The Mystery of Consciousness
By Dr. David Sanders In the summer course on the Convergence of Kabbalah and Science in Mystery our topics have included the universe’s existence, infinity, nothingness, time, synesthesia, and the hidden language of math. The final topic this week is consciousness, which has become even thornier with the advent of AI and the question of […]
Cherubim at the Entrance
Dr. David Sanders On my news feed an article appeared touting an important discovery. It was titled: Helium escaping from the atmosphere of a nearby rocky exoplanet orbiting in a habitable zone. It caught my eye because of the lead author’s name, Collin Cherubim, who upon investigation is a 26-year-old Harvard researcher. The Cherubim, referenced […]
It Takes a Village
by Dr. David Sanders As the former Hebrew slaves encamped around Mount Sinai they were given their mission: “Be a light unto the nations.” That phrase was the seed for a project to bring much needed solar lamps to rural communities in Uganda. The scope of the project expanded to also provide filtration systems for […]
Unmasking a Mask
by David Sanders For almost twenty years the Denver Hospice featured a bi-annual auction of masks created by artists and celebrities across the country. Through the Mask Project they raised millions of dollars. I was curious if there was a connection between the creation of masks and the mission of hospice care. Durning the heyday […]
Threads
by Dr. David Sanders What are the main threads that are woven together to form the cloth we call Kabbalah Experience? Posing the question in that manner already reveals a first thread—mastering the use of metaphor. The lens through which the early Kabbalists viewed sacred text was to move from the literal to the metaphoric […]
Strings Attached
by Dr. David Sanders Every so often we get to go back to the beginning, circle back to where it all started. More than two decades ago I sat around a dining room table, early morning on a Thursday, with four men, two who I knew and two who were new to me. Dr. Ryan […]
The Tree of Death
“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that…I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that is something I cannot allow to happen.” 2001: A Space Odyssey The Nobel Prize in physics in 2024 was awarded to Geoffrey Hinton. He is not a physicist. The Nobel Prize in chemistry in […]
Bottle Cap
by Dr. David Sanders Just when I was ready to give up on humanity (not on any particular human just the overall take on whether the “human project” as a species could be trusted for even one generation to stop killing each other and wrecking the environment) a little spark of light, a glimmer […]
Circle Dance
by Dr. David Sanders I had a reason to look up a poem by T.S. Eliot I had never read, not realizing that it contained lines he wrote that I have admired for a long time: Toward the end of his Four Quartets: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all […]
My Grandmother
by Dr. David Sanders Today, I sent a photograph taken a number of years ago to my older sister Sarah. It was an image taken of a gravestone at a cemetery in New York where our grandmother, who we never met, is buried. My father’s mother died a few short days after giving birth to […]