Opening the inner gates

the long version

The Kabbalah is Judaism's intriguing mystical tradition, thousands of years old. Though Jewish mysticism fell into obscurity for much of the industrial age, since the 1960s it has begun flowering once again throughout the world. In recent years, a growing number of people - both Jews and non-Jews - are finding the Kabbalah to be a fascinating treasure house of wisdom about the human mind. Men and women are discovering and applying Jewish mystical insights in daily life, and professionals in such fields as psychology, psychotherapy, and medicine are actively using Kabbalah in their work. Opening the Inner Gates is an up-to-date anthology concerning these new explorations. In sixteen chapters, thirteen contributors present both theoretical considerations and applied methods of Kabbalah in such areas as healing, the mind-body relationship, dreamwork, intuition and creativity, storytelling, women's spirituality, parenting, working with the elderly, and "repairing the world" (tikkun olam).