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TEACHING MALKAH—The Secrets of Malkah’s Journey
—Book: MALKAH’S NOTEBOOK: A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet
—Film: THE DAY BEFORE CREATION (includes screening)
—Jewish mystical principles from Torah, Talmud, Sefer Yetzirah and Zohar
—Ancient Near Eastern archaeological motifs: ancient deities, tales, and practices
—The Tetragrammaton

THE MYSTICAL ALEPH BET
—Learning the aleph-bet letters the ‘old’ way
—The את of Creation: alternate Creation stories
—The emergence of the mystical aleph-bet
—Animism — the letters as alive, and imbued with purpose
—Mother letters, Father letters, Doubles, and Elementals
—The Shekhinah and the letters
—Gamatria — mystical numbers and numerical equivalences
—The nature of the Divine

THE JOURNEY OF YOUR HEBREW NAME
—The example of Abraham and Sarah
—Given names and taken names
—Intro to Aleph-Bet letters, symbols and meaning
—Finding your letters, right or wrong
—Following the path of the letters
—Telling the tale vs walking the walk

PARDES: LESSONS OF THE SAGES
—The tale of the Four Sages who Ascended into Paradise
—Pardes: The Hebrew equivalent of the ‘chakra’ system
—Four types of Jewish consciousness
—Shifting consciousness from Pshat to Sod
—Navigating the Four Worlds, the Ten Sephirot, the 32 Paths
—Living Pardes consciousness

ANCIENT ROOTS OF THE ALEPH-BET
—Ancient Near Eastern deities as forces of nature
—From imagery to pictograms and sound; the lives of the ancient letters
—Semitic languages, roots across language boundaries; baraka vs bracha
—What happens when you change the spelling? The case of ‘Islam’
—Hybrids and ancient roots…

THE HEALING LETTERS* (prerequisite, two of the above)
—Ancient practices: mezuzot, shvitis, amulets, incantations, prayer
—Shaping letters properly in written practices
—Sound, frequency and resonance of letters.
—Location and the shape of dis-ease
—The energies of letters and words
—Alchemical transformations

*may be jointly given with Natalie Reid, author of The Spiritual Alchemist

WORKING WITH DREAMS (Intro)
—Remembering and forgetting
—Language and dreams
—Puns: visual and oral
—Telling and not telling
—Telling self vs telling others
—Writing vs Telling vs Hearing
—Following ‘recurrent’ dreams
—Dreaming for others / other people’s dreams

WORKING WITH NIGHTMARES (Intro prerequisite)
—Nightmares vs night terrors vs ‘old hag’ encounters
—Feeling and knowing
—Telling and hearing: allies
—Weapons and tools
—Changing the narrative
—Lucid dreaming

DREAMWORK FOR CHILDREN (Intro)
—What is a dream?
—Drawing pictures
—Telling the picture
—More pictures…
—Changing the picture
—What else can change?
—New pictures

AIKIDO DOJOS — Practice for Adults and Kids
—Aikido in your own community—compare programs
—Principles of Aikido: relationship between uke and nage
—Budo: The teachings of O Sensei, Morihei Ueshiba
—Why should kids train in Aikido?
—Aikido and harmony in the world

*Read David Jenkins, PhD, Dream Replay: How to Transform Your Dream Life and more