I'M
A BRIDGE PERSON
I humbly
submit to you that I consider myself to be a 'bridge
person' -
I seek and
am constantly driven to bridge the right wingers with
the left wingers, the
higher
soul callings with those of the lower soul, the religious
with the non-religious,
secular
wisdom with Torah wisdom, the creative artistic types
with the straight
businessman
types [inside and outside of me], my past and my
present, my loves with
my
disgusts, my sublime strivings for the ephemeral lights with
the constant need to
bring
things down to reality, the happy go lucky side inside
with the deepest side, the
meek shy
side with the extroverted dynamo side, the intellectual
side of things with
the
experiential side of things, the long haired expansive
'hippy' side of me with the
straight
up-no messing around side... etc… etc… etc. ....ad
infinitum.
I
apparently come from some type of root soul-type that never
really finds
things to
be just fine the way they are - there must be another
deeper, more whole
and more
real side to things than just what meets the eye....I'm
in need of
completion,
transcendence, unification.......on the other hand I
pretty much
stick to
being a 'be here now' laid back type of guy.. [I don't
know how these 2
opposite
character traits exist in the one person that I am, other
than to say
that I'm a
walking, talking paradox]....
WHAT
DOES BRIDGING HAVE TO DO WITH THE INNER
VOICE?!
Well, now
that I've spilled my heart out on to the table, and
revealed yet
another
little puzzle piece of this mysterious being that they
call Yitzchak
Schwartz -
Yitzchak the bridge man - - What, you may
well ask, does being a
bridge
person have to do with the topic at hand? And if you ask,
Hey Yitzchak,
what is
the topic at hand anyway?! - -then I won't really be
able to blame you
for asking
- -we have sort of been drifting lately - haven't we!
So I'll remind you-
- We've been discussing
[within the wider context of 'paradising our lives'], the
theme of
hearing our inner Voice. Two weeks ago, we introduced
the theme in a
general
wide angled way. We expressed our hope to open up our
ability
to
holistically hear our inner voices from across the spectrum
of our entire
psyche or
persona. To help facilitate this, we brought a large
list of 'VOICES'
from the
'Parsha Tools' as well as from other 'tool-chest'
collections. Then last
week, we
introduced the formula called P.L.U.G. IN., designed to
plug us in to a
paradised
existence. We plugged in the appropriate inner VOICES
that can
help us to
be constantly plugged in.
Now, in
our third and final week's exploration of [or perhaps
flirtation with] the
huge
challenge of opening up our inner voice, I'd like to try to
penetrate to the
essence of
what hearing an inner Voice is really all about. And
HERE IS
WHERE
BEING A BRIDGE PERSON COMES INTO PLAY! Simply put - THE
ESSENTIAL
PROCESS OF INNER VOICE-ing IS A BRIDGING PROCESS....
We are
sent from on High [a voice which is] the internal
guidance
showing us
how to complete any lacking or un-completed aspects
of our life -
the
ultimate act of Bridging!
'BRIDGING'
- ONE OF CREATIONS PRIMAL PROCESSES
This
bridging or completing process, is rooted in the Creation
process itself. G-
d removed
His Infinite Presence from the vacant Place or space
of Creation,
causing
all created beings to be eternally driven to complete
the uncompleted,
to
re-infinitize the finite reality of this vacant void
atmosphere. This primal
bridging
or completing drive, is expressed in most, if not all
major Kabbalistic
themes, as
well as all major themes of Judaism.....Here's a few:
1. TIKUN -
The Cosmos
is seen as being broken and full of scattered energies
and
components, and is constantly striving to complete itself by
retrieving all of
it's lost
sparks, and forming them into an eternally stable
foundation
2. SOUL PERFECTION -
-
All people, whether they are aware of it or not,
within one
lifetime as well as across the spectrum of multiple
lifetimes, are
constantly
busy completing and perfecting that which is
incomplete and
imperfect.
As the Baal Shem Tov explains, every challenge or
experience that
we have in
life, is an opportunity to regain lost parts of our
soul!
3. THE MALE \ FEMALE PARADIGM
DYNAMIC - What he lacks, she
possesses...
what she lacks, he possesses... their mutual
completion comes
about when
they bond or bridge together.
4. JUDAISM - Judaism
may be defined as a
primal drive to bring
G-d into
areas of life where He is hidden. Thus, the Torah
completes or bridges
or
organizes the business of day to day living into a
Divinely-Guided
framework.
The Mitzvot [the
commandments] as well as the
'Halacha'
bridge or
integrate
finite activities into an infinite-Divine based
system. Kabbalah bridges
or fuses
finite consciousness with infinite consciousness
5. PARSHA KORACH -
Torah
Parsha 'Korach',
as explained by
the Holy
Zohar, is a description of Korach's primal declaration
of war on the
concept of
'Shalom' [peace] - the root of the word
Shalom is the word
'Shalem'
which
means 'Complete'!
Korach
claimed that we are all already perfect and complete
['...all
of this nation in it's entirety is Holy...'], and
therefore no longer
in need of
completing or bridging themselves. Ultimately, in
future times, we
WILL be
complete - but if
we 'jump the gun', as Korach would have us do,
the
results would be disastrous.... [ see this week's Parsha
Tools essay,
brought
right after this essay, for a deeper look...]
INNER
VOICE BRIDGING - a formula
If you
want to start becoming a 'Bridge Person' too, then start
listening to the
inner
voices that are informing you constantly how to complete
that which is
incomplete.............
To
jump-start this process, simply ask yourself,
'To
complete this particular lacking___X___, I need to do____X____'