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The difference between these three groups is the place that they originate; The Quirky Qabalists are obviously really bad at spelling and often seem to have a bazaar fascination for Taro Cards, Psychic healing, Astrology and Crystal Balls, they are usually leftover ex-hippies, who are convinced they met an apparition of Jesus during a rather heavy mushroom induced trip in the early 70’s.

Then there are the Crazy Cabbalists, this bunch of clever academics who love dabbling in Cabbalistic ideas, and laugh at others who believe in such crazy notions as ‘God’ or the Divine origin of the Five Books of Moses.

Yet they seem to love the wild and wonderfully inspired ideas that Cabbala contains, they seem personally distant from the subject, too scared to take that leap of faith, unwilling to even admit that they are modern-day Cabbalists and that they’re dissertations on Cabbala are in reality commentaries on their own psycho-spiritual insights.

They are usually historians, a boring and unadventurous lot, who love to wear leather-patches on the elbows of their tweed blazers, they love footnotes, and talking to each other in ridiculously longwinded and profoundly complicated big words that only they really understand.

Then finally there are the Kick Ass Kung Fu Kabbalists, as you can probably guess I’d consider myself part of this group, that’s not to say that all Kick Ass Kabbalist are as cool as ‘Monkey’ in Monkey Magic, some of them do look and sound more like smartly dress versions of Chewbacca.

The Kool and Kick Ass thing about this bunch of religious freaks, wannabe warriors, experimental mystics, outcasts, heroes and misfits is it that they take their Kabbalah seriously, and in so doing possess they key to accessing the true and inner power of Kabbalah, which can only be tapped into with deep and honest conviction.

So if you wannabe a Kick Ass Kabbalist you don’t have to buy a black frock coat or wear a black hat, but you do have to take some of the ideas seriously. It is that element of internal interaction with the ideas that transforms an idea into an experience, and helps you to trip up over your own rhetoric and dogma which lands you head first, all upside-down in the thick and warm blissful soup of the divine-world you are already part of.

But the true indicator of a real Kick Ass Kabbalist (KAK) is the ability to be serious and frivolous at the same time, that is to love your life so much that you actually start to take it seriously and make dam sure you experience fun and happiness as much as possible.

One of the greatest Kick Ass Kabbalists of all time explained that his profound insight and mystical vision were only granted to him because he was happy and joyous.