Kingdoms of Experience: The Four Worlds of Kabbalah as Prayer and Meditation - Paperback

by Kennard Lipman (Author)

Our ability to sense, imagine, think, and will constitute the Image of God within us. The subject of this book is how to cultivate these abilities so that they become the means for experiencing God's presence in the world.Insights and practices from modern psychology, such as Gendlin's focusing and Jungian active imagination, are also integrated into a holistic vision. This book includes meditation instructions (kavvanah) on Hebrew prayers, as well as a discussion of the relationship of the meditations presented in this book to Christian and Buddhist contemplative practices.Kingdoms of Experience is for both experienced and beginning meditators interested in learning a practical approach to meditation in the western tradition.

Author Biography

Kennard Lipman, Ph.D., received rabbinic ordination in 2002 from the Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, and was rabbi in State College, Pennsylvania and Napa, California. He currently teaches at Oakland Hebrew Day School in Oakland, California and lives in Berkeley with his wife, Annetta, and nine year old daughter, Naomi. Rabbi Lipman traveled to India in 1969 and then studied for the next 20 years with some of the foremost teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, including Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. He received his Ph.D. in Far Eastern Studies in 1979 under Prof. H.V. Guenther. He taught in, and was also Program Director of, the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.