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A Wish Can Change Your Life: How to Use the Ancient Wisdom of Kabbalah to Make Your Dreams Come True - Softcover

Sasson, Gahl

 
9780743245050: A Wish Can Change Your Life: How to Use the Ancient Wisdom of Kabbalah to Make Your Dreams Come True
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0743245059 ISBN 13: 9780743245050
Verlag: Atria, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Make a Wish, Any Wish!
Engaging, innovative, and fresh, Gahl Sasson's approach to Kabbalah -- the ancient teachings of Jewish mysticism -- integrates mythology, scholarship, and practical exercises for seekers of both material and spiritual gratification. Based on his popular Tree of Life workshops, which incorporate meditation, dreams, and real-life synchronicities with myths, rituals, and philosophies from around the world, A Wish Can Change Your Life provides a universal path to finding and embracing all of life's riches. It teaches readers of every faith and religious background how to use the energies of the Tree of Life -- the blueprint for the creation of the universe -- to fulfill any wish, whether it is for material gain (a new car, a higher salary), personal improvement and pleasure (weight loss, a better job, more intimacy with a partner), or a life-changing message from God.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gahl Sasson served on the faculty of Deepak Chopra's multimedia project MyPotential, teaching both astrology and Kabbalah. He is also a contributor to Olam, the largest Kabbalah magazine in the world. Gahl teaches workshops and lectures on the Tree of Life across the United States.

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Introduction

The Tree of Life at the Center of the Cosmos; How to Use God's Blueprint to Fulfill Your Every Wish

If you are planting a tree and someone arrives and tells you that the Messiah has come, you should first finish planting your tree and only when you are done go out and see if the Messiah is in fact there.

-- The Talmud

We travel the Milky Way together, trees and man.

-- John Muir

Bridging heaven and Earth, I stand, as always, awaiting your embrace. Hug me, climb me, use me; and I will make your wish come true. A tree is all you need. I am the Wish-Fulfilling Tree. The Tree of Life. The Tree of Light.

Trees endure as the ultimate symbols of egalitarianism. They provide the same amount of oxygen, shelter, and shade indiscriminately to rich and poor, sinners and saints, caterpillars and humans. Virtually every culture on every continent has treasured the tree as the centerpiece of its mythology -- from the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden to the Bodhi Tree of the Buddha; the Dreaming Tree of the Aborigines to the Native American Sioux's belief that the first man on Earth was a tree that learned to walk. Such universal reverence among peoples so diverse and disparate indicates that trees brandish immense power. All these cultures cherished different gods and rituals; they devoted themselves to clashing diets and socioeconomic systems. And yet all these traditions exalted the Tree because each intuitively understood that trees stand for more than shade from the hot Sun. Deep down, every human being recognizes that the Tree is in fact the ultimate tool of creation. The Tree creates oxygen. The Tree creates life.

Kabbalah is a mystical, universal interpretation of the meaning and mechanics of life that has been preserved for thousands of years chiefly through the teachings of Judaic seekers and scholars. This ancient theosophy instructs that God uses the Tree as the everlasting blueprint for the construction of the universe. Everything -- you, your dog, Julia Roberts, the Taj Mahal, and the constellation Gemini -- emerged from the ten life-giving energy forces vibrating through this magnificent cosmic tree.

What few of us realize is that these primal forces didn't just assemble the universe and then vanish, abandoning us to cope as best we can. They live still and always, available this minute to every human being. In one of most famous lines of the Bible, God said, "Let us make man in our image" (Genesis 1:25). This sentence promises that humans are nothing less than reflections of God, imbued with a godlike gift and desire to create. In other words, each of us owns the ability to fashion all kinds of stuff seemingly from thin air. All it takes is to retrace the same steps that God took to create the universe. Dust off the master builder's template, and you can breathe life into your fondest dream right here and now.

You start by making a wish -- any wish, from earning more money to finding your true love, from renewed intimacy with your spouse to a bigger house or a smaller waistline. Then you simply follow God's recipe, surfing the Tree of Life from one archetypal energy to the next. Each chapter of this book will immerse you in one of the ten spheres that make up this Tree of Light, the ten archetypal energies inherent in everything and every person. Kabbalists have given each of these ten spheres an official name -- translated here from Hebrew -- which corresponds to the multilayered energy it generates: Crown (will), Wisdom (intuition), Understanding (discipline), Mercy (compassion), Severity (strength or action), Beauty (love), Eternity (relationships), Splendor (communication), Foundation (sexuality and death), and Kingdom (practicality). By devoting one week to each of these singular cosmic forces, you will transform your wish from a dream to a reality.

A journey through the chapters of this book will make you a partner in the Tree's resplendent mystery. We too possess a marvelous talent akin to photosynthesis -- which is the miraculous ability literally to manufacture life through Light. This inspired impulse is our chief reason for being, and the Tree offers a plan that will enhance personal creativity in every area of your life. It will also spur you to internalize the central Kabbalistic mandate to balance giving and receiving. A key side effect of wish fulfillment is learning to be a better giver, and the Tree's program will endow you with a new capacity to balance and repair your personal relationships.

But this book does more than supply a ticket to the procurement of your worldly desires. Working with these archetypal energies simultaneously fulfills the higher calling of the human soul. It will transform you into a warrior of Light, a spiritual torchbearer who, by absorbing and applying the timeless axioms of the Tree, will have helped to heal the universe.

A Spiritual Icon for All

Though the characteristics of the Tree of Life have been documented and debated over the centuries primarily by rabbis and Kabbalists, you will fast discover that the Tree's lessons embrace every denomination imaginable. Every chapter blends myths and theologies from all over the globe to illustrate the Tree's universal reach. The truths embodied in the Tree of Life are not only Jewish but central to every religion. Though all of these distinct traditions employ different names, stories, and metaphors to portray archetypal precepts, at heart each describes and venerates the same essential truths.

This book trusts in myths from assorted cultures not just to inspire and entertain, but because God planted stories at the core of human existence. The first line of the Sefer Yitzerah (Book of Formation), the oldest and most fundamental Kabbalistic text, states that God created the universe with story. In other words, God did not construct the universe in a single stroke but is instead continually narrating the cosmos into existence. Every person harbors his or her own myth. Sometimes we call them diaries. Sometimes we relate the story of our day over coffee. We greet our friends with "What's your story?" as a way of asking how they are. Ageless myths are merely personal tales blown up large. Recounting the exaggerated antics of gods and heroes enables us to scrutinize minute human behaviors with heightened precision. Myths function like microscopes, enlarging invisible molecules so that we might understand their structure. If, for example, we magnify a routine tryst between Venus and Mars into mythic melodrama, we are then able to more keenly dissect and decipher the intricate mysteries of love and romance.

In the same spirit, this book assembles myths from civilizations across the globe to illuminate the secrets of Creation. It draws from the ancient scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Paganism, and tribal lore as well as from personal stories of today; it explores the enduring mythologies of ancient Greece, Egypt, Europe, and Native America, as well as documented historical events. Heroes and traditions as varied as Hermes, the Buddha of Compassion, the Passover Exodus, Christ, the Ramayana, Celtic Oak worshipers, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, ancient Phrygia, the Yoruba of West Africa and the Caribbean, Lao-tzu, Charles Darwin, Mother Goose, and Indiana Jones all find a home in the Tree of Life.

The Tree welcomes everyone in its quest to propagate creativity, healing, and fulfillment.

How to Use the Tree to Fulfill Your Wish

This book invites you to read it at your own pace as an innovative guide to world mythologies, Kabbalah, and ageless spiritual tenets. But if you also want to make use of its life-tested blueprint for wish fulfillment, all you have to do is spend one week basking in the radiance of each of the Tree's ten archetypal energy...

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Verlag
Atria
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0743245059
ISBN 13 
9780743245050
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
290
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