Shattered Field of Reflections

by David Chaim Smith

Shattered Field of Reflections offers a unique version of the obscure 13th Century text entitled Fountain of Wisdom, which is surely one of the oddest and most difficult Kabbalistic works in existence. Rather than attach a separate commentary to the text, the whole work has been rewritten to clarify a fuller expression of its vision with an emphasis on its most special qualities. For comparative purposes, the original 13th Century text is also provided in its entirety. Supporting this monumental work are many diagrammatic representations of key principles that go hand in hand with the text. Through the synergy of these linguistic and graphic elements the material has been given new life, and can be accessed in ways not possible at any other time in history.

92 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2024

About the author

David Chaim Smith was born in 1964 in Queens, New York. His early career was as a visual artist throughout the 1980s. In 1990 he began an immersion into the root sources of Alchemy and the Hermetic and Hebrew traditions of the Kabbalah. In 1996 he abandoned visual art for a total dedication to spiritual practice, from which came a unique blend of practical mysticism and creative innovation. This blend coalesced while working with an obscure thirteenth-century text called The Fountain of Wisdom, which he mapped out diagrammatically in notebooks during his ten-year hiatus from visual art. The resulting symbol vocabulary served as the basis for his 2006 return to art, generating the content for several books. He currently lives in the suburbs of New York City with his wife, Rachel.