C-DEEP / CENTER FOR DEVOTIONAL ENERGY & ECSTATIC PRACTICE
Co-Directors: Rabbi Shefa Gold & Rachmiel O’Regan, MA
C-DEEP is a resource for communities and individuals who want to explore the deep treasures of Judaism to cultivate the devotional and ecstatic aspects of their lives.
C-DEEP’s projects include:
C-DEEP serves:
- Those who wish to build a deep and abiding Center of Awareness through Meditation and Jewish Contemplative practice.
- Those on a Devotional path who have a commitment to live from the heart and do the work required to grow in love each day.
- Those who understand what it means to perceive the world as Energy and want to become energy-workers.
- Those who want to explore Ecstatic states to expand their perceptive and creative potential.
- And those who have a commitment to Practice on a daily basis.
C-DEEP:
- Offers an experiential, practical and embodied spirituality anchored in both theory and text.
- Teaches the value of service as a way of accessing the Divine.
- Promotes the value of silent practice in deepening our experience of Divinity within.
- Values artistic expression, stressing transformational process rather than product.
- Values the process of purification that leads to the ability to be present to each moment with an open heart.
- Teaches constant awareness of God’s presence as foundation for all experience.
- Treasures connection to both ancestors and descendants.