What is Kabbalah?

How would I define Kabbalah to someone who had no idea what it was? In the simplest way possible, I'd describe Kabbalah as a set of teachings and ancient wisdom dating back to Abraham (who wrote the Book of Formation), which was designed to give all of us a practical guide and tools in order to live life in a way that will create Light and Energy for ourselves and the world, through our Creator who is the source of all Light and Energy, because doing so is what will ultimately bring us true fulfillment as it is our True Purpose in Life, but it will also eliminate chaos and darkness and negativity and pain and suffering in the world that are caused by our own Ego.

Soul Vs Ego

As you know, I espouse Kaballah as it teaches the true work of spirituality and commitment to a spiritual consciousness. By that I mean that it actually teaches practical tools and knowledge in order to help us with the necessary spiritual work that we must undertake in order to receive the Light which is our goal or true purpose in Life.
It's called the Power of Certainty. (Christians refer to it in a similar way when they talk about "faith" in God). Power of Certainty is faith or trust in these absolute truths.
These truths may not be proved by science (yet) however any technology that is sufficiently advanced can be perceived as magic as they say, so in actual fact science just hasn't caught up yet with the technology that Kabbalah teaches but it doesn't mean that Kabbalah is not the Real Deal.
In fact Kabbalah is all about the truth, science will become the truth only if it can prove the truth of Kabbalah.
Kabbalah teaches that we must look inward, examine ourselves internally and recognise and identify the various forces within us that cause us to create negative effects ie chaos in this world.
One of these forces is of course, the Ego which is ruled by Satan, our Opponent in the Game of Life.
It's the opponent of our Soul, our true spirit. Life is a battleground, we are the gladiators but we have a choice (it's called Free Will) to choose whose side we'll fight for.
Yes, it's a fact. The ego is our enemy. This concept might be quite soul-shattering for some people, in fact downright disturbing or completely wrong. This is because the ego has convinced them that he is the one that matters.
As Kyser Soje says in the film "The Usual Suspects", "...the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince us that he doesn't exist". Bingo. That's exactly what our ego's goal in our life is.
Not only that, he tries to tell us that the soul doesn't exist either.
But this is where Kabbalah can save the day for us. It teaches us how to recognise the ego's devious little ways of making us believe in his illusions.
That's right. The ego's goal is to create illusions, or to make us believe in them, to blind us from seeing the 99% True Reality.
By listening to our ego, we remain in the 1% reality which is but a shadow of the real thing. Would you rather follow a shadow or the real thing? I know what I'd rather do!
It's like being in a virtual world almost, being in this physical universe. But if we follow the right paths and create the right causes and effects, we can overcome this physical world of time and space and reach a state of oneness with the Light, free from all negativity.
The illusions of time and space and our ego have been placed there ON PURPOSE to be the ways in which we can overcome our limitations and therefore to receive more Light in our lives. It's called The Rules of the Game.
You see we all have the desire to receive energy. This desire then creates within us two types of consciousness, ascending or descending, positive or dark, light or dark. We can always choose at each moment which way to go. We need to choose ascending consciousness and energy. We need to choose to receive the Light. And that is all that we need to do! The rest will take care of themselves. In fact we will be rewarded with Light.
For instance, Kabbalah teaches that within each of us exists our own personal Dark Holes. These Dark Holes are feelings of insecurity, and inadequacy and lack and emptiness and feelings of not being good enough that appear to be triggered by external situations or other people.
This is an illusion. The Dark Holes are inside of us. It's not the other people who are causing the negativity, but rather our own personal feelings of negativity that are being exposed.
These feelings of emptiness create within us a desire to receive and to fill it up urgently with some form of energy. However, when we do not have awareness of our thoughts, we become overcome with fear, and tend to fill up the emptiness of our Dark Holes with negative or temporary energy.
Kabbalah states that this is not the way to go. This simply creates Darker Holes, feeds the illusions, feeds the ego and injects it and empowers it with more energy.
We must learn to become aware when our Dark Holes are being triggered. We then need to observe it, stay with it, but to step aside and then command the emptiness to be filled up with Light. We need to resist going into our Dark Hole and giving into it.
By doing so we can achieve total transformation, growth and positive change. In short miracles will happen in our lives and Light and blessings will shower upon us.
Isn't that what we desire most of all?
We all have Dark Holes. We are all born with "klippots" or shells of negativity that have built up over this or perhaps many lifetimes. We must continuously break these shells and not create anymore. It's like we're all born as big piles of doo-doos. Everytime we inject light in our life a little spot turns to gold. Everytime we give in to our ego, we create another layer of poop.
Kabbalah says that by being a Giver during these Dark Hole moments, by focusing on other people and how we can give to them we can also create and inject more Light.
Just tonight I had a couple of instances where my Dark Hole was triggered. I remember in one instance that I told myself to stay positive and not to give into my insecurity and negative thoughts. Within a short space of time, all my doubts were lifted away - the person that I thought may have been deceiving me and who triggered my Dark Hole actually was thinking about me in a very positive way and I even had evidence of that shown to me without my asking for it.
It made me inspired enough to watch the replay of this particular Kabbalah topic and post this blog.
The power of Kabbalah is very real. Since I started practising its teachings I have witnessed many hundreds of little miracles if not big ones each day. And all it takes is an effort on my part to be more aware of myself and the games that my ego plays. It's about living and being in the moment. Such a little thing you might think, actually causes such a powerful transformation.
As a famous guru once said, "Every moment is a gift. That's why it's called The Present."

The Secret of Life

All my life I'd been fueled by the desire to find Life's true meaning. It was as if in the deepest part of my soul I knew with absolute conviction that a secret to the hidden meaning of life exists. But I struggled for many years to find the answer. I searched in various places to give me the real truth that I was seeking, that I knew in my heart was there. The religion that I was brought up to believe in didn't do it, other people saying to me that we are born, we get sick, we get old and we die, and that's all there is to it didn't do it. I thank God that I never gave up despite these many obstacles yet always at the back of my mind a little voice never stopped asking the question, "There has to be something more than this?"

There is and I'm so very astounded by the miracle of finding this truth to say that Kabbalah is the answer. Kabbalah unlocks the Secret to life. Kabbalah gives us the answer to life. Kabbalah is the only way to live the life that we are all meant to achieve. It will help us find the way to receive true fulfillment. Kabbalah will give us all that we truly want in our heart and our soul and in this world. It will give us peace. It is truly a blessing from God that it's here with us to help and guide us. It is the most wonderful thing that anyone can ever know as it helps us more than anything to be our true Self through believing in God and becoming like Him. Kabbalah says that it's the only thing that will make us truly satisfied in the end and will give us the knowledge and the tools and the secrets to do it. For becoming like God is the meaning of our life and the ultimate destination of where we're meant to be. Everything else is an illusion.

Through this blog I hope to share the knowledge and teachings of what I learn from Kabbalah and my experiences in practicing its ways in order to break down my Ego. The Ego must be destroyed. But it's not easy and I have experienced the pain involved in letting it go and not succumbing to it. It's these struggles that I hope to share in this blog. But not only that, the miracles and blessings that occur and the Light and Energy that comes through because of the efforts that I have made.

Join me in this journey and please feel welcome to give me some feedback about your own thoughts and ideas. This kind of wisdom is for sharing and communicating and to be given to every human soul who is ready for it in this world. It's my honour to open up my own life so that others may learn the wisdom of Kabbalah. This blog is my contribution to spread this wonderful knowledge to the world.