Theory of shamanism, trance, and modern Kabbalah -- The shamanic process: descent and fiery transformations -- Empowerment through trance -- Shamanic Hasidism -- Hasidic trance -- Trance and the nomian.

This practical book clearly outlines all that is required to practise white magic. Here you can learn how use creative visualisation to meet your guardian angel or create a sphere of protection using incense and sacred herbs, how to call on the powers of the four seasons, spirit guardians and cosmic forces to add power and influence to magical work. Magic rituals are pictured in progress step-by-step. The book gives help and advice on the magical tools that are needed for the practice of modern white magic, including robes, symbols of the four elements, candles, incense, herbs and spices, the correspondences of plants, flowers and trees.

Jonathan Garb's "Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah" is an original, path-breaking study of the renderings of the "heart and soul" in the works of major, minor, and obscure but important figures of modern Kabbalah. Garb has unearthed a treasure-trove of neglected figures and texts, bringing into dialogue their views on heart and soul with those found in other religious and secular authorities. There is no other study that comes close to the territory Garb covers or, for that matter, provides the historical and cultural context necessary for understanding the rise of such psychological renderings in the works of the modern Kabbalists. His analysis shows that any attempt to essentialize the multiple and varied understandings of heart and soul in Jewish mysticism is mistaken. Analyzing text and figure in context on a case-by-case basis Garb is able to provide comparison without being reductive. This is an invaluable contribution to the discipline that cements Garb as the leading scholar of modern Kabbalah.