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Author David Chaim Smith offers a guide to the practice of mystical contemplation from the perspective of a highly unusual form of non-dual Kabbalah, unfettered by both religious mythology and psychological reductionism. The path articulates the ultimate quest for meaning, which seeks to pass through the clutter of the mind's conceptual associations to nakedly and directly recognize the innate essentiality of all things known as the light of En (no) Sof (end), or the Infinite. Most mainstream conventional schools of Kabbalah hold such a radical aspiration to be inapproachable at best, and heretical at worst. The work introduces six stages that articulate how the mind breaks through its own restrictive habitual reflexes to awaken to the ground of En Sof, which is the mind's essential nature Each stage is illustrated by the author's own original works of art and line diagrams Draws upon obscure sources such as the 13th-century Kabbalistic text  Fountain of Wisdom , various alchemical and gnostic texts, and the writings of Isaac the Blind The author reveals how meaning never remains static--its nature is to move, transmit, and display--yet its precious potential becomes buried under l

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Author

David Chaim Smith

Publisher

Inner Traditions International, Limited

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620555330

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Christian, Judaism, Philosophy

Rating

4.2 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14