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The Expanded State

Find out how to move from a constricted consciousness into an expanded awareness

Through meditation we are able to expand our consciousness. We can then experience Spirit and see the world spiritually. We live our daily lives in a higher level of consciousness.

Keys to Higher Yogas, Awakening, Meditation

Meditation

Meditation, in Kaplan’s view, is primarily a means of attaining spiritual liberation, to live in Spirit. Meditation, in this way, loosens the bond of the physical, allowing the individual to ascend to the transcendental, to the spiritual realm.

  • Yoga has shown us that beyond the normal thinking mind there are higher levels of consciousness to be experienced
  • Jewish mystics refer to higher consciousness as expansive consciousness or expanded life
  • Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan’s (Meditation and Kabbalah) shares that meditation is primarily a means of attaining spiritual liberation, that we receive enlightenment as a result of expanded consciousness
  • Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760) demonstrated and revealed expanded consciousness in his teachings and in his life
  • Baal Shem Tov emphasized spiritual fervor:  “All my bones shall praise the Lord.”
  • Learn Rabbi Kaplan’s method of moving from constricted to expanded consciousness

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