Diary of a Psychic Healer

There is a line in the New Testament where Jesus tells his followers that it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to get into the Kingdom of Heaven. I grew up Catholic and this quote has been interpreted to tell people that having money somehow keeps you from getting into Heaven. And that not having $$$ gets you there quicker.  My view is that not having a dysfunctional ego will get us through the pearly gates (or create heaven on earth), but that’s not the point of this post. Let’s focus on the camel.  I had an aha moment recently. To start, I think that we missed the point, forgetting that Jesus was Jewish, and many of the examples he gave were rooted in his culture. Kabbalah is the mystical side of Judaism; I’ve been taking classes on and off since 2009, when I first moved to London. You’ll find all my Kabbalah posts here .  In Kabbalistic lore, the eye of the needle represents the dark night of the soul. It’s represented by t...

The past year I have been taking a Practical Kabbalah class where we study the mystical meaning of Hebrew letters, the numerology for each letter and where they are on the Tree of Life.  In Kabbalah, the belief is that God activated combinations of Hebrew letters to create the Universe in an explosion of light. My kabbalah teacher  calls them 22 blocks of creation.  1)   Diamonds in the Rough  I have family members that are devout Catholics and about 10 years ago, one of my uncles signed up for a year-long class on Judaism because he thought that it was impossible to fully understand Catholicism unless you were familiar with the Jewish faith (after all, Jesus was Jewish). Initially there were plenty of Jewish concepts in Christianity, but the early Church (100-300AD) ended up dropping many of these to make it easier for non-Jews to convert.  If we look at the New Testament as a guide, leaving out the histo...