Red String Kabbalah Bracelet

Protection against the Evil Eye

A person possessed of an evil eye carries with him the eye of the destroying negative force; hence it is called "destroyer of the world," and people should be on their guard against them and not come near them so that they should not be injured by them! [Zohar I, p.68b]


The Evil Eye
The Red String protects us from the influences of the Evil Eye. Evil eye is a very powerful negative force. It refers to the unfriendly stare and unkind glances we sometimes get from people around us. Envious eyes and looks of ill will affect us, stopping us from realizing our full potential in every area of our life.

Long ago, the ancient Kabbalah scholars revealed a powerful technology of protection. Its purpose is twofold: to protect us from the envious looks of others, and to help us eliminate feelings of jealousy and resentment in ourselves. The technology is the Red String: a strand of Red wool worn around the left wrist.

The teachings of Kabbalah do not include prohibitions or commandments. Instead, the kabbalah speak of positive and negative energies. The negative energies of jealousy and envy emanate through the eyes—which gave rise to the very vivid and very ancient term, the Evil Eye.

The Evil Eye is part of the wisdom history of all humanity. It was spoken of by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. It was written of in the Bible. It has been accorded fear and respect by kings, queens, and conquerors throughout the ages. The ancient Greek seafarers painted eyes on the prows of their ships as protection against this power. The Romans called it "Oculus Malus". To the Scots it was "Droch Shuil". Kabbalah scholars refer to it as "Ayin Harah". According to the Kabbalah, this form of negative energy can affect our lives and well-being. It can hold us back from achieving our destinies and it can also cause us to lose what we have already achieved.

How the Kabbalah Red String Works

Worn around the left wrist, the Kabbalah Red String works in the same way as the vaccines of modern medicine. When we receive a vaccination against a disease, a weakened strain of the illness is integrated into the vaccine. Spiritual immunizations are based on a similar principle. Kabbalah teaches that colors have specific frequencies and energies. Red, for example, is the color of danger. By binding a Red String to ourselves in a very specific manner, we shield ourselves against the dangerous negativity that might be directed our way, a spiritual vaccine against the destructive forces of the Evil Eye.

The color Red is one part of the technology. The rest begins in Israel, where a length of Red String is wound around the tomb of Rachel, the Matriarch of the Bible. Rachel is considered by Kabbalah scholars to be the mother of the world, and her greatest desire is to defend all of her children from evil. Throughout her life, Rachel acted as the protector of all humankind. According to Kabbalah, the burial sites of the righteous are a portal to the energy they created in their lifetimes. The Red String is brought to Rachel’s tomb where it is infused with her force of protection, for no power is stronger than a mother’s natural protective love. Each and every Red String from the Kabbalah Center must undergo this process in order to be considered an authentic form of protection against the Evil Eye.

Wearing the Kabbalah Red String

The Red String is individually sized and worn around the left wrist. The left side of the body has been identified by Kabbalah scholars as the area where energy enters. The left arm and hand pertain to the concept of receiving; the right arm and hand embody the power of imparting. Negative forces, therefore, enter the body through the left side. By wearing the Red String on the left wrist, negative energies are intercepted at the precise point of entry. The string is tied in a carefully prescribed sequence of seven knots, each of which symbolizes a separate spiritual dimension that infuses our reality.

Have someone you love and trust tie the Red String to your left wrist. First, have them tie the string closely around your wrist with a simple knot. Repeat by knotting the string six more times for a total of seven knots. Now make a promise to yourself that you will refrain from negative thoughts or talk about others. This harmful behavior will interfere with your effort to gain personal fulfillment and protection. Then have the person finish by saying the Ben Porat Prayer which prevents others from giving us the evil eye.




Anyone who dons The Red String with the awareness of Rachel the Matriarch and these powerful meditations is surrounded by the full force of protection she manifested in our physical world.

source : www.kabbalah.com

"Mona Lisa" Once Had Eyebrows & Other Intriguing New Discoveries

For centuries, the "Mona Lisa", the world’s most famous painting, has been shrouded in mystery. There has been much debate as to its origin and meaning. Many have also speculated as to what kind of hidden references Da Vinci may have worked into the portrait. Now a French inventor has found some intriguing new secrets about the beloved painting.

Parisian engineer Pascal Cotte used an ultra-detailed digital scanning device he invented to delve into the layers of paint, allowing him to "look" into the past of Leonardo Da Vinci's 16th-century portrait.

One puzzle for art buffs is why the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or lashes. But Cotte found that the world's most famous painting actually did originally included both brows and lashes. He used his 240-megapixel scans of the painting to reveal lost features of the painting that were obliterated by long-ago restoration efforts.

"With just one photo you go deeper into the construction of the painting and understand that Leonardo was a genius," Cotte said at the recent U.S. debut of an exhibit detailing his findings at the Metreon in San Francisco.

Growing up in Paris in the 1960s, Cotte said, he would spend hours staring at the "Mona Lisa". He later used his scientific training in light and optics to develop a camera that would let him more fully examine his favorite painting.

Cotte, 49, estimates he has spent 3,000 hours analyzing the data from the scans he made of the painting in the Louvre's laboratory three years ago. Using sensors to detect light from both the visible spectrum and the infrared and ultraviolet ranges invisible to the human eye, Cotte said, his camera allowed him to make these and other findings:

* Da Vinci changed his mind about the position of two fingers on the subject's left hand.

* Her face was originally wider and the smile more expressive than Da Vinci ultimately painted them.

* She holds a blanket that has now almost completely faded from view.

What Do Our Brains Do While Sleeping?

“To do science you have to have an idea, and for years no one had one; they saw sleep as nothing but an annihilation of consciousness. Now we know different, and we’ve got some very good ideas about what’s going on.”

~ Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard.~

Throughout the ages, scientists and thinkers have been trying to determine why people have to sleep. But so far all they know is what any parent of a newborn quickly discovers: sleep loss makes it harder to cope with stress, our thoughts more mentally foggy and our bodies more prone to get sick.

Neuroscientists have long wondered if sleep is somehow tied to learning and memory, or other cognitive processes. Now new findings suggest that sleep does indeed appear to play a crucial role in sorting and storing our memories. Harvard and McGill Universities have reported that participants who napped after playing a memory game score significantly higher on a retest than those who did not sleep.

“We think what’s happening during sleep is that you open the aperture of memory and are able to see this bigger picture,” said the study’s senior author, Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist who is now at the University of California, Berkeley. He added that many such insights occurred “only when you enter this wonder-world of sleep.”

But the theory that a sleeping brain can do things an awake brain can’t is still controversial. But the new research highlights a transformation in the way scientists are now viewing the sleeping brain. It was once seen as a blank screen, but has now emerged as an active, secretive intelligence that comes out for its “nightshift” to do some serious work.

Researchers say that studies are even showing that taking naps improves memory as well.

“We are finding that if a person takes a nap that contains slow-wave sleep — deep sleep — that performance on declarative memory tasks, which require the memorization of fact-based information like word-pairs, is enhanced compared to a person who doesn’t take a nap,” researcher Matthew Tucker said.

Previous studies of nocturnal sleep have found the same thing. In one 2003 study, Sara Mednick, then at Harvard and now at the University of California, San Diego, led a team that had 73 people come into the lab at 9 a.m. and learn to discriminate between a variety of textured patterns. Some of the participants then took a nap of about an hour at 2 p.m. and the others did not.

When retested at 7 p.m. the rested group did slightly better. When tested again the next morning, after everyone had slept the night, the napping group scored much higher. The naps included both REM and deep sleep.

“We think that a nap that contains both these states does about the same for memory consolidation as a night’s sleep,” when it comes to pattern recognition learning, Dr. Mednick said.

In series of experiments that he began in the early 1990s, Dr. Carlyle Smith of Trent University in Canada has found a strong association between the amount of Stage 2 sleep a person gets and the improvement in learning motor tasks. Mastering a guitar, a hockey stick or a keyboard are all motor tasks.

Musicians, among others, have sensed this instinctually. A piece that is difficult during and evening practice will often flow better in the morning for some reason. But only in recent years has the science caught up and given their hunch some scientific backing.

For instance, Dr. Smith said that people typically got most of their Stage 2 sleep in the second half of the night. “The implication of this is that if you are preparing for a performance, a music recital, say, or skating performance, it’s better to stay up late than get up really early,” he said in an interview. “These coaches that have athletes or other performers up at 5 o’clock in the morning, I think that’s just crazy.”

So here’s the big question: is something going on with memory processing that is unique to sleep?Skip to next paragraph

Subimal Datta, a neuroscientist across the river at Boston University School of Medicine, says yes. In his studies of animals, he has documented that during sleep the brain is awash in a chemical bath unlike any during waking. Levels of inhibitory transmitters increase sharply, and levels of many activating messengers drop, or shut down entirely.

Even before REM is detectable, Dr. Datta said, a small pocket of cells in the brainstem spurs a surge in glutamate — an activating chemical — which leads to protein synthesis and other changes that support long-term memory storage.

“During waking we have a thousand things happening at once, the library is filling up, and we can’t possibly process it all,” Dr. Datta said. While awake the brain is also gathering lots of valuable information subconsciously, he said, without the person’s ever being aware of it.
“It’s during sleep that we have this special condition to clear away this overload, and these REM processes then help store what’s important,” Dr. Datta said.
Dreams still defy scientific understanding but they also appear to play a role in the evolving theory of sleep-dependent learning.
Some scientists argue that during REM sleep, or dream mode, the brain will mix, match and make sense of the memory traces it has preserved, as it looks for connections that help make sense of life.

It was during sleep that the Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev was reported to have developed the periodic table of the elements. Friedrich August Kekule, a 19th-century chemist, said he worked out the chemical structure of the benzine ring after dreaming of a snake biting its tail. Athletes like Jack Nicklaus, have also mentioned insights discovered while sleeping.
“It does make sense these insights come during REM,” Dr. Walker said. “I mean, what better time to play out all these different scenarios and solutions and ideas than in dreams, where there are no consequences?”

The problem, he says, is how to study it. Few of us would venture to say we know what goes on in our heads while sleeping, but to quantify and generalize such an elusive state has been quite a journey.

The Power of the Tarot

Tarot cards have been around for hundreds of years. According to most experts, Tarot decks first appeared between 1410 and 1430 somewhere in northern Italy, and probably originated as elaborations of pre-existing four-suit playing card decks. The resulting hybrid decks were originally called "carte da trionfi" or "triumph cards." The oldest surviving Tarot cards were painted for the Visconti-Sforza family, the rulers of Milan, around the middle of the 15th century. As early as 1540, these new cards were clearly being used for divination, and divination may even have pre-dated the Tarot cards as a medieval book entitled The Oracles of Francesco Marcolino da Forli describes a primitive method of divination using the coin suit of regular playing cards.

Whether one believes in the power of Tarot cards or not, this method of divination is clearly here to stay. Once associated primarily with wandering gypsies and carnival booths, Tarot practitioners have entered the mainstream, opening storefronts, creating websites, and founding highly profitable corporations. Tarot is big business.

But can a Tarot reading really predict the future--or is it just a fun diversion?

The Dutch government apparently believes in the power of Tarot. In august of 2007, the state began funding Tarot card readings for the jobless. That's right--Tarot card readers can receive government funding to counsel the unemployed and help them get back to work. And it's not just those crazy Dutch people. New York City boasts a Tarot School, founded in 1995, where anyone can enroll to get a "higher education" in tarot card reading.

According to reports, Christian Dior used to consult the Tarot to determine the best day to show his collection and when to go on vacation. During Ronald Reagan's tenure as President of the United States, there were whispered tales of tarot cards being slipped into the White House through the back door, and former Reagan chief of staff Donald Regan finally revealed in a tell-all book that Nancy Reagan had an obsession with astrology and sometimes used it to arrange her husband's official activities.

During the height of the U.S. Presidential campaign of 2000, nationally-recognized astrologer Claudia D. Dikinis announced that in spite of her personal preference for Al Gore, a reading of her Tarot cards gave a clear indication that George W. Bush would be the next President of the United States.

On July 31, 2007, Indian Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to a jail term of 6 years for illegal possession of firearms. Things looked bleak for Dutt, until well-known Tarot reader Mita Bahn announced that after consulting her cards it was clear Dutt would soon be released. Two weeks later, he was granted interim bail.

Such strange occurrences are not limited to the rich and famous. On March 20, 1986, Theresa Jackson of Florida sat with her daughter Tina Mancini, 17, and spread a deck of Tarot cards across the table. According to Mrs. Jackson, "The cards told me a blond child of mine was going to die." For days later, Tina pointed a .357-caliber Magnum pistol into her mouth and pulled the trigger.

Do these stories suggest a real power behind the Tarot, or are they merely anecdotal, random readings that happened to coincide with real events? We may never know. Well, maybe there's one way. Maybe you should dust off those old Tarot cards you have sitting in your closet and ask them yourself ... if you dare.

by Baudelaire Jones

The Vibration Meaning of Your Birthday

THE NATURE OF OUR ESSENCE Quantum physics tells us that matter is in actuality a denser form of energy. Thus, what reveals itself to us through our senses as solid, is in actuality a frequency vibration. The body-mind-soul organism, whom we know as ourselves, expresses in the physical world through a unique frequency vibration. Each one of us has a personal signature, as it were, which constitutes the essence of our being. It is based upon our birth date.

Becoming more aware of our unique expression, offers us the opportunity of aligning ourselves more harmoniously with that expression, thus bringing our true-life purpose into focus.

HOW IT WORKS Pythagoras, the mystical mathematician, refined and built upon earlier understandings regarding the quality of vibration inherent in the nine numbers we ordinarily use simply for counting things.

Each number, one through nine, carries a vibration that has a certain meaning relating to the nature of the universe, and the nature of being in terms of the human expression. The sequence of the numbers follows a progression akin to growth, i.e. the development of an individual.

One [1] relates to the energy of outward expressing personality, the beginning of a developing consciousness, the ego-self. Two [2] relates to the energy of duality, of analytical thinking; and as well to the balancing energy of analysis and synthesis, in other words, harmony. Three [3] relates to the energy of creative activity, not just solely artistic activity such as painting or writing or some other art form, but also in the field of creative interaction with life in general and with individuals and groups. Four [4] relates to the energy of stability, like the four legs of a table, thus providing a stable platform for further actions. Five [5] relates to the energy of action, of active participation in whatever mode of movement towards one's fulfillment. Six [6] relates to the energy of compassion, of the caring and empathetic feelings one may be capable of expressing towards others as well as toward self. Seven [7] relates to the energy of spirituality, of spiritual, scientific and intellectual investigation. Here the level of one's consciousness has moved well beyond ordinary personality concerns and takes up an interest in personal spiritual development. Eight [8] relates to the energy of leadership. On the mundane level, this energy may be expressed in various external forms of leadership, such as the head of a group, organization, company or governmental body. On the inner mode, this energy may be seen as providing the individual with self-mastery leadership on the path to Self-Realization and Oneness. Nine [9] relates to the mystical energy that expresses as wholeness. This energy expresses the creative force of the number 3 in a magnified manner as 3 x 3, like a Holy Trinity as it were. In its outward form, it reveals an individual that could be seen as a great humanitarian, a bringer of wisdom to a group as well as to one's self.

All these number/energies can be seen as carrying cosmic power into the manifest world. Each of us comes into the world on the wave of one of these energy/numbers. The day we are born represents a particular moment in cosmic terms, a particular and precise placement of the individual and our planet in the energetic field of manifestation. And thus, as in the science of Astrology, the individual has an energy signature, so to speak. And this energy signature represents the predominate manner in which an individual will be expressing during the life of the person. This energy number is ascertained from one's birth date. The numbers that speak of the date of your birth, can be reduced to a single digit by adding the units until one number remains. This remaining, single number becomes the birth number, the energy of expression for the life of the individual.

By adding the numbers of your birth date, month, day, and year, and reducing the sum to a single digit, you arrive at your prime birth/life expression number.

Example: January 9, 1982 reduced to a single digit can be viewed first as: 1-18-1983, which becomes 1-9-21, then becomes 1-9-3, which resolves to 13, and then 4.

A person with the birth energy of 4 will be expressing her creative style, mainly through addressing issues relating to stability. She would tend toward being well organized in her personal life, an orderly home, a methodical way of accomplishing tasks, and so forth. She would also tend to shun erratic behavior, and would probably not enjoy being too closely associated with scattered individuals. A steady work environment would be her preference.

Since there are only nine numbers out of which we express our birth-given creative energy, one might assume there are only nine human types running around on the planet. But this is not the case for there are underlying numbers [the month, day and year numbers] that offer distinctions. These underlying energy-expressions denote the more subtle qualities of the life-expression, birth number. Thus, you can interpret a person's life-expression by integrating the four vibrations [numbers] that make up the whole birth day configuration.

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