Workshops

Kabbalah: Cosmic Consciousness. A beginner’s course in understanding the Western Mystery Tradition and the relationship between God, the Universe and Humanity.

This one-year course will run as a monthly Skype conference call. Each session will also be available to participants in MP3 download.

Kabbalah is Hebrew for ‘receive’ and this ancient oral tradition is the foundation behind the three ‘People of the Book.’ While written teachings crystalize and become locked into religion, the oral tradition reveals the mystical and eternal truths behind the form.

Kabbalah teaches us who we are; why we are here; what we can do; how to balance our lives and how to understand and relate to the Source of All.

The one-year course will will feature:

Creation: Why we are here; the spiritual and mystical nature of the Universe. An introduction to the two cosmic diagrams, The Tree of Life and the Ladder of Light (also known as Jacob’s Ladder).

The Nature of God: How and why the Hebrews changed the pantheon of Gods to one God with many aspects. What those aspects are and how they relate to us in the everyday world.

Angels and Archangels: The nature of the angelic realms, including positive and negative aspects. The great teaching angels of humanity and how to invoke their help in assisting prayers to the Holy One.

How to read the Bible as a mystical book of enlightenment: from the Genesis story of creation to the lives of the people within it.

Kabbalah and Astrology: How our astrological chart can be interpreted through the Tree of Life and how we can use it to understand our own attributes, habits and self-scuppering techniques.

Kabbalah and Psychology: How the Tree of Life can show us our own development from childhood to wisdom through different incarnations.

The Levels of Will: we have three levels of soul: vegetable, animal and human. How aligning these will enable us to offer pure service to the Holy One and humanity.

Truth, Beauty, Judgment and Mercy: The attributes of your soul.

The Unconscious and the Subconscious: healing the unidentified patterns and addictions that keep us paralysed.

Each session will include teaching, guided visualisation and discussion.

The course costs £10 (UK) per month or £100 paid up front for the full twelve months. There is also a registration fee of £25 to support screen-sharing, diagrams and MP3 sending and administration costs. Payment by BACS or PayPal.

Starting date: Monday 5th March. 8pm GMT (though late-starters may be accepted).

For more details, please email Maggy at maggy@maggywhitehouse.com.

Conscious Living; Conscious Dying
10th March, Birmingham, England. Price £65.
17th March, McLean, Virginia USA. Price $75.

The ancient mystical tradition of Kabbalah teaches that the purpose of creation is for “God to Behold God” We are God’s heart and soul in the manifested world.

But how do we live a conscious life? How can we become a clear reflection of God? This workshop will help you to discern your levels of consciousness and what your own particular path may be to reflect the Divine on Earth. There is a saying that to ‘die to the ego’ is the pathway to eternal joy.

It will also explain the process of physical death and dying, both from the esoteric viewpoint and drawing on Maggy’s experience as a hospice chaplain.

The workshop will be in two halves:.

Conscious Living: We will look at the vegetable, animal and human soul as depicted on the Tree of Life and discover how to perceive each level within us. We will examine our relationship with the Holy One and how our ego’s early training and our projections can colour a whole lifetime.

Conscious Dying: In the process of death, the human soul detaches from the body through the elements of Earth, Water, Air and Fire in turn. The process of dying to the ego is similar. Learning how to die consciously while still alive is a powerful path of self-realisation which will bring us closer to our Divine Source. It will also be of incredible healing power in our experience of the physical death of those we love or care for and at the time of our own transition to the heavens.

Make Your Own Tree of Life or Jacob’s Ladder
Date: 24th/25th March.
Location: McLean, Va. USA. Minimum donation of $100 to include most materials.

A unique opportunity to take part in a two-day contemplation and artwork seminar for students and teachers of Kabbalah

Not only will the weekend give you a piece of artwork to cherish, just creating it will be a workshop of self-knowledge and development in itself. Learn which aspects of the Tree of Life are your strengths and weaknesses as you paint. Your Jacob’s Ladder has its own mystical way of showing you your inner self.

The day is facilitated by Peter Dickinson and Rev. Maggy Whitehouse. Peter and Maggy have studied the Toledano Tradition with Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi for more than 20 years.

Peter is Halevi’s publisher. Maggy is the author of 15 books including Total Kabbalah, Prosperity Teachings of the Bible Made Easy and The Illustrated History of Kabbalah.

Day One.
This is essentially an exercise on the contemplative aspect of technical drawing. We will draw in pencil (later going over in pen) the basic layout of the tree (or ladder) and paint the background. It doesn’t sound like much but it is a spiritual and physical exercise in accuracy, self-discovery and patience!

Day Two.
This day the colours are added to flesh out the psyche or the Universe. The student may start to add the various notations for the sefirot, paths and the top of the Tree. The final exercise will be to insert the gold (or silver) circles around the Sefirot.

Provided: Board, canvas, masking tape, dowel, paint, brushes, compasses, gold or silver pen.
Each student should provide his/her own pencil, black felt pen, ruler and eraser.

Cost: Requested minimum donation:$100.

If you would like Maggy to come to your area to run a workshop or give a talk, please contact her on maggy@maggywhitehouse.com or call 0121 449 0344.

Ongoing Groups

Kabbalah Study Group

A Kabbalistic School of the Soul is a meeting of companions studying inner development and the relationship between God, the Universe and Humanity. We work with the two original Kabbalistic diagrams, the Tree of Life and Jacob’s Ladder, examining how this ancient esoteric tradition that underpins the three Western faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is still relevant to all belief systems today. Includes Levels of the psyche, Ego and Self, Soul and Spirit, astrology, Higher Realms, Fate, Destiny and Free Will. With Maggy and Kabbalistic astrologer, Peter Dickinson.

This School of the Soul is descended from Biblical times via the Toledano Tradition of medieval France and Spain and has no connection with the Kabbalah Centre.

Alternate TUESDAYS, 8.00pm. Cost: By donation. Please call 0121 449 0344 to book your place.