The difference between a traumatic experience and a journey of initiation is not external but internal. The distinction lies in how a person frames and processes the difficult experiences they've endured.

In the coming pages I will bring a small selection of Kabbalistic texts, from which we can draw lines of similarity between the mystical prayer and the act of love.

In the very body of each one of us there is a temple to one of the deepest and greatest cosmic powers— Eros.

Ask yourselves: what am I connecting in my life? What type of street am I? Am I a city street, or an interstate road? Do I have a lot of traffic lights or am I a freeway?

We are here to tell you that your desires are intelligent and you better listen to them if you want to be aLIVE

In this short article, I would like to point out three levels in the practices of love, Tantra, and sacred sexuality, according to the Baal Shem Tov’s method of “Worlds, Souls and Divinity”.

According to the Talmud, it can be said quite clearly that in the world of our sages, sacred sexuality was an important part of the ancient Hebraic mystery schools.

So, every conflict is an invitation from our soul to grow. Life is full of opportunities like that and initiations that the soul puts before us. These are all opportunities for awakening.

The secret of ‘The Kiss’ in Kabbalah carries profound depths. The Ba’al Shem Tov (18th century) soared high, explaining the secret of kissing as part of the process of awakening and world redemption.

I don't believe there is anything else that will redeem us humans from self-destruction other than a deep and fundamentally devotional connection to Love as a divine force.

"Religion is spirituality with preservatives" Boom! In one sentence, Eric hit the spot and cracked the history of all religions through the frustration so many of us feel about them.

I was that man from the movies, who is carried by both his arms to the beach. This man who is almost dead and has no strength to move a finger. I didn't have the strength to move a finger, but I could grin big.

The ability to welcome heartbreak allows us to follow the ecstatic current of life-force.

"Hitler and Mussolini were great leaders who motivated millions, but their methods were based on fear. What we need today are leaders who can inspire millions to take action out of love."

For 14 consecutive years, I sat on this gravel for a week of meditation and prayer.

This is how I fell into the drama triangle, identified myself as a victim, and marked my dear brother as a perpetrator just because I couldn't stand in my own power.

medicine journeys combined with the free flow of eros can lead us not only to some ecstatic fun but also to the depth of devotion, prayer and a direct connection to the sacred fabric of life.

How ridiculous is this sentence! How painful it is to be welcomed this way in the gate to where once stood the temple for the goddess of sacred sexuality!

it doesn’t matter in which of the corners of the triangle we find ourselves — as long as we are in one of them we partake in the dynamics of victim consciousness and create unnecessary drama in life.

Love is an offering that can only come out of a free expression of the heart. Love is a gift that can only be given spontaneously, from a place of freedom.

“Eternity is not a very long time,” said Tantra teacher Valentina Leo in our Ashram of Love some days ago. “Eternity is beyond time”.

Love temples are places for us humans to come with our broken humanness and connect with sacred divine realms by the means of love, eros, and sexuality.

What is happening in the world now is amazing in my eyes. simply: the old systems of control are all shaking and falling apart.

This article describes how the 7 tools of emotional release we deliver in the first days of Ista Level 1 can be traced to the kabbalistic patterns of the Tree of Life.

the medicines themselves wish to break out of the modesty cage.

When you hear the call of your soul, many times, it does not make any sense to your ego. The mind will usually say this is crazy, it’s a bad idea and you should not do it. Your mind will usually see your soul call as a dangerous direction to go for. But the soul doesn’t really care.

It is for many years that one of my main sources of influence is this controversial man who lived in the 17th century and is hated and condemned by the jews: Shabtai Zvi.