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Hasan-i-Sabah's Heresy, Kabbalah, and Parting with Friends 'For the Love of God'
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Hasan-i-Sabah's Heresy, Kabbalah, and Parting with Friends 'For the Love of God'

Episode 35: After feeling too sick to record the spiritual podcasts on Friday and Saturday, I combine all three mystical traditions into Sunday's and drag Sally along for the ride.
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Sep 25, 2022

Well sorry, everyone. I’ve felt so terrible the last few days I haven’t even been able to record my Friday Muslim mysticism and Saturday Jewish mysticism podcasts. So I’ll combine the readings from what I’d planned there for today’s.

See Part 1 of the Friday Muslim mysticism podcasts:

God of the Desert Books
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Listen now (18 min) | James Wasserman was a writer, editor, and publisher with a focus on mysticism, esotericism, and the western occult tradition. I got to know him a bit in his final years after the publication of his autobiography In the Center of the Fire and my including it in a list of books for “counterculture conservatives” along with others by Wasserman. Visit Wasse…
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3 years ago · David Swindle

See part 2 of the Saturday Jewish mysticism series:

God of the Desert Books
The Prophet Elijah: 'It Is He Who Carries the Divine Message from Generation to Generation'
Listen now (16 min) | Finishing the first chapter of Gershom Scholem’s On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism, the scholar of Jewish mysticism explains how Judaism contains and restrains its mystics. See the previous entry in this ongoing series on Saturdays exploring what the Jewish mystical tradition can teach us…
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3 years ago · David Swindle

See Part 1:

God of the Desert Books
Beginning An Exploration of Jewish Mysticism on Saturday Mornings
Listen now (17 min) | We’re going to begin talking about Jewish mysticism, spirituality, and philosophy on our Saturday morning podcasts. We’ll start with an excerpt from a very influential book on Jewish mysticism warning about the clashes between religious mysticism and religious authority and the pitfalls of taking a secular approach to mysticism…
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4 years ago · David Swindle

See the background inspiration of this podcasting series:

God of the Desert Books
Revealing My Second Ketamine-Inspired Prophetic Revelation
Last week I tried to follow my doctor’s direction by not disclosing immediately the contents of the insights gained from my second round of ketamine infusion therapy, but I did hint at what all was involved: After my first infusion of ketamine on Monday, I began to experience immediate relief from my PTSD symptoms. I was no longer feeling the hyper-arous…
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3 years ago · David Swindle

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