A meditation app built on the Sefer Yetzirah: the twenty-two Hebrew letters of creation, sounded, permuted and visualised.
ContactThe letters of creation
Sefer Yetzirah, c. 2nd–6th century CE
Presents the twenty-two Hebrew letters as the book arranges them, three mothers, seven doubles and twelve simples, and leads their sounding, permutation and visualisation.
Ways in: Chant and drone, Paced breath, The Name, repeated, Binaural entrainment. Every session is carried on binaural sound tuned toward theta, the slow rhythm of the edge of sleep that these rites were built to reach. More on the state.
The oldest Jewish speculative text says the world was made from letters. Medieval masters permuted letter combinations with breath and head movement until consciousness changed. Abraham Abulafia’s methods descend from this book, and they are among the most openly psychophysical techniques in the Western record.