Honi and the heavens

This past week at Morgensterns I learned a new thing. When I first walked into the room, the energy was very flat. At some point soon after, Morgenstern left the room and then returned. At that point, it felt like an inverted funnel opened above his head into the heavens. And then the energy in the room really started to build.

As I meditated during his talks, I kept wondering how I could support him, rather than take energy from him. At that point, I felt a small tunnel open above me. It was almost like looking up what I imagine the eye of the storm looks like, only there was no storm, just an hole leading up. I've been playing around with this since.

Today during Talmud class we read a passage about Honi the Circler. He's someone I've contacted before, and someone I really like. He was a priest and a Shaman during the second temple period. We read a section for Mishnah Taanit about Honi praying for rain. If you would like, you can read it in Hebrew (ג,ד) or in English. At the end of the section, they tell Honi that he might have been excommunicated if he wasn't Honi. This bothered me a lot. Then we asked the question why? and people threw out all sorts of answers such as Honi was arrogant and he made God do his will, not the other way around. These didn't seem right to me.

So I opened up the tunnel about my head and down came Honi until it felt like he was inside me but I wasn't channeling him, rather his soul joined mine. He told me that the priests were scared of him, which is why they wanted him out. He also showed me how he was able to bring the rain - it was kind of like healing, but he was connecting to the clouds and the skies. To do this, his power must have been immense, though I felt only an echo of it. He told me that it was going to rain anyway, he just helped it out, and that he was acting with God's will because how else could he make it rain? If God didn't want it to happen, it wouldn't happen.

So here I am in class with answers straight from the horse's mouth, but no way to say that. So I brought up my objections carefully and based them in the text. He stayed around until I had managed to convey all his ideas to the class, and then he ascended back up the hole into the heavens. I been working very hard to learn how to express these type of insights in ways which others can digest them.

Later on, while I was seeing patients, I again was playing around with this hole. Particularly while I was working on one patient, at first the light of heaven came down through the hole to help her out, then the two of us went up through the hole. It felt like we came out the top above a large floor of clouds. The light of heaven surrounded her then so she could heal.

I'm excited to play with it more and hope it lasts for a while.