Kabbalah and consciousness and the poetry of Allen Afterman.
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| Author / Creator: | Afterman, Allen B. |
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| Imprint: | Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Sheep Meadow Press ; [Hanover, N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England, c2005. |
| Description: | xxii, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5626039 |
Table of Contents:
- A Poet's Kabbalah: A Critical Note
- Afterword
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. The Unity of Consciousness
- 1. Man as a Microcosm of Reality
- 2. The Fall of Consciousness
- II. Perception
- 1. Seeing Through the Sefirot
- 2. Objective and Subjective Perception
- 3. Male and Female Perception
- 4. Seeing with the Eyes of God
- III. Truth
- 1. Dying for Truth
- 2. The Man of Actions
- 3. True Actions: Mitzvot (Commandments)
- 4. Truth and Love
- IV. Returning Home
- 1. Time
- Birth and Death
- Shalom
- 2. Returning Home: The Circles and Rhythms of Tshuvah
- The End Enwedged into the Beginning
- Hiding and Seeking
- 3. The Destined Woman
- V. Passages Through the Generations
- 1. Memory
- 2. Reincarnation (Gilgulim)
- The Universal Soul of Adam
- Passage Through the Generations
- VI. The Tzaddik's Mind (Rectified Consciousness)
- 1. The Mind's Transparence
- 2. The Other Side: Imagination, and the Unconscious
- 3. The Infinite Present
- 4. Fifth Dimensional, and Messianic Consciousness
- VII. Union
- 1. Meditation
- 2. Song Meditation
- 3. Mystical Union
- VIII. Pleasing the Land of Israel
- 1. A Microcosm of Reality
- 2. Seeding
- An Overview of the Kabbalistic Reality
- 1. The Creation, and the Tzimtzum (Withdrawal; Contraction)
- 2. The Five Worlds
- 3. The Tree of Life, the Ten Sefirot
- 4. The Breaking of the Vessels
- 5. Evil and Free Choice
- 6. The Rectification of Reality (Tikkun)
- Desire for White
- IX. The Poetry of Allen Afterman
- The Maze Rose
- Purple Adam
- In the Other
- X. Some Answers by Allen Afterman to Questions
