Format: Audio (mp3 and m4b audiobook included)
Running Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is one of the best known and most widely respected voices in Jewish mysticism and world spirituality. Trained in the Lubavitch Hassidic movement, he later became the founder of B‘nai Or (Children of Light) and then ALEPH, the enormously influential Jewish Renewal movement. More recently, he founded the Spiritual Eldering Institute and was a holder of the World Wisdom Chair at Naropa. Zalman is also considered one of the major authorities on Kabbalah, the most profound of the Jewish teachings.
In reviewing Wilber‘s The Eye of Spirit, Zalman stated that "the Kabbalah of the future will lean on Ken‘s work," and in this absorbing dialogue, Zalman and Ken discuss the new "Kosmology"--and how "Kosmology plus Kabbalah" is where much exciting work now lies. In a particularly valuable segment, Zalman outlines his 7 basic recommendations for an integral spirituality, what he sees as “seven of the main tenets of an integral Kabbalah.” These are Zalman‘s pointers for how Kabbalah--or simply spirituality in general--can be updated and brought into the modern and postmodern world by making it more integral. Culled from a lifetime of exemplary spiritual practice, these 7 guidelines are surely essential to any integral spiritual practice.