Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xv
Preface 1
Chapter 1 The Problem of Consciousness 5
Chapter 2 Panpsychism and Panentheism 9
Chapter 3 Quantum Mechanics, Consciousness and the Kabbalah 13
3.1 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 15
3.2 Kabbalah and the Physics of David Bohm 18
3.2.1 Hidden Variables and the Implicate Order 19
3.2.2 The Holographic Universe 21
Chapter 4 Principles of Kabbalah 26
4.1 Orientation to Jewish Mysticism
4.2 Sefirot, Partzufim and Worlds 36
4.3 Ensheathment, Interinclusion and Interpenetration 44
4.4 Orech and Oivi-Complementary Modes of Awareness 54
4.5 On the Nature of Paradox 60
Chapter 5 Kabbalistic Panpsychism and Panentheism 63
5.1 A Hierarchy of Consciousness 64
5.2 Relativistic Consciousness 68
5.3 Are Golems Conscious? 83
5.4 Human Brain Organoids 87
5.5 Chaya Consciousness and the Tower of Babel 88
Chapter 6 Female Intuition 93
6.1 Ontology of the Keter-Malchut axis 94
Chapter 7 Supervenience and Top-Down Causation 98
7.1 Wheeler's Participatory Universe 102
Chapter 8 Tefillin and the Seat of Human Consciousness 108
Chapter 9 Consciousness and the 'Unknowable Head' 120
9.1 On Prophecy and Free Will 127
Chapter 10 Clinical Models of Kabbalistic Panpsychism 139
Chapter 11 Kabbalah and Process Philosophy 149
Chapter 12 Consciousness and Conscience 152
Chapter 13 The Future of Human Consciousness 156
Chapter 14 Conspectus 163
Epilogue 170
Bibliography 172
Index 203
