Authors: Edward Hoffman
ISBN-13: 9781570620553, ISBN-10: 1570620555
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Date Published: August 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The Kabbalah is Judaism's intriguing mystical tradition, thousands of years old. In recent years, a growing number of people—both Jews and non-Jews—are finding the Kabbalah to be a fascinating treasure house of wisdom about the human mind. Men and women are discovering and applying Jewish mystical insights in daily life, and professionals in such fields as psychology, psychotherapy, and medicine are actively using Kabbalah in their work.
Opening the Inner Gates is an anthology concerning these new explorations. In sixteen chapters, thirteen contributors present both theoretical considerations and applied methods of Kabbalah in such areas as healing, the mind-body relationship, dreamwork, intuition and creativity, storytelling, women's spirituality, parenting, working with the elderly, and "repairing the world" (tikkun olam).
Contributors:
LaVera Draisin, MD • Gerald Epstein, MD • Sheldon Kramer, PhD • Rabbi Steven Rosman, PhD • Edward Hoffman, PhD • Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi • Steven Joseph, MD • Howard Schwartz • Rabbi Chaim Richter • Alyce R. Tresenfeld • Mark Malachi • Rabbi Rami Shapiro • Laya Firestone Seghi
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The Tree of Life and the "City of the Just": Kabbalistic Exercises for Inner Growth | 5 |
2 | The Quest for the Lost Princess: Life-Transition and Change in Jewish Lore | 20 |
3 | Birth, Creation Stories, and the Spiritual Journey: Teachings from the Navajo and the Kabbalah | 47 |
4 | What's Wrong with Freudianism: A Kabbalistic Perspective | 61 |
5 | Sense the Wonder: Children, Spirituality, and Kabbalah | 75 |
6 | Gazing into God's Mirror | 90 |
7 | Finding God's Blessing Pool: The Way of Wisdom | 106 |
8 | Six Keys of Kabbalistic Dreamwork | 122 |
9 | Glimpsing the Moon: The Feminine Principle in Kabbalah | 133 |
10 | From the Depths of Silence: The Application of Sound in Kabbalistic Healing | 160 |
11 | Psychosynthesis and Kabbalah: New Convergence for Inner work | 177 |
12 | Let It Heal: Storytelling and Healing in Kabbalah | 199 |
13 | Jewish Meditation: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships | 223 |
14 | Standing at Sinai: Time, Healing, and Re-Visioning Western Medicine | 250 |
15 | Teaching Kabbalah to Elders | 266 |
16 | The Tree of Life Is Awakening: Spiritual Transformation in Messianic Times | 277 |
Glossary | 289 | |
About the Contributors | 294 | |
Index | 297 |