I want to talk this time about walking into the space in between, about Ezekiel becoming part of the Chariot.
As you may remember, at the end of his vision of Chariot, after a night-long thunderstorm, together with sunrise Ezekiel sees a rainbow arising from the mist.
Green - as nature itself. The depth of rustling leaves and a lake in the forest.
Red - intense, violent etching of contours in the night, like faces dancing in raging fire, like incision...
In his vision of the Chariot, Ezekiel watches the mankind on its cosmic journey through history and destiny, where earth and earthiness is one dimension in which the mankind lives out its story, while the heaven and the Metaphor, the cosmic likeness, the life as a mirror image of the Ultimate Other, being the other dimension. But this mirror has many reflections of a Man. From the divine image of Man soaring to the heaven, the existential ‘what,’ all the...
Ezekiel’s vision, the third dimension - continued
Important disclaimer - all the imagery is taken from the Zohar. Nothing here is my invention.
I suggest that you read this allegory and then reread Ezekiel’s prophecy, and then go back to the allegory, and back to the prophecy again, until you learn to see the Kabbalistic imagery through the words of Ezekiel. Until the two become one in your soul.
Let’s go there.
According to the Zohar, in his vision,...
We want to enter the third dimension, depth.
One of the most amazing visions the prophets told us about, is the vision of Ezekiel with which his book in Tanakh opens. In his words you will find same four layers of consciousness, both personified in four cosmic archetypes of Divine Creatures, and in natural phenomena that he encounters.
This time all I want is to introduce you to these immortal words. Few remarks on how to read it:
First of all, a...
Last time I mentioned two parallel descriptions of human experience taken from two ancient sources. These two descriptions can serve as two overlapping dimensions of the psyche. We are looking for the third dimension, one that would give our meditation its depth.
But before we go there, few explanatory words about the third dimension.
Allow me to use an example from my clinical practice, which is not what I usually do.
I saw yesterday a patient who...