Invoking Angels: For Blessings, Protection, and Healing [Hardcover]

David A. Cooper (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2006

Have you ever experienced something so extraordinary as to leave you wondering whether some higher power or force were responsible? ?We do not need to sit and wait for the finger of Grace to tap us on the shoulder, ? explains Rabbi David A. Cooper, ?rather, we can practice the invocation of angels?cultivating profound experiences that immediately open us to guidance and blessings from the Divine.? Invoking Angels presents a book with a CD to help practitioners of any faith find self-empowerment through an active relationship with angels, which Cooper views as energetics that serve as mediums through which God, humankind, and all of creation are interconnected.

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About the Author

Rabbi David A. Cooper has been called "one of today’s leading teachers of Jewish meditation." An active student of the world’s great spiritual traditions, his many books include God Is a Verb (Riverhead, 1998).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 89 pages
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (November 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591795184
• ISBN-13: 978-1591795186
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 6.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,870 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #23 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Judaism > Mysticism

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guided meditations and prayers to assist you on your journey of discovery and increased awareness, May 23, 2008

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This review is from: Invoking Angels: For Blessings, Protection, and Healing (Hardcover)

Master kabbalist, scholar and story teller, Rabbi David A. Cooper, has produces a complete programme of daily meditations and prayers to help readers to connect to their angels and find self empowerment. This alternative view into the world of angels, ancient history and sacred text, includes an 1 hour CD with guided meditations and prayers to assist you on your journey of discovery and increased awareness.

If you have ever felt there was more to this life than what the eye can see, and what society expects us to believe, and deja vu, coincidences are messages sent to those who can read them from a higher force, then this book is for you. You do not have to be a believer of any faith, although you are taken back to ancient teachings of the Torah, the Bible, and other sacred texts purely to assist you in understanding how it all came about. Admittedly, you can't pass a high street shop these days without seeing some sort of angel for sale, so there is no denying these divine creatures do capture our hearts and imagination, and this book is intended to compliment these beliefs via meditation and prayer, although not necessarily expecting you to think of angels as creatures with wings.

The CD includes:

An Archangel meditation for open-heartedness and courage
A Guardian Angel meditation for protection in any situation
A meditation on the Divine Presence (the Shekhina), invoking the "supreme" angels, Metatron and Sandalphon, to experience profound awareness and sufficiency.

I found it rather exciting, the idea of invoking angels for guidance is very appealing for me, however, it must be said there is no quick fix and information like this can increase your awareness of angels, and the energies they represent to open you to new possibilities over a period of time.

Sassy Brit
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September 2007

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Biblical insights and support throughout make for a fine survey., February 5, 2007

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This review is from: Invoking Angels: For Blessings, Protection, and Healing (Hardcover)

You wouldn't think a title on angels would also come from a Rabbi scholar, but the teachings of the Torah and other sacred texts do support the presence of angels in Jewish belief, and the inspirational INVOKING ANGELS provides a program of daily meditations and prayers to help both Jewish and non-Jewish people in their efforts to connect spirituality with empowerment. Spiritual collections will find the book/cd combination a popular read, using the skills of a kabbalist and storyteller to bring to life daily meditations on cd, from an Archangel mediation for courage to a Guardian Angel one for protection. Biblical insights and support throughout make for a fine survey.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps I was looking for a different book, October 11, 2009

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This review is from: Invoking Angels: For Blessings, Protection, and Healing (Hardcover)

Everywhere I turned, angels kept turning up. Since fat, little cherubim [sic] and nonsensical names with -el appended, to make them sound Hebrew, have always made me suspicious of angelology, I decided to read Rabbi Cooper's book to discover a more traditional understanding of angels.

Before I read this book, I had come across numerous angel names that were obviously invented by well-meaning new-agers; other names required the painstaking process of referring to a Hebrew dictionary to determine whether they might originate in Jewish tradition. So my primary interest in reading this book was to learn which angels really derive from Jewish holy texts.

Well, now I do have a list of more than a dozen angels that I know really are part of my tradition, and I did learn a little about the Jewish view of angels. For example, Elijah and Enoch are the angels Sandalphon and Metatron. Rabbi Cooper also mentions mystical speculations that intrigued me.

However, on the whole, I'd have to describe this book as Judaism-lite. There are only ten biblical references in the book. I can think of several that weren't mentioned-- and I'm not particularly literate. I'm also aware that the Mishnah and Talmud discuss angels, but Rabbi Cooper barely references them. What about later texts?

Also, I wondered in what ways reliance on angels might or might not violate Jewish monotheism. Since the author is a rabbi, I anticipated hearing a bit more about God.

Reading the book was enjoyable, but I don't feel it offered me very much meaningful information to keep with me.

The CD of guided meditations, which could have been the most rewarding part of this package, was a disappointment. The first of four guided meditations includes general instructions for guided meditation. The instruction should have been a separate track. You must wait several minutes to reach the actual meditation which is very brief.

During the second meditation, Rabbi Cooper interrupts himself several times to say that you might not be able to do the meditation because of this or that problem. I didn't have any trouble with the meditation until he interrupted to tell me that I might.

Eventually, I'll listen to the third and fourth meditations, but I'm not in a hurry.