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Read more about the article Article: Veiling and Unveiling in Jewish-Spiritual Psychotherapy
Identity / Israel / Judaism and Kabbalah / Mind and psychology

Article: Veiling and Unveiling in Jewish-Spiritual Psychotherapy

How does a psychotherapist with a spiritual-Jewish outlook treat people with a different spiritual outlook (and Jewish identity) from his own? Will the differences of worldview interfere with the therapy? This study presents the unique dialectic used by Israeli-Jewish psychotherapists who integrate spirituality in therapy - between veiling and unveiling their view and their therapeutic approach. The study presents the ways of integrating spirituality in clinical practice, their caution in revealing therapeutic spiritual tools, as well as the therapists' universalistic and inclusive approach.

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March 28, 2025
Read more about the article Lecture: Process of the Formation of Sacred Spaces
Geography / Israel / Magic and paganism / Methodology and models / Science/medicine and technology

Lecture: Process of the Formation of Sacred Spaces

How is a sacred site created? What technical factors and what cultural symbols influence the sanctification of the site? What do researchers in various disciplines generally ask about sacred places? The lecture (in Hebrew) describes a model for the formation of sacred spaces, through the case study of the site Kursi, and concludes with a discussion of different scientific research approaches to this field and the problematic nature of the currently accepted scientific approach.

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March 28, 2025
Read more about the article Session: Ecology and Nature in Contemporary Spiritualities
Art (music\film\literature etc.) / Feminism gender and sex / Geography / Identity / Israel / Judaism and Kabbalah / Magic and paganism / Myth / Popular culture and mass media

Session: Ecology and Nature in Contemporary Spiritualities

The relation to nature and the environment in religions is a fascinating subject, and it takes a new and surprising form these days - with the rise of the ecological discourse, and in light of the apocalyptic fears of an imminent ecological disaster. Some of the new religions place a special emphasis on the sanctification of nature (such as neo-shamanism). In the popular spiritual discourse the concept of nature adoration and caring for the environment feature, in the context of spiritual values. In this session, four studies dealing with ecology and nature in contemporary spiritualities are presented.

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May 26, 2024
Read more about the article Lecture: A Christian site, Jewish sanctification agents, spiritual discourse – The sanctification process of Kursi to the Sea of Galilee
Economy and business / Geography / Israel / Magic and paganism / Methodology and models / Science/medicine and technology / State politics and law

Lecture: A Christian site, Jewish sanctification agents, spiritual discourse – The sanctification process of Kursi to the Sea of Galilee

Kursi is a Christian pilgrimage site to the Sea of Galilee, which has become the subject of contemporary spiritual urban legends - mainly around the "enchanted benches" installed at the site by the Nature and Parks Authority. This site, which has undergone a sanctification process by neo-shaman activists in recent years, is an opportunity to follow in real time the formation of a holy site - as well as to witness the growth of an alternative sacred geography in the Land of Israel.

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April 2, 2024
Read more about the article Article: The Sixties Did (Not Altogether) Skip Israel – Rosh Pinna’s Hippie Community
Disputation or conflict / Feminism gender and sex / Geography / History / Identity / Israel / Science/medicine and technology / State politics and law / Typology and comparative study

Article: The Sixties Did (Not Altogether) Skip Israel – Rosh Pinna’s Hippie Community

An article that presents the story of the first spiritual-alternative community in Israel, which was a bubble of the sixties at the heart of the mobilized Zionist miliee at the time. The hippy community of Rosh Pinna was an extraordinary refuge where a fascinating "social laboratory" functioned, which also gave birth to other spiritual and alternative Israeli spaces. The article includes a comparison between hippie and Zionist values - from the fields of society and the law to the attitude to nature and music. It includes unique illustrations and photographs.

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March 21, 2024
Read more about the article A Podcast on Prayer in Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities
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A Podcast on Prayer in Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities

In the podcast of the Open University and IDF Radio (Galatz), they dealt with "prayer" over a series of meetings. One of the (four) meetings hosted Prof. Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro,on the expression and formation of prayer in contemporary alternative spiritualities. The hosts of the podcast "Adraba" are Prof. Tamar Hermann and Prof. Yoram Kalman, and the radio researcher is Lou Kerek.

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December 27, 2023
Read more about the article “The Academy of Human Spirit” Podcasts hosted by Prof. Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro
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“The Academy of Human Spirit” Podcasts hosted by Prof. Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro

This page includes links to podcasts (all of them in Hebrew) prepared and hosted by Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro in her program on "Mahut HaChayim" (The Essence of Life) Radio. The program was called "The Academy of Human Spirit". (In Hebrew "Ruah" means "spirit" and the Humanities are called "sciences of spirit", so the program was titled "The Academy of Ruah"). Each episode of the program, there was a central theme and one main interviewee (and another in addition).

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December 19, 2023