What's Behind Hollywood's Fascination with Kabbalah?

Religion News ^ | June 17th, 2005

[wizardoz]

I guess Bahai isn't cool anymore, now it's Kabbalah. Maybe in another decade we'll see Hollywood Gnostics.

[Millee]

What????? A fad comin out of Hollyweird??????? Can't be true!

[monkeybrau]

Karen Berg said the message of the Kabbalah text transcends language barriers "because your brain, your subconscious has a way to pick up what -- they're almost like a scanner in a supermarket. You know it's just a code, a bar code. And yet they can manage to take the material they need from it."

Neat.

[cripplecreek]

Moron see Moron do.

[FormerLib]

I wonder when the Scientologists are gonna wake up?

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

Hollywood is evil in so many ways...

[ken5050]

Scientology for the B-list?

[Turbo Pig]

What's Behind Hollywood's Fascination with Kabbalah?

I can simmer it down to one simple statement:

Kabbalah is the latest opiate for hollywood crowd. In time, they will find some new drug to satiate their meaningless existences.

[theDentist]

It's just chic, like Heroin-Chic, and AIDS-chic, or Lesbian-Chic. Just a way of keeping a name in the news. In a few months it'll be forgotten, while Cutting and Cannibalism will be "In".

[FeliciaCat]

"I have no idea what it says. But anyway, that doesn't matter. This is powerful stuff," he said.


ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! There is a sucker born every minute.

[wideawake]

Karen Berg likens their arrangement to that of Roman Catholic priests. "Last time I checked, the Vatican looked like a very nice place for people to live for someone who's taken a vow of poverty," she told Vargas.

Except, of course, that the Pope has never taken a vow of poverty.

Diocesan priests take vows of celibacy and obedience, not poverty.

And the Pope doesn't exactly live high on the hog.

I doubt either of the Bergs would be caught dead driving something as declasse as a Jetta.

Still and all, a fascinating article on this odd phenomenon.

One of the things the Bergs teach is that one not only does not have to understand Hebrew or Aramaic (the Zohar is written in a mixture of both), but one does not vene have to know the letters. Just running one's finger over the lines of the text is good enough.

And of course, the Zohar that you can buy for $70 or so dollars in a Judaica shop is not good enough - the Zohar doesn't "work" unless you buy the $500 Kabbalah Center edition.

[wideawake]

It was Bahai. Then Scientology. Now Kabbalah. My call is that Sufi is next.

[Gator101]

Just had an idea. I am going to invent me some new whacky religion and see it it will catch on in H-Wood. I could make millions off of idiot stars.

Hmmm...I need some sort of "symbol" to base it on. Perhaps a golden bull, or cow, or something...

[Betaille]

Such a bunch of fools. Kabbalah is supposed to be meaningful after you've mastered learning torah (what you'd call the old testament) and observing its rules. Of course the Hollywooders ignore the bible and rules, and just go straight to the "spiritual" stuff.

If they realized it was bible they wouldn't like it, so they just skip that part.

[Hammerhead]

a diversion like all the other 'religions' so they can try and escape thier conscience and the one true God.

[tet68]

Reverand Ike says,
"We are talking GOD POWER!
And what color IS God POWER?
GOD POWER is GREEN POWER!
GREEN, the color of MONEY!
How can you do god's will,
if you're poor!
Get in touch with the GOD POWER
in YOU!"