Kingdoms of Experience: The Four Worlds of Kabbalah as Prayer and Meditation

Our ability to sense, imagine, think, and will constitute the Image of God within us. The subject of this book is how to cultivate these abilities so that they become the means for experiencing God’s presence in the world.Insights and practices from modern psychology, such as Gendlin’s focusing and Jungian active imagination, are also integrated into a holistic vision. This book includes meditation instructions (kavvanah) on Hebrew prayers, as well as a discussion of the relationship of the meditations presented in this book to Christian and Buddhist contemplative practices.Kingdoms of Experience is for both experienced and beginning meditators interested in learning a practical approach to meditation in the western tradition.