Exploring Re-Visioned Kabbalah:Study Guide for the 4 Kabbalah Chapters in Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century by Judith Laura

By Judith Laura

The Second Enlarged Edition of Judith Laura’s award-winning book, Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics, has a brief study guide for all subjects and chapters in the book. This longer study and discussion guide is for readers interested in delving even more deeply into the Kabbalah/Qabalah material comprising 4 chapters of the book. This guide focuses just on those four chapters, which describe metaphysical forms known as Jewish Kabbalah and Western Esoteric or Hermetic Qabalah, provide a historical analysis of them, and then propose a re-visioning (or re-envisioning) of the central kabbalistic symbol, the Tree of Life. This re-envisioning reveals the Tree’s Goddess roots and achieves more egalitarian imagery. This study guide is meant to help people reading this material on their own, as well as to provide guidance for people studying in groups and their teachers or leaders.

This guide to chapters 2-5 of Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century has 6 parts. Parts 1-3 examine book chapters 2 and 3 on Jewish Kabbalah. Parts 4 and 5 discuss chapter 4, Hermetic Qabalah. Part 6 relates to chapter 5 of the book, a re-envisioning of the kabbalistic Tree of Life, and describes ways to use the guided meditations and rituals in this chapter. Part 6 of this guide also includes 3 graphics from the book (reproduced here slightly smaller than in the book) that show gender attributions in the various versions of the Tree of Life. (The book also contains two other Tree of Life graphics in earlier chapters.)

This guide was written by the author, who has used it her teaching. With the exception of the opening guided meditation given in Part 1, which appears in this guide but not in the book, all material referred to in this study guide is provided in the book, Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Judith Laura
• Release date: Feb 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458020369

Judith Laura

Judith Laura is author of two novels and three Goddess spirituality books, the most recent of which is _Goddess Matters: the mystical, practical and controversial_. Both novels, _Three Part Invention_ and _Beyond All Desiring_, are available in both print and e-book formats. _Beyond All Desiring_, is recipient of three awards. The Goddess books are currently only in print, but the Study Guide to the Kabbalah chapters in _Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: from Kabbalah to Quantum Physics_ is available in e-book format only. The second enlarged edition of _Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century_, was named Winner in the comparative religion category of the 2009 USA Best Book Awards. The Combined Third Edition of her book, _She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother_ was published in 2010. Her Goddess writings have also appeared in the journals WomanSpirit, SageWoman, The Beltane Papers, Broomstick, Matrifocus, and Goddess Pages and the blogs, Feminism and Religion and Motherhouse of the Goddess (as well as her own blog). She has appeared on podcasts of the Motherhouse of the Goddess. Material from her Goddess books has been included in the Dancing the Goddess Home ritual of the Goddess 2000 Project, _A Winter Solstice Singing Ritual_, and the anthologies _SageWoman Cauldron_, _A Pagan's Muse_, and _Talking to Goddess_. Her fiction and poetry have been published in a variety of print and online journals and anthologies. For more info about her books, visit http://www.judithlaura.com/books.html

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Exploring Re-Visioned Kabbalah

Study Guide for the 4 Kabbalah Chapters

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Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century:

from Kabbalah to Quantum Physics

by Judith Laura

For Individuals and Groups

© 2011 by Judith Laura. All rights reserved.

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About This Study Guide

The Second Enlarged Edition of Judith Laura’s award-winning book, Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics, has a brief study guide for all subjects and chapters in the book.