A Radical Take on Personal Dignity

As the soul print idea has grown in me over the last two decades, I have understood it more and more not so much as a conceptual frame but as an urgent, desperate, passionate realization.

It is the realization that every human being is endowed with infinite adequacy and worth, and therefore dignity, that every human being has a story worth living, worth sharing and worth being received.

Fully living our stories and having them received is the fundamental right of every person. Having one’s authentic Unique Self story taken seriously is the essential dignity of a human being.

In fact, it is not only a right, it is an obligation.

To realize that you have a soul print, expressed in the unique perspective of your unique self, creates radical obligation, meaning that you have something to do for yourself, for your community, and for God, that no other being that was, is, or will be, can do except you.

There is a gift to be given by you alone, a healing which can be effected by you alone, a way of living, laughing, loving, being and becoming in the world that is yours alone to live.

In this gift one finds radical meaning and radical joy.

Your uniqueness creates the obligation of the part which is uniquely you towards the larger whole. Your uniqueness is also the portal for you to move from your separate self into the larger Whole.

All of these teaching are implicit or explicit in the radical kabbalah of my teacher Mordechai Lainer of Izbica. The purpose of my book Radical Kabbalah is not to present these teachings in popular form...

Rather the intention is to, in a highly rigorous act of ecstatic scholarship, transmit to you the lineage teaching and transmission of the sacred texts themselves, that serves as part of the basis for the Unique Self teaching and the Enlightenment of Fullness teachings that lay at the heart of World Spirituality. (The core of this work was written in 2001 and 2002 before meeting Ken Wilber and Integral theory.)

I have chosen to let the original writing stand in the original integrity of the lineage. If you are intrigued by Kabbalah, enlightenment, and the Unique Self teaching and are inclined towards scholarly texts, the two volumes of Radical Kabbalah are certainly meant for you.

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