Red.

Red.

By Natalie Dekel, MPhil. So many of us live in concrete buildings, surrounded by million cables, the zapping electrical currents, the flickering television screens and computers, ipods and kindle books. We have almost lost the elemental connection to our essence of...
The Kingdom of Now.

The Kingdom of Now.

by visionary artists & Reiki Teachers: Natalie Dekel (MPhil) and Gil Dekel (PhD). How can we share with you the innocence of the so-called ‘angels’, and their loving fingerprints they imprint on our hearts? We can try to do so in this article, using words of...
So the Soul Can Shine.

So the Soul Can Shine.

Spiritual Activist Gabriel Avruj interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: Why do you want to help motivate people? Gabriel Avruj: From personal experience I know that the biggest barriers are mental. The mind is a double-edged sword if we do not train it. Our thoughts...
Listening In

Listening In

Duysal Aşkun Celik, PhD. interviewed by Gil Dekel, PhD. Gil Dekel: What do you think happens to the Soul after we die?… Duysal Aşkun: For me, the soul continues his or her journey, albeit in a different form. The physical body is left behind, and the soul...
The Woman Who Has Changed.

The Woman Who Has Changed.

Debbie Wiltshire interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: what is this change that we are talking about? Debbie Wiltshire: This change, for me, is a process of waking up to and acknowledging our true selves. I have come to understand that I have been sleepwalking...
Letter to release the past

Letter to release the past

> download a Word doc template to write your own letter < Dear Parents, I want to thank you for the upbringing you gave me, for the help with my education, my studies… However, I also want to tell you that your insistence that emotions are a waste of time,...
Angels and Me (Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.)

Angels and Me (Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.)

by Natalie Dekel. I feel so low that sometimes life seems meaningless. I am lost in my black well of emotions. Lost in that darkness that threatens to overwhelm me if only I let it. I started praying for help. It is the only thing I feel I can do. Then as I was...
Angels and Me (Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.)

Angels and Me (Western Galilee, Nahariya, Israel.)

by Natalie Dekel. I woke up tonight feeling exhilaratingly happy. I am trying to understand why do I feel so, as nothing so far made me very happy for a long time. I am looking around the room and that is where I suddenly realise that two things are not as they should...
Angels and Me (Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.)

Angels and Me (Northern Galilee, Maalot, Israel.)

by Natalie Dekel. Years passed. I have experienced more pain and troubles as my life Is. I am walking back home from school again. This time I am not surrounded by deep snow and freezing wind. This time I am embalmed in lazy Mediterranean heat where the air is so...
What does God feel like?

What does God feel like?

We are planning to produce art work (probably a short film) inspired by people’s feelings of God… so, we want to ask you: What does God feel like to you? How do you feel God? In what ways?… Share your stories in the form below, and read other...
בכל חוף, החול הוא אחר

בכל חוף, החול הוא אחר

נטלי דקל – ציירת דיוקנאות אקריליק, ואומנות מופשטת בטכניקת שעווה נוזלית (Encaustic Wax) – בראיון עם גיל דקל. [English Version] גיל דקל: מתי התחלת לצייר? נטלי דקל: נולדתי שמאלית ואמא שלי חששה שלא אוכל להשתמש ביד ימין. היכן שנולדתי וגדלתי (האוטונומיה היהודית...
Where we are at (Judaism Q/A, part 7).

Where we are at (Judaism Q/A, part 7).

Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. If two people make the same mistake, would it be considered worse for one of them? Yes. Each person is judged according to what they’ve been given… We are not judged absolutely. We are all relative to where we are at. Each person has...
Where we are at (Judaism Q/A, part 7).

Angels and ‘Tzadik Gamur’ (Judaism Q/A, part 6).

Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. ‘Tzadik Gamur’ is a righteous person. Is this a definition of an angel? No. Most angels don’t have ‘Bhira’, a choice. Most angels are referred to by the names of animals like Hayot, Kodesh and Ophanim; not because they are animals in the...
Where we are at (Judaism Q/A, part 7).

Returance (Judaism Q/A, part 5).

Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. In part 4 we discussed free-will, which is enabled by the mere existence of balanced things/events (such as good vs bad). But if we look back at things we did, for example, let’s say I bought a car last year. So, it is a fact I have that...
Where we are at (Judaism Q/A, part 7).

Past-lives and free will (Judaism Q/A, part 4).

Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. God makes Himself unseen while He is always present in our life. We now go to explore our own lives, and ask: is there a concept in Judaism of ‘past life’? Yes; very much so. Nowadays it is considered that most of us are reincarnation...
Where we are at (Judaism Q/A, part 7).

Illumination (Judaism Q/A, part 3).

Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. If God created this world and is in this world, why some people say they cannot see/feel Him? We find answers in the Kaballa and particularly in the Kitvei Arizal, the famous writings of the famous Kabalist who lived in Syria, who wrote the...
Where we are at (Judaism Q/A, part 7).

Blessings (Judaism Q/A, part 2).

Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Many times we say blessings, Bracha. We say ‘Baruch Ata HaShem’, ‘Blessed are You, God’, but what does it mean, blessed? What are we blessing? It doesn’t have any real meaning, because we don’t need to bless God… maybe God needs to bless us…...
Where we are at (Judaism Q/A, part 7).

Creation (Judaism Q/A, part 1).

Part 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The Jewish Bible, the Tanach, is a written document. Why God did not just ‘implement’ its wisdom into our hearts? why have it as a book to read? One answer is that God wants us to have a part in the creative process. He doesn’t give us...
We have achieved this before…

We have achieved this before…

If we adhere to violence we act against the holy Jewish Law: ‘That Which You Hate, Do Not Inflict On Your Neighbour’. We then carry a heavy burden; the burden of working against ourselves by poisoning the air we breathe with thick militarist words of hate....
We All Want The Same Things.

We All Want The Same Things.

Steve Minchin, co-founder of The Global Conversation, interviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: Do you feel spirituality can operate with business? Steve Minchin: The message coming from the ‘Conversations with God’ books (by Neale Donald Walsch) is that our Politics...