In a light-filled classroom in Sherman Oaks, gregarious teacher Jenna Zucker dons a straw hat and, in an exaggerated Southern drawl, invites the gathered first- and second-graders to an imaginary picnic.
The children, taking part in an after-school program at Kester Avenue Elementary, must tell Zucker what they plan to bring; she will then decide if they can join her. Alex wants to bring apples; he gets the nod. But Athena and her offer of brownies are turned down, as are Samantha and her macaroni and cheese. Elijah suggests eels and Matthew melons; both are accepted. The students soon realize they must bring something that starts with the first letter of their name.
Zucker, 28, tells them that once they figured out the rules of the game, the reward was "greater satisfaction."
"What does greater satisfaction bring?" she asks. Matthew replies: "Spiritual power!"
Zucker asks him where the power comes from? "Your inner light," the boy answers.
And where is that light found? "In your heart," he says.
The exchange is part of "Spirituality for Kids," a class offered in several Los Angeles public elementary schools during the day or after school. Created by a leader of the Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre International, a spiritual and educational organization, the program is promoted as a nondenominational effort to teach children to make wise choices.
But it is drawing fire from parents and others who say it is illegally bringing religion into public schools under the guise of ethics training.
"I think it breaches the separation between church and state," said Margie Mulder, a guidance counselor at Utah Street and Noble Avenue elementary schools. "I wouldn't send my children to the group."
Old Testament teachings are PERFECT for non-religious classes. I'd like for anyone who knows more about Kabbalah than I do (which is very little, but I get the impression they're on the "bad side") to pitch in with their own thoughts.
Others that have drawn fire include "study technology," a learning method created by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and Transcendental Meditation offered by the David Lynch Foundation.
The best way to learn trance meditation is with one of Robert Bruce's books on Astral Projection (lol at the bees, that's exactly what the ones from my dream looked like, usually when I initiate a trance I can hear bees swarming around my head but that's expected, I never quite expect them to actually show up though) and some time to yourself. I basically learned it in my spare time, it's not the type of thing you go to a class to learn (or from David Lynch for that matter, his movies are like the opposite of a real trance meditation)... Since I took dissociative drugs and went out of my body, I had already proven to myself that it was a real state to be in and not a hallucination, so I learned trance meditation to take further control of myself during these random out of body moments I had been having since then...
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Within the Jewish community I think that one may only begin studying Qabbalah after the age of 40.
Personally I feel Qabbalah has just been subsumed under the NewAge - Spiritual POWER [ must have power must have...]
Nowadays one only has to turn up to a class of anything and so long as you're nice and grin like a monkey you have passed to Level 2 etc.
Real learning these days has been taken away and drowned like an unwanted puppy [ and renamed elitism]
' Oh u learnt something , that's elitist; feelings rule, now let me tell u what you're feeling, oh I see a bad colour , u need to buy this product and also change your life , like this.....'
Have a look at Carlo Suares studies of/with Qabbalah, which I find intelligent-making and flexible, though not wishy-washy.
Qabbalah sounds like the word CABLE
cheers
Funny you should comment, remember my Gold Alignment "Attack of the Morons"? Well, they're back in full force, preventing me from going to sleep. They completely lack common sense, I was in my bed waiting for them to wake my dad up (but the room he is sleeping in has a door, lucky), as of right now it's 5 in the morning and they are still just sitting on their asses watching TV drinking beer making loud noises. Far be it from me to ruin someone's good time, and I find myself more and more frustrated the more I patiently (yet angrily) wait for their common sense to kick in, unfortunately it isn't and probably won't for a while. I had hoped to sleep early like I did last night but not tonight.... I loathe being in this state of mind, it is the opposite of what I am after in life and it stays with me for hours afterward...
From what I've learned of Kabbalah, it's currently used as just another tool for manipulating (un-learned) masses, much like what Freemasonry has been reduced to (it's come down to this for me: Freemasonry="secret" christianity, Kabbalah="secret" Judaism, put far too simply) so I find it hard to think that some of that corruption hasn't bled into whatever is being taught from it these days...
In regards to "bad colors", I changed my colorful avatar because I wasn't completely sure that what I was attempting to portray was aligned correctly. It was supposed to be the 4 "demons" of the mandala, the lion, eagle, bull and angel, (with "sync" in the middle) but since it was mainly a spontaneous piece of art I had produced based on a "KK" fractal I became worried that it might have an adverse effect on the viewer's consciousness (if that makes any sense). I'm normally not so paranoid of my own art but I've seen how colors are used in advertising for manipulation so they must have some unconscious "force" behind them... Everything that has truly given me a clearer view of things, I have received for free.
Cheers to you
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