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 […]
Living in Twilight
A study in impermanence. Living in twilight, I am neither here nor there— unrooted, uprooted, by chance or by fate. Gravity insists my feet return to the earth, even when my heart is suspended between worlds. I have been living this way for nearly ten years— through diagnoses and death, through endings that became beginnings, […]
Hidden Names
by Dr. David Sanders The filmmaker, Alan Berliner, in the preamble to his documentary film (The Sweetest Sound) about the names we are given, referred to his own name as that “simple label assigned to me the day I was born.” He went on to say that his name, “has worked itself deep inside my […]
What has been, Already is.
by Melanie Gruenwald “What has been, already is; and what will be has already been.”— Ecclesiastes The sages wrestled with this verse. How can what will be already exist? Rabbi Yehuda offers a curious image: If a person says to you: Is it possible that the entire world was once water, and that the world’s […]
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 […]
Day 36: Lovingkindness within Foundation
Connecting to the love and generosity that flows to us from the Mystery.Opening ourselves to the Sourceso our actions are filled with kindness and grace.— Rabbi Yael Levy, Journey Through the Wilderness Tonight we mark the 36th day of the Omer, aligned in the mystical tradition with Chesed sheb’Yesod—Lovingkindness within Foundation. Chesed is expansive, overflowing […]
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 […]
Dancing Across the Sea
by Melanie Gruenwald We begin our Time: Present Moment Awareness course with the question- A fish is to water, as a person is to what…? How can it be, we are swimming through time, without even paying attention to it? The days pass, the years pass, we age (if we’re lucky), but how are we […]
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 […]