Extra Terrestrials and Kabbalah[credits]
by Will Parfitt
Kabbalah emphasizes that we can find the deepest expression of
our spirituality in our ordinary, daily lives and my latest book,
Kabbalah for Life, aims to make Kabbalah alive in everything you
do, even in your communications with 'extra-dimensional' beings.
This may appear strange, even ridiculous, until we consider that
any being or entity outside of ourselves can be considered in this
way, even other human beings. Whether these 'beings' actually exist
outside or whether they are figments of our imagination,
projections, or parts of us that we do not recognize, we all have
the experience that they exist.
Most cultures throughout history have described beings, some
angelic and some demonic in nature, that exist in other realities
or dimensions parallel with and sometimes interpenetrating our
world. Some mainstream psychologists claim these
'extra-dimensional' beings are the impersonal forces of nature
which we personalize in an attempt to gain control over them.
According to some more far-sighted psychologists and those aware of
the new physics, however, these beings are representational of real
forces. Behind our everyday perception, when we enter the world of
sub-atomic particles, there is a level of existence where different
laws apply, but which is no less real because invisible on a
mundane level. The same applies to all 'levels of existence' which
we cannot perceive with our usual senses.
The question arises why anyone would want to make contact with
any of these other 'beings', particularly the demonic ones! If we
are to be whole, to include rather than exclude all of ourselves,
one way of achieving this is through making contact with all the
forces within our universe. We are usually quite willing to include
the 'good guys' - if I suggest that you talk to your Guardian Angel
you would probably have little resistance (assuming you believed it
possible). On the other hand, once we discuss communicating with
demons we are entering the realm of the shadow which includes those
parts of ourselves that we would rather not face.
Any aspect of our being that we exclude from our awareness
becomes part of our shadow which has been usefully described as
being like a big bag we drag round behind us. The more shadow we
have, the heavier our bag becomes and the more it restricts our
free movement. Conversely, the more material from this 'shadow bag'
we can dredge out, face, and integrate, the lighter the bag becomes
and the more energy we have available to fulfil our life functions,
from the loftiest sense of Divine Purpose through to everyday
functions that help us survive in the world.
If we do not face our anger over, say, a poor work situation,
this suppressed anger and the associated anxiety will become part
of our shadow. If we find ways of expressing the anger, we will no
longer be pulled down by the weight of it, and will free our
energies, perhaps to make a life-enhancing decision about the work.
On the other hand, if we do not express our anger, it is pushed
deeper down into the shadow bag until we are no longer even aware
of its existence. As a result there will be tension and holding
patterns in our body which will cause pain and disease later in
life. We might start smoking tobacco to alleviate the stress from
denying the anger; we might over-eat in an attempt to suppress the
attendant feelings.
We can then say that our behaviour opens us up to the influence
of the corresponding demonic force. For instance, a demon whose
presence brings 'cancerous mis-growth of cells' might be allowed a
foothold in the body which then leads to illness or death. We do
not have to believe in demons to understand the process of what is
happening. Perhaps what we are dealing with is a personification of
the suppressed material in an individual's subconscious. Whatever
we believe, however, what we can do is to start communicating with
the demons or 'suppressed energies', find what they need to
express, and through various appropriate actions, dispel the demons
through releasing the pent-up anger.
On the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the sphere called Daath is the
access point to the reverse side of the Tree where all the demons
that bring 'dis-ease' into our lives exist. Whether these demons
represent aspects of our own shadow nature or whether they are
actual entities with a life of their own is irrelevant as we can
communicate and affect our relationship with them as if they are
real. Thus we can affect a healing through communicating with
demons as much as through contacting our Guardian Angel.
Kabbalistic healing includes work with both spirit and shadow,
bringing us closer to a wholeness that heals not just ourselves but
all the extra-dimensional beings in our world.
Article first appeared in Watkins Review, Summer 2006
Article by Will Parfitt
Will Parfitt trained in Psychosynthesis and has more than thirty
years experience of working with personal and spiritual
development. He is a registered psychotherapist with the UKCP and
leads training courses in England and Europe. He has a private
practice in Glastonbury, where he lives, offering psychotherapy,
mentoring, coaching and professional supervision. Will is author of
several books including 'Kabbalah for
Life' and 'Psychosynthesis:
The Elements and Beyond'.
For coaching, supervision, spiritual companionship, mentoring or
psychotherapy with Will Parfitt contact: will@willparfitt.com
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