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The Kabbalah of Light: Ancient Practices to Ignite the Imagination and Illuminate the Soul
• Shares 159 short exercises and practices to tap instantly into your subconscious mind and receive answers to your most important questions
• Explains how to dialogue with and understand the imagery and metaphors that arise during these practices
• Offers powerful practices to discover your areas of “stuckness” and quickly clear them, thus releasing past traumas and ancestral patterns and freeing the flow of the imagination for enhanced creativity and joy in life
In this step-by-step guide to kabbalistic practices to connect with your natural inner genius and liberate the light within you, Catherine Shainberg reveals how to tap instantly into the subconscious and receive answers to urgent questions. This method, called the Kabbalah of Light, originated with Rabbi Isaac the Blind of Posquieres (1160-1235) and has been passed down by an ancient kabbalistic family, the Sheshet of Gerona, in an unbroken transmission spanning more than 800 years.
The modern lineage holder of the Kabbalah of Light, Shainberg shares 159 short experiential exercises and practices to help you begin dialoguing with your subconscious through images. The images that pop up during these practices are unexpected and revelatory, and she discusses how to open them to greater understanding. At first, they may show you aspects of yourself you don’t like. But seeing them serves as both a diagnosis and a direct path to transformation. Fast and simple, the practices can help you discover your areas of “stuckness,” release past traumas and ancestral patterns, free the imagination, and open the way to the bliss promised us in the Garden of Eden.
Beginning this fertile dialogue with your inner world leads you to uncover your soul’s purpose and manifest your dreams in this world. Once your inner dream world and outer reality have merged, you will be able to see your superconscious--your soul’s blueprint--and experience the ecstatic illumination of a heart-centered life.
• Explains how to dialogue with and understand the imagery and metaphors that arise during these practices
• Offers powerful practices to discover your areas of “stuckness” and quickly clear them, thus releasing past traumas and ancestral patterns and freeing the flow of the imagination for enhanced creativity and joy in life
In this step-by-step guide to kabbalistic practices to connect with your natural inner genius and liberate the light within you, Catherine Shainberg reveals how to tap instantly into the subconscious and receive answers to urgent questions. This method, called the Kabbalah of Light, originated with Rabbi Isaac the Blind of Posquieres (1160-1235) and has been passed down by an ancient kabbalistic family, the Sheshet of Gerona, in an unbroken transmission spanning more than 800 years.
The modern lineage holder of the Kabbalah of Light, Shainberg shares 159 short experiential exercises and practices to help you begin dialoguing with your subconscious through images. The images that pop up during these practices are unexpected and revelatory, and she discusses how to open them to greater understanding. At first, they may show you aspects of yourself you don’t like. But seeing them serves as both a diagnosis and a direct path to transformation. Fast and simple, the practices can help you discover your areas of “stuckness,” release past traumas and ancestral patterns, free the imagination, and open the way to the bliss promised us in the Garden of Eden.
Beginning this fertile dialogue with your inner world leads you to uncover your soul’s purpose and manifest your dreams in this world. Once your inner dream world and outer reality have merged, you will be able to see your superconscious--your soul’s blueprint--and experience the ecstatic illumination of a heart-centered life.
352 pages, Paperback
Published July 5, 2022
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August 5, 2026
This is a book that can bring you all of the simple shifts that make a life infinitely easier that our generation overlooks. When something is pressing on us just a little too hard, it is customary to give in, blame, or stop trying. Yet there is so much beauty in pushing through, no matter how ugly, out of place, or discomfiting it feels.
First, the book discusses a visualisation exercise that serves as a throughline for the entire book and is basically a reminder to stay in line with the truth of what feels worth putting in effort for you. In The Kabbalah of Light, Catherine Shainberg introduces the book with a meditation strategy called the blue vase method of meditating on your thoughts and calming your mind. The meditation on the blue vase is meant to evoke spiritual emptiness and an understanding of our holiness despite any cracks that feel invasive to our being in the present moment. Shainberg forms a close teacher-student relationship with the reader of her book when she instructs her students to visualise a waterfall flowing in one of the meditations that is meant to bring peace of mind as the reader allows any disturbances of the present moment to flow through them. Her narrative style of enveloping her students in the light of Jewish knowledge and wisdom is ideal for any seeker who is just learning to interpret their mind’s visualisations, dreams, and thoughts. The book is thought-provoking and inspiring.
First, the book discusses a visualisation exercise that serves as a throughline for the entire book and is basically a reminder to stay in line with the truth of what feels worth putting in effort for you. In The Kabbalah of Light, Catherine Shainberg introduces the book with a meditation strategy called the blue vase method of meditating on your thoughts and calming your mind. The meditation on the blue vase is meant to evoke spiritual emptiness and an understanding of our holiness despite any cracks that feel invasive to our being in the present moment. Shainberg forms a close teacher-student relationship with the reader of her book when she instructs her students to visualise a waterfall flowing in one of the meditations that is meant to bring peace of mind as the reader allows any disturbances of the present moment to flow through them. Her narrative style of enveloping her students in the light of Jewish knowledge and wisdom is ideal for any seeker who is just learning to interpret their mind’s visualisations, dreams, and thoughts. The book is thought-provoking and inspiring.
July 13, 2025
This is another precious book from dr.Catherine Shainberg and in my opinion most accessible one. Even if you haven’t experienced her work in person, this book can be a great start or introduction as it covers all the important topics very systematically so you are able to do the exercises on your own. And if you studied with her and attended workshops the book is a valuable reminder and clarification on the exercises you forgot…
It is also rich with stories from everyday life and cases from experienced master’s life and work.
It is also rich with stories from everyday life and cases from experienced master’s life and work.
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