Word: cabala
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...husband to come home. As the story unfolds, you can hear her clock strike midnight, read meandering asides about her paranoid fears of an intruder and see the floor plan of her apartment slowly revealed onscreen. More ambitious narratives, such as Grammatron by Mark Amerika, which tackles everything from Cabala to virtual sex, come across as pretentious, thanks to lines like, "I ask of writing what I ask of desire...to move beyond death's link to false consciousness." Meanwhile, the group project Fakeshop, shown above, is a multimedia symphony of overlapping windows rhythmically popping up then disappearing onscreen...
...charged act the Prodigy (Maverick is part of Time Warner, the company that owns TIME). It makes sense, then, that Ray of Light draws on electronica for sonic inspiration. Madonna '98 is also a new mother (her daughter Lourdes is 17 months old); she has also been studying the Cabala (a form of Jewish mysticism), practicing yoga and learning Sanskrit...
...have found is common to Moses and Muhammad, to Buddha and Jesus. It is known to every mystic tradition. In mine, it is the Tetragrammaton, the Name so holy that those who know it dare not say it. It is what the Cabala calls Ayin, Nothingness, No-Thingness. It is Spirit, Being...
...that God was to be experienced -- albeit by a dedicated elite -- rather than defined. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the mystical Sufi movement was the dominant force within Islam. In the 15th century, facing persecution and exile, European Jews found solace in the mystical writings known as the Cabala. Even Western Christianity, which has been strongly suspicious of ineffability, had its mystical tradition, exemplified by such figures as the German Dominican Meister Eckehart and the Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila...
...should come as no surprise. The Barcelonese exude a near-fanatical pride in their ancient city, 2000-year long series of civic re-inventions. Understanding--let alone appreciating-this puzzling letimotif in the history of the newly resplendent city-by-the-sea would demand the intellectual ardor of a cabala scholar...