The Power of Da'at

The Power of Da'at

How knowladge of the holy and profane is critical to your healing success; The kabbalistic understanding of energy healing.

Not all energy is good. Huh? How could energy be labeled good or bad? After all, isn't energy simply neutral? Yes and no. The problem comes when we mistranslate the term "energy" and start to label all phenomenon we don't understand or that seems to us as holistic as "energy." According to this, the only distinction is how it is used. If it is used for constructive purposes it is "good" and if not it is "bad." In the realm of energetic medicine (the kind performed by healers, not by radiation technicians) "energy" is considered to be self-regulating, meaning that you can't do any harm because no matter what you do the body will simply self-regulate itself back into balance. While this may be generally true, it is not necessarily true. We can also discuss what is the nature of "energy". Obviously, the "energy" in your wall socket is not the same "energy" emanating from a gifted healer of Torah sage, but this has to do with how we define and use terms such as energy medicine, spiritual energy, healing energy, electromagnetic energy and so on.

I would like to bring your attention to a new dynamic - the source of the energy. In spiritual energetics the source is primary; drawing from pure and holy sources is of paramount importance. The success of the entire treatment depends upon it. We cannot say that all universal energy has the same source and therefore is all good. Shockingly, there are negative energies in the world. To many people the energetic domain was seen as the last spiritual frontier, the place where a person could be spiritual without any religious obligations. After all, what could be more neutral than "being in balance with the universal energy?"

But, by flipping this "energy is neutral" issue around we come to a much more palatable (and mature) understanding of Torah. Instead of the Torah being a moralistic code book, it is seen as a cause-and-effect energy-transference protocol. It goes something like this: the performance of a mitzvah causes an influx of pure holy energy into the world (including the person). Inversely, not following a Torah commandment (G-d forbid) causes an influx of negative energy into the world (and into the person). There is no reward and punishment, it is simply cause and effect. This negative energy is floating around in the universe somewhere waiting to be activated.

Then what exactly is "energy?" In the West we have simply "borrowed" other cultures' terms for "energy" and incorporated them into our own conception of what "energy" is. For example, Chinese "qi," Japanese "ki" and Indian "prana" are not "energy", they are qi, ki and prana respectively. But, in the West they are all simply called "energy." Why? Because these words have no translation, and the phenomenon they come to explain seem very "energetic," as if they "flow." This issue is more acute in the realm of spiritual energy healing where the use of terms like "spiritual energy" is used to imply, somewhat, that in the spiritual realms all energy is neutral and therefore permissible to use as one wishes. But, In the Jewish mystical tradition as taught in Kabbalah, there is no simple word for "energy." There is "G-d's endless light" on one side and the negative forces of the world on the other. Obviously, a self-respecting Kabbalist will only use the holy light. The closest he will come to the negative energy is to study it so that he can avoid it like the plague. As we can now see, spiritual energy comes in two forms - holy and negative.

Most importantly, for those who want to use spiritual energy, we need to distinguish the holy energy from the negative variety. How?

In order for this to happen we must develop and use our faculty of Da'at. It is this faculty of Da'at, the aspect of our intellect that knows how to distinguish the essential from the non-essential and knows how to integrate it into our life, that makes one a truly great healer. It is only through our faculty of Da'at that we can know the difference between the holy and profane and internalize the desire to only use the holy - at whatever cost. Our intellectual faculty of Da'at is connected to the highest spiritual forces of our soul - our spiritual connection to G-d. It is unfortunate, but some forms of healing may be using non-holy varieties of energy. As a Jewish healer this is unacceptable. We must only strive for holiness. The LifeFirst™ training program teaches you how to develop your Da'at, ensuring that you know how to utilize and use the holy healing energy of pure Divinity.