Author: Kabbalah Books

The third video of the second week the class* is about the relation of psychology and the “Third Wave of Kabbalah” including the idea that Hasidic leaders were shamans The Hasidic movement is still with us. Hasidic...

The third video of the second week the class* is about the history of the “Third Wave of Kabbalah” including the Sabbatai Zevi, Luzzatto and the Hasidic movement. 3nd wave: 18th century. Modernity starts: American revolution, the French...

The second video of the second week the class* is about the “Second Wave of Kabbalah” including the social revolution of the circle, key figures, Safed, reincarnation… 1st wave: pre-modern period. (not medieval, because people...

The second week the class* is about “Kabbalah and Psychology”. Its first video is on ” Kabbalah and Psychology”, including Kabbalah is the oldest European Mysticisms, no matter when it really started. Two forms:...

Now that the first week of professor Jonathan Garb’s Modern European Mysticism and Psychological Thought course is over here are some personal reflections. (Actually by now we are in the third week, but I am slow...

The sixth video of the class* brought in psychology for the course and integrated topics discussed so far. Problem: psychoanalysis presents itself as the only/main form; but it is just one of many: cognitive psychology,...

The fifth video of the class* explained how Judaism’s situation and itself changed during the modern period. Book recommendation: The Jewish Century, by Yuri Slezkine: prominence of Jews in modern Europe, concentration in urban centers....

The fourth video of the class* started off with the protestant revolution of the 16 century and focused on (its role in) the emergence of the individual.  Eastern and Western Christianity split in 1054 Western...

The third video of the class* outlined explained what modernity is, its conditions (technology, sociology of knowledge and individuation process) the reasons why limit this course’s focus to modernity.  Mystical modernity=psychological modernity, Then we have...