was calling Moses forth to act. However, there is another
view. Within the
energy consciousness model
uses within the
creativity perspective,
we each are an
individualized point of consciousness and an
infinite creative being who creates our experiences, the
interpretation is that the deeper part of Moses created the light to
get himself in touch with that aspect of his being that would lead
him in the next stage of his journey. In actually,
both views are correct. It all depends on the perspective we
desire to take. In one case the
creative power/Creative Power is seen external to us and the
other is where it is internal.
It can be said the white light was attempting to dance with Moses.
In honest in keeping with the story as told to the author, the story
teller did not say the light was attempting to dance with Moses.
This is a bias added by the author what the author felt when told
the story. The energy of Creation desires to dance with us if we are
open to the dance and willing to
surrender
to it.
In any case, the consciousness which gave rise to the light, whether
it is seen as the consciousness within Creation, which many would
call God, or the infinite consciousness within Moses expressing
itself to Moses, used creativity to get the attention of Moses. It
is said that
creativity is the language of consciousness. Within this story
we can seen how creative the consciousness trying to communicate
with Moses is at getting his attention.
Within the light was the teaching of the Torah - the five books
of Moses. That light is believed to have be sent to appeared to
Moses to give him the teaching of the Torah. This statement is
actually getting ahead of the story and is addressed at the end of
the story.
But Moses did not understand the dancing light. Moses did not
know how to work with this light. Here is the problem we face a
human being. Our
mind characterizes the experiences we have based on our past
experience. If we don’t have the previous experience, the required
minimum set of experience, to understand what we are
experiencing we will have no context for which to understand it. It
simply makes no sense to us. Simply said, Moses did not have the
prior experience of working with energy in a nonlocalized form of
light to understand what he was experiencing.
So, the Divine, being the creative resource that it is, created
another form of the understanding for Moses. The Divine send down
four symbols which are now letters of the Hebrew alphabet. When
a consciousness has something to say and communicate, it will
continually to look for a way to say it until it is understood. Here
again, as in all of these statements,
creativity is the language of consciousness and it is
continually creating different ways to communicate. That in itself
tells us a lot about the consciousness which is trying to
communicate. We need only be open to what we see and/or feel.
In essence what the Divine did was begin to
“step” down the energy. That is, as the energy takes on form,
some of the power available in the energy becomes unavailable. It is
like the electricity that comes into your home. That which is in
your home has been “stepped” down from a more powerful form of the
same energy that is carried in the transmission wires. There is a
transformer near your house that takes the more powerful energy and
“steps” it down to a power that is more useful and manageable in
your home. When it is realized consciousness and energy are
different forms of the same things, we an being to see there is a
“stepping”down of energy that occurs in consciousness. Spiritual
traditions have talked about increases awareness and/or levels to
Creation. That to which they refer are only forms of consciousness
that can channel larger and/or different magnitude flows of energy.
Moses looked at the four symbols but did not understand. Here
again, if we do not have some previous experience on which to call
upon, we will not understand the experience we are having. A good
example of this is the Rosetta Stone found in Egypt by Napoleon’s
troop. Until that stone was found Egyptian Hieroglyphics were
indecipherable. However, one the stone was Heiroglypyics and two
other known languages. That stone then became the key to
understanding an ancient language and a vast amount of information.
But there needs to be something that allows what we experience to be
related to our past experiences.
The four symbols were the letters Yod, He, Vau and He. Within the
mystical tradition of the Kaballah, these four letters are
called the tetragrammaton. They represent the name of God. It
only makes sense to see these four letters as the name of God given
the fact they are seen as the first symbols recognized by Moses
arises from the light. However, the fact the energy is localized
into the four symbols, the power of forming something else is lost.
To form something new, this existing form must be dissolved to form
the new creation. The light and dancing with the light has the
potential to become anything. To form into symbols the infinite has
been collapsed into a single form - the four symbols. This fact
gives rise to the next statement.
It is believed that within them like all of the teaching of
Creation and the Universe. This statement can be seen three
ways. One is that although the light forms into four symbols, the
light and possibility of an infinite number of other creations lies
within the four symbols. If the four symbols dissolve back into the
light, everything is possible. Here lies the question and the key to
the universe. What caused the light to form into the symbols is also
the cause that can cause the light to form into any other creation.
Hence within the symbols and what formed the symbols lies the key to
Creation. Alternatively said, what causes the light to move from a
non-localized
infinite wave into a fixed and rigid
localized form is the key to creation. The answer to this
question within the
energy consciousness model
is consciousness and how it chooses to focus is attention and
awareness.
The second way of see this is that the
universe is holographic. That is every piece and fragment of
creation contains and image of the whole complete picture. However,
the whole is fuzzier and less discernable the smaller the piece of
Creation. Every piece of creation forms like every other piece of
creation. However, the smaller the piece of creation, the less
discernable is the process of how creation forms. Yet if we look at
bigger and bigger pieces and how they form, we can being to see the
process of creation/Creation.
The third way is to see what literally arise as only metaphoric for
something of greater depth and breadth of what is presented.
Whenever consciousness chooses to communicate it selects a way of
communicating based on its past experiences and how it believes the
communication will be understood. What is presented in not always
accurate and there is usually something much deeper behind the
communication. This is especially true when something is created to
provide the communication. It is said
creativity is the language of consciousness. To create something
in order to communicate means that what is communicated cannot fit
into the past experiences of the consciousness trying to
communicate. If it did, there would be no need for its creativity
and to become creative. To become creative means that what is
expressed in the past is insufficient to express what needs to be
expressed. To see what is communicated in this case as the complete
transfer of the information is miss much of what is attempting to be
said. To look at the metaphoric aspects, one can see there is a now
wealth of information which lies unexpressed including the teaching
of Creation and the Universe.
So, again, the Divine being ever so resourceful and creative sent
a whole stream of symbols. The steam of symbols came flying forth
and encircled Moses. The symbols attempted to dance with Moses. But,
again, Moses did not understand. He did not understand the symbols.
Yet the symbols were no more than letters, letters of the Jewish
alphabet. Here the consciousness trying to communicate with
Moses, whether we see it as God or as the nonconscious aspect of
Moses, provides a different creation in hope the Moses can
understand. Yet, again, Moses did not have the experience to
understand the symbols.
So, again, the Divine becomes creativity. The symbols, the
letters, were then directed to form with breaks in between them. In
essence, they formed into words. It was at that point Moses
understood. There are two points to be made here. One is that
the creation of words and naming things allows humanity to create
understanding. The second is that until humanity created words and
language, individual humans were unable to effectively communicate
and share knowledge and record it. However, when language come into
existence, humans could now begin to effective and sufficiently
communicate with each other and share knowledge. It is then humanity
could really began to explore Creation for what it is.
Moses then record the symbols in the way they were presented. He
recorded what he saw and what he experienced. Out of what he saw and
experience came the written Torah. As with all prophets, what they
see and experience is considered sacred. It is only natural to take
what Moses experienced and create a sacred book. However, we need to
ask, “What makes an one person’s experience more sacred or more
Divine than other?” It is said above it is believed what lies into
the symbols form by the light is all that teachings of Creation and
the Universe. But has not all of Creation arose out of the same
“stuff” of Creation. Is it not the same light that form the symbols
which Moses experienced the same light that from you, I or anyone
else. Does not all of the teaching of Creation and the Universe lie
in any one of us just as much as it lies in the symbols experienced
by Moses? The question is, “Why do we choose to hold what comes out
of any one person more sacred that which comes out of any other?”
The comment made above was that the statement “Within the light
was the teaching of the Torah - the five books of Moses. That light
is believed to have be sent to appeared to Moses to give him the
teaching of the Torah” was actually getting ahead of the story.
What needs to be understood is that what was contained in the light
was much more than the Torah. The light eventually formed itself
into the Torah so that Moses could begin to understand what was
being communicated. However, in actually, the Torah is only a
metaphor for something much greater. What is in the Torah and is
expressed as the Torah possess the ability to take on an infinite
number of forms. It is in the form of the Torah because that is what
Moses could understand. If Moses has a different set of experiences,
the Torah would look different. It is the problem we face as
discussed in the topic, “The
Problem of Mind and the Experience of the Source of Creation - the
Trap of Mind.”
A simple question to ponder, and it can be pondered for any
individuals who work is held sacred, is, “Is Moses the only one who
experience the
Source of Creation? Or, or have a variety of individual, such as
all the founders of greater religions, experienced the Source? Of
all the people who ever lived, has only one gotten it correct? Or,
have they all got it correct in their own way? Or, have some got it
right and other got it wrong? But then who got it right and why is
it what each individual says and/or teaches is different to create
such separation in spiritual teachings?”
It was told the author that this is the approach used by the old
mystical sages and sets the framework for the mystical Kaballah
tradition. It is believe that everything written in the Torah
contains hidden within it the spark or seed of all understanding of
Creation. This was and is a profound realization on the part of
the early sages for it is true. It is rather obvious when one is
aware of
localized and non localized energy and how an infinite number of
possibilities exist when the energy is not localized. Yet those
possibility still exist whenever the energy takes form. They are
again accessible when the existing form dissolves back into the
“stuff” our of which it came.
Today the “safe” Torah, the scroll used in the synagogue is
written only in consonants. There are no vowels. It is written in a
way such that the words can talk on different meanings depending on
whether or not the vowel changes within the world. What is
stated here is to stand between two worlds and the essence of what
it means to experience a creation within creation. To use the
consonants without the vowels is to live in a particular creation
but not remain totally fixed in that creation. By adding any given
set of vowel a
creation within an existing creation is created. It is metaphor
and symbolic of exactly what Physical Creation is all about.
Physical Creation is the “safe” Torah. The consonants without the
worlds. Each of us are a version, an experience of the “safe” Torah
with the vowels added. We each are the but yet different. We each
are an expression of the same basic structure.
It is seen that on the simplest level of reading this “safe”
Torah there is the symbolism for Creation. There are many
interpretations of the Torah depending on how vowels are added to
the consonants that are written. As noted in this statement, it
can be added, the metaphor is much deeper. As described in the
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective, we each are an
individualized consciousness or an individuated consciousness
within a consciousness/Consciousness. The way
consciousness/Consciousness operates is the Creation or,
alternatively said, experienced by, and in, Creation. The way the
individualized consciousness operates within the fixed form of the
way the consciousness/Consciousness defined is the creation within a
creation. The way to access the understanding of Creation and the
Universe is to look at what is before us as a metaphor of something
larger.
It is Kaballah law that we are not allowed to write the “safe”
Torah with words. The intention is to keep it ambiguous. With this
approach it has been observed that there are places where the way
the letters can be broken up into words, there are times one letter
can be taken and moved across to an adjoining world and change the
whole meaning of a sentence. The point that is missed here, and
it sounds as a criticism when it is made, is the issue is not the
Torah but Creation. To keep the “safe” Torah ambiguous in the way
the vowels can be arranged as symbolic of Creation is wise. However,
what is missed is the Torah ambiguous is not the issue. The issue is
keeping our lives and Creation itself ambiguous and flexible. This
is why so many spiritual traditions talk about surrender and/or the
need to transcend the ego if not, transcend the body and physical
Creation. There is nothing wrong with the ego, body and Physical
Creation. They are vehicles for experience. There is nothing to
transcend. What is wrong is our awareness attaching itself to the
fixed form of the ego, body or Physical Creation whatever it is. Our
ego, body and Physical Creation have an infinite number of ways to
be expressed. Yet we become attached and choose one over all the
others. It is there we rob ourselves of the
creative powers/Creative Powers of
creation/Creation.
The
creative power/Creative Power of Creation lies in the ambiguity
of the form.
Non localized energy and non localized consciousness allows for
infinite possibilities. Fixing or holding the energy or
consciousness to a fixed from robs the energy and consciousness of
its creative power. Only when the existing form is dissolved can the
possibility of creating something new come into existence. As long
as we hold onto the past and a fixed form in any way, we limit our
creative power and ability. The issue is not holding the “safe”Torah
flexible and ambiguous, it is to hold our ego and lives flexible and
ambiguous.
Any tradition that hopes to have it members access the
understandings of Creation and the Universe needs to find a way that
it members can hold their ego and their lives flexible and ambiguous
rather than follows some type and kind of fixed form. It many ways
it is the ongoing issue of have a fixed and defined life or a more
nomadic flexible life. It is a dance between the fixed ideas of
mind and the free flow of free unfoldment of the heart.
Ultimately the effort starts with the
dance
between heart and mind and
learning to dance.
It was also told the author that it is believed the ancient sages
put all their time, effort and energy into not only reading the
Torah this way but all the teaching of the prophets and the holy
scriptures. The ancient sages believed the Torah, as the teaching of
the prophets and hold scriptures were given to us through Divine
inspiration. By interpreting all of the different possibilities of
what might be said in what has been stated, there lies a way that
wold reveal the structure of the universe. It is here humanity
continually seems to make it mistake. We look to the words and what
mind gives as the answer to creation when the answer lies in the
heart and
surrendering
to the flow of energy within our being. The power of
creation/Creation
lies in the
non-localized,
unmanifested, free and unbounded. When we are aligned with that
flow, all is possible. The structure of the universe lies in
understanding how and why energy takes on a particular form. It is
not about studying the form that manifests. When we understand why
energy takes on one form over another, we stand at the threshold of
creation/Creation.
The choice is then ours as to what we do with it.
It was believe by the ancient sages that all
mystical awareness would or could be available to us if we could
read or understand the gift from the Divine in the way it was
intended. Of course, they discovered that there were thousands of
ways of interpreting just the Torah. It is reported it was
calculated to be at least 600, 000 ways of reading and understanding
just the Torah. Of course, for the Torah to open up the secrets of
the universe to us the implication is we would have to read and
understand it all of these ways. Again, it is here humanity
makes it mistake. We think by studying the form of
creation/Creation
we will understand Creation. What needs to be studied is what gives
rise to creation/Creation. Why any one creation appears as opposed
to any other. In understand why, we can become to cause to create
whatever is desired.
From the
creativity perspective
through the
energy consciousness model,
what gives rise to any particular creation is that our
creative life energy goes where we focus our attention and
awareness. In essence, our creative life energy molds itself to what
we think and believe for the environment in which we find ourselves.
We are a
creation within a creation. We have fixed and
localized our energy in such a way to have an experience of
Physical Creation. Our body fixes, anchors or grounds our creative
life energy in or to Physical Creation. We are
infinitely creative beings and have only limited our
creative power and ability to have the experience we ourselves,
at some level of our being chose to have.
Some related comments from a different tradition
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Some of the comments made above
may appear overly critical. However, similar observations have been
made in other traditions and they speak to the same topics.
The following two comment are made in the Taoist tradition and are
from the book A New English Version Tao Te Ching by Stephen
Mitchell on pages 1 and 85 respectively.
The first statement is “The Tao that can be told is not the eternal
Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The
unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all
particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught
in desire, you see only the manifestation.”
The second is a quote by the Mitchell reportedly made by by the poet
and comedian Hence Po Chu-i “He how talks doesn’t know, he who know
doesn’t talk. That is what Loa-Tzu told us, in a book of five
thousand words. If he was the one who knew, how could he have been
such a blabbermouth?”
The conclusion about the Source of Creation are the same. It is
unnamable. To being to name anything is to cause the
non-localized
energy to assume a
localized or defined form. The way to experience the Source is
to
step out of mind
and all that we can think and believe and
surrender
and flow with what we feel. To do that worlds are useless. Nothing
can be said.
What needs to be realized about speaking and writing about accessing
the mysteries of Creation is that the writing does not do anything
to access the Source. All the writing does is hopefully make it
easier for
mind to let go and allow the awareness within mind to simply
surrender
to what is, as it is. Then in that state of being
out of mind
and in the flow one can see and know.
The question for anything that is said or read is, “Is what is said
direct you into your own truth and to
surrender
to that truth for we are
creator/Creator experiencing its
creation/Creation?”
Unfortunately, nothing that can be said can convince you of this
fact. You will have to give yourself permission to do your own
experiences to see the truth of these words that you are the creator
of your experiences and the reality of those experiences and in that
awareness you can understand how each of are the Creator
experiencing Its Creation. All that is provided in the Releasing
Your Unlimited Creativity material is to hopefully make this point
easier for you to understand how it is possible and maybe provide a
few ideas of how to experience it.
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