My Journey As A Solo Traveler Crossing Into The West Bank, And Then Into Israel

 It's a snowy January day in Madaba, Jordan in the year 2022. I have been on a journey since the beginning of December 2021 to change the paradigm of my life. I have spent five weeks in Sharm El Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt. My second time in Sharm. And now I am finishing up my journey in Jordan, after spending three weeks exploring, Madaba, Wadi Rum and Petra. (Yes, I climbed all over Petra.) However, the highlight of Petra was experiencing Petra at night. As I walked through the candlelit, Siq, (a narrow rock canyon) I was transported into a magical realm. The Siq leads you to the Nabatean city of Petra. Candles are lit up on the desert floor as you are greeted by the famous treasury building of the Nabateans. 

The Treasury At Petra, Jordan

Right now, I am staying at a VRBO apartment in Madaba. The family who owns the apartment are delightful. If you don't know Madaba is the home to Mount Nebo. Mt. Nebo is where the Israelites settled before entering Canaan, modern day Israel. Moses has said to have died on this mountain. After Moses's death, Joshua became the leader of the Israelites, and brought them into the land of Canaan in 1200 B.C.E.

Fast forward to the year 2022, it is cloudy, dreary and cold. It's around 7:00 in the morning and a taxi driver, a friend of the family from the apartment is picking me up to enter Israel through the West Bank. I originally wanted to fly out of Amman, Jordan to Tel Aviv. However, the cost was astronomical because instead of flying directly to Tel Aviv, the Jordanian government has the airlines fly from Amman, Jordan and go all the way west to Istanbul, Turkey, only to come back to the Middle East to Tel Aviv.

So, here I am in the car going to the Israeli border and crossing the river Jordan as a solo traveler. This will be my second time in Israel.

As I am getter closer to the border, I see billboards with men with machine guns, with masks and turbines on their heads ready to fight. The words on the billboard were in Arabic, and I didn't want to ask the driver, what did the words mean? I am thinking to myself, oh my God this is Hamas or Hezbollah, wanting to recruit people into their cause. But at the same time, there is beautiful sunlight streaming down from the heavens overlooking Israel. 

The Jordan Valley Overlooking Israel

So now I am at the Palestinian border. A Jordanian man helps me with all my paperwork to get across the Jordan river. They take my passport, and I am concerned if I will get it back. They give me my passport 10 minutes later. And then I get on a bus, as I am the only one on the bus besides the driver. We have to go through a check point, show my passport and then we cross what looked like a footbridge over the Jordan river. 

I am now on the other side, the West Bank. I get off the bus and right away my luggage is thrown into a conveyer belt along with my purse. I pick up my luggage and I get to an agent, and she says, you have to wait for the time on your card which is 11.00, it is now 9:00 in the morning. 

So I wait, I go back to the agent at 11:00, and there is a problem. She said, my covid test is not valid then she said, it is valid. Then she said, you have to reapply for entry online. So, I go back online and there is a problem with the website. Now, I am being interrogated, the agent is asking me where were my parents were born? what are their names? She kept asking me over and over again. They wanted proof where I was staying in Jerusalem. I had to provide proof. Now, I don't have my phone and computer lined up and this is a problem now. 

For five hours, I am being interrogated, the Israelis were not going to let me in. They had suspicions I had a Jordanian passport, because 99.99% of tourists are not entering Israel through this border. Finally, they let me enter Israel through the West Bank.

In this time period one had to take a covid test, as you left a country and then when you enter another country. So, I took the test, had to get a taxi from the station. The Taxi driver drove me to Jerusalem. I am staying at an Airbnb, a five-minute walk to the old city with the Damascus Gate and the New Gate right at my fingertips. 

My entry through the West Bank was an invaluable experience. Israel has control over this border as well as Gaza. I feel that is part of the conflict, the Palestinians don't have control over their borders. However, if the Palestinians had control over the borders, would they be as tough as the Israelis? Probably not. And that puts Israel in a very vulnerable position. 

My first trip to Israel, I wasn't aware that 28 countries in the world DO NOT recognize Israel. It was an eye-opening experience, to realize Israel is not recognized. I left Israel asking myself, how long does the state of Israel, have left? 

The Israel-Hamas war started on Simchat Torah, for those of you who don't know, this holiday ends a cycle and starts a new one. All services start reading from the beginning of the Torah (the Old Testament) from the Book of Genesis and onward, through all the books and completes next year at the same holiday. 

Israel has a right to exist. Just like the Palestinians have a right to exist, but without terrorists' groups controlling them. 

Israel and Jews are the scapegoats for our society. In her book, The Scapegoat Complex, Jungian Analyst Sylvia Perera says, "In the Western World the scapegoat role has fallen onto Jews and other minorities. These groups have often carried values needed by society as a whole, but values the culture prefers to keep in the shadow."

You can see in history, “Blame the Jews, it’s their fault.” Look what’s happening right now, Israel is to be blamed for their misfortune. The world does not have empathy for Israel or the Jews.

As a scapegoat myself, I recognize the blame people put on Israel and the Jews. Since I was three years old, I grew up in a Jewish Neighbor on Long Island. And my Personal Training business attracted all Jewish people. 

I am Jewish by choice. There is a great saying, Jews who have converted, were Jewish in another life and found their way home. The great Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria declared, "In our present Aquarian Age, the souls of the Exodus generation shall again become incarnated."

Can you step back and learn about the conflict with an open mind, and about the history of Canaan, Israel, Judah, Syria-Palestina, and then Palestine? 

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The Soul Mate Prep Blog#111: Are You Ready For A New Spiritual- Worldview?

Inspiring People On The Spiritual Path, Toward Self-Knowledge
 
To Bridge The Gap Between The Material And The Spiritual, An Authentic New Age 

Serena Jade- A New Age Spirituality Leader-

The First and Most Essential Service To An Authentic Age of Aquarius is this: Opening Your Ego Mind To The Mystery of Your Own Soul. 

In her book Archetypes, Caroline Myss says, "The life journey of the visionary is one of envisioning new possibilities and bringing the future into the present. Visionaries are often outsiders, not fitting in becomes their best asset."

Author Eckhart Tolle also said, "Being an outsider, someone who does not fit in with others or is rejected by them, MAKES LIFE DIFFICULT. But it also places them at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes them out of [society's mindset] almost by force."

Serena Jade is a Mystic. The esoteric wisdom of all religions are very similar, they focus on the soul within the person, and a God who cannot be named. When someone embarks on the esoteric path, they are mystics. This is not about belief, this is about self-knowledge, which leads them to remember their soul, and the Transcendent Force of the Universe.

"There is some sort of discoverable truth to existence, that is its unified nature. I think if you leave someone isolated for long enough. They will come to the same conclusions. And the same conclusions force one logically, into the same metaphysical paradigm."-Seekers of Unity

Serena Jade at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, Greece!

What would you do if your mother rejected you as soon as you came into the world? What would you do, if you were labeled different  from your family members just because you are born?  What would you do if you were cast out, forgotten, abandoned, left to fend for yourself? 

This scenario becomes your life's fate. Cast out from society because you want above all else to be accepted. But that is not your reality. The reality is this is the role of the scapegoat, alone in the world. 

This has been my life's fate. However, in response to not being accepted, I followed the left handed path. I didn't follow the crowd. No one would make a conscious choice not to follow the crowd. No one would make a conscious choice to be seen as different, we want to fit in.  It is a hard, painful life, not to be accepted and cast out with no allies behind you. But the unfair advantage is you can follow the impulse of your feeling system. 

The crowd follows what has been handed down to them. This would include religion and love connections. The crowd cannot see past this worldview because everyone is having a collective experience. 

But the one who is not having that collective experience is the scapegoat. Now you can get stuck on the negative or you can transcend that to witness, what the collective cannot see. 

I did just that, and I can see what the collective cannot. But I also  followed my feeling system, which led me to have an unfair advantage, as far as experiencing true Soul Mates and with all the prayers in the world, my deepest most profound eternal love.

I prayed at the Vatican and I meditated by the River Ganges. I prayed and meditated for days in the old city of Jerusalem.  

I climbed Mt. Sinai,  but since my visit to Delphi, Greece; the ancient spiritual center of the world, I have been envisioning new possibilities.

At the present moment, Society functions at the lower levels of Survival, Procreation-(Survival of our Species), Sex at the lower level, Power or lack of Power, Co-dependency and Attachment. 

We live in a world, where our rational ego mind dominates. What if we lived in accordance with our spiritual intuitive mind? What would that look like?

Our rational mind says, we need to abide by the extroverted rules of our social order. We are ruled by our five senses. What we see, hear, touch, taste and smell is the law.

Very logical, objective thought is accepted and never questioned. If one deviates from "the law" and lives by an inner knowing, they are thought to be crazy. 

Fear, sets in for the people around this person, as that person is reflecting fear in the other. To be intuitive is to have a sense to look within and pay attention to the information, that is not logical!

In the course of our history, there have been groups of secret societies, pertaining to self-knowledge. These people were initiated into developing their spiritual sense. They were initiated into understanding, self-knowledge is the road toward understanding their spiritual nature. In so doing, they had a direct experience, with their soul and the transcendent force. 

"Your soul must teach your ego to appreciate what is holy and Godly."-Rabbi Friedman

"Heaven is NOT the better place because if you don't get it here, you are not getting there!"-Serena Jade

 The Age of Aquarius can mirror ancient Delphi. On the outer stones of the temple of Apollo at Delphi, are carved guidelines for how to live a good life. Written on these walls is the foundation for a great society. In order for the general public to grow and flourish, not only economically but also morally, people must have self-awareness. The injunctions, “Know thyself” and “Nothing in excess,” are requirements for an advanced civilization.

Secret societies that transpired in the early centuries of this Common Era, and was revived in the European Renaissance believed human perfection and happiness were attainable in this world; without awaiting an afterlife. They knew self-knowledge was the key to achieve heaven on earth! However, they were not living in a free world, but we are in the west!  

Why are you not taking advantage of our freedom?

Can you envision a new-worldview? 

Are you ready for a new Myth? A Myth is commonly used as a misconception or someone else's religion. But, the intended meaning is a sacred story, containing deep Behavioral, Psychological, & Spiritual guidance to the society that it applies to.-Serena Jade

"Self-Knowledge is the Jewel."-Serena Jade

Creating Awareness/Uplifting Society

Bringing unconscious Social/Spiritual wisdom to the world...

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The Soul Mate Prep Blog#12: What do you think of Islam?

The Dome of the Rock: Jerusalem, Israel

"I think the Muslim call to prayer is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world."-Serena Jade

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe8qRj12OhY

Muhammad, the prophet was born in Mecca (Saudi Arabia) in the year 570 of the common era. Muhammad married by the age of 25 and fathered several children.However, he was unfilled with the polytheistic worship of many Gods around him.He sought solitude in the desert.

Around the age of 40, Muhammad was in a cave meditating in the middle of the desert. An angel appeared to him and said, "read in the name of your Lord." This was the first profound message he received from the Divine.

Ten years later, Muhammad went on a night journey and ascended to heaven in the company of angels.From Mecca he traveled to Jerusalem,where the shrine of The Dome of the Rock is today and prayed...

He lifted his mind up to Heaven and received the Divine's instruction to pray 5 times a day.

Muhammad was in touch with his soul and received Divine wisdom.Can you appreciate Muhammad's devotion and learn more about Islam?

Do you think the Muslim call to prayer is beautiful?

"Self-Knowledge is the Jewel."-Serena Jade
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