How to expand your consciousness and raise your awareness

and the another thing is to have the maturity to not have to have things your way [Music] anyway for us is that is that to have the experience of expanded consciousness it takes certain things so I'd like to discuss some of those things that it takes to get to expanded consciousness so you discuss one already one is consistency and that's unreasonable when I say unreasonable meaning unreason able I don't let reason stop me I'm serving no matter what bottom rung of the ladder is and they're not disappearing so that's number one is is a serious heavy-duty commitment uncompromising commitment whether I feel it or not it's the adult and the another thing is to have the maturity to not have to have things your way not having to have things your way and perhaps this is why to make it anywhere in Kabbalistic circles and certainly on the ladder towards prophecy it requires being married because when you're married it's not always gonna be your way and it's quite often not your way and just add kids and it's like it's just not your way over and over again and after a while you I mean there are times where you feel like you're going crazy you know sometimes you feel like you're just gonna go nuts and especially if you have a lot of kids I feel like you're just losing it and by the way it's hard to know how many kids to have exactly you know and one guy walked in with 12 kids in a secular Holocaust survivor lady just looked at this guy and I know in her old folks home and she said how many and he in the Hasidic man looked at her and said till 6 million and so it's hard to know exactly how many kids to have you obviously want to have many because of your Jewish you're not creating more overpopulation meaning you're not creating more problem you're creating solution and we want to create as much of that solution as possible and raise your kids as solutions to the world's problems that's what the Jewish people are meant to be so raise your kids at solutions so you want to have a lot but the other hand you don't to go totally crazy so you got to figure out what it can handle and I'll tell you one of the things that's not in the criteria of how many children to have is is your finances why well there's various reasons why one of the reasons is because reasons because each kit comes with their own Mazal we have a tradition that each kid comes with their own bank account so to speak their own Mazal you don't feed your kids your kids feed your kids meaning God feeds your kids and each kid you add to your home is a new it's a new Mazal that's one of the beauties of getting married is you whatever your Mazal is it's being joined by someone else's Mazal and so if you've kind of had lousy basel and you marry someone pretty good Mazel well now you have mediu Mazel and that that's gonna be good for you and I and I for sure I have very powerful nozzle and and I my kids and my wife have learned to rely on that which is great because it's caused them to have very good muscles as well and the but they but when you have a child that's not your job to pay for that child that's that's their Mazel now obviously if you're living in with luxuries and and you're just you're just an expensive carbon footprint on this world well then you know getting your kids paying for all that and maybe that's office you know that's not part of the deal like you could be that if you're gonna have a big family and and you don't want finances to be concerned because you're gonna utilize this fact that each kid brings their own Mazal their own when I say the word Mazel for those my Gentile students who don't know what that means it means that each person comes with their own mazels a a the truth is it's a zodiac disposition the word zalem means flow and amend before the word means a cause of flow men is always causative the end sound so Mazel means the cause of flow and every person has a certain zodiac flow that is their Mazel and in fact the words all means liquid as well and like liquid soap in Hebrew is called sub own that soap knows Lima which means liquid nose leans oh okay and the anyway every person has a muscleman and it's interesting the Jewish people's muscle is every Jewish person has muscle as well and but their muscle is irrelevant regarding the day-to-day meaning people's nazar really shifts there's different influences by day because think about it what is your zodiac based on a birthday well what's birthday birthday is a day in the calendar well the calendar is shifting all year which means that your muscle is gonna have a different influence each day based on the calendar shifts except a Jew as we learned from Abraham and this is this week's parsha introduces Abraham and it's exactly the parsha where Abraham says he's not gonna have another kid in gaad's like yeah oh yeah you are that's this week Alexa thought God's gonna cause this 90 year old man to or no later he's gonna be 99 I think when he will conceive Jacob with his 9 year old wife who was barren and they and so and so he Abraham has a conversation with God and and this is a madrasah tradition by the way the word meddra SH means a a oral tradition that's there to teach us our it's our tribal oral tradition that comes down the history of our tribes the Jewish tribes that are there to teach you these amazing lessons about reality so are they exist are they are they literal no are they there to teach you about reality well I thought reality's literal isn't reality literal and the answer is if you ever want to understand reality you're going to have to understand nuance nuance is a very important part of reality and you know try having a conversation with a human being without being somewhat understanding of nuance that's the that's the danger of Asperger's is they don't seem human you know they don't seem known for a bold communication there's nuance you know how do you know what conversations over for example person you're talking to or might be you will turn your foot in the direction you're going every human being does that so unless I'm talking to Sam over here and I realize what time it is I gotta go you'll just see my lip if I gotta go this way you'll see my left foot go like that and you will end it I don't have to end any conversation you'll end it because you get nuanced and that nuance lets you know let's wrap this up with honor for both of us and you know we'll get wrapped up but there are people who won't see that one of those ones is the famous Asperger's which is you know some highly skilled and amazing people have and it's hard to notice that they have it and well you better be a very committed woman or a man to be married to someone with Asperger's because because you're they're gonna miss it all all that nonverbal stuff that happens between man and wife will never be experienced by them so marry someone asperger's war you better be we spoke about it earlier you better be committed like way more than 99% of humanity that you're willing to not have someone recognize your nonverbal cues now the anyway so so Madras is for nuance and nuance is very important you know nuance is everything really you know we do have you know hard facts but then there's new ones new ones it's super important and that's why we have the measures to teach us about the nuances so this particular madras talks about abraham having a conversation with god because as you look in the parshas the god says i'm you're gonna have another get so what you don't see there you have to click on the Meldrick the measure that takes you the website where the meddra sex planes the oral tradition explains that God says to Abraham sorry Abraham says back to God yeah I'm not going to have another kid and gods like look something like telling me you're gonna tell God what's going on with your progeny and and Abraham says you know excuse me rabbi but I'm the master of like zodiac I know zodiac and I know my zodiac disposition I even know my are my heavenly body is Jupiter it's called in Hebrew Zedeck and my heavenly body is Jupiter and based on where Jupiter was in the sky when I was born no kids at which point God says to him take your protein pills and put your helmet on [Music] down to Jupiter now he's way above the zodiac looking at in uber is like whoa and all of a sudden Jupiter God I don't know what he does he goes Jupiter goes like like he's the meaning just to show up Abraham you know that he's gonna put Jupiter where it was and he could put Jupiter wherever he wants did God you think God moved Jupiter in this story I highly doubt that God moved to bury at that point of the story but God in the story says he moves Jupiter and and to show Abraham where who's in charge here and and it goes to where Abraham's gonna have kids so to speak but it doesn't say that in the bedroom and because God probably didn't move Jupiter and I don't even know what would happen our solar system if God does that it take a body and our soul our solar system that big and move it I don't know what would even happen if such a thing happened anyway the and then Abraham says I guess I'm I guess I better go buy some a crib in a stroller you know because by the time he came back down you know things were in process and lo and behold kids came and not just a few like a bunch of kids he had Ishmael with with Hagar he had Isaac with Sarah and then he remarries after Sarah's death a woman named cateura who our tradition tells us it was actually the original Hagar then he married couture which means incense had six kids sent him eastwards and Landon ease and that's why Hinduism like the highest caste is ramen from it's it's their traditions kamal from abraham those six kids different class but I've got that class online somewhere now you have to be able to let go of reality you have to be able to loosen up your grip human beings are terrible at that I mean really horrible of that we we are we are really we're really good at kind of ossification we we we this is the problem with elderly people elderly people they they've just done the same patterns long enough that they've lost all their neuroplasticity which is again why they love to stare at children who have all their neuroplasticity you can think about it once you're in your 60s 95% of what you're even seeing is it's just predictive models it does exist out there but you don't see it you know you're in your predictive models and that's why you'll notice they're less and less with a trait of openness because they just don't want to mess with their predictive models and you don't want to take them out of their comfort zone too much people get older seventies you know they just don't want much else than they like to watch you know what they really like to watch is television because it's very predictable what the what each actor will do on that when I say television I mean specifically sitcoms and other dramas where you know the character you can guess what they're going to do in every situation but the situation's change up every episode just enough so that day since there's novelty but what everyone's acting predictably and the and so they be but that's a a that is very detrimental to spiritual attainment and one of the beauties of spiritual achievement which is obviously the goal in Judaism is that your neural plasticity stays did you know that elder Jewish spiritual seekers who like spent years and years and he was seeking have the neuroplastic plasticity of children of little little ones like real little ones they have the neuroplasticity of the children I remember one of the elders said to sent to our class once we were learning esoteric knowledge and and he said you know the difference in you and I because we're all blown away by the last idea and he says you know there was in you and I he said you will take everything what you will take what you just learned and see how to fit it into everything you've ever known he says I and he's like many years our senior I am now readjusting everything I've known to what we've just learned that's how that's how plastic is is brain is I mean he was literally gonna have an amazing day of reconfiguring everything he ever knew based on this you know really beautiful thing we had just learned while the rest of us were like okay let's see where this visit and and we were quite young I mean we were all that night I think I was in my 30s at the time and and here we are with this elderly you know Kabbalistic wizard who is now readjusting everything for this one piece of knowledge that doesn't even relate to what we wouldn't think relates to anything other than the subject and it but it does and he knows how it does because of his understanding the network of this divine prophet prophetic body of wisdom it's all a deeply networked and so now the why are we discussing being able to let go the reason we're discussing being in let go is because you want your mind blown but you don't want it blown to bits you understand you want your mind blown we're not blown to bits and and if you are going to resist where the wisdom takes you meaning the wisdoms taking you away beyond anyway you were in the past if you are going to resist that well it's going to blow you away you know you've got to practice Sorrento Sorrento and you have to practice surrender and when I'm telling it sings surrender in this case when I want to be specific that I'm talking about the kind of surrender that and a very mature surrender that that you're able to put on hold everything you've ever known and allow yourself to be shown something you know bigger and bigger and at the expense of what you've known till now and so that's a big letting go and not everyone's quite ready for that and but based on how ready you are for that is how much like you can get that's how much light you can receive and therefore go up a rung on Jacob's Ladder so the the requirement that to get up higher on the ladder requires this level of maturity of being able to let go and to receive that Shalom if you enjoyed watching this well watch some more send it click it forward it join it subscribe to it you know keep coming on in joining me in this amazing movement to make a big difference in the world and the biggest thing you can do of all is to join the yom tov media club calm please go online yom tov media club calm