The Kabbalah of the Soul: The Transformative Psychology and Practices of Jewish Mysticism

Rating:
Summary: Profound, more meat than most
Review: In contrast to the other person reviewing the book, i found much to grapple with and like in this book.

Being new to the Kaballah, and gravitating toward substantive accounts of anything, i found Leet's book to be supremely useful in understanding the Hebraic and Jewish Kaballah. Leet gives a lengthy comparison of the Lurianic and Zoharic traditions and synthesizes them into a new model of the cosmic process.

If and when you make it through the introduction, then she examines the 'fall' of man through a few different lenses, gives an insightful account of the seemingly contradictory genesis stories, relates that story (those stories) to not only the star of David but the progression of the soul towards higher echelons of spirituality.

If you're looking for a deeper account of the Kaballah than some pop-kabballah book that re-hashes what most other books have, then this is you're ticket. This book seems to have the audience of serious Kaballah practitioners and spiritualists rather than a easy-going introduction to the literature, theory and paradigms of Hebraic mysticism.

I liked this book more than her previous two, but haven't read the fourth in the series.

ps: I don't know what the other reviewer was talking about with the ruby/tv story.

Rating:
Summary: Kabbalah of the soul
Review: This work lacks content.The author compensates her lack of authentic Kabbalic tradition by inventing her own terminology,she reminds me of that other bluffer A.E.Waite.Leet repeatedly quotes yogic philosophy and classical philosophers far more than she does Kabbalists to back up her points.Despite her lengthy commentary,theres not much substance here.When the author tells the story of an indian mystic who runs his hand through sand and transforms it into a ruby.....and than goes on to say that its actually captured on film,well you can take it from there.Godzilla destroyed tokyo on film too,or was it japan?