[Esther]

My name is Esther. I was born in Brooklyn to parents who were Holocaust survivors. Now I live in Olympia, Washington.  I’ve always been drawn to knowledge and have studied many belief systems and philosophies, including Judaism, mystical .Christianity, the Vedas, Indigenous cultures and Buddhism as well as the writings of Rudolph Steiner and Edgar Cayce.  I appreciate Kabbalah’s independence from any particular belief system.

[Esther]

Thanks for your response.  I appreciate the interweaving of Christianity and Islam with Judaism.  And the same could be done with the Eastern symbolurgies which speak of the same Unity.

I recommend the last chapter of Tolstoy’s “The Kingdom of God is Within” which you can get for free on the internet for its clarity in showing how present society is distorted by lack of adherence to the natural law of love, in this case expressed by mystical Christianity

[Esther]

My parents are Holocaust survivors, so in my youth, being Jewish meant being a victim and somehow morally superior.  Since then, I’ve learned that when Jacob got the name Israel in the Old Testament, it signified someone who struggles with .god, i.e., a seeker, and that when the Jews left Egypt it was a mixed multitude.  So Jews are truth seekers, which explains why they’re hated

[Esther]

Hi.  My name is Esther.  I want to gain the wisdom not to fear death

[Esther]

If ego expands to include others, it can continue to be a force for good

[Esther]

What do you think of the explosion of autism, a syndrome where people don’t know how to connect.  What can autistic people do to overcome that sense of separation that is part of the syndrome?

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