A Friend of All Faiths: A Multidimensional Memoir

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256 pages; 2005; ISBN 1-4120-0854-9

What happens when a Wall Street lawyer, steeped in Judaism, enters an interfaith seminary, engages mystically, and connects with disincarnate representatives from varied religious traditions?

Michael H. Cohen studied Torah and Talmud at Hillel Day School and United Hebrew High School, and received his BA from Columbia University. He received both his JD and MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, clerked for a federal judge, graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA in Creative Writing, and joined the corporate department of a prestigious Wall Street law firm.

A Friend of All Faiths is a memoir of multidimensional experience: of numinous encounters with ancestors, figures from religious traditions, and other domains of consciousness. He writes of journeys into trance and the unconscious; of contact with angels, demons, and the divine. He explores archetypes and individuation, and above all, the soul.

Reviews

“A deeply revealing spiritual journey, offering insights into the challenges and joys of multidimensional living.” — Kathi J Kemper, MD, MPH, Caryl J Guth, MD Chair for Holistic and Integrative Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine

“I always had confidence in you, your energy, your wish to become more whole than part, and from what you've said and done (including marriage !! -- congratulations to both of you), your commitment to personal growth continues to bring dreams into reality.” — Bob, from Manhattan (read more about "Bob" in A Friend of All Faiths).


Table of Contents

WALL STREET, SEMINARY (NEW YORK CITY, 1990-93)
Prologue: Vision 10
1. Channel 11
2. Locust Valley 13
3. The Ashtar Command 21
4. Third Eye Opening 26
5. Robot Dreams 32
6. Sometimes A Cigar 36
7. The Blessed Virgin 42
8. Grounding 49
9. Crucifixion 53
10. Home 62

LAW SCHOOL (BOSTON, 1983)
11. Law's Cool 74

BUSINESS SCHOOL (PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BERKELEY, 1984-86, 87-88)
12. Communion 82
13. Alarm Clocks 85

WRITERS' WORKSHOP (IOWA CITY, 1988-90)
14. Black Smoke, White Fire 100
15. Washed in the Blood 114

ASHRAM (LYKENS, PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTH FALLSBURG, NEW YORK, 1993-96)
16. Short Mountain, Deep Valley 126
17. From the Finite to the Infinite 141

HEBREW SCHOOL (DETROIT, BUENOS AIRES, AND JERUSALEM, 1962-1979)
18. In the Desert 160

COLLEGE AND FEDERAL COURT (NEW YORK CITY, 1979-1983, 1986-87)
19. Our Mother Who Art on Earth 174

HERE AND HEREAFTER (SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1996-1999)
20. Checkerboard Squares 194
21. Through the Tunnel 210

THE OLD WORLD (BORDER OF POLAND AND RUSSIA, 1800'S)
22. Longing 216

HARVARD TO ATLANTIS (CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS AND THE BAHAMAS, 2000-04)
23. Sanctuary 226

Wizards of Love 245
Acknowledgements 246
About the Reader 247