Kabbalah and the Coincidence of Opposites

The Sefirot as “Circles” In his systematic work on the Lurianic Kabbalah, Sefer Etz Chayyim. Chayyim Vital describes how previous Kabbalists have been divided on the question of the precise organization, at the time of their emanation, of the Sefirot, the ten value-archetypes through which God creates and structures the world. Some Kabbalists, Vital informs us, held that the Sefirot were […]

Gershom Scholem, whose own interpretation of the Kabbalah was itself influenced by the philosophy of German idealism, once remarked that Moses Cordovero’s doctrine of the behinnot exemplifies the application of dialectical thinking within a Kabbalistic framework. The behinnot doctrine, in brief, states that each of the sefirot, the ten archetypes through which God emanates and structures the world, […]

This article was originally published in The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Volume 43, No. 4, Fall 2003 © 2003 Sage Publications. Download PDF here Abstract: The author proposes a dialectical/realist solution to the problem of multiple paradigms in psychology.  Specifically, he argues that theoretical models in psychology are akin to various two-dimensional maps of the three-dimensional, spherical earth.  In cartography […]

This article, which was written in 2006 served as the impetus to my book: Archetype of the Absolute: The Union of Opposites in Mysticism, Philosopby and Psychology. Fielding University Press, 2017. Downlad PDF here Just as the Supernal Wisdom is a starting point of the whole, so is the lower world also a manifestation of […]