Today, Jan. 28, 2026, marks the 117th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Jerry’s spiritual teacher, Colette Aboulker-Muscat. Colette’s teachings of the Kabbalah of Light became the bedrock for a tradition of self-healing and self-empowerment carried on by her students decades beyond her passing. Her teachings have helped countless students, patients, and seekers discover their inner capacity for healing through the power of imagination. In the following excerpt from Alone With The One, a collection of her poetry, Dr. Jerry spoke to the essence of Colette’s teachings:
“Colette’s teaching cannot be easily classified, except to say that it follows in the general direction of the Western spiritual tradition. The sources of this tradition go back to ancient Mazdean, Persian, Egyptian, Hebraic, and Manicheaist sources. This teaching is all about light; it is a mysticism of light.
The key to Colette’s spiritual teaching is the explicit underscoring of the human relationship to time and light. Her connections of time to light and the living of this connection through the inner experience of imagination is what makes Colette’s work so unique. While time and light are central concerns in many spiritual traditions, for Colette, time is light, and the unfolding of our time here on Earth is the unfolding of light through our living. To create this light of unfoldment that is time, Colette draws us to this potential through the use of inner light with which we are born; this ‘drawing to our potential’ is called ‘imagination’.
This inner sense perception – ‘imagination’ – uses all of our senses and turns them toward our interior life, rather than toward our exterior life. Imagination thus illuminates and reveals the instant that is experienced as an image in the full immediacy of its existence and, as Colette points out in the last two lines of her poem How To Live, brings ‘every instant to its eternity.'”
How To Live
Colette Aboulker-Muscat
I live in time
And out of time,
By inner experience.
For all of us,
At every instant
It is possible to do so,
Then, the garden
Is here and now,
And, here and now is the Kingdom.
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