Rabbi Zvi Ish-Shalom, Ph.D., is a professor of wisdom traditions at Naropa University and is the founder of Kedumah, a universal mystical school that teaches a step-by-step approach to spiritual awakening and personal development.
Integrating the timeless wisdom of the great mystical traditions with cutting edge knowledge of psychology, science, and the somatic healing arts, Zvi gently points us toward the primordial light of boundless freedom that abides at the heart of our experience.
He is the author of the book The Kedumah Experience: The Primordial Torah
Website: kedumah.org
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Summary and transcript of this interview.
Interview recorded November 30, 2019
YouTube Video Chapters:
- 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
- 00:05:02 – Understanding the Vibration of Texts
- 00:09:32 – Early Religious Experience and Discovery of Mystical Texts
- 00:15:13 – The Shifting Inner Transformation
- 00:19:23 – Early Devotional Phase
- 00:23:54 – Diving into Devotion and Meditation
- 00:29:59 – Shuckling and Divine Presence
- 00:34:11 – A Deepening Journey of Annihilation
- 00:39:24 – Connection with a Divine Presence
- 00:44:37 – Annihilation of the Self
- 00:49:31 – The Black Annihilation Fire and the Primordial Point of Light
- 00:54:04 – The Primordial Starlight
- 00:59:05 – Experiences of the Kabbalistic teachings
- 01:03:22 – Anointing with Divine Oil
- 01:08:03 – The Power of Ritual and Symbolism
- 01:12:23 – The Colors of Creation and Manifestation
- 01:17:13 – The Essence of Formlessness
- 01:22:02 – The Meaning of Torah, Kabbalah, and Kedumah
- 01:27:00 – Revealing the Kedumah Teachings
- 01:32:13 – The Five Dimensions of Experience
- 01:37:34 – Contraction and Concentration in Life
- 01:42:43 – Integrating the Inside and Outside
- 01:48:10 – The Culmination of the Spiritual Journey
- 01:52:44 – Contractions and Radical Awakening
- 01:57:08 – The Primordial Light of the Sun
- 02:02:01 – Reincarnation and Karma in Kabbalah and Kedumah
- 02:06:29 – Simultaneous Lives and Realities
- 02:10:49 – Worship through Materiality and the Feminine Principle
- 02:15:52 – The Vastness of Intelligence and the Soulship
- 02:20:39 – Nondimensional Soulship and the Next Buddha
- 02:26:06 – Farewell and Blessings
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