It’s very easy when you have an unpleasant emotion to reach for comfort food such as cheese or anything else that’s fatty. As these things can give you short comfort in the way that something like eating a nut won’t.

Of course in the long run comfort food will lead to health problems and not feeling so good.

The most unpleasant emotion is often caused by doing something wrong, such as excessive attachment or just doing something that is not benevolent.

The nicest and most lovely emotions come from doing something that’s morally good, such as a good job for someone.

When you have a negative emotion, instead of reaching for comfort food, do something good instead, as that is where the good emotions come from, it’s like internal process of being given manna from heaven.

However don’t actively want or be attached to getting good feelings from above, that is also selfishness that doesn’t go well.

Of course ultimately you should do things because they’re right and you care about others, but this just goes to show how spirituality really works.

By being a good person, good things happen and things work.

When you are worrying about the future and thinking about the past, you are in the ego.

You often worrying about things that will never happen in the future and things that will never happened in the past.

The now is what really is, it is where happiness is.

Being in the now is where you access higher words, spirit, heaven and God, because it’s where the truth of them is.

By being in the now, a person can be aware of what is really going on.

This that enables a person to go from the physical world, up to higher realities such as the divine and God. This is because they are in the now which is reality.

Most people are either living in the past or the future.

The past is not dangerous because no what happened.

The future is about dreaming and fantasy of what could be.

People do not like to focus on the now as it is reality. They do not like to take the risk, face the unknown and so on.

Being in the now needs courage, as do not really know what’s going to happen.

Most people when they do something new for the first time have a success. For example the first time someone meditates, they have good results.

However they then spend the next 30 years trying to get the same results again. As a result the future meditations are never as good. This is because they are focused on the past and not the reality of now.

The reality of now means they do whatever is needed for things to work and be real now.

Being in the now also means face that things are changing.

Being in the here and now is easier

When a person is thinking of the past and the future.

They are thinking about the past.

They are worrying and working out the future. Often it’s worrying about a thing that could happen in the future.

However the here and now is here, so it is less work. You are not having to think and work things out that are with you now, you are having to think about and create them.

So being in the here and now enables a person to rest and relax.

To get the most out of things and be able to learn, a person has to be watchful and mindful. However that is still less strain than thinking all the time.

So if you need to rest, one way is to focus on the here and now.

When you are worrying about the future, it can be as horrible to experience it as having that actual thing you’re worried about happening. So you won’t just have the thing you are worrying about in the future, you have it throughout your whole life.

Spiritual:

Higher order spiritual knowledge is only given to people who are mature, wise and seeking to serve The Holy One. ‘Warren, kabballah history book’

Traps that stop us loving and serving higher beings.

The ruling elite generally believe that they are threatened by the unknown as it is beyond their comprehension. Knowledge is power and the primitive mind fears what it cannot command ‘warren Kabballah history book’

If they do not have power over it so they see it as not theirs, a rival. They may also be people who see things they cannot control as threats. This is because they think that others are evil like they are, they are bad people so presume others are bad like them, they are evil so like and attracts like and this is the type of people they are surrounded by and believe the world us like. Like they are a business competing for money, or power so they do not want others to win.

They should see that the world is one, good things benefit all and not just them, or others. They should be happy for the good thing and see it is an opportunity to learn from them.

On an inner level we must not hate god and higher things because we cannot control them.

We must not hate higher entities and god because they are different from us, a kind of inner racism.

We must not be jealous of god, because god has everything in existence. The world belongs to god because god made it.

We must love and cherish higher entities that are good. We must love and submit to God and live under God’s ways.

People normally believe in traditions, habits and routines, which may or may not be based on truth. You need to focus on truth, but realise that traditions, routines and habits do have their place.

Need to see traditions, habits and routines for what they are, they are not truth itself.

In most of the world people are at the top of society because they used force to get there, it needs to be that society is ruled by the wise, protected by the strong and served by the masses.

Serving someone means that they command you, so only serve good people. You need to serve God who is goid.

Whatever you are good at what, your talents are, you have a moral responsibility to do it. It maybe that you have very few talents but you still have the same duty.

Easy to be seduced by success, so a person thinks they can do anything. As a result a person does things that are morally wrong, because they think they get away with it. Also does things which are complacent and arrogant so never work.

Just because a person has done something before and gotten away with it does not mean it works everytime. An example would be crossing the road without looking. Also such things can blow up to be bigger and bigger until they fall down, an example would be getting into debt.

If there is an uneasy feeling on their psychic level, it normally means that someone has lied.

Zev Ben Shimon Halevi’s Kabbalistic View of History book ‘those who lose contact with their souls become what is called the “living dead”, that is, without any conscience. Many psychopaths are in this class.

Social:

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If you like other people then other people will like you. If you hate other people then other people will hate you.

This has to be real, cannot feke this.

Need to be yourself with people, be real. Let the person you are talking to get to know you for you, get to know the other person for the other person. Be careful of using the ‘game’ face that means no one ever gets to know you. If you try and be something you are not, it cannot work.

Self confidence:

If a person has an inner self confidence, they will carry themselves in a way that when they walk into a room, people will notice them.

If you believe that you can do it, others will too, will want to be around you and benefit from your success.

This needs to be from the positivity of doing things well, not about the arrogance of being better than others and looking down on others.

It means you believe you can do it, know you can do it and not have any fear.

A person builds up confidence from the reality of their achievements, otherwise it is just a delusion which is a road to eventual ruin.

Spiritual:

The ego goes around and around, repeating it’s thoughts, actions and feelings. Only when a person goes to their higher Self can they change. The higher self sees things more as the person really is, thinking about others and being impartial. The Self does not just think about and Me like the ego does.The self of a person is at the bottom level of heaven.

Without the ego, a person cannot function in the earthly world,
▪they think they are the wall the ceiling, the car over there and so on as are be one with everything.
▪They would not be able to tell relative things, like how light, heavy, strong, weak, big, small things are. Would not be able to identify and function on the physical world for example even sleep.
▪ not possible for people to identify the person, the ego is a mask. For example it enables people to see if a person is a begger, upper class person, doctor, teacher, and so on.
▪ people with not be able to identify the person, because they would be no I, they would just be one with everything.
▪the person would just float away into the upper worlds.
▪They would just be elsewhere so not abke to function on the physical level.

So before going up to the higher worlds, it is also important to make sure the person can come back down and that means being able to build the ego back up again!

A good way to do this is to meditate on the ego. Also to get back to earth to meditate on the senses and physical world. We are where are our consciousness is.

If the ego is too strong a person cannot be spiritual, if it is too weak a person cannot function effectively, or at all on earth. The answer is to be able to build it up and reduce it by choice.

Zev Ben Shimon Halevi

These are not word for word quotes, but try to catch meanings of what he said and wrote.

The highest treason is to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Animal people used to murder other people to get to the top, now they murder other peoples’ reputations. However before they get to the top, karma means it comes back so they never get there.

You need to be aware of the spiritual principles behind everything, if a tribe invades and exploits another country, then another country will come and do the same to them.

When you go into a room, you can tell who are the people in spiritual work, they are the people in the room who are watchful, whereas the others are just talking about themselves and their issues. People in spiritual work also have a lightness about them and a refinement of their features.

To be able to experience the upper worlds, you need to be awake, at attention. Most people just sleep walk through life and as a result do the same normal routine. For example they go to work at the same normal time and route, just sleep walking on their way to work and back.

Every action has consequences, as you develop more, you become aware of that.

If a person is mean psychologically, their physical body will then be hunched and bent over, stiff, with mean looking physical features. They will have mean a physical appearance as the psyche infects and affects the body. This will come over in all aspects of the physical body’s appearance, such as mannerisms, muscle tone, voice, expressions, posture, physical features and so on. (this is more a description of what Zev Ben Shimon Halevi acted out to explain)

The field force of the psyche surrounds the body by a couple of feet on average.

The soul make choices, it changes and adapts to circumstance and really does the working things out. The ego just reacts to whatever is going on.

The psyche goes on from life to life, the body does not. The psyche is what does thinking, the brain is just a telephone instrument between the body and psyche.

Feelings come and go much more quickly, emotions are around for longer.

Unless one is well grounded, mysticism can lead to madness. Such as Abulafia who in the 13th century was jailed for trying to convert the Pope, he was also a Holy Fool.

Angels are beyond the physical senses.

No one can escape the responsibility and so the karma, from accepting or rejecting the conduct of leaders or the masses, a person can either go along with what is being done or rebel against it.

The aim of the universe is to evolve, the aim is not to be happy.

We are in earth to learn. When something happens to you ask why it is really happening and what is the lesson.

‘There is no religion higher than truth’ he was quoting from elsewhere.

It takes most people many many incarnations to escape the wheels of karma. Some people may be able to escape the physical level in one lifetime, psychological in the next lifetime, spiritual in the next and then the divine, but they are rare. A bit like the person who manages to get out of jail quickly.

The ego is needed to function on this earth, without a person would the dead. The art though its the higher parts of yourself to control the ego. Like the driver controls the donkey, not the donkey controlling the driver. The ego is a tool, you control it, not it control you.

Often before an impending disaster, the most sensitive, intelligent, and shrewd people leave, removing with them many of the precious artifacts and ideas of that civilisation.

Men and women who volunteer to take on dangerous work as is their mission, can do it as know death is not the end.

Visualisation meditation

Zev Ben Shimon Halevi says that in visualisation meditation, if the images are coming from yesod/the ego, you have trouble keeping up with any guided meditation as things have to be processed which is harder and slower. If they are coming from to teferet they just come through.

It if it is coming from the ego it has to calculate, process and is trying to change what is coming in for it’s own convenience.

The first image that comes through is normally the right one, the later stuff is often the ego trying to change it to what it wants it to be. Unless of course you are able to ponder at teferet for long periods, most people can only keep at teferet for a very short time, so it is just the original flash of image which is the true one.

Images from the ego can be identified as they tend to be fantasy, fearful, tinny and unreal, over dramatic and so on.

Images from teferet are more real.

If images are coming from yesod, to stop this and get images coming from teferet, ask ‘what is the truth’, ‘what is really going on here’, tell the ego to get out of the way.

If images are coming into the mind immediately, they are coming from teferet. If they take a bit longer, This also means the people who are doing a visualisation meditation from the ego are much much slower.

Generally sourced information

When you make mistakes and do things wrong, you need to be able to own them and not say that they are somebody else’s mistakes. Then you can progress, develop and learn.

You have have to advise people if they will listen to your advice, however you also have to be let to go down in flames, down to the bitter end of the result of their mistakes, if it is a path they have chosen despite your advice, or they just do not learn.

Listening

Hold back in conversations and listen, then ask questions. Do not talk at people, you need to hear what they say, their truth will come out in that sentence.

Attracting women:

Women want a man who will be a good father to their children, good with their children.

Women also want a good husband who will be nice to them.

Women want security and they get that through marriage, so women want to get married.

Men look at sex and having it with a beautiful woman. Women look more look at the relationship, whether it will work and last.

Women are wary of if a man just wants to have sex with them. They will make sure the man wants a relationship with them and the sex stuff comes later.

Women mainly get divorced from their husbands because their partner is taking then for granted and they get bored. It is easy when I get married to think that that is it and stop working at.

Also it can be that one or both partner changes, so they are no longer relevant to each other

What a person identifies themselves with is very important.

If a person identifies themselves with their ego, they think that they are separate to everything else, so things are I, me and mine.

It is best to identify yourself with being one with everything else and being one with God. 

 Then realise that you are one with everything else and one with God. 

So you are God and god is you.

You are everything else and everything else is you.
All is one.

To become aware of consciousness, can identify yourself with consciousnes.  Then not so obsessed with your thoughts, emotion and body.

Creativity is a high spiritual thing. As a result it cannot come from earthly paperwork and management processes which are not of that creative place.

Creativity means coming up with ways and things that did not exist before.

It cannot come from ego which is just about habits.

Selfish people are just focused on getting all they can for themselves so are not creative. To be creative need to be focused on creativity, creativity itself and cannot be for yourself as that pulls it down so no longer on the high creative level.

Creative people come up with things that are on other levels. People who just work really hard and do not use their creativity, cannot do this. Creative people also create ways to get as good results in one tenth of the time and work.

This is why people who just work hard on for example manual labour, cannot get to the levels of creative people. They cannot see or understand what is happening on those levels.

Competing with people means not making friends.

A person likes to know people who are like themselves.

Being friends is about mutual empathy, so experiencing things together, comunity, togetherness, sharing, service.

‘Do not walk in front as I may not follow, do not walk behind as I may not lead, just be beside me and be my friend’.

When a person competes with another and wins, the looser hates the winner as they did not get it.  It also shows the looser that the winner is better than them, which the looser will hate them for. As a result they will not want to be friends.  

So having a better car and so on will lead to the person with the less good car hating them.

A person may think that others will want to get to know them if they have a better car than them, are more famous etc.  Yes other people who have less will want to be with them for a while to experience these things, but once they are bored of those things will not want to be actual long term friends as they are too different.

They also want to have those things and will probably hate the person for having more than they do. It is right not be be jealous and be happy for others having things, but people who manage that are a small minority.

So winning, being the best and showing it off is a selfish thing for a person and not about making friends.

Of course it is good to create and a person may get great rewards, but showing them off to people with less will not make friends of them.

To make a friend, be like them and so they can relate to you, be with you.