The Kabbalah of Light

by Catherine Shainberg

• ISBN13: 9781644114742
• ISBN10: 1644114747
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2022-06-28
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

• Shares 159 short exercises and practices to tap instantly into your subconscious mind and receive answers to your most important questions

• Explains how to dialogue with and understand the imagery and metaphors that arise during these practices

• Offers powerful practices to discover your areas of “stuckness” and quickly clear them, thus releasing past traumas and ancestral patterns and freeing the flow of the imagination for enhanced creativity and joy in life

In this step-by-step guide to kabbalistic practices to connect with your natural inner genius and liberate the light within you, Catherine Shainberg reveals how to tap instantly into the subconscious and receive answers to urgent questions. This method, called the Kabbalah of Light, originated with Rabbi Isaac the Blind of Posquieres (1160-1235) and has been passed down by an ancient kabbalistic family, the Sheshet of Gerona, in an unbroken transmission spanning more than 800 years.

The modern lineage holder of the Kabbalah of Light, Shainberg shares 159 short experiential exercises and practices to help you begin dialoguing with your subconscious through images. The images that pop up during these practices are unexpected and revelatory, and she discusses how to open them to greater understanding. At first, they may show you aspects of yourself you don’t like. But seeing them serves as both a diagnosis and a direct path to transformation. Fast and simple, the practices can help you discover your areas of “stuckness,” release past traumas and ancestral patterns, free the imagination, and open the way to the bliss promised us in the Garden of Eden.

Beginning this fertile dialogue with your inner world leads you to uncover your soul’s purpose and manifest your dreams in this world. Once your inner dream world and outer reality have merged, you will be able to see your superconscious--your soul’s ­blueprint--and experience the ecstatic illumination of a heart-centered life.

Author Biography

Catherine Shainberg, Ph.D., is a renowned teacher, healer, psychologist, and dream and imagery expert. She is the lineage holder for the Kabbalah of Light, as transmitted to her by Colette Aboulker-Muscat, revered kabbalist and teacher, whose mother was a Sheshet, and with whom Shainberg spent 10 years of intense study in Jerusalem and an additional 20 years in collaboration. In 1982 she founded the School of Images, dedicated to teaching the techniques of this ancient tradition. The author of Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming and DreamBirth, she conducts imagery and dreaming workshops internationally and at the nine International Schools of Imagery she created around the world.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I
The Leviathan, Great Beast of the Deep
Fishing in the Ocean of the Subconscious
1 The Mystery of Dreams
2 Tikun and a Ladder to the Light
3 Incubation and Saphire Imagery
4 The Creative Act
5 Signs of Transformation: The Grammar of the Imagination
6 Symbol or Metaphor

PART II
Taming the Leviathan
Interactions with the Subconscious
7 Playing with Manifestation
8 Dreamfields and Complexes
9 Ancestral Patterns
10 The Inner Child: From Duality to Singularity
11 Misery and Splendor: Restoring Relationships
12 Time and Choice
13 Healing: Will It Be Leprosy, Wellness, or Wholeness?

PART III
Raising the Leviathan
The Serpent of the Deep, Your Superconsciousness or, as the French Like to Call it, Your Sur-nature
14 The Heart-Centered Way
15 Prayer and the Leviathan

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

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Index

LIST OF EXERCISES

PART I
The Leviathan, Great Beast of the Deep
1 The Mystery of Dreams
2 Tikun and a Ladder to the Light
3 Incubation and Saphire Imagery
4 The Creative Act
5 Signs of Transformation: The Grammar of the Imagination
6 Symbol or Metaphor

PART II
Taming the Leviathan
7 Playing with Manifestation
8 Dreamfields and Complexes
9 Ancestral Patterns
10 The Inner Child: From Duality to Singularity
11 Misery and Splendor: Restoring Relationships
12 Time and Choice
13 Healing: Will It Be Leprosy, Wellness, or Wholeness?

PART III
Raising the Leviathan
14 The Heart-Centered Way
15 Prayer and the Leviathan