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February 1st, 2012


Hello!!!!!!!!


For anyone who wishes to connect rather than this bleak cyber-world way of connecting, by all means please contact me at any hour directly.


This here blog is for those of you who want to 'go all the way'.


The language is tongue-in-cheek because as we said when I was Muslim for a year:  "All submit to Allah, willingly or unwillingly."


In other words we are all going to go all the way.


Its just that some of us will wait for sickness, death, drama etc...  to take us through our pain.


This blog is for people who want to go through the pain now.  Consciously.  Voluntarily.


Don't get me wrong:  this is not some macho trip.


This real kind of pain can only be relaxed through with joy.


If you have some confusion about what I am talking about then please try to sit cross-legged (ideally in full-lotus) for as long as you can

or hold your arms up in prayer for as long as you can.

Like a few hours without breaking.


Because we want to feel clear.


We want to feel that quiet slow burn that clears our head and our body systems.


Its not the end - goal but how can we do anything real without that?


And the breathing into the lower abdomen slow, natural, rhythmic.

Re-establishing our life-force.



Most 'real yoga' is a kind of sex-training.

In other words we make ourselves strong for pro-creation.


Unfortunately, most of us are 'making cash that we don't have a good bank for'.

In other words,  we train in something and we get energized but then our life is not set up so well to contain the energy.


So this is where Torah comes in we could say.

Or some other way of holding the energy.

Fending off the energy burglars and vipers the kinds of which are too numerous to mention this moment.


My longest term plan involves helping to establish or grow in a real community in Israel.


One template could be:

A core of the best possible healers-guides-artist-Rebbes at the center of a community.


We produce some kind of highest quality art-workshop-teaching material that we share internationally as PR.


We run a Spa-Retreat place at our home community for the more monied types.


And we have a long-term healing scene for less monied types who want to work for their keep.


Agriculture on site:  goats etc...


Maybe sell-out a little and try to get Israel behind it all.



A vision to build the healithiest (internal) energy and hold the energy ongoing.


Build energy and use it wisely to build more energy.




This model is based loosely to many communities I was connected to on the US west coast.

Heartwood where I lived for five years.  Harbin Hot Springs.  Breitenbush.  etc etc


An inconceivable amount of work to do something like this.

But what else is there to do?

Such a huge vision.

Where to start?


Well there's always this next breath into the abdomen.


Speaking of which the 'suspension of the head-top' is another principle that is too good to be true.

And nearly too obvious to mention.

But a quick survey of all heads in public will reveal that few few people have the joy of practicing lifting up their head as if the top of the head is pulled up by a string.

(Note: the Shulcan Aruch says not to hold your head lofty and arrogantly.  So there is a fine line as always here.)

This move seems connected to using the full brain.

The brain sitting snug atop an elongated spine.


Speaking of all this Buddhist-ishe teachings here is a great video from my favorite Buddhists in England.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVxMAXkxpdk&feature=watch_response

Note I'm never suggesting any Jews to deviate an inch from Halacha, but there just must be a way to work this all together.

How could something as deep as this Ajahn Sucitto (who I met years back) be anything but totally kosher at the end of the day!


Arrogant Jews of Klal YIsrael:  I thesis that some of these Buddhists are worth knowing in depth!!!!


And arrogant Buddhists of all Dharma-realms:  I  have met almost none of you that understand about Torah for real.  And you can't leave it out of the picture!


On this tip of course "Jew in the Lotus' and 'The Soul of the Story' need be mentioned in this regard.

For everyone who keeps telling me to write a book I'm not sure if I need to because 'Soul' is sort of like my story enough perhaps.


So we need the biggest vision that's good and to work towards it from this breath.


Speaking of this vision, part of it is about all the other important health and spiritual traditions coming to visit us and bringing the gifts of their wisdom in a respectful way and taking what we have for them in a respectful way.

I'm not interested in 'interfaith'.


I'm interested in the liviing experience of higher balanced energy for everyone.


Sound too hippie?


Too bad.

Come back to basics with me here people.


Think about it please.


Thanks.

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Jan 17th  2012




My quick peek at the american rap scene shows birthpangs of Moschiach to me.



Eminem rapping about going healthy and Drake (a Jew) about real emotions and real life.


Big deal?

Yes.



I had Shabbat lunch with Shyne the other day by the way.

Much sweeter and cooler than I expected.  Not to sound too politically incorrect, but my whole life I found that most black people really have some kind of deeper sense of home and family.

In my suburban high school in general a lot of the white kids were always bitching about their moms and the black kids generally talked about how much they loved their 'momma.'



Anyhow, it looks like every kind of people will come to Jerusalem either as Jews or as friends of the Jews and bring their special fusion of things to share.


Its already better than any circus here but just watch.


Its gonna just keep getting nutsier in a good way.


I just went to Moshe Newman the 'underground legendary healer' of Geulah.  

The neighborhood Geulah that is.


What a holy crazy fire he's been brewing!!!


Integrating Rebbe Nachman and Network Chiropractic.  
I think he's going to steamroll a good deal of America with his virtually irresistable vibe and honesty.


We seem to feel the same way that most of both modern and alternative medicine are various degrees of a very crafty scam or very sincere but all the same indirect.



This fellow Yogani on www.aytsite.org   whose book I discovered in none other than the library of the holy Rav Ichi Meyer Morgenstern.  Yogani is breaking down the whole yogic sciences online in a form accessible possibly unlike ever before.


I had a dialogue with him where I was very disappointed with his understanding of how to fit this all together with 'the Torah thing'.

None the less, his work is probably very important.



As I always like to note, Rav Dov Avraham Ben Shor has halachic problems with kundalini practices, but Rav Steinsaltz and Rav Fink have disagreed with him.

In my mind the 'spinal breathing pranayama' as taught by Yogani is 'simply the bomb'.

And if I'm wrong then I'll have to find out!



I've been learning daily in this very very interesting Kollel underneath Zichron Moshe with Achia Witt.

Mazal tov on Michel and Missy!

My blissy facebook photo was from their blissy big Carlebach l'chaim.

The Witt Tribe is some big underground part of the puzzle too.



I notice that just about every single one of my mentors is an underground type.

Even Rav Steinsaltz is a kind of underdog in the world Jewish scene.



Rebbe Nachman seemed certainly the same:  reference 'Through Fire and Water.'



Speaking of scholarly things, Menachem Kallus just 'rocked' Boston.

Speaking on his new book about the Baal Shem Tov.

It's really a rather full on and powerful a book.


Why all this talk of other Schools and Gigs?


Folks:  my doors are wide open for you all and we have a lot of work to do here!!!

But I've found that most of you need to hear things from the elders first before you can roll with  me.


My gig seems a bit too real for most.


And plenty of people come saying 'I want something real!'


But even those I generally need to ship out to roll with the 'big boys' for a while before we start school.


All this big talk seems to intrigue more and more people.


I really welcome the challenge.


What is this buzz all about with Geltman?


Is it just more hype?


I really relish this challenge.


I love to 'lose' the challenge.


Because every time I can put another brick in this school to make it that much more sturdy.



Unfortunately I still seem to attract students and clients who find my School too real for them, but who aren't ready for the challenge now.

So I farm them out to easier places to start.


And when they come back we are ready for that much more.


But I so much more want to attract the students and clients who put ME to the test.

Who push and pull me the most.



My dream is basically to master every healing tool I can stopping at nothing good to get what I need to serve best:  

and to simultaneously bring my work to whoever most wants it anywhere.


And to live in the simplest truest love and community in the most energizing place possible.



So to this end I welcome all help of any kind.

And I want to stop at nothing good to get that help.



I need you all to see what drops in my lap every day in order to motivate.


People are so burnt out on causes and movements and such.


I was too.

That's why I started my own.

:)



But I haven't had the time to make my whole gig into a nice 'sound byte' movement.

Maybe I won't either.



None of my mentors seemed to.


I'm working towards what I see will be the truest 'final solution' (please excuse the reference!)



So naturally its hard to get me out of bed to do the cheesy things that usually mobilize people to help a school or movement.


But maybe some of you out there enjoy putting together that kind of thing.

'Regular School stuff.'



I find to steer this school I need to keep most of my attention as riveted on the biggest picture I can.

So if any of you all in your humility want to put your shoulder to the wheel for humbler sides of this here School you are invited.

And if you have better projects I REALLY like to hear about them.

But please be warned:  I have a knack of showing people where very well-intentioned work is horribly indirect.


Anyhow. Whatever!

:)



Maybe more important is to study why systematic smooth deep slow relaxed natural breathing is a great use of time.

Because we basically cannot do this practice if we are caught up in the craziness.  Of which there is virtually no limit.

I say virtually because we have to have a vision of some balance if we are going to go forward.



Speaking of which if you are going to be in touch with me pretty please do your best to maintain some kind of daily meditation or substitute practice.

It takes me sometimes quite a while to recover from folks who really aren't taking care of themselves at all.

I still want you to be in touch regardless, but cmon now:  y'all know what's good!!


As we used to say when I was runnin with the Moslems: "All submit to Allah, willingly or unwillingly."


In other words we ALL get balanced out no matter what.

But when we are stupid we get balanced by very very unpleasant sort of things.


So let's get up and do it already.


Speaking of which I usually wake up in the morn half ready to get up and half ready to go to sleep.

And then I snooze and lose.


So I've figured out that as soon as I open my eyes I can just do some kind of movement breathing kind of half awake thing until I'm ready to get up.

Stuff like that.

Easy.  No big deal.


Lets find a way in people.


Well, there is a lot more to say but I need to save some time to meditate a bit myself, so I look forward to hearing from you all.

E

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December 14th, 2011

Hi everyone!

Well, you can't pull one string without unravelling the universe (John Muir)

so let's start unravelling.


At the Chinese Buddhist Monastery where I trained for a year,

the City of 10,000 Buddhas


they used to say that if you really 'go for it' in Chan -


Chan is the Chinese word for Zen -


that you either go crazy,


become demonic,


or get Enlightened!


(As usual please note:

I'm not encouraging Jews to train in orthodox Buddhism

without an Orthodox Posek to help sort it out.)


In Torah its said that four great Rebbes went to Pardes

to the spiritual heights


and one became a heretic


one went crazy


one died


and one was Rebbe Akiva.



Sounds like a gamble right?

:)



Who wants the risks?!



"The unexamined life is not worth living'  - Thoreau




Anyhow,


I'm increasingly noticing that anyone who doesn't aspire to a real meditation practice of some sort

(this could be ANYTHING from guitar to running to zen to hopsice volunteering etc...)

some daily thing that settles you down and energizes you


and who doesn't aspire to connect to 'the best' real counselor-leader types in their bio-region


doesn't seem to 'get any nutrition' so to speak

from my 'food'





It's not like I am all that amazing.



I can list my lack of attributes such as:

- forty and still unmarried

- fairly shallow grounding in formal Torah and Hebrew learning

- never finished regular college

- fairly narrow recognition

etc...




But it's becoming increasinly clear that for one my 'bs' detector

is a bit more developed than many

thanks in large part to my association with Rav Steinsaltz  www.steinsaltz.org


and that my sincerity is bit more developed than many


and that my skill in healing  is also a bit developed



and that people aren't really getting what they truly need

pretty often


and so i'm increasingly happy to pull rank over many many people that would seem more qualified

in order to help 'get y'all what y'all need'.



It's just past dawn here

and I'm tip tapping away

in the bright yellow office of my little nachlaot center.


Why do I mention this?

Because there is quite a 'vibe' here in my center and I want you to come share and heal and teach and learn!


And especially if you have resistance and issues and stinginess and brokenness and brokeness I want you to come.

Come and tell me why you can't pay and why you can't help and why you can't train.

I love hearing it.




We are family folks.  No two ways about it.


People who read me think I'm just spouting hippie doggeral until they meet me.


And then they get that I'm serious.


And I'm family.


And I'm here to sort us all out unti the coming of Moschiach.


For the hippies:

So if we are all family and one love and all that, then why do I need all this discipline and such in my operation?

Maybe it's excessive.

But if-when you see what I have on my plate to deal with, I think you'll 'go easy on me'.

Unless we get it together here we just cannot get the job done right.


And for the 'together people':

why the hippie-flow around my scene?

Because part of why you are unhealthy is you need to loosen up and join the dance!


Sometimes I feel like I should just tell my story all day.

I REALLY am happy to just forget about it

but people can't seem to let me work with them until they really hear enough of it.


The absurdity of the whole scenario is classic:

people come in with their hard-earned $50 or whatnot and they want their power hour to heal and such

but they are completely unprepared for what I hit them with

but if I try to talk to them first

so that they can really open up to all this

then they leave feeling like 'we never got down to work'.



I could probably list about 50 catch-22 conundrums for why people don't heal with me yet.


This Dr's book goes into all this quite smartly.  Very sweet hard-hitting little book.

http://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Table-Wisdom-Stories-That/dp/1573226106



Ok, what's next?


1-  I want to find a married couple who wants to train with me to run the woman's scene.
One scenario is that I'd only teach the husband and he'd teach his wife to run the woman's scene.
Not out of sexism just out of orthodox functionality.


2-  I really need to get married.  :)
I esp want help from people that REALLY want to connect to the School.
Help can come in any way, shape or form.  If it's real.


3- As usual I have 1001 charity cases (not a reference to dalmations) clawing at my time volunteer goods, services and donations are encouraged!!



4- Any man who wants 'in' should simply find a way to get around Rav Ichi Meyer Morgenstern and Rav Zvi Meyer Zilberberg as much as possible. Or at least once.

Women could start with Rav Ben Shor and Rav Waldman.


I'm just the waterboy around here.

But this is good water!


At the end of the day it is just 'water by the river'

but if you are still drinking from a poison well

so to speak

then come one come all.


If you want me to scare you a lil bit

just about EVERYONE who comes

I can sense

EXTREMELY ACUTELY

how they are still connected to something-someone-someplace

that is holding them back from what they reallly want

and I am ECSTATIC to help them dump the garbage.


It feels so good people.

Cmon now:  we have work to do!!!


Ok, I would like to write more but I'm off to look a bit deeper into the legacy of Rav JB Solevechik.

Y'all can call 24 hrs a day.

Bye!

November 11th, 2011

Apologies for my blog lateness.  I will try to get on this soon.

If you really need to know the latest you can try to reach me on my cellphone 24-6.

A lot to get into but the best thing to do is come see me in class.

And the new skypecam  is  geltmanshiatsu

October 30th, 2011

Hi Everyone!

Well here is the latest:

In my attempt to make everything as direct as possible I'm becoming increasingly convinced that 'the mind is the master' as they say in Tai Chi.

In Chinese Health systems the Heart and Mind are one unit.

Hsin.  Heart-Mind.


So the exercise is to THINK in this moment, and all future moments, about what gives you the most energy and peace.


And keep thinking about it, non-stop, unless something truly better comes your way.

The exercise is really delightful because YOU WANT TO FEEL CALM AND ENERGY.


And so I don't have to twist your arm.


The common answer is:  'but I don't know what that thing is that gives me the most calm and power when I think about it.'


So, of course, just start somewhere.

The ocean.  Your grandma.  Whatever.



You start there, and you maintain the concentration no matter what happens.

Unless something better comes up.


For instance, last night I was dragging my weary bones to go to the Motzei Shabbat (Saturday night) gatherings of Rav Ichi Meyer and Rav Tzvi Meyer.

Part of me just wanted to go to sleep early, but I know how amazing it is to go to this.


So I just kept 'psyching' myself up to go towards this.

My meditation was inspiring my movement.


But along the way I ran into a friend who wanted to bring me to this Rabbi who is likely the oldest Rabbi in Jerusalem.

So this seemed like a better 'meditation' for my journey and I switched gears.


i'm not trying to inspire anyone to be rigid and nutz and fundamentalist about going after a goal.

Just please 'awake, arise, and stop not til the goal is reached'...but if a better goal comes up then great.



Apologies that I haven't written in so long.


Yes so more and more I'm seeing that THE CONSCIOUS THOUGHT is the best focus for our meditations.

Then everything can be added to that.  The breathing.  The movement.  The sounds.    


But the mind seems the source.


People use the analogy of training a puppy to pee on a newspaper.

You just keep bringing the puppy back over and over.


We choose a focus and keep bringing the mind back over and over.



Once upon a time there was a mystic Rabbi who went to a foreign land collecting funds for his school.

(By the way I am collecting funds for my school and various charity cases specifically that I have.)

When this Rabbi 'hit town' he was approached by two vicious lions that had escaped captivity.

To everyone's amazement he walked them like pets back to their zoo.

The king of the country said, 'our best guards couldn't catch the lions, what was your secret'.

The Rabbi said, 'animals have an innate fear of man, but most men act like animals now.  Since I only fear G-d they treated me like a man, with fear.'

And then the king gave handsomely for the school.


So it wasn't the external might of the Rabbi.  It was the thought creating a certain powerful 'energy.'


In my school its' all about energy.


If it makes the 'right energy' it's good and if not we need to adjust.


And we can't be fooled about the 'right energy' .


Why are people in love with love?

Because they find someone or something that when they fill their lives with that person they feel 'the right energy'.

Which we all want to feel.


But the 'real love' is sustainable.  Permanent.  Enduring.


It's worth the patience.


What's better something that feels good now but ends?

Or something that takes some patience but will feel good ongoing?

Hmmm?



I'm sittiing in full lotus and feeling the burn and hoping you are too.

Its that easy:  stretch, sit, burn.

Join the club.

I'm eager to initiate you.


Many people seem to go through all sorts of drama before they actually get to me.

Its all 'karmic.'


Meaning:  if you are destined to get to me it seems from my experience that nothing will stop  you, and when you finally land here it's rather easy to see both what took you so long, and how you will try to slip away.


This school is a 'full lotus school' meaning its designed to work you through what is blocking you as soon as possible.


I don't really have time or interest for anything else.


I want you in and out. Asap.

Unless you want to help grow this thing.

In which case you are welcome for the duration!


This may all sound dramatic but why waste a single moment on anything 'extra.'


Come, get help to connect to what you most want to, and go connect with it.


And if what you most want to connect to is here then come asap and dig in asap.


Simple.



As I've said before the complications seem to be with what you are connected to now.

It's usually some kind of substitute for what you really want.

And my work is either to help adapt what you have now into what you really want, or help sever you from it.  And connect to the pure version.


So there tends to be some action.



Oh the endless cults my students and clients seem connected to.

And the more subtle the cult is the more difficult to work it out.


The devil with horns and staff is better than the devil that looks like something great.

The red ugly one:  well at least that devil we know is bad news.

The worse is all these devilish things that look good.

Yikes.



Anyhow nothing is so black and white.

October 7th, 2011

G-d doesn't need our help!

The Creator of Life has it under control.

Everything that happens is only and always in the fullest will of G-d.

Wrote this just flying back from Ummon Rosh Hashanna.

Like being grabbed by the heel & help upside down and having everything shaken and stirred.

Basically, another version of meditating in full lotus.

As in doing something that after awhile is unbearable and by just bearing it a lot of tikkunim happen....

Bring it on!!

September 22nd, 2011

Yeah so hi everybody!

Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



This is beautiful:   Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

You'll have to draw your own political conclusions from it.

So basically 'spring comes the grass grows by itself'
- Zen saying


This can mean that it's really the natural thing for us all to do good to one another and be happy.


People think this kind of thought is a joke these days.


It can't be so simple!!  People say...


But I say it can.


'In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.'



The people I'm working with who grab one thing and go with it seem to start flowing.

Yesterday I had this student who has been through hell. 

We got them to just start working with their breath and being aware.

And from there everything started to unravel.



And another who just needed someone to encourage them to get back working out and eating right.



And another needed a push to get closer to some of his role models.



This work is really tribal.


Helping each other towards what is more stable and alive.

Nusrat's music (that link) is like that:  very very stable and very very alive.



Most of the youth party culture is extremely alive but of course like a land mine waiting to be detonated.


It's generally not fun for me anymore:  it's like watching a lamb go to slaughter.

How fun is that?


I always have people in here telling me about their relationships, and most of them sound like accidents waiting to happen.


The real party is an eternal party:  not a flash in the pan.



It mostly if not all boils back to losing seed.

Male seed is the force of  life.

And for most people there is nothing more exciting than the process of getting that energy aroused.

And most people end up losing all their seed too quick and then they get sick and die earlier.

Its like a bad gamble.

Its like bad business.


Its not archaic morality:  its the living breathing real science project that Kaballah and all Metaphysicians know about.


I'm not a Physician:  I'm a Metaphysician!


:)



I got into all 'this stuff' through my search for who has the highest and 'best' energy.


And the 'party people' could never keep up with the real mystics I met.

And the real mystics were always into a very very conscious approach to sexuality.


And the tantrics who are into this stuff too after a while just didn't seem right...


So I ended up around the mystic Jews.


And I skip most of the mixed parties because they are seeming like a run-around run-around.


I am of course looking and waiting for my 'other half'.


But will a party girl really be the one to be ready to deal with this all?


The common misconception is that the 'religious' are 'boring.'


When it's done right, it's really a matter of providing the thickest 'casing' for the highest 'voltage'.


Calm settled life = potential for real mysical flight



So speaking of all this I am making a mystical flight to Ummon this Monday.

Patients and students in Tel Aviv who want to see me on Sunday (esp later in the day) please let me know asap.


And a workshop may be pulled together in Kiev before and/or after Rosh Hashanna in Ummon.



Rosh Hashanna in Ummon!!


I'm looking forwards to my raw fresh drawn country goats milk that I drink when I go.

And to meditating in the fields.


Please send me your name and mothers' first name if you want me to say any prayers for you.



Anyhow another thing I noticed in general is that when I do Shiatsu on women they naturally start expressing all their issues in a way that is generally really healthy and balancing.

Whereas when I work on the men they sit there all stoic and bottled up.

Why?

How can we get men to let it flow and let it go?


The real war going on is in the hearts of us all.

All these issues.


Let's work it out!

It can be done!



On my nutrition experiments I notice that if I don't eat a little meat- in this Jerusalem intensity- I usually start to fall apart a bit.

A kind of deep weakness and wanness.

And even one big steak makes me feel solid.


But that heavy meat just kind of 'grosses me out' as we'd say in the Valley.


So yesterday I got the raw sushi-grade tuna in the shuk.


Now that stuff really grosses me out too.


But sure enough it cured what ails.



As soon as I ate it I could feel these micronutrients at work within minutes.

My system coming back 'in the game'.


I have the same reaction to raw milk.


I have an arab goat farmer I call when I go up to Kever Shmuel HaNavi.


He brings his goat up to the fence and hold the ear from the other side of the fence and he milks me a big bottle right then and there.


Now we really should flash boil all raw goat milk, according to Paul Pitchford and many of the goat farmers I know.

But for the record plenty of people of course drink it raw all the time.


I saw my old Breslov friend from Tsfat the other day who moved out to the styx and is farming goats.

And he really looked like a rockstar living on raw milk every day.


I am on a  bit of Jihad - if you will - against all the nonsense my students and everyone eats all the time.


It's a very clear deathwish, numbwish, badwish.


It's just easier to 'go through the pain' of healing then to kill ourselves with food.


C'mon folks...lets do the work!!!!


"Awake, arise and stop not till the goal is reached!"


Speaking of which I want to live to serve so you all should please use me as much as you can!


Of course a School and a Mission needs cash, but I want everyone to feel free to call on me for whatever you most need all the time irrespective!  


The worse the 'charity case'; the better.

Bring it on!!!


And on that note of course donations are welcomed as you can be assured there is a lot going on here that no one pays for.  And a lot more to be done!!!



Notice how you probably had a bad reaction once money was mentioned?


We all need to get to the bottom of this mystery.


How to get done what we all most need to, whether it takes money or prayer or communication or whatever.

We are one big tribe- Jews and Non-Jews- one big fat happy tribe and basically we need to deal with it.

  

And 'luckily' for us if we don't then war and disaster will deal with us.


So in our stubborn idiocy we now are forced to deal.


And it's a blessing.


Speaking of which Rav Menachem Froman is going to Ummon:  for all in the know this is a BIG DEAL.

And as I said last blog, for most of us its' just one more remarkably obscure underground detail in the incomprehensible maze called Israel.


Ok there is so much more to be said but I need all sorts of help to get down to it!


And please post all community questions and such on my Facebook  Efraim Geltman.

Other people have your same question!

Knowledge is power!


Much love.

And if I don't catch you before Yom Kippur PLEASE forgive me in advance for the many mistakes I've made in the past year.

And from the bottom of my heart I forgive you all!


Oh and if you just can't forgive me then PLEASE contact me especially before Monday morning!  And we'll work it out.


much love,

Ephraim

September 20th, 2011


Ridin the Jerusalem wave...

This city makes NYC look like Boonesville...

NYC has lots of glitz and hype but the stuff going down in Jtown seems much more roots real 'soul tikkun' as we'd say in Jewtalk.

It's a kind of underground here that is so obscure that it doesn't even have to try to be underground.

You wouldn't believe me if I told you so I won't bother.

But I will say it's the weirdest greatest party on earth going down but it really is esoteric.

I don't even know where to start here so i won't.


But I WILL say:

hi!


And there is a lot more to be said but I have run out of gas for the night so please be in touch.

Thanks.

September 13th, 2011

Ok, hi!

How are you all doing?


This little sweet blog is obviously extremely subversive, in a way that I am increasingly convinced is both irresistable and good.

People are quoting it back to me enough- in the right situations- for me to determine that it's getting under some of the right people's skin in the right way.


So why stop there?

"We" (I'm including you all in this of course...)'we' could try and get in the right syndications.


The catch is that I cannot imagine 'selling out' and keeping the same flavour here...

So the right syndication would likely mean the most-read feeds, with the most gung-ho editors to push and pull me- to squeeze the most-and-best production out of me.


The catch?  Publications that won't try to shut me up about what is important.

Especially because as my power grows I am looking to 'bust chops' about QUITE a few things that I have to 'bite my lip' about now...


No more mr. nice yogi-hasid.


I'm pissed.  Righteously pissed.


So how does this look in the real world?  


Maybe it looks like writing for these websites unpaid so that I can't be 'bought'.


Or maybe it looks like getting paid by the most progressive feed I can.


But what progressive feed is going to put up with all this Torah-Halacha rah rah?


I don't fit in anywhere.


This seems to also have been an issue for me thus far in the generally very stratified Ortho Jewish dating world.


So in that world, as well as my blog world, as well as my Clinic world, I seem to perhaps need to grow big n strong enough to create my own niche.



Ok this had been a Board Meeting for the Jerusalem Health Blog...and now back to our regularly scheduled blogging date!



I've had a mind-boggling amount of things 'go down' and 'come up' since my last blog so I'm stunned sitting here at where to start.


But to quote John Muir, you can't pull one string without unravelling the universe...so here goes...!



1- Israel here feels a bit like the eerie calm before the storm.  

I'm referring of course to the UN Vote a week from now.  And what happens with our Arab neighbors.


Here's an intense post by Rabbi Brody:   

http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/2011/09/is-israel-on-the-brink-of-war.html

For all the cynics out there:  

Cmon!  Repentence and Prayer certainly can't hurt anything!





2- I was connected to a particularly intense charity case last week.  


He has ALS (Lou Gehrigs disease), and is in a Jerusalem nursing home and is going downhill fairly quickly.  

From what I've gathered he has very very minimal support, no close family, and the western medical establishment seems to basically given up on him.  



With him- and with everyone- I'm never satisfied until I know the best team for the case is on the job.

And with him- as with virtually everyone- there is  poor or non-existent teamwork between western medicine, alternative medicine and spiritual advisors.


So, as usual, I feel we could all do better.


I'd really like help to help him!


The general approach with all these 'incurable' syndromes is to help get the patient towards the best health possible, to slow the progress of the disease, while western medicine works on a cure.

That's the official party line.


Unofficially of course, people in alternative medicine work on a cure themselves.  While simultaneously working through the legal issues of 'practicing medicine without a license.'



But talk is cheap, to help this man what I'd need is to do it right is:

a- a  lawyer to clear the way and set the guidelines for any and all real alternative medical practicioners to work to help him without fear of liability

b- to get together a team of alt. med. experts to work with him

c- to connect his regular MD (a famous Hadassah MD) to another MD willing to take this on who is willing to fully coordinate with the Alt. Med. community

d- to do everything i could with my own treatment

e- to help get the best suited Rabbi involved most fully with the job and fully in the mix


Rabbi Machlis, the famous big Rabbi in Jerusalem, knows this patient and says people can call him if they want to hear his support for my venture.


The whole thing is HUGE and as of now I feel a bit like someone who is watching someone slowly drown out at sea, and who can't swim in as of now because I'd just get pulled under or never reach the victim as things are....


This whole experience for me has been yet another reminder that something is  very very wrong in 'medicine'   and 'society'.

Which we know.

But to see it up this close in this much gruesome details brings it home.


Please contact me at any hour if you want to volunteer or be talked into donating.

There is a paypal on   www.jerusalemhealth.net    for donations under $500, and for larger donations please contact me.




3-  OK!  Enough about Death and War!

Let's talk about something happy!


Actually in a higher view Death and War can be seen as Happy.

In that nothing happens without the will of G-d. And G-d is good.


And Death and War is a way of working things out.

And all is fair in Love and War.  


I'm just kidding:  Halacha doesn't agree.


But I don't feel like investigating that now so let's try to talk about something 'normal' so I don't alienate many of you.



Ok happy blog segment begins now:  

This moment in time is perfect in that everything leading up until now happened because it had to.

And we can be ecstatic because we can do our best from here on in.

'If you try the best the can, and you try the best you can, the best is good enough.'  - Radiohead


So we can try our best from here on in, so in reality there is nothing to worry about the future because all we can do is do our best.


So if we don't want to try our best we might be worried.


So then the only question is why don't we want to try our best, or how can we want to try our best?


(Does all my logic and theory bore you?  Please let me know because I can't bear to read most people!  Tell me what you need people!  Tell me what you need!)


In general- all things considered- it likely makes sense for this blog to 'lean old school'.

Why?

Because the internet by design and population is a modern thing.

So you all are 'more modern'.

So here it's likely my duty to help people slow down and connect back to their roots and the earth and all that.


Whereas in the real 'old school' worlds I frequent, my job feels more to bring in the fresh air.

A few years ago I got to tell the Ishbitz-Radzeen Rebbe of Bayit Vegan what punk rock was about.  Of course he had never heard of punk rock.  He was so open and curious.

I wasn't telling him just to jaw- it seemed a necessary part of a discussion to understand a movement I was part of at the time.

I don't want to take a single unnecessary step from now on...but real life is circular and the road is winding so much of what I do may seem frivolous to the straight people of all denominations.


Nothing matters in that G-d is going to take care of everything even if we fail in our individual missions that we each have.

But we have to act as if the world is on our shoulders regardless.

'There is nothing anyone can do to stop the coming of Moschiach.'

But we can slow it down...



One happy thing is that lately I breathe deeply and sigh 'oyyyyyyy' about three hundred (?) times a day.

I tell you:  it really is one of the greatest therapies, no?  



G-d breaks us unless we break ourselves.

That might not sound happy but it's the happiest.


There is complete justice in the Universe!

This is a great thing!


Of course it may not feel great when we are sitting in full-lotus and it HURTS but for instance that pain- if we are going about things the right way- is just our deep stagnations working their way out.

That pain is justice!

And when we 'serve our time' in the 'prison' of proper practice, we are freed from all sorts of imbalance we would have to live with.


I remember when as a teen-ager I read yoga texts where some great eastern sage said, 'Go the forests and train!'  I got SO inspired.

And I still am!

If i miss a day I feel like I'm filled with all manner of toxicity and I tend in my idiocy to take it out on people in my life.

Rather than just head for the woods and sit in full lotus and work it through.


Apologies!   

]"Whatever sins I have done before You may You erase in Your mercies that are abundant but not through suffering or illnesses that are bad."  

- nighttime prayers


Well the suffering in full-lotus generally is a lot!

But all things considered it's much less than the compound effect of 'unmitigated karma' as they say in Buddhism.


Reader and friend, if you can't imagine getting into full-lotus, how much the more so is it a great time to start loosening things up!


I am trained and eager to work on your health!


Please let's get the ball rolling and keep it rolling.


"Rollin, Rollin, rolling down the river..."


Speaking of which, "Tai Chi flows like a Great River..."


Which is to say in Practicing we can link all  movement (and thought and sound etc...) in one unbroken flow.


Which is to say we just start whatever we are doing and we steer it in the best direction without getting distracted.


This is basically the definition of Meditation.


So we should all Practice.  Foremost of all I should Practice!



Lastly I REALLY don't want to come off as self/career obsessed, so please heal me from this fate by always telling me whatever you most want to tell me and especially what I can help the most with.

And whatever you want to discuss publicly with the Klal please put up on my FBook.

Thanks!!!

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August 22nd, 2011

What's up homies?

This is really a beatiful song:       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozpPSWfy7ig&feature=related

I rarely listen to any lyrics closely. 

This is part of the Jerusalem Health Meditation Method:

to make whatever sound you most want to.

It's easy people:  you breathe in fully and naturally and then make whatever sound that both SOUNDS and FEELS best.

So the vibes and sounds are primary and the words if any words are secondary.

A more advanced level is to make a sound that best effects your enviroment, your audience...

This is commonly called 'music.'

The reason I have been somewhat dilligently spreading this Jerusalem Health style is because I'm seeing how basically every truly progressive movement is teaching different versions of the same thing.

Musicians get there through sound vibration.

Artists through color etc...

Acupuncturists through needles etc...

And that many movements are somewhat blind to the unity.

And that many movements mix in some 'sketchy' elements.

So we are going for the purest simplest most complete way.

Trying to write this blog is outrageous because what I'm working on needs a time and effort so beyond what I'm currently capable of.

I'm getting more and more collegial help but the size of this 'project' is so much bigger than I think almost anyone realizes.

Speaking of which I'm currently accepting full time free live in help for my work.  Ideally a  ss/sk  young man who is committed to a life in this kind of work.

But I'm open to any interest.

Ok back to the Theory.

If you knew your car was heading towards a cliff you would certainly be eager and willing to take all measures to redirect.

So it is with us all.

We are all being worked towards inevitable conclusions.

So we can act with bravery and tact and wisdom.

But in a way it's cool if we don't because we'll be forced to various conclusions.

Regardless.

But if we meditate closely enough we'll want to do the right thing all the time so we can go forwards  gracefully.

Rather than being forced by the 'winds of change' and 'sands of time.'

This is coming out so dry but it's just my error.

I am saying that our Practice, our Meditation, should be our Devotion.

Can be the most heartfelt natural full gift to ourselves and our world.

These are the new age catch phrases that we all grimace when we read.

Which is why in a way reading and writing about this all well is rather difficult.

This whole  blog is mostly just a  a call to personal prayer.

An advertisement for the greatest movie ever made:  your next deep meditation.

Speaking of which I basically get the most joy I think out of teaching and coaching people in Meditation.

So please come!  come stay!

 work with me over the phone!  

write to me about it!

write on my Facebook  about it  (Efraim Geltman).

etc..

It's work for me to bring word of what I'm researching down to earth.  Why?  

Because I'm trying to take all this as deep as possible and that's no small task.

To distill the ocean into a drop.

But what else is there to do?

Anyhow in closing:

since I started a connection with that Rebbe Tzvi Meir I can feel his blessing surrounding me.

I certainly can do silly things to lessen it.

But it's like hearing your favorite song and you don't want to do anything to stop the music!

So much more to say but what kind of example would I be if I didn't get in my own time out in the woods?

August 11th, 2011


HI!!!!!

The Rav Tzvi Meir plot thickens.

He is someone beyond words.

The Real Deal.



Work has been good at the School-Clinic.


A lot of students seem to be 'flirting' with a breakthrough.


Everyone wants to have the experience of breaking through,

but most fear the hard work.


Just like in exercise:

everyone loves that post-exercise feeling

but most fear the feeling of getting-going.


May we get up and get going!

"Awake, arise, and stop not til the goal is reached.'


The Meditation Method I'm teaching is aimed at making the most hype-less style.

I don't want you to feel like you have to 'get psyched' to practice.

You don't have to 'get psyched' to take this next breath well.

It's a built in gift from G-d:  the ability to breathe well.


Similarly great posture is a built in gift from G-d.

Now if you have Cerebral Palsy etc... obviously there is more of a challenge.

But here's the kicker:

we think that ESPECIALLY the CP 'victim' has an INNATE desire to return to, for instance, good posture.


Look at a plant:

if you place it in a dark room with a single slit of light coming through a narrow window

the plant will grow towards the light.


You don't have to tell the plant.


That's the nature of the plant.


Your nature is to grow towards the greatest health.


On all levels.


I have been in touch with MANY of the great SRV (sexy raw vegan)  american health clan of  David Wolfe.

It's really an interesting movement, and somewhat powerful in it's own consumer-roots way.


There is A LOT about this movement that I like.

Do you know about Rainbeau Mars?!

She's basically a kind of 'yoga rock star' promoted by Reebok.

The whole thing is outrageous but also kinda cool.


Anyhow, the raw vegan platform really stresses this 'natural way' approach.

But to me the catch is a sort of excessive focus on the 'animal body.'


Just like plants grow towards the light,

our bodies want to be vibrant and healthy and sexual and such.


But where do we draw the line?


Why isn't Rav Tzvi Meir and Rav Adin Steinsaltz lecturing about being your sexiest self?


Because there is more to the game.

Much much more!


The real thing for us to be after is our WHOLEST self moving ALL TOGETHER

towards the highest light.


Like that plant in the dark room.


How can we do this without a living example to observe and be coached by?

We can't.

Realistically.


Like sad 'singles' who have had bad relationships

we like to say about finding a true Leader for our lifes:


'it's not worth it...

i'm just going to get dissed again.

blah blah blah....'


I hear this silliness everyday and of course it's a very dark thought.


We need to find the person we respect the most and spend time around them.


There is no substitute and there never will be a substitute.


I can light a fire under practically anyone about this point.


This is the baseline.

The foundation.

The starting line.

The start up.


I want to hear about who you find!

Or come with me!


Now since I'm so enlightened

:)

you would think I have my act together.


On that note I really need to get married so here is about that:

www.jeffreygeltman.blogspot.com

updated



Rebbe Nachman says a man is not a man until he has land and his wife.

So please help me spread my work and get married!


Speaking of help please always tell me whatever you need THE MOST

on any level!!!


Minimum rate for sessions is currently 50 shecks in Jtown

and $20 dollars for phone/net sessions from elsewhere.


And if you can't do that let me know!!!


Ok people, I really love to hear from you all!


E

July 31st, 2011

Hi!

We are all in this together, whether we like it or not.

Charity is an ultimate path that recognizes this.

Why give your money to Jerusalem Health or any other medical practice when you could give to the right chairty?

On the 'higher planes', different charities must work something like the stock market:   

If you get a 'hot power stock', your investment can soar.

So if  you give to the most truly worthy charity, then how much more benefit you can get out of your investment!

'The only money you get to take with you when you die is the money that you gave to charity.'

These pyramids where the pharoahs were buried with their wealth:  this really seemed like the wrong idea, to put it mildly.

I went to Rav Tzvi Maier Zilberberg last night for his Motzei Shabbas tish.

From Wikipedia:

The (Amshinover) Rebbe is also the mentor of the famous Hasidic preacher, R. Tzvi Maier Zilberberg who considers himself an Amshinov chassid.

Then I came home to see an email that this LA Supermodel-type I was looking into working with had wanted to meet me in Tel Aviv.

My life runs the gamut!!!

Speaking of which the Amishonover Rebbe had wanted me to only work with male clients and students so I feel the least I can do is take on women with great care and structure.   

All women I'm working with seriously need to have a supervisor- either from their world or mine- and ideally both.

This is to make sure the work goes in the best direction in all ways.

To see Rav Tzvi Maier speak was really helpful.

Reminiscent of seeing a Jazz Great play:  he was totally internal but totally enthralling.

No sense of this 'playing for the crowd'.

Roots.  Simple.   Real.   Sweet.

Also reminiscent of the best of the 'buddhist dharma talks' I used to frequent:  great silence and stillness both from him and the crowd.   Great silence and subtlety.

Then we all lined up and walked by and shook his hand.

He'd look in each man's eye and nod and smile and give a blessing.

Sincerity.  

And this energy like we can all get through this.

His talmidim (students) were really serious and humble kind of brothers.  Very sort of 'broken' in a good way...

Broken like mellowed out on a very deep level.

Rav Tzi Meir was wild not like in some crazy way but seemed just sort of unplugged.

Like just beyond the beyond.

The whole scene was so thoroughly unplugged, so completely non-commercial.

It's this whole marketing and commercialization of kaballah, of Judaism, of Holistic, of Medicine that is some kind of very deep symptom of a very deep illness.

Rav Tzvi Meir was the same feeling when I went to the Amshinover Rebbe:   as if this whole world of malls, and bling, and supermodels, and hip hop wasn't real.

The Amshinover was just like your longest lost superman family member who you finally got a chance to hang with.

Just so natural.  But so high and helpful and to the core.

I personally can't stand this whole merchandising of health and medicine and spirituality.

This whole twisted game of posing and fronting and 'who-you-know' etc etc....

I just want to be a part of the most sincere simple well-trained team who can serve-the-people.

It's really a deep topic and I don't have the time to get into it properly here-and-now.

Supermodels, Rebbes, and the Jerusalem Health and Meditation Method...

Anyhow, pretty much every day I make it out to the woods and fields (or even the park) to practice.

And pretty much everytime afterwards I think:

how does anyone get by without this?!

It practically hits all the bases at once:

nature, meditation, exercise etc...

This has always been the idea with tai chi ch'uan.

Maybe as a 'path' I just feel like there's too much cultural baggage there, in general, as a whole.

I want to be part of sharing the most open and simple approach.

Please don't get me wrong tho:  the greatness of tai chi is really inconceivable.

But can we do better?

Realistically it doesn't have to be 'either-or'.

Ok people, I want to see and serve as many of you as deeply as I can.

Please call!  Any hour!

Please come!

Please let's work around any restrictions of time and money.

I have a lof of work to be done instead of paying.

I love to volunteer when I can.

We can do this...

people we can do this.

June 21, 2011

There's a Jewish Law not to talk bad about the Land of Israel.

(This is likely not to be confused with the current problematic current Government of Israel, 'the Medina'.)

The Health of the People of Israel is not so great.

I don't think that saying this qualifies as 'bad talk' about the Land of Israel.

Why?

Because we are mostly like fledgeling transplants here.

It's a crazy enviroment here.

That is temporary.

The fathomless vibration of the true earth here holds power unimagined by most.

This differs from the mass of 'ra ra' Zionist poetry.

People:  we are talking about quantifiable rugged possibly indomitable life-energy.

The reason us fledgeling Jews and Noahides are yet to properly flourish & bloom here are varied & profound.

But in the poetry of Chinese Medicine we could say that we have to allow our frantic heart-minds to calm, to protect our sexual energy with patience and precision, and to relax down down down into the reality of the living Power of this Land, the centre of the Universe.

Please do not confuse this with another mere philosophy.

We are Practicing this.

We must Experience this.

If you have a better way please School us.

Otherwise we are eager to train with you in the Jerusalem Health and Meditation Method.

If you to start to feel like your whole being inside is solid like iron folded over sixteen times, 

and your outside is soft and light like cotton,

and your heart feels ecstatic,

then your Practice sounds like it's going in the right direction.

May 24th, 2011

G-d is behind every single action in the world.

There are no two ways about it.

"If I eat junk food and make myself sick, does this mean that G-d wants us all to eat junk food and get sick?"

No.

But apparently G-d does want us to have the free will to eat ourselves to death if we want.

But 'He' doesn't really want us to because He makes a Law to keep us on the straight and narrow.

And a Sanhedrin to clarify the Law.

Anyhow real life is complex, and deep.

You may be looking for an 'easy answer' but you won't get that here.

Although I do teach my Health Method-Meditation that is an easy formula- but even there the Practice of it will take all of you. 

Which is a good thing to give.

I just started teaching my Method to a fairly brilliant young Torah scholar.  

His situation is that his body hasn't caught up to his mind yet, which seems a common syndrome in the very religious Jewish world.

Everything traces back to the שרש , to the root.

So the roots of us Jews is a homelessness for many thousands of years.

The body is the root of the mind.

We have been developing on a high-level mentally but not always able to bring it down to earth yet.

So now many of us have come home to Israel, and we're trying to build a little nest here, a place to grow up, a place to grow into ourselves, return to ourselves.

In chinese medicine a great emphasis is on developing the 'energetic root', the direct real-time connection to the earth under us.  Through relaxing the physical weight down, through sensing the earth, through slowing down speedy thinking, through breathing into the abdomen.

For us Jews its difficult for us to 'be ourselves' outside of Israel.  It's difficult without a more and more direct connection to our ancestral roots.  Directly.

And without that it's difficult for us to contribute to the Tikkun Olam, the fixing of the World.

Take a big breath and sigh.

AHHHHHHH.

Rebbe Nachman says 'the sigh fills the lacking.'

We are taking the long road here, the real trip, and it is going to take some םבלנוט , some patience.

We have to believe in ourselves, or else those with pettier agendas will certainly not believe in our path, and will certainly drag us down.

Which isn't the end of the world.

There is no way out of this mess we are in.

So what doesn't get done right now will get done later.

But we should seize the day and only go forwards.

When we meditate in a good posture and the pain comes up, it's not the end of the world if we quit.

But all that stagnation is waiting for us next time also.  The stagnation is the source of the pain.  So if we work through it now, what freedom!

If we realized the amazing opportunity that all our pain and suffering gives we would be happy, which is itself a great solution to the problems.

Rebbe Nachman says that all disease comes from depression and sadness.

When I practice with my students and friends, I can *see* things shifting on the spot.

But to win a war we have to kill the Leader of the Enemy, not just a few soldiers.

Things shift , but then they shift back.

Thus I am teaching this Method which is geared at permanent shift.

A local client went to the Amshanover and told him his problems.

The depth of the Amshanover's listening really startled my client.

The deep listening itself was huge part of the solution.

It helped my client BE right in the midst of the heart of his problem..

That can be a great part of the solution to any problem.

Calmly and without distraction stay right on the job!

My writings here seem to be 'wasted' on my readers who don't really train in meditation and silence and solitude.

I want to train you.

Let's do this!

May 13th, 2011

Adaptations on The Dokkodo of Miyamato Musashi

   by Ephraim Geltman

Musashi, generally accepted as the greatest Swordsman in Japanese History,  compiled a list of precepts, that is known as the Dokkodou (the Path of Self-Reliance). The following translation appeared in a Japanese Sword Society/US newsletter. The translation was made in 1965 by Professor Giichiro Ikeda, and I've spun a 'Jewified' version of that.

I haven't had time to think this all through to the root, but here goes a draft...!

The Way I Go By Myself

May I train towards this with each breath...

1.    I never act contrary to the Shulcan Aruch.

2.    I have no partiality for anyone or anything in all of the Nation of Israel and the Righteous of the Nations.

3.    I never try to snatch a moment of ease.

4.    I think little of myself but much of the public.

5.    I am entirely free of acquisitiveness throughout my life.

6.    I never regret what I have done.

7.    I never envy others for their good luck, or on account of my ill luck.

8.    I never grieve at parting from anyone or anything at whatever time.

9.    I never reproach either myself or others; never complain about myself or others.

10.    I never dream of falling in love with a woman except a true future wife.

11.    Likes, I have none, but for the Way of the Tzadikkim.

12.    Whatever my dwelling house may be, I take no objection to it.

13.    I never desire dainty food for myself.

14.    I never have antique objects or curios in my posession.

15.    I never perform excessive purification or observe abstinence to protect myself against evils.

16.    I have no taste for implements of any kind, excepting that which to beautify the Mitzvot.

17.    I would never grudge my life in the cause of righteousness.

18.    I never wish to have any estate that would make my old age comfortable except for my wife's wishes.

19.    I worship God, but never think of depending on worship alone.

20.    I would sooner lay down my life than disgrace my good name.

21.    Never for a moment does my heart and soul stray from the way of Healing.

The 12th day of the 5th month, the 2nd year of Shoho (May 12, 1645) Shinmen Musashi

Adapted  on the 8th of Iyar (May 13th, 2011) Ephraim Geltman

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April 17th, 2011

  SOUNDTRACK  for this entry   Blue Scholar

Some seeds take some time to sprout.

"Think good and it will be good"  - The Lubavicher Rebbe

Until you get to the the Masters, you can use me.

But the moment you start using me, I'll start getting you towards the Masters.

April 15th, 2011

Soundtrack for this entry:

Blue Scholars Coffee and Snow Instrumental

The truth is stranger than fiction.

'You can't pull one string without unravelling the Universe.'   - John Muir

Basically, everything is going to work out.

But, as we see from Japan recently, the way things get worked out may be unpleasant.  To put it mildly.

G-d bless all those people and may the healing there be fast and complete.

Usually when people come to me for sessions and classes, in one meeting I so thoroughly overturn a lifetime of misinformation, delusion, and repression, that they are left a bit frazzled.

And then I give them the homework:  one hour a day alone in nature in disciplined pure wholistic and spiritual practice.  With nothing 'unkosher' mixed in.

This usually strikes them as a relief.  And then they usually don't practice.

Which is the source of the whole mess in the first place.

So we need to have a coach and we need teammates and we need to train.

You can find better coaches than me.

And I'm eager to introduce you.

But in the meantime let's do this.

Every day.

No matter what.

Step by step.

Also, as usual I have a whole school of charity cases.

And as usual I have a little help and thanks for that and I am accepting a whole lot more.

Healing, real healing, is a razor's edge, meaning that we cut the past, meaning that it can happen in an instant, meaning that there is the possibility for real freedom. 

Now.

I don't need you to follow me.

But I do very much want to know what you are connected to that is better.

I know of some very great Practicioners, and a whole lot of really really silly hype.

I need a good laugh once in a while so I like to know about the hype.

Now realistically I'm not 100% pure.

I do, however, likely get examined by more demanding people than most of the competition.

'A man is known by the company he keeps.'

So this letter is to the hearts and minds of those who want to 'go for it' once and for all, irreversibly, indomitably, with no excuses, with no hesitations.

The rest of you are welcomed to read this, but my hunger is really for the final inner circle of those who are going to help bring the true new age through the highest health.

Once and for all.

All for one and one for all.

Anyone should please feel free to call my cellphone at any hour and write me everything they want.

No one gets turned away for lack of funds.

Volunteers are welcomed.

And where there is a will there is a way.

Thanks.

Good Shabbas, Good Passover, and happy spring.

March 28^th, 2011

It’s all been said.

It’s all been said in 10,000 ways that are so close to real, that by now you are cynical.

You cannot even read this, likely, with an open mind.

You have heard so much half-truth, so much idealism, so much sales.

Even if I were the Messiah of Holistic you could not, likely, at this point, take anything seriously.

We are looking for those with a hunger.

Cynicism means you are not hungry.

We are looking for what Rumi calls ‘lovers.’

People usually only get serious at my School amidst true tribulation.

Disease, divorce, death  ,etc…

People usually require true tribulation to ‘hop to.’

Are you that silly too?

When you work your way into full-lotus and sit while your legs open and burn, and you breathe into all the mess you have collected over the past x-number of years,

You will let go and let go and let go and open into your new life.

Please work it out!

There is a great light that will shine as we all work out our twisted past.

Stillness, silence, honesty, openness, fortitude.

Let’s do it!

Feb 24th, 2011

TRAINING

Ok, so this is the story:

There is no escape from Reality.

There is no permanent escape from Reality and this is a good thing.

Unfortunately, some good things hurt a lot.

A central healing style is to sit in 'full lotus' for as long as possible and 'feel the burn'.

I used to train wtih some chinese ch'an (zen) masters who were unbelievably disciplined at this.

If they had applied that discipline to any field they would have undboubtedly risen to the top.

Most of you cannot even get into full-lotus so obviously we have some groundwork to start at.

Please start now!

Anyhow, when sitting like this all the buried junk in the body, heart and mind is forced to arise. 

If you sit long enough.

So this is the buried Reality in your world.

You can run.

You can hide.

But sooner or later your junk will come up- involuntarily-  and you will have to deal.

So if we want to be Big Heroes we can practice full-louts intensively, with endurance.

It's not the most glorious Heroism.

Which is part of the True Heroism here.

So once we get a taste for Reality, there is no limit to the versions of 'full lotus' we can get into.

Deep Therapy.  Deep Shiatsu.  Fasting.  Making honest Art.  Finding our Real Voice.  Community Service.

The list can go on endlessly.

We want to experience the Reality of our life now, no matter how raw it feels.

And once we start to get clear, the more raw the better.

It's a direct path.

If you need inspiration to take the direct route, just look at the state of the world.

It's a royal mess.

So let's get clear ourselves so we can truly be of service sooner than later.

I grew up in a 'save the world' mindset in the intellectually elite northeastern USA.

I think that might be the best thing I took from that world, so you can likely expect of good deal of that in this School now.

Lotus.

It will demand the best of you.

Sitting for three hours without uncrossing your legs is a good goal.

This sort of talk can sound outrageous to the go go go modern man but let's look at the facts:

If you cannot sit like that for that long you are out-of-balance.

And how much truly useful go go going can you do out of whack?

My teacher gave me that challenge a few years back and in retrospect I really appreciate it.

This whole style of training is comic because there is a machismo to these kind of goals that can really only be reached by letting go.  These kind of goals cannot be forced like an ordinary goal.

For instance it's doubtful that you can sit three hours without a lot of crying now or later.

Not the most macho thing!

'Extra credit' involves training to sit right on the earth even it's if cold and wet for instance.

Why?

Because this training forces you to a level of health where you would otherwise get sick.

This School is somewhat of a cross between military and spiritual training.  With a lot else thrown in.

I *really* prefer you go somewhere else that's better, and I want you to tell me about it!

The only problem is that I have scoured the other options in the world and I can unfortunately point out the fallings in other styles.  But I am *really* happy to see new research and hear your experiences.

Also I do a whole lot of referring out to other styles that are adjunct and important.

But yes, chances are you are reading this and you really do not have a more serious way of working towards your life goals.

So in that case it's really recommended that you get in touch.

Because the Reality of your life will come out in involuntary ways.  If you whittle away your days.

HELP WANTED FOR MY CHARITY CASES

 I have quite a gathering of charity cases, especially locally.

A lot of people come to Jerusalem to find themselves and this town seems like a central place for people healing.  And a lot of it is dramatic.

And a lot of lives get shaken in some pretty drastic ways.

So your helping me to help folks is very very welcomed and I am glad to tell you about cases (anonymously of course.)

On that note you are welcomed to send charity cases my way too.

Chazal (the Sages) say there is a special Mitzvah (commandment) to helping the poor of Israel so thanks if you want to help me help.  There is a lot to be done!

On that note volunteers are also very welcome.

A STORY IN CLOSING

Rebbe Shimon Bar Yocha, the man behind the Zohar, once had to hide in a cave for years.

When he came out he saw people farming.

He was so disgusted that people would have so little faith that they would farm.

He thought they should just depend on the Creator to give them their food in a more direct way.

So he looked at the fields and he had so much energy built up inside him that the fields caught fire!

He realized this wasn't the way to go about things so he went back in the cave and came out a better man.

So this is all to say that if he made that kind of sacrifice we should be able to sit in full lotus for a few hours and go through a little challenge.

Let's all encourage each other to take the most direct route.

Please be in touch, drop by the Center, and call at any hour too. 

It's best often to just keep calling until you get me.

And please do not hesitate because of time, money, resistance, etc...

We can find a way!

Feb 14th, 2011

People:  we are currently 'marketing'  the master remedy which is to go into trackless nature every day for an hour and keep your arms up , palms up, in 'prayer,' for an hour.

This will sound too simple for all of you who demand these really indirect methods, remedies, therapies etc...

However, at our Center, we are seeing more and more the utter beauty of self-driven ways like this practice we are describing.

Please come see us and until you get your own daily practice fully-established.

Once it's set, you will surely see there is no going back.

It's a remedy that hits just about all- if not all- of your needs.  And it's completely free, like the sun and the air.

Most of you need a lot of nurturing to work up to the Practice, so that is what the rest of the Center is for.

There is a lot more to be said but please just call at ANY hour or drop by the Center.

January 16th, 2011

Rav Froman, generally recognized as the greatest Orthodox Peacemaker in Israel, has been diagnosed with serious cancer and I'm part of a Holistic Treatment team working with him intensively.

His response to our holistic treatment was somewhat ‘miraculous’ according to the family.

We are accepting donations and volunteer help of ALL kinds.

Paid positions will be also created for the right help.

050 7109 740 Geltman

054 586 6293 Jaffe

ANY hour

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24th of Tevet, 5771

December 31st, 2010

I am loosely affiliated with one Meditation teacher who would put students on ONE YEAR solo retreats.

He reported that a majority of the people would come to him in the beginning, shyly, and tell him that they were sleeping through just about every Meditation session.

The teacher told them not to worry, that almost everyone is 'running on empty', and for the first two weeks or so they would just be replenishing, and rejuvenating.

Every so often, when I am feeling particularly 'overdrawn', I will nail myself down to go to sleep as early as possible for a week or two.

Kaballah, Chinese Medicine, and Ayurveda, teach that the hours of sleep before midnight are 'worth' twice as much.

So when I get into this rhythm in the beginning I'll sleep really full nights.  And then it gets to be less and less until I start to 'fill up' with energy.

Today, as with most days, I felt pressed for time and think:  how can I possibly go out to the woods to pray, meditate, stretch, breathe, and work out?   How can I find the time!?

And today, like most days, I 'just do it', and during and afterwards I think:  'that as the best decision I made all day!'

Think about it:  all day every day we are generally bombarded with other people's agendas.

Advertising, families, relationships, work, warring nations, etc...

Who can deny themselves some time alone in 'neutral territory'.

Is there anything as 'fresh' as fresh air...and it's free!

Is there anything as 'bright' as the sun and the vitamin d that you need...and it's free!

Today, up in Tsfat where I am teaching a couple workshops at Ascent, I went looking for some woods and stumbled into a bull pasture.

When I saw those huge beasts with longhorns, I had to take a detour!

Anyways, to make a daily routine of time alone in nature is maybe the best investment we can make.

I love to hear about your Practice!

"An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory.'

I am trying to think of the 'politically correct' way of saying this but am probably too rushed before Shabbas to 'spin this' the way that would sell:

I seem to be increasingly sensitive to energy and when i start to teach and train people I can really sense things.

When students start training, the 'darkness' in their energy field starts to get cleaned up and they start to brighten.

And so many find and/or make excuses to stop Practicing, and it's very clear when their energy again 'darkens.'

There are so many 'dark' influences that pull people back into the mire that they have come from.

Please do not get me wrong: I have slipped back plenty of times and may I work to slip back no more.

Maybe the difference between myself and many of my students is I'm often actively surrounding myself with some incredibly positive influences.

It's a funny scenario:  beginners are often to proud to seek the company of serious training partners, while those more advanced are eager for those same partners.

Announcements:

-   Class tomorrow (Shabbas)  at Ascent in Tsfat 8:30 am  (no charge)

-    Donations for my Charity Cases are welcomed!

-    Stay tuned for upcoming classes this upcoming week!   You can of course always call.

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