TEMPLE OF LIVING LIGHT
Iona Miller
Temple of Living Light -
http://templeoflivinglight.50megs.com/index.html
Show Me Your Mysteries, I'll Show You Mine
Kabbalah Luminata
Tesla Altar
THE TEMPLE OF LIVING LIGHT
Show me your mysteries, I'll show you mine,
As we embark outside this space and time.
Clasping hands we'll join the dance divine,
Flowing gently toward eternal rhyme.
Tell me your fantasies, I'll tell you mine,
Show me your ecstasies that flow as wine.
Together we'll reach the highest peak sublime,
Drinking deeply from the spring of time.[Chorus]Try as we might...
So many chambers in which to dwell.
To reach the heights...
From the bottom of a wishing well.
With second sight...
How we ascend only time will tell.
To the temple of living Light...
Far beyond heaven and hell.Bare your heart to me, I'll give you mine,
Though all alone we might be flying blind.
Through embrace, fire and ice entwine,
Surging and merging as the ocean tide.
PATHWORKING * TEMPLE OF LIVING LIGHT About I-MAGICK * Whats New * Contact IO * Links * KABBALAH LUMINATA * PHOTONIC HUMAN * ART of MAGICK * DIAMOND BODY * ZERO POINT * HOLISTIC QABALAH * TIME WARP * TIMEWARP AGAIN * SACRED GEOMETRY * PATHWORKING * VIRTUAL QABALA GAME * STAR GODDESS * SPIRITUALITY * MIDDLE PILLAR *
QABALAHEART: Magick as Artfom
Wild Divine
Qabalah is an underground spiritual current, a distillation and synthesis of some of the main threads of western spiritual technology. It is a path of Knowledge, gnosis, a living Way of being in the world enlivened and informed by deeper dimensions. It is a path of love, discipline, practice, and service. Kabbalah is the traditional term applied to the practice of Jewish mysticism with a visionary, intuitive nature; it is uncompromisingly monotheistic. Qabala and Qabalah are spellings for the culturally diverse, polytheistic, hermetic path, while QBL reflects the magickal root. Each type of qabala has its own subculture with its own woldview, developed in its own era.
We need a contemporary qabala for today, a 21st Century qabala, suitable for our "ground", our electronic environment. There is no advantage in our remaining locked up in any cultural cycle, exchanging hoary grimoires and number matrices, as if in a trance or a dream. If you go obsessively looking for something in the matrix, you are sure to find it. But it may be an idiosyncratic delusion – a sterile attention trap.
We have no need to journey down obsolete reality wormholes into 14th - 20th century mindsets. But some of us have discovered the means of living simultaneously in all cultural modes while quite conscious. http://mindcontrolfordummies.50megs.com All spiritual worldviews, including science, are narratives or interpretations of the nature of reality and our nature. We can make our practice and service contemporary by drawing on each era and drawing them forward into the future. http://myzeropoint.50megs.com
* The strength of Jewish kabbalah is its accent on worship, mindfulness, humility, human relations and redemptive action. It is illuminated by religious commentary, community, service and healing the world.
* The strength of hermetic qabalah is society, brotherhood, and its encyclopedic array of the phenomenology, myth, and symbolism of the collective unconscious. It is illuminated by group initiation, cyclic celebration, correspondences, mythic living, and transpersonal psychologies.
* The strength of QBL is divergent thinking and its transgressive attempts to break free of the lockdown mind control of conformist culture in renewed attempts to fly free in emergent creativity. It embodies the fluency, spontaneity and flexibility that prevents religious ossification. It is illuminated by self-expression, self-direction, self-initiation - the Holy Guardian Angel or inner genius.
All recognize a transcendent reality whether it is called divine, transpersonal, or void/plenum. Each looks into the Abyss and finds it smiling back. Each recognizes and embraces hierarchies of embedded fields within fields, holographic aspects of the Universal Field. Qabalah represents an intuitive, NEGENTROPIC way of being that constantly, deliberately feeds and nourishes itself from the wellsprings of life and manifestation - the inexhaustible geyser of creative flux.
QBL is all about enliving that conscious connection with primordial SOURCE, via The Middle Pillar, or Middle Way. It is wisdom, understanding, knowledge, mercy, strength, integration, emotion, cognition, instinct, and corporality. The balanced integration of all potential faculties opens the portal of Real-I-zation.
Hermetic Qabalah is the basis of Western occultism, the Renaissance, The Enlightenment and many threads of Theosophical, New Age and Postmodern thought. It reflects Eastern notions, such as yin and yang, and subtle energy centers. Both traditional and metaphysical currents offer profoundly personal experiences of the divine nature of life, transforming the ordinary and creating a journey to the center of the self, where all things are made whole and holy, kindled by divine love and intentionality.
Influx: Priming the Cosmic Pump
As a cultural phenomena, Qabala is a chaotically evolving artform. Its wild nature cannot be contained in any static institutional form. Magick suggests that as Nothing becomes Something in the subquantal oscillation of matter/energy there is room for human intervention, for intentionality at the quantum level. These subtle changes can be pumped up to the macro scale through the self-organization and butterfly effect of Chaos Theory.
Surfing the wake of the creative edge of culture, underground movements often herald the shape of things to come - what will shortly be mainstreamed into global culture. Modern magick has uprooted QBL from both the religious and secret society formats, creating a personalistic framework for self-help, self-initiation, and self-transformation.
Nonlocal qabala isn't rooted in ancient cultural traditions; digital qabala is an infinite virtuality not confined by consensus reality. It is rooted in the ZERO-POINT fluctuation of subspace, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, synchronicity, parapsychology, and hyperdelic consciousness. Radical things and experiences are possible that weren't before. For example, Magick's "cloak of invisibility" is being literalized by DARPA using stealth metamaterials.
The new QBL relies on radical self-confrontation and self-commitment. Practice does generally retain a connection with the wisdom of Tarot and the elegantly symphonic symbolism of the correspondence system, and often classical number mysticism. There are many self-styled idiosyncratic cults based in this maverick eclectic strain of so-called qabalistic practice. Many embrace novelty-seeking rock and pop culture elements, others "tales from the darkside", yet others realize it's all a "put on" and that identity and personality are mutable facades through which we can reinvent ourselves.
THE THIRD WAVE: The Wake of Human Progress
Old cultures are dying as they are assimilated into global awareness; we exchange the wake for being awake. Like an indicator species, art and artists often reveal long in advance where humanity is heading. They express what cannot yet be articulated or lived in the common culture. This is no more true than in the artistic expression of Qabala and the art of magick.
The interplay in colloidal mixture of all components of human technology extends our senses and shifts their ratios. Our very nervous systems have been extended and morphed by the electronic environment and the advent of 'voluntary ESP'. Postmodern "generic" forms of magick, in particular Thelema and/or Chaos Magick strip the religious veneer from the purely technological spiritual practices. Qabalistic practice has jumped the theological framework into idiosyncratic, neo-pagan, humanist, and atheistic formats.
This isn't black or white magick, but a highly saturated social kaleidoscope in living color, sometimes coming together through the common heartbeat of tribal sensibilities. As paths of self-development, they are esoteric psychologies with a worldview. They substitute an exploratory, experimental and pragmatic philosophy of self-reliance and self-realization for the religious bedrock of the traditional forms.
A pomo sensibility toward psychological and spiritual life reveals a permissive, de-centered perspective not just in phenomenology, quantum physics, chaos theory, aesthetics, deconstruction, and imagistic poetry but also in body, everyday consciousness, aesthetics, memory, dreams, alchemy, psychology, and mysticism. The Bleeding Edge
The Postmodern attitude inclines toward interval--between I and not-I, body and world, forming and being formed. It is tribal diversity and ritual, transgressive aesthetics, body modification, X-treme everything, the hinterlands of experience, cyberpunk, the undiscovered territory. Shaken by context, facts are dissolved, meaning become elusive, contextual, and words cannot escape relativization.
Deprived of consolation of alignment with authority, consciousness is freed up to play in the Now, a carnivalesque event - the global spectacle, from Burning Man to Las Vegas, to the Mall and beyond. Understanding becomes unfixed, a matter of allusion or play, as interpretation caves in on itself.
My spoof concept is called NO WAY QABALA. Its motto is "There's NOWHERE to go and we're all gonna get there." Its mantra is "No Way, No Way, No Way. It's mission is, "No Path; No Problem!" It's worldview is "No Thing is Nowhere."
This is not your Mother's Qabala, nor Madonna's neatly pre-packaged variety either. It is QBL for an electrified and digitized nervous system - for Homo Mutans and Homo Lumen. The modern search for the Self in a conformist culture is encompassed in the Spheres from Malkuth (Earth) to Tiphareth (Heart). The object is to pick a path with Heart and to develop one's inherent potential artfully and heartfully, whether you "believe" in God, or not. This "church of self-amplification" recognizes the potential latent in us all, and it is divine. The self to be amplified is the transpersonal not finite Self.
Magick is a commited lifestyle. The emphasis can be on mysticism and meditation, or ritual and magick. Some favor obsolete wormholes back to other centuries - grimoires and goblins - while others are busy creating the next-new-way-on. These essays, artwork, and visualizations here are not meant as a new dogma, practice, or school of thought. They are simply the result of my own decades of qabalistic work. I hope they provide a springboard for your own thought. As food for thought, they are meant to stimulate and provoke your own speculations, insights, and experiments.
Occulture Club
Qabala is not a static doctrine, but a living Way. Qabala is an experiential path, an experiment which lasts throughout one's life. Qabala is ultimately about access to and experience of discrete states of consciousness, ways of being and becoming. To glean its wisdom, we must "sample the dish," not simply read the recipes. It is a subject which cannot be exhausted.
We must make QBL our own, even while honoring its tradition. In this way, we have the best of both worlds. Qabalistic traditions and models are validated by modern research everyday. It has a vast capacity to incorporate the entire repertoire of human knowledge and understanding, coordinating through its primary glyph, the Tree of Life.
We can update our models and create revolutions in our own beliefs and thinking, much the same as happens in science. Therefore, we will be drawing on resources from post quantum physics, Jungian and Transpersonal Psychology, and traditional and modern philosophical speculation, such as Buckminster Fuller's SYNERGETICS. I hope you find valuable concepts here for bootstrapping into your own worldview and facilitating your journey toward Union.
Tweeking Consciousness
The dazzling phenomenology and sparkle of consciousness has perhaps led us to think that its function must be equally dazzling and discrete - the fruit of human evolution. But it may be foundational - the very mindstuff or maya of Eastern philosophy, that is the primordial basis of both manifesting matter and energy. This common candidate has something to do with increased intelligence and choice, perhaps even 'free will'.
Increased intelligence is a cognitive and emotional function: I.Q. and E.Q., including rapport and empathy with life and cosmos. Reality might be tweekable by consciousness, but there is no obvious requirement for this. We can change ourselves by applying our will at the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. In doing so, we alter the very fabric of those domains of human experience, adding our voices, our contributions to the evolutionary thrust.
THE TEMPLE OF LIVING LIGHT
Show me your mysteries, I'll show you mine,
As we embark outside this space and time.
Clasping hands we'll join the dance divine,
Flowing gently toward eternal rhyme.
Tell me your fantasies, I'll tell you mine,
Show me your ecstasies that flow as wine.
Together we'll reach the highest peak sublime,
Drinking deeply from the spring of time.[Chorus]Try as we might...
So many chambers in which to dwell.
To reach the heights...
From the bottom of a wishing well.
With second sight...
How we ascend only time will tell.
To the temple of living Light...
Far beyond heaven and hell.Bare your heart to me, I'll give you mine,
Though all alone we might be flying blind.
Through embrace, fire and ice entwine,
Surging and merging as the ocean tide.
PATHWORKING * TEMPLE OF LIVING LIGHT About I-MAGICK * Whats New * Contact IO * Links * KABBALAH LUMINATA * PHOTONIC HUMAN * ART of MAGICK * DIAMOND BODY * ZERO POINT * HOLISTIC QABALAH * TIME WARP * TIMEWARP AGAIN * SACRED GEOMETRY * PATHWORKING * VIRTUAL QABALA GAME * STAR GODDESS * SPIRITUALITY * MIDDLE PILLAR *
QABALAHEART: Magick as Artfom
Wild Divine
Qabalah is an underground spiritual current, a distillation and synthesis of some of the main threads of western spiritual technology. It is a path of Knowledge, gnosis, a living Way of being in the world enlivened and informed by deeper dimensions. It is a path of love, discipline, practice, and service. Kabbalah is the traditional term applied to the practice of Jewish mysticism with a visionary, intuitive nature; it is uncompromisingly monotheistic. Qabala and Qabalah are spellings for the culturally diverse, polytheistic, hermetic path, while QBL reflects the magickal root. Each type of qabala has its own subculture with its own woldview, developed in its own era.
We need a contemporary qabala for today, a 21st Century qabala, suitable for our "ground", our electronic environment. There is no advantage in our remaining locked up in any cultural cycle, exchanging hoary grimoires and number matrices, as if in a trance or a dream. If you go obsessively looking for something in the matrix, you are sure to find it. But it may be an idiosyncratic delusion – a sterile attention trap.
We have no need to journey down obsolete reality wormholes into 14th - 20th century mindsets. But some of us have discovered the means of living simultaneously in all cultural modes while quite conscious. http://mindcontrolfordummies.50megs.com All spiritual worldviews, including science, are narratives or interpretations of the nature of reality and our nature. We can make our practice and service contemporary by drawing on each era and drawing them forward into the future. http://myzeropoint.50megs.com
* The strength of Jewish kabbalah is its accent on worship, mindfulness, humility, human relations and redemptive action. It is illuminated by religious commentary, community, service and healing the world.
* The strength of hermetic qabalah is society, brotherhood, and its encyclopedic array of the phenomenology, myth, and symbolism of the collective unconscious. It is illuminated by group initiation, cyclic celebration, correspondences, mythic living, and transpersonal psychologies.
* The strength of QBL is divergent thinking and its transgressive attempts to break free of the lockdown mind control of conformist culture in renewed attempts to fly free in emergent creativity. It embodies the fluency, spontaneity and flexibility that prevents religious ossification. It is illuminated by self-expression, self-direction, self-initiation - the Holy Guardian Angel or inner genius.
All recognize a transcendent reality whether it is called divine, transpersonal, or void/plenum. Each looks into the Abyss and finds it smiling back. Each recognizes and embraces hierarchies of embedded fields within fields, holographic aspects of the Universal Field. Qabalah represents an intuitive, NEGENTROPIC way of being that constantly, deliberately feeds and nourishes itself from the wellsprings of life and manifestation - the inexhaustible geyser of creative flux.
QBL is all about enliving that conscious connection with primordial SOURCE, via The Middle Pillar, or Middle Way. It is wisdom, understanding, knowledge, mercy, strength, integration, emotion, cognition, instinct, and corporality. The balanced integration of all potential faculties opens the portal of Real-I-zation.
Hermetic Qabalah is the basis of Western occultism, the Renaissance, The Enlightenment and many threads of Theosophical, New Age and Postmodern thought. It reflects Eastern notions, such as yin and yang, and subtle energy centers. Both traditional and metaphysical currents offer profoundly personal experiences of the divine nature of life, transforming the ordinary and creating a journey to the center of the self, where all things are made whole and holy, kindled by divine love and intentionality.
Influx: Priming the Cosmic Pump
As a cultural phenomena, Qabala is a chaotically evolving artform. Its wild nature cannot be contained in any static institutional form. Magick suggests that as Nothing becomes Something in the subquantal oscillation of matter/energy there is room for human intervention, for intentionality at the quantum level. These subtle changes can be pumped up to the macro scale through the self-organization and butterfly effect of Chaos Theory.
Surfing the wake of the creative edge of culture, underground movements often herald the shape of things to come - what will shortly be mainstreamed into global culture. Modern magick has uprooted QBL from both the religious and secret society formats, creating a personalistic framework for self-help, self-initiation, and self-transformation.
Nonlocal qabala isn't rooted in ancient cultural traditions; digital qabala is an infinite virtuality not confined by consensus reality. It is rooted in the ZERO-POINT fluctuation of subspace, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, synchronicity, parapsychology, and hyperdelic consciousness. Radical things and experiences are possible that weren't before. For example, Magick's "cloak of invisibility" is being literalized by DARPA using stealth metamaterials.
The new QBL relies on radical self-confrontation and self-commitment. Practice does generally retain a connection with the wisdom of Tarot and the elegantly symphonic symbolism of the correspondence system, and often classical number mysticism. There are many self-styled idiosyncratic cults based in this maverick eclectic strain of so-called qabalistic practice. Many embrace novelty-seeking rock and pop culture elements, others "tales from the darkside", yet others realize it's all a "put on" and that identity and personality are mutable facades through which we can reinvent ourselves.
THE THIRD WAVE: The Wake of Human Progress
Old cultures are dying as they are assimilated into global awareness; we exchange the wake for being awake. Like an indicator species, art and artists often reveal long in advance where humanity is heading. They express what cannot yet be articulated or lived in the common culture. This is no more true than in the artistic expression of Qabala and the art of magick.
The interplay in colloidal mixture of all components of human technology extends our senses and shifts their ratios. Our very nervous systems have been extended and morphed by the electronic environment and the advent of 'voluntary ESP'. Postmodern "generic" forms of magick, in particular Thelema and/or Chaos Magick strip the religious veneer from the purely technological spiritual practices. Qabalistic practice has jumped the theological framework into idiosyncratic, neo-pagan, humanist, and atheistic formats.
This isn't black or white magick, but a highly saturated social kaleidoscope in living color, sometimes coming together through the common heartbeat of tribal sensibilities. As paths of self-development, they are esoteric psychologies with a worldview. They substitute an exploratory, experimental and pragmatic philosophy of self-reliance and self-realization for the religious bedrock of the traditional forms.
A pomo sensibility toward psychological and spiritual life reveals a permissive, de-centered perspective not just in phenomenology, quantum physics, chaos theory, aesthetics, deconstruction, and imagistic poetry but also in body, everyday consciousness, aesthetics, memory, dreams, alchemy, psychology, and mysticism. The Bleeding Edge
The Postmodern attitude inclines toward interval--between I and not-I, body and world, forming and being formed. It is tribal diversity and ritual, transgressive aesthetics, body modification, X-treme everything, the hinterlands of experience, cyberpunk, the undiscovered territory. Shaken by context, facts are dissolved, meaning become elusive, contextual, and words cannot escape relativization.
Deprived of consolation of alignment with authority, consciousness is freed up to play in the Now, a carnivalesque event - the global spectacle, from Burning Man to Las Vegas, to the Mall and beyond. Understanding becomes unfixed, a matter of allusion or play, as interpretation caves in on itself.
My spoof concept is called NO WAY QABALA. Its motto is "There's NOWHERE to go and we're all gonna get there." Its mantra is "No Way, No Way, No Way. It's mission is, "No Path; No Problem!" It's worldview is "No Thing is Nowhere."
This is not your Mother's Qabala, nor Madonna's neatly pre-packaged variety either. It is QBL for an electrified and digitized nervous system - for Homo Mutans and Homo Lumen. The modern search for the Self in a conformist culture is encompassed in the Spheres from Malkuth (Earth) to Tiphareth (Heart). The object is to pick a path with Heart and to develop one's inherent potential artfully and heartfully, whether you "believe" in God, or not. This "church of self-amplification" recognizes the potential latent in us all, and it is divine. The self to be amplified is the transpersonal not finite Self.
Magick is a commited lifestyle. The emphasis can be on mysticism and meditation, or ritual and magick. Some favor obsolete wormholes back to other centuries - grimoires and goblins - while others are busy creating the next-new-way-on. These essays, artwork, and visualizations here are not meant as a new dogma, practice, or school of thought. They are simply the result of my own decades of qabalistic work. I hope they provide a springboard for your own thought. As food for thought, they are meant to stimulate and provoke your own speculations, insights, and experiments.
Occulture Club
Qabala is not a static doctrine, but a living Way. Qabala is an experiential path, an experiment which lasts throughout one's life. Qabala is ultimately about access to and experience of discrete states of consciousness, ways of being and becoming. To glean its wisdom, we must "sample the dish," not simply read the recipes. It is a subject which cannot be exhausted.
We must make QBL our own, even while honoring its tradition. In this way, we have the best of both worlds. Qabalistic traditions and models are validated by modern research everyday. It has a vast capacity to incorporate the entire repertoire of human knowledge and understanding, coordinating through its primary glyph, the Tree of Life.
We can update our models and create revolutions in our own beliefs and thinking, much the same as happens in science. Therefore, we will be drawing on resources from post quantum physics, Jungian and Transpersonal Psychology, and traditional and modern philosophical speculation, such as Buckminster Fuller's SYNERGETICS. I hope you find valuable concepts here for bootstrapping into your own worldview and facilitating your journey toward Union.
Tweeking Consciousness
The dazzling phenomenology and sparkle of consciousness has perhaps led us to think that its function must be equally dazzling and discrete - the fruit of human evolution. But it may be foundational - the very mindstuff or maya of Eastern philosophy, that is the primordial basis of both manifesting matter and energy. This common candidate has something to do with increased intelligence and choice, perhaps even 'free will'.
Increased intelligence is a cognitive and emotional function: I.Q. and E.Q., including rapport and empathy with life and cosmos. Reality might be tweekable by consciousness, but there is no obvious requirement for this. We can change ourselves by applying our will at the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. In doing so, we alter the very fabric of those domains of human experience, adding our voices, our contributions to the evolutionary thrust.
THE HOLOGRAPHIC TREE
New Science and the Tree of Life
by Iona Miller, 1993
ABSTRACT: The science of wholeness emerging from interdisciplinary approaches to the nature of reality reflects many Qabalistic principles. Among the theories expressing this new paradigm are quantum mechanics, chaos theory, Energy Medicine and Biophysics, Holographic Concept of Reality, Pribram's holographic brain, Buckminster Fuller's synergetics, Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields, co-evolution, the Gaia and Panspermia hypotheses, semiotics, hermeneutics, hyperdimensional realities, the new cosmology and consciousness studies.In new sciences, consciousness and matter share the same essence as different expressions of the same reality. New sciences describe the evolution of the laws of nature, the evolution of our perception of nature. In this view there are no abolutes, no fixed laws of nature, only a relative stability. The laws of nature are evolving because nature is creative.
This universal dynamic creativity is also the domain of the Qabala with its consciousness map, the Tree of Life. It presents a holistic image of emergent creativity, a webwork of the interaction of various spheres of influence, and the complex feedback loops which bind them to one another. In terms of consciousness, each sphere (hypersphere) represents a discrete state of consciousness, and each path a transitional phase, or transformation. Aspects of the system can be entrained through resonance.Every body placed in the luminous air spreads out in circles and fills the surrounding space withi infinite likenesses of itself and appears all in all. --Leonardo da Vinci
Our mapmaking changes the very terrain, and terrain in turn changes our map. Maps, mapmakers, and terrains whirl around each other like the vortex in a river which expresses the whole. -Briggs and Peat, Looking Glass Universe
A WHOLE -- IF NOT ABSOLUTE -- TRUTH
Wholeness has traditionally been a mystical perspective. Now, the new sciences with radical notions of nonlinear complex dynamics, nonlocality, chaotic behavior, patterns of energy flow, relativity, enmeshment, fuzzy logic, etc. are revealing a deeper order underlying the nature of our directly experienced reality.Wholeness is characterized by "flow," and the influence of every event on every other. Through minute fluctuation, this flow gives birth to sudden orders of all kinds--structures of flowing energy exchange. The whole is contained, paradoxically, within the "part," holographically.
Yet, wholeness can include incompleteness, the higher degree of order always hidden in apparent randomness.Analogous processes of transformation in consciousness lead to insight and creativity. Each moment in the therapeutic process, as in all life, reflects all others in the past. Each therapeutic image contains a fractal-like representation of past, present, and future. The transformation of imagery reflects in creativity; transformation of beliefs, thoughts, feelings, values, attitudes and behavior.
The Tree of Life encodes a dynamic system of transformation of the individual at the physical, emotional, conceptual, and spiritual levels. Rather than a hierarchical "ladder" to be climbed, the Tree is a stratified image of the holistic nature of existence which interpenetrates as a fluid exchange of energy at every level. More subtle "planes" are simply more deeply enfolded aspects of reality--hidden domains of order creating variables in our ordinary existence.
More than the sum of its parts, the Tree represents a multidimensional web of processes emanating in all directions by the conjoint macro-micro co-evolution of all systems. This web exalts the pure intensification of life. The secret of the universe is that it is alive.The qabalistic Tree presents a model of reality and consciousness which is organic in nature. It reflects the nature of nature, the nature of mind, and relevates the nature mind (natural mind) -- void of conceptualization -- the Clear Light.
Qabala offers an animated alternative perspective to the mechanistic, cybernetic models of psychoneurological function.
The living Tree models co-evolution as a creation that is happening at every point everywhere, in a fractal-like bottomless unfolding. It also accomodates the self-referential process of recursive feeding back (or recycling) of consciousness in psychological transformation -- modeling the penetration of awareness into deeply implicate realms. Pathworking provides for the opening, amplification, and exploration of specific feedback channels, and the induction of specific altered states of consciousness.
The Tree is a graphic representation of the dynamic process of becoming. There is no real hierarchy, no fundamental level of description. Rather, there are different levels, each dependent on the others in complex ways. Higher levels feed back strands of information to lower levels, back to new higher levels, and so on. Rather than describing a world of things, it describes process structures and emphasizes relationship. It describes hidden formative principles, and a webwork of multiple perspectives.
Modern cosmology suggests that all matter plus all gravity in the observable universe equals zero. So the universe -- and therefore, ourselves -- could come from nothing, because it is fundamentally nothing. This echoes the qabalistic creation myth where all substance emanates from the primordial Veils of Negative Existence. It reminds us of the Vedic and Buddhist notions that we and all we can observe are no more than 'mind-stuff.' It reminds of Jung's conclusion that at the most fundamental levels psyche and matter are the same, that psyche and soma are indissoluably welded in our psychophysical selves.
The story goes that around 4,000 years ago an angel of God gave the Qabala and Tree of Life to Abraham. Though the glyph has gone through a few permutations through the centuries, it's essence has remained intact. Curiously, this matrix describes the exact geometries of the nucelus of atomic structure as described by Buckminster Fuller in Synergetics. By "looking within" the qabalists correctly deduced the primal structure of reality without any recourse to modern science and technology. Apparently, the angels spoke the Truth. This is the essence of Synergetic Qabala.
SYNERGETIC QABALA HOME PAGE SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGY: I-Magick and the Search for Self Qabalah is an underground spiritual current, a distillation and synthesis of some of the main threads of western spiritual technology. It is a path of Knowledge, a Way of being in the world enlivened by deeper dimensions. Kabbala is the traditional term applied to the practice of Jewish mysticism with a visionary, intuitive nature. Hermetic Qabalah is the basis of Western occultism, the Renaissance and The Enlightenment. Both traditional and metaphysical currents offer profoundly personal experiences of the divine nature of life, transforming the ordinary and creating a journey to the center of the self, where all things are made whole, kindled by divine love. Postmodern "generic" forms of magick, in particular Thelema and/or Chaos Magick strip the religious veneer from the purely technological spiritual practices. In today's occulture we are each the lords of creation; we create our own lived realities.
Each of us is autonomous, even our own form of divinity if we choose to manifest that. This may strike some as narcissistic and grandiose. It is, if one does magick in the name of ego rather than Higher Self. The main quest of magick is for the transpersonal Self - the Angel, the Daemon, the Genius. Presence in the Now means optimal expression of human potential.As paths of self-development, traditional and metaphysical currents are esoteric psychologies with a metaphysical worldview. One substitutes a pragmatic philosophy of Self-Realization and self-actualization for the religious bedrock of the traditional forms.
The modern search for the Self in a conformist culture is encompassed by the lower half of the Tree: in the Spheres from Malkuth (Earth) to Tiphareth (Heart). Since the goal is the heartcenter of integration, THE DIAMOND BODY, the object is to pick a path with Heart and to develop one's inherent potential artfully and heartfully, whether you "believe" in God, or polytheistic gods or not. A primary tenet is to first harm none...a metaphysical "Do unto others..." The struggle here is between willfulness, True Will and free will. Modern consciousness studies show there is virtually no such thing as free will, in the sense the term was used during The Enlightenment. Then the struggle was to break free of thought-control by church and state. Now our minds are controlled by lockdown media and pop culture. So, the premise of generic magick is to control and deploy your own thoughts creating your own reality via cybernetic technologies.
Kabbalists seek communion with God in the divine Light - Ain Soph. The sacred is the ground of Being - God the Father; God the Mother, and God within as Presence, all consuming love. Profound spiritual integration and completion reaches its transcendent goal in God. Nature of divinity, soul, fate of humanity and universe emerge from the deepest part of our being. The secret of all qabalah is that it must be practiced to be personally experienced, as is the case of all Mystery Schools. The secret's in the knowing and the knowing's in the secret. Kabbalah came out of the Egyptian mystery schools."GOD out of NOTHING" is a pre-scientific theory of the Universe, which turns out to have seen through to the primal geometric nature of atomic and subatom.
by Iona Miller, 1993
ABSTRACT: The science of wholeness emerging from interdisciplinary approaches to the nature of reality reflects many Qabalistic principles. Among the theories expressing this new paradigm are quantum mechanics, chaos theory, Energy Medicine and Biophysics, Holographic Concept of Reality, Pribram's holographic brain, Buckminster Fuller's synergetics, Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields, co-evolution, the Gaia and Panspermia hypotheses, semiotics, hermeneutics, hyperdimensional realities, the new cosmology and consciousness studies.In new sciences, consciousness and matter share the same essence as different expressions of the same reality. New sciences describe the evolution of the laws of nature, the evolution of our perception of nature. In this view there are no abolutes, no fixed laws of nature, only a relative stability. The laws of nature are evolving because nature is creative.
This universal dynamic creativity is also the domain of the Qabala with its consciousness map, the Tree of Life. It presents a holistic image of emergent creativity, a webwork of the interaction of various spheres of influence, and the complex feedback loops which bind them to one another. In terms of consciousness, each sphere (hypersphere) represents a discrete state of consciousness, and each path a transitional phase, or transformation. Aspects of the system can be entrained through resonance.Every body placed in the luminous air spreads out in circles and fills the surrounding space withi infinite likenesses of itself and appears all in all. --Leonardo da Vinci
Our mapmaking changes the very terrain, and terrain in turn changes our map. Maps, mapmakers, and terrains whirl around each other like the vortex in a river which expresses the whole. -Briggs and Peat, Looking Glass Universe
A WHOLE -- IF NOT ABSOLUTE -- TRUTH
Wholeness has traditionally been a mystical perspective. Now, the new sciences with radical notions of nonlinear complex dynamics, nonlocality, chaotic behavior, patterns of energy flow, relativity, enmeshment, fuzzy logic, etc. are revealing a deeper order underlying the nature of our directly experienced reality.Wholeness is characterized by "flow," and the influence of every event on every other. Through minute fluctuation, this flow gives birth to sudden orders of all kinds--structures of flowing energy exchange. The whole is contained, paradoxically, within the "part," holographically.
Yet, wholeness can include incompleteness, the higher degree of order always hidden in apparent randomness.Analogous processes of transformation in consciousness lead to insight and creativity. Each moment in the therapeutic process, as in all life, reflects all others in the past. Each therapeutic image contains a fractal-like representation of past, present, and future. The transformation of imagery reflects in creativity; transformation of beliefs, thoughts, feelings, values, attitudes and behavior.
The Tree of Life encodes a dynamic system of transformation of the individual at the physical, emotional, conceptual, and spiritual levels. Rather than a hierarchical "ladder" to be climbed, the Tree is a stratified image of the holistic nature of existence which interpenetrates as a fluid exchange of energy at every level. More subtle "planes" are simply more deeply enfolded aspects of reality--hidden domains of order creating variables in our ordinary existence.
More than the sum of its parts, the Tree represents a multidimensional web of processes emanating in all directions by the conjoint macro-micro co-evolution of all systems. This web exalts the pure intensification of life. The secret of the universe is that it is alive.The qabalistic Tree presents a model of reality and consciousness which is organic in nature. It reflects the nature of nature, the nature of mind, and relevates the nature mind (natural mind) -- void of conceptualization -- the Clear Light.
Qabala offers an animated alternative perspective to the mechanistic, cybernetic models of psychoneurological function.
The living Tree models co-evolution as a creation that is happening at every point everywhere, in a fractal-like bottomless unfolding. It also accomodates the self-referential process of recursive feeding back (or recycling) of consciousness in psychological transformation -- modeling the penetration of awareness into deeply implicate realms. Pathworking provides for the opening, amplification, and exploration of specific feedback channels, and the induction of specific altered states of consciousness.
The Tree is a graphic representation of the dynamic process of becoming. There is no real hierarchy, no fundamental level of description. Rather, there are different levels, each dependent on the others in complex ways. Higher levels feed back strands of information to lower levels, back to new higher levels, and so on. Rather than describing a world of things, it describes process structures and emphasizes relationship. It describes hidden formative principles, and a webwork of multiple perspectives.
Modern cosmology suggests that all matter plus all gravity in the observable universe equals zero. So the universe -- and therefore, ourselves -- could come from nothing, because it is fundamentally nothing. This echoes the qabalistic creation myth where all substance emanates from the primordial Veils of Negative Existence. It reminds us of the Vedic and Buddhist notions that we and all we can observe are no more than 'mind-stuff.' It reminds of Jung's conclusion that at the most fundamental levels psyche and matter are the same, that psyche and soma are indissoluably welded in our psychophysical selves.
The story goes that around 4,000 years ago an angel of God gave the Qabala and Tree of Life to Abraham. Though the glyph has gone through a few permutations through the centuries, it's essence has remained intact. Curiously, this matrix describes the exact geometries of the nucelus of atomic structure as described by Buckminster Fuller in Synergetics. By "looking within" the qabalists correctly deduced the primal structure of reality without any recourse to modern science and technology. Apparently, the angels spoke the Truth. This is the essence of Synergetic Qabala.
SYNERGETIC QABALA HOME PAGE SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGY: I-Magick and the Search for Self Qabalah is an underground spiritual current, a distillation and synthesis of some of the main threads of western spiritual technology. It is a path of Knowledge, a Way of being in the world enlivened by deeper dimensions. Kabbala is the traditional term applied to the practice of Jewish mysticism with a visionary, intuitive nature. Hermetic Qabalah is the basis of Western occultism, the Renaissance and The Enlightenment. Both traditional and metaphysical currents offer profoundly personal experiences of the divine nature of life, transforming the ordinary and creating a journey to the center of the self, where all things are made whole, kindled by divine love. Postmodern "generic" forms of magick, in particular Thelema and/or Chaos Magick strip the religious veneer from the purely technological spiritual practices. In today's occulture we are each the lords of creation; we create our own lived realities.
Each of us is autonomous, even our own form of divinity if we choose to manifest that. This may strike some as narcissistic and grandiose. It is, if one does magick in the name of ego rather than Higher Self. The main quest of magick is for the transpersonal Self - the Angel, the Daemon, the Genius. Presence in the Now means optimal expression of human potential.As paths of self-development, traditional and metaphysical currents are esoteric psychologies with a metaphysical worldview. One substitutes a pragmatic philosophy of Self-Realization and self-actualization for the religious bedrock of the traditional forms.
The modern search for the Self in a conformist culture is encompassed by the lower half of the Tree: in the Spheres from Malkuth (Earth) to Tiphareth (Heart). Since the goal is the heartcenter of integration, THE DIAMOND BODY, the object is to pick a path with Heart and to develop one's inherent potential artfully and heartfully, whether you "believe" in God, or polytheistic gods or not. A primary tenet is to first harm none...a metaphysical "Do unto others..." The struggle here is between willfulness, True Will and free will. Modern consciousness studies show there is virtually no such thing as free will, in the sense the term was used during The Enlightenment. Then the struggle was to break free of thought-control by church and state. Now our minds are controlled by lockdown media and pop culture. So, the premise of generic magick is to control and deploy your own thoughts creating your own reality via cybernetic technologies.
Kabbalists seek communion with God in the divine Light - Ain Soph. The sacred is the ground of Being - God the Father; God the Mother, and God within as Presence, all consuming love. Profound spiritual integration and completion reaches its transcendent goal in God. Nature of divinity, soul, fate of humanity and universe emerge from the deepest part of our being. The secret of all qabalah is that it must be practiced to be personally experienced, as is the case of all Mystery Schools. The secret's in the knowing and the knowing's in the secret. Kabbalah came out of the Egyptian mystery schools."GOD out of NOTHING" is a pre-scientific theory of the Universe, which turns out to have seen through to the primal geometric nature of atomic and subatom.
NO WAY KABBALAH
NO WAY QABALAH
Kabbalistic mysticism flowered within the syncretism of medieval and renaissance Spain when Christians, Jews, and Moslems lived in close proximity and exchanged philosophical traditions freely. Kabbalah was heavily influenced by the Sufi tradition.
Anyone can be a spiritualperson even an atheist. Spirituality expresses as being in touch with your consciousness, that little voice you can hear right now in your head, and making an effort to improve your conduct and love of our fellow humans. On the other hand mysticism or gnosis is the direct knowledge of God, where individuals YEARN to have a direct, meaningful and above all fulfilling relationship with their creator.
Thus every religious tradition will have a certain cadre of believers who thread the Gnostic route which in fact is a methodology to meet and eventually annihilate into GOD. The universal theme of pining for the Divine is a spiritual wound that educates us – leads us from our status quo. The word ‘blessing’ is derived from the Latin for spiritual wound.
The objective of mysticism is Annihilation in the Godhead. In the former experience the veils are removed from the heart of the Mystic and he or she comprehends the naked Truth. Subject and object merge and all labels such as Muslim, Jew, or Christian dissolve. After this transformation, the mystic returns to this reality as a conduit for God and integrates into this cosmos. A mystic is someone who has completed the path and achieved mystical union with God and returned to this physical reality, whereas a student is known as a traveller or seeker.
We can facilitate one another as fellow travellers. Since, all the questions and answers are already within us and we merely assist in the unveiling of the heart. Every day around us we are literally bombarded by virtually limitless SIGNS from the DIVINE and at the core or heart of every mystical philosophy there are tools to train the five senses to pick them up. Mystics are merely experts in remaining / becoming the moment and facilitating others into it. Their healing effect is one of osmosis; teaching by example. In reality this is Nirvana, Fana, Godhood, the void. Their external features are immersed in light and intricate jewellery of those moments.
Any mystic, is in reality a nothing / nobody / zero. In the Bruce Lee movie ‘The Game of Death’, there is a scene where he moves up a pagoda. At each level he fights a master of each style. He beats all of them. Consequently, he encompasses all styles and therefore he has no style. Or put it another way if you mix yellow and blue you get green. However, at a subtle level the green does not exist because the blue and yellow are distinct!
Bruce Lee was an inconoclast who felt petrified tradition often hampered ‘best practice.’ He was a fan of what worked, and worked efficiently…effortless effort. Rather than breaking rules he moved beyond rule-boundedness to the no-boundaries consciousness, and reacted through essence in the moment, the here and now…effortless action which brings the force of the Cosmos along with it. It is essentially a FLOW state.
He accomplished his goals by harnessing force and momentum and turning them toward his advantage. It is the same in kabbalah if our slavery to or parroting of tradition ties us to inauthentic forms. We need to go beyond rote practice into the essence of living from that wellspring of joy and abundance, of nurturance that sustains our lives.
It is that stabilized connection that makes it “work”, not arcane keys or endless numerical ruminations, though they have their place in our contemplation. Remember the Go Master in the movie “PI” who told our protagonist that if he wanted to find secret codes, he could do it anywhere, even in the cracks of the sidewalk. We seek external signs and synchronicities to confirm what we already know. Still, we must continue to look within.
In sum, the culture and ethos of your inner being will fundamentally change for the better by facilitating the unfreezing of the umbilical cord with the divine. This is an ongoing process and the road to success is always under construction. ‘GOD IS WITHIN ALL OF US’, as a transcendental and immanent reality, inner and outer dialogue. Call it what you Will.
Before realization of annihilation in the Godhead, the mystic will initially dissolve in his Master and then into the Light. In the former experience the culturally superfluous personality veils are removed from the heart of the Mystic and he or she comprehends the naked Truth. Subject and object merge all labels such a Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, or Christian dissolve.
After this transformation the mystic returns to this reality as a conduit for God and integrates into this cosmos. He or she will help all of humanity regardless of faith or (ir)religiosity and becomes a viceroy for God, i.e., the celebrated PERFECT ONE or Zaddik of kabbalism, the Sant Sat Guru of the east, the western Master. The essence of mysticism is being in awe and wonder of God, but not necessarily being conscious of it. i.e., PARADOX.
Quantum cosmology is now demonstrating scientifically that the old Hermetic axiom, “AS ABOVE, SO BELOW” is a living reality linking micro- and macrocosm. There is an archetypal identity between divinity and mankind, mankind and the Universe. Therefore we are capable of “cosmic consciousness.” When we look within we find that bit of cosmos that we each embody, and we are not separate from THAT, down to the fundamental metaphysical groundstate of our Being.
It is a WAY not a destination, an experiment that lasts a lifetime. If you don’t believe it, make the experiment for yourself. Ultimately, it is about access to and direct experience of discrete states of consciousness – all ways of Being and Becoming. It is everythingforever; there is no thing that is not God. It is “nowhere”…NOW-HERE. It is the Way of No Way.
Kabbalistic mysticism flowered within the syncretism of medieval and renaissance Spain when Christians, Jews, and Moslems lived in close proximity and exchanged philosophical traditions freely. Kabbalah was heavily influenced by the Sufi tradition.
Anyone can be a spiritualperson even an atheist. Spirituality expresses as being in touch with your consciousness, that little voice you can hear right now in your head, and making an effort to improve your conduct and love of our fellow humans. On the other hand mysticism or gnosis is the direct knowledge of God, where individuals YEARN to have a direct, meaningful and above all fulfilling relationship with their creator.
Thus every religious tradition will have a certain cadre of believers who thread the Gnostic route which in fact is a methodology to meet and eventually annihilate into GOD. The universal theme of pining for the Divine is a spiritual wound that educates us – leads us from our status quo. The word ‘blessing’ is derived from the Latin for spiritual wound.
The objective of mysticism is Annihilation in the Godhead. In the former experience the veils are removed from the heart of the Mystic and he or she comprehends the naked Truth. Subject and object merge and all labels such as Muslim, Jew, or Christian dissolve. After this transformation, the mystic returns to this reality as a conduit for God and integrates into this cosmos. A mystic is someone who has completed the path and achieved mystical union with God and returned to this physical reality, whereas a student is known as a traveller or seeker.
We can facilitate one another as fellow travellers. Since, all the questions and answers are already within us and we merely assist in the unveiling of the heart. Every day around us we are literally bombarded by virtually limitless SIGNS from the DIVINE and at the core or heart of every mystical philosophy there are tools to train the five senses to pick them up. Mystics are merely experts in remaining / becoming the moment and facilitating others into it. Their healing effect is one of osmosis; teaching by example. In reality this is Nirvana, Fana, Godhood, the void. Their external features are immersed in light and intricate jewellery of those moments.
Any mystic, is in reality a nothing / nobody / zero. In the Bruce Lee movie ‘The Game of Death’, there is a scene where he moves up a pagoda. At each level he fights a master of each style. He beats all of them. Consequently, he encompasses all styles and therefore he has no style. Or put it another way if you mix yellow and blue you get green. However, at a subtle level the green does not exist because the blue and yellow are distinct!
Bruce Lee was an inconoclast who felt petrified tradition often hampered ‘best practice.’ He was a fan of what worked, and worked efficiently…effortless effort. Rather than breaking rules he moved beyond rule-boundedness to the no-boundaries consciousness, and reacted through essence in the moment, the here and now…effortless action which brings the force of the Cosmos along with it. It is essentially a FLOW state.
He accomplished his goals by harnessing force and momentum and turning them toward his advantage. It is the same in kabbalah if our slavery to or parroting of tradition ties us to inauthentic forms. We need to go beyond rote practice into the essence of living from that wellspring of joy and abundance, of nurturance that sustains our lives.
It is that stabilized connection that makes it “work”, not arcane keys or endless numerical ruminations, though they have their place in our contemplation. Remember the Go Master in the movie “PI” who told our protagonist that if he wanted to find secret codes, he could do it anywhere, even in the cracks of the sidewalk. We seek external signs and synchronicities to confirm what we already know. Still, we must continue to look within.
In sum, the culture and ethos of your inner being will fundamentally change for the better by facilitating the unfreezing of the umbilical cord with the divine. This is an ongoing process and the road to success is always under construction. ‘GOD IS WITHIN ALL OF US’, as a transcendental and immanent reality, inner and outer dialogue. Call it what you Will.
Before realization of annihilation in the Godhead, the mystic will initially dissolve in his Master and then into the Light. In the former experience the culturally superfluous personality veils are removed from the heart of the Mystic and he or she comprehends the naked Truth. Subject and object merge all labels such a Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, or Christian dissolve.
After this transformation the mystic returns to this reality as a conduit for God and integrates into this cosmos. He or she will help all of humanity regardless of faith or (ir)religiosity and becomes a viceroy for God, i.e., the celebrated PERFECT ONE or Zaddik of kabbalism, the Sant Sat Guru of the east, the western Master. The essence of mysticism is being in awe and wonder of God, but not necessarily being conscious of it. i.e., PARADOX.
Quantum cosmology is now demonstrating scientifically that the old Hermetic axiom, “AS ABOVE, SO BELOW” is a living reality linking micro- and macrocosm. There is an archetypal identity between divinity and mankind, mankind and the Universe. Therefore we are capable of “cosmic consciousness.” When we look within we find that bit of cosmos that we each embody, and we are not separate from THAT, down to the fundamental metaphysical groundstate of our Being.
It is a WAY not a destination, an experiment that lasts a lifetime. If you don’t believe it, make the experiment for yourself. Ultimately, it is about access to and direct experience of discrete states of consciousness – all ways of Being and Becoming. It is everythingforever; there is no thing that is not God. It is “nowhere”…NOW-HERE. It is the Way of No Way.
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PATHWORKING: Pantheon: Gods in Daily Life
http://zero-point.tripod.com/pantheon/pantheon.html
PANTHEON PREFACE (1999):
When I began my own study and practice of pathworking, it became readily apparent to me that there was much more to be learned about godforms in Jungian literature than in all the Qabala and Magick books put together. But no one had been very comprehensive nor systematic about their presentations. Pantheon is a broad survey or study of the archetypes as discussed in the literature of Jungian Psychology. Typically, the Jungians discuss archetypes by using the Greek godforms, since they are generally more familiar from school days and considered more "user-friendly". But pantheons are a cross-cultural phenomena, so a table of correspondences is provided to translate into other cultural pantheons.This is not neo-paganism.
These gods and goddesses are not presented as objects of worship or veneration, but as universal autonomous forces with their own agendas which weave constantly through our outer and inner reality. They are relevant in daily life because they are the motivating factors behind our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behavior. We can hardly hope to be self-directing individuals without some knowledge of their patterns and effects on our lives and souls. In this work, the correspondences of godforms to chapters is patterned after the Paths and Tarot Trumps.
A godform is corresponded with each Trump through astrological attributes. This makes Pantheon useful to students of Tarot, Qabala, astrology, and Jungian thought.When I first wrote it in 1983, it was the first and only compilation of this material in one convenient source. Since then, Jungian ideas became mainstream and several analysts and other Transpersonal Psychologists have offered many workshops and written excellent books on "personal mythology." These include such eminent personalities as Joseph Campbell, Jean Houston, Robert Bly, Jean Shinoda Bolin, and Stan Krippner to name just a few. Yet, this volume still has something unique to offer with its workbook format, suggestions for further study, and the qabalistic spin. Myth has become an important core feature of modern spirituality.
http://zero-point.tripod.com/pantheon/pantheon.html
PANTHEON PREFACE (1999):
When I began my own study and practice of pathworking, it became readily apparent to me that there was much more to be learned about godforms in Jungian literature than in all the Qabala and Magick books put together. But no one had been very comprehensive nor systematic about their presentations. Pantheon is a broad survey or study of the archetypes as discussed in the literature of Jungian Psychology. Typically, the Jungians discuss archetypes by using the Greek godforms, since they are generally more familiar from school days and considered more "user-friendly". But pantheons are a cross-cultural phenomena, so a table of correspondences is provided to translate into other cultural pantheons.This is not neo-paganism.
These gods and goddesses are not presented as objects of worship or veneration, but as universal autonomous forces with their own agendas which weave constantly through our outer and inner reality. They are relevant in daily life because they are the motivating factors behind our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behavior. We can hardly hope to be self-directing individuals without some knowledge of their patterns and effects on our lives and souls. In this work, the correspondences of godforms to chapters is patterned after the Paths and Tarot Trumps.
A godform is corresponded with each Trump through astrological attributes. This makes Pantheon useful to students of Tarot, Qabala, astrology, and Jungian thought.When I first wrote it in 1983, it was the first and only compilation of this material in one convenient source. Since then, Jungian ideas became mainstream and several analysts and other Transpersonal Psychologists have offered many workshops and written excellent books on "personal mythology." These include such eminent personalities as Joseph Campbell, Jean Houston, Robert Bly, Jean Shinoda Bolin, and Stan Krippner to name just a few. Yet, this volume still has something unique to offer with its workbook format, suggestions for further study, and the qabalistic spin. Myth has become an important core feature of modern spirituality.